Battle Ground Changes - Solo Queue

kaithuzar

The following was stated:
"This is a big change to Battlegrounds matchmaking which we are executing partially in response to player feedback and partially as an experiment. We recognize the change will prevent players from being able to reliably team up with friends in Battlegrounds, but it should also improve both the speed of matchmaking and the competitiveness of PvP matches. As part of the change, we are resetting the matchmaking rating (MMR) of all players, so going forward, the system more properly evaluates individuals based on their performance in the solo queue. We’ll be closely monitoring both player feedback and the impact of these changes on the system."

The reason this is a bad call is the following:
There are entire guilds dedicated to BG's, having their own discord or other communication mediums. There is absolutely nothing to stop an entire guild sitting in discord, and swapping channels to have voice comms, a significant advantage over the other teams, by hopping into the channel where the rest of your "random" team is.

Please rethink this change & just further work on the queuing structure. If you have to create a duplicate of all BG queue's to have one version for group play & one version for solo queue, so be it.

fred4

They've shied away from that. We've had CP BGs, for example, now we only have no CP again. Never both. At least we have a Deathmatch only option now.

I think the PvP player population is much smaller than you'd think. It can fully sustain 2 Cyro campaigns on PC EU at prime time, less so on PC NA. According to Isth3reno1else, console no CP (open world) is just completely dead. I don't even think that says something about no CP, that's just due to a lack of players. Everyone just goes where the action is.

Same problem with Dungeon Finder. At the very least there is a lack of tanks. It might be worth trying to queue for something that isn't a pledge as a tank and see how long the queue time is. I bet it's not instant. In fact I seem to remember 1/2 hour to 1 hour wait times for Fang Lair runs. There just aren't enough people wanting to do the same thing when you want to do it.

I'd be all for separate solo and premade BGs, but I suspect the above is why ZOS haven't done it (yet).

Olupajmibanan

A solutions to these problems are being discussed here:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/509038/a-solution-to-bg-problem-perhaps#latest

Greek_Hellspawn

While i like the idea of 2 version of queues i don't think we will get it.
However i prefer solo queue than what it currently is on live server,and the mmr reset is perfect for me beacause i have been playing bgs since morrowind and now i have to wait 15 minutes sometimes more for getting a match on ps4 eu.

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