Sick of getting punished for having high battleground MMR

Brakkish · April 1

When your MMR = 50% of total team MMR: GG, you're taking a L.

Lord of the Flies

Estin · April 1

There's unfortunately not enough players for the MMR system to work as intended. I can play on a character that hasn't touched BGs in months and still queue into a match with players I see on a character that does several BGs a day. The population is just too low.

It's unfun, especially in 8v8s, but I've come to accept that BGs is nothing but RNG and you shouldn't get mad when you're up against a team of stacked players with a healer. Those same stacked players who go 20-0 have been and will continue to get into matches where they get the short stick and go 0-10 because they were placed on the less skilled team. It's not worth getting stressed about it. 4v4s can be ruined by a healer, but from my experience, they end up being more stress free because you're not going to get zerged down as much and the team rng is better due to less players per team.

ruskiii · April 1

Estin wrote: »

There's unfortunately not enough players for the MMR system to work as intended. I can play on a character that hasn't touched BGs in months and still queue into a match with players I see on a character that does several BGs a day. The population is just too low.

It's unfun, especially in 8v8s, but I've come to accept that BGs is nothing but RNG and you shouldn't get mad when you're up against a team of stacked players with a healer. Those same stacked players who go 20-0 have been and will continue to get into matches where they get the short stick and go 0-10 because they were placed on the less skilled team. It's not worth getting stressed about it. 4v4s can be ruined by a healer, but from my experience, they end up being more stress free because you're not going to get zerged down as much and the team rng is better due to less players per team.

You should try PCNA server for BGs. Community is very healthy and BGs always populated. Big problem is the MMR resets mixing new players and vets constantly every month, and then it takes a whole month to level out again. Monthly resets are way too quick. (Should be once per season, or not at all - we had the same mmr system without resets in 4v4v4 bgs, it still sucked but it was better than this.)

If anyone does play the game mainly for BGs I'd recommend making a character on PCNA. I know the population is kind of stagnant on PCEU and I hear it's way worse on console.

Brakkish · 2:15AM

I play strictly on console - losing 11yrs of collections is just too much to consider it.

I'd much prefer they do away with MMR altogether.

Even assembling teams randomly (no mmr consideration) from the pool of queued players couldn't be worse than what's currently happening. It's ridiculous.

Decimus · 2:36AM

Brakkish wrote: »

I play strictly on console - losing 11yrs of collections is just too much to consider it.

I'd much prefer they do away with MMR altogether.

Even assembling teams randomly (no mmr consideration) from the pool of queued players couldn't be worse than what's currently happening. It's ridiculous.

Uuh, what if I told you that's quite literally how it works right now...

The only thing "higher MMR" gives you is a longer queue time. You'll skip matches that people in your friends list get into, and then you'll get in a lobby with those same people after their previous lobby is over... and it'll still fill the lobby with random CP67s etc.

A lack of functional MMR is precisely the problem people are facing.