Please Re-Think how Auto-Balance Works

mattlach · Oct 23, 2011

So you are on a good server.

You've really started getting into your team, and have a smooth working relationship where you know who you can rely on, and are working out strategies to take the next objective.

Really living into it too.

Suddenly, you have been auto balanced to the enemies side. Completely ruins the mood and immersiveness.

When this happens 100% of the time I just quit the game. I usually get pretty pissed too.

There has to be a way to balance the teams without ruining the experience...

>F|R< Sarcinelli · Oct 23, 2011

The last player to join the server should be auto-balanced, not someone that have been playing on the same team from the start of the match.

mowskwoz · Oct 23, 2011

>F|R< Sarcinelli said:
The last player to join the server should be auto-balanced, not someone that have been playing on the same team from the start of the match.

Yep.

hanky · Oct 23, 2011

>f|r< sarcinelli said:
the last player to join the server should be auto-balanced, not someone that have been playing on the same team from the start of the match.

+500

You sir, should get a award

Lush · Oct 24, 2011

Auto-Assign should also be considered

grothesj2 · Oct 24, 2011

>F|R< Sarcinelli said:
The last player to join the server should be auto-balanced, not someone that have been playing on the same team from the start of the match.

Yes, I agree.

Elysium · Oct 24, 2011

Yep I also agree. Really pisses me off when all your hard work is for nothing due to some lame auto-balance system.

Colt .45 killer · Oct 24, 2011

Lush said:
Auto-Assign should also be considered

That or a scramble might be good. As far as I've seen so far, once one team starts communicating and working together it turns into utter destruction for the other team.

SQBsam · Oct 24, 2011

I see people complaining about AB all the time. The reason is simple, say a team has double the number of players, each player on that team feels like they are, so to speak, "pwning". The server then takes these players and places them on the other side, where they are then decimated by their once teammates.
They then feel upset because they were going so well.

The problem is, you were teamswapped for a reason, that team was getting thrashed due to a lack of players.

Don Draper · Oct 24, 2011

Bring back autoselect at the team selection screen for starters.

Atleast some people who like balanced games will use it, and could partly contribute to less auto balancing.

Seriously i do not know why it was not there from the start....it has so be easy as pie to implement ?

tofupunk · Oct 24, 2011

This only happens because you guys stack the german team. I always choose the smaller team, russians 95 % of the time, and I've been autobalanced once or twice with 50 hours played.

nuNce · Oct 24, 2011

>F|R< Sarcinelli said:
The last player to join the server should be auto-balanced, not someone that have been playing on the same team from the start of the match.

Agreed.

lwh · Oct 24, 2011

I was able to reject the auto-balance once. I got the chance to select which role to play, so I went one step further back and re-chose the team I'd already been playing on, then continued on as normal. I assume the game then went and auto-balanced someone else.

I should note, I always choose the team with the least amount of players if I'm coming in late, but I do have a preferred side, and like the OP, I resent having my team efforts undone by the autobalancing.

Dowly · Oct 24, 2011

Also, who's brilliant idea it was to have AB affect squad leaders too?

Does it affect commanders as well?

Crumplecorn · Oct 24, 2011

Whenever I get autobalanced, I just 'Select Team' and go back to my original role/team. Only takes a second, works every time :3

Srinidhalaya · Oct 24, 2011

I wish servers would just turn it off, along with death messages, and player tags...

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