Battlegrounds Team Matching Is Broken.

kingsforged · December 2019

The Battleground team matching system doesn't appropriately fill teams with even or fair numbers. I've seen 4 v 3 v 1s, 4 v 4 v 2s, 4 v 3 v 2s etc etc. In short, the system fills teams in completely the wrong order and doesn't divide the number of players properly.

The system needs to be reworked to fill for 2 v 2 v 2, then 3 v 3 v 3 and finally 4 v 4 v 4. NOT attempt to fill out teams of 4 FIRST leaving teams with only 1 or 2 players against 3s and 4s who they stand absolutely no chance against, especially in Domination or Crazy King where number of players matters as much as (or often more than) gear and skill.

The system also needs to be reworked to allow players who do get stuck in these situations to leave the battleground without penalty, as it is completely unfair and entirely unreasonable to force players to play a totally lopsided match due to circumstances out of their control.

ChunkyCat · December 2019

When I get stuck in the low end of an uneven BG match up, I just refer to is as “expert mode” and revel in the opportunity to face a unique challenge.

Then I rage quit after my first death.

kingsforged · December 2019

ChunkyCat wrote: »

When I get stuck in the low end of an uneven BG match up, I just refer to is as “expert mode” and revel in the opportunity to face a unique challenge.

Then I rage quit after my first death.

Lol I just muck around because I know it's pointless. In Domination/Crazy King there's LITERALLY nothing you can do to win if the numbers are totally stacked against you. You could slaughter them all, but you'll still lose purely to not being able to cap enough zones at once.

It's just an incredibly poorly designed system overall, wont even start on all the low-level twinks they like to stack onto 1 team and fill the others with total newbs in green gear...

Blaqmagik · December 2019

Lol try 20v3v3.
I posted some screenshots of a bg I had the other day in the bug fix forum, as usual..no response though.

Eormenric · December 2019

It is incredibly frustrating having unbalanced matches--whether it's happening to me (unfortunate) or an enemy team (I don't feel accomplished for winning unfairly). I'm genuinely curious which is impossible to achieve:

1) Allowing the system that pulls players into a battleground to back-fill empty spots (even when a match has begun).
2) Implementing a buff feature to <4 member teams.
3) Just like OP kingsforged said: fill teams gradually not bulk loading.

The next time I go on a PvP spree, I'm going to video capture the beginnings of all of my matches, the moment the queue pops. I'll show just how often this happens and post the video as proof. Maybe then this might get top priority.

kingsforged · December 2019

Here's a common example of not just how terrible this game is at putting teams together, but also at approaching anything even resembling balance. That's 2-3 full crafted geared twinks (this is pre-50BGs) all grouped on the only team of 4 in the match, against a regular geared team of 3 and a "team" of ONE single player in a game of "Crazy King". And yes... I sat AFK most of the match because that team of 4 ran together the ENTIRE game.

If you want to kill the reputation of your game and lose players, keep up the good work, because these are some of the WORST system designs I've ever come across... and I played F2Ps for years.

Alag · December 2019

Completely agree with that, it's frustrating. I see fair BG very rarely.

Also today it happened to me and my friend that we were in party, joined queue together, but we both ended up in different BG. It happened us first time.

huhjun1978 · December 2019

Yes, it is bugged, I have same issues everyday.

ZoS must fix this asap, or they have to change back to before