Match Making

[GeoBrigade]

So to start off getting in a match that youre over tiered by two tiers is completely unfair. To even make it even playable you have to basically camp and snipe. You cant push or you'll just get demolished by the high tier DDs with torps or burned to death by the high tier CAs or get tore up by the high tier BBs. In my opinion, matchmaking should only have a one tier difference to make it more balanced between each ship. Also, with the player base that WoWS has now. It shouldnt be a problem to be able to do right?  

[SgtBeltfed]

Depends, Some ships up tier very well, some don't.

 

https://wowreplays.com/Replay/25232

 

As you can see, If I pull a tier 7 game in a Kongo, I just look at it as more credits for me.

[Noshiro_]

You don't have to push as a lower tier. Support the higher tier ships, if you need to then fire HE. 

[geser98]

If you play DD it can get a bit complicated, but often higher tier DDs have higher detection range so you can use it to your advantage and at T7 most players won't have CE yet. Just be careful and choose your battles.

[GeoBrigade]

You don't have to push as a lower tier. Support the higher tier ships, if you need to then fire HE. 

 

Then whats the point of playing a BB if you don't push. The BB was designed to push hard, hit harder, while being able to take hits.

[geser98]

 

Then whats the point of playing a BB if you don't push. The BB was designed to push hard, hit harder, while being able to take hits.

 

Not all BBs were created equal 

 

Even a BB two tiers down can often bounce a lot of shots if you angle well. You can still get normal pens, although citadels on other BBs are unlikely. In fact, of all the ship classes bottom-tiered BB and CAs suffer the least. CVs when bottom tiered can't do anything at all and DDs get in lot of trouble too.

[1SneakyDevil]

 

Then whats the point of playing a BB if you don't push. The BB was designed to push hard, hit harder, while being able to take hits.

 

I have no problem playing T9 battles in my Colorado. You got to know when and how to push when up-tiered in MM. This comes with experience.

 

[BarronRichthofen]

The Tier difference really is ship and captain dependent. In my Bismarck I have no problem being bottom Tier. In my Benson that's a little more problematic. Now the Hipper being bottom Tier ...well I may as well go hide in a corner and hope we win. Vs Zao's and Montana's & Yamato's I might get a few shots off before being nuked to death.

 

I feel for the most part BB's have the least problem's being the low Tier ship, followed by DD's and then Cruisers. Part of the problem is the imbalance MM gives sometimes. Of late I've seen many matches when in a Tier 7-8 DD where I'll be bottom tier Facing off vs T9-10 Cruiser's and BB's. THIS is a problem. Those high Tier CA's all have hydro,radar or Both. The Tier 7-8 DD's do not have the range to attack with guns or torps and stay out of range of the hydro/radar. So if you want to attack at all you are Shouting SHOOT ME to all. 

 

Tier 7-8 Cruisers are no better, too weak of armor and not enough punch to effectively fight back. Cruisers get all BB's in match taking a shot at them even if at long range because it take only 1 or 2 good hit's to kill. 

 

IMO it's less about Tier than the current BB meta on the NA server. Most matches have 5-7 BB's at Tier 8+. If there was a restriction to 4 BB's max at higher Tier's you would see far more even matches.

[Wodyo]

match maker is broken, but not for this reason.

 

I'm tired of seeing premium ship stacks on one team. I'm tired of potato teams versus unicum teams. I'm tired of doing the work of 2, 3, 4 other ships, and still getting a loss. It ruins the fun, more than anything, to go on a 5 to 10 game losing streak.

[Xanarotha]

I completely agree with original poster.  I am tired of playing a Tier IV BB and my buddy playing a Tier III BB and going up against mostly tier Vs and not a single other tier III in the game.  It would not be an issue if this didn't happen 8 out of 10 games.

[mabmax]

 I've posted here about this issue several times. The devs just don't give a flying [edited](or worse).  I won't & I know several others that refuse to spend anything for doubloons now too. I know the devs are aware of this idiocy(or intentionally) made matchmaker system. I guess they think that players will spend to upgrade. Also can't tell me to pick my battles, as someone replied here. I've had a tier 7 dd the akasaki or whatever it is, not even try to evade my puny tier 5 bb's shells, scored 8 hits at 13796 damage, more than enough to make a tier 5 dd think twice, if not sink it. Couple shots I'm incap barely able to move & presto look insta torps. Best of all, game outcome after resupply & repairs -15200 credits. Now the reason I say this match maker is intentional is I have a couple tier 7's also. I can load tier 5's all day & find endless matches with tier 7's. Ok so let me grab a tier 7 & go for it, maybe there's not so many tier 5 players right now. Low & behold those tier 7's just grew up their tier 8-9 now. So when it cost's a player anywhere from 12k - 50k to resupply & repair it takes forever to afford that next ship unless you spend cash. Now if the devs would realize. Players spend ungodly amounts for something fun & exciting not unbalanced & frustrating. Like I said in another post about this: I'd rather spend an extra 60 or even 120 seconds waiting on matchmaker, than spend 120 seconds in game & die in 2 shots. Oh, an as far as support higher tier allies like someone said here, come on get real. Try to "blend" in with higher team mates just makes you the big duck. Your in a Colorado. If you scope, lets say two Colorado's & a New York close together, who's getting blasted 1st? You can't be that stupid. Then another says you can reflect shells if right angle. OMG your a gas, which of the 2 shots had a chance to reflect?   Point made lame as hell. 

[Azumazi]

Honestly, the only thing I think that needs to happen is that tier 6's should get weighted MM to mostly limit them to being pulled into tier 7 matches instead of lately into tier 8s. This would cause tier 5's to mostly get pulled into tier 6's instead of 7s and the domino effect would help balance it out better.

 

As it stands now, tier 6's getting dragged into 8s is mostly the problem as the drastic increase in combat capabilities begins to grow far faster once you start hitting tier 7.