MM: How often do look at the matchup and wish you didn't have to play?

[Yasenpoi]

Is it so bad that you wish you had stopped playing instead of joining your current game?  Or alternatively, would you quit if you had the option and it didn't screw over the rest of your team?

 

Usually I don't have an issue at lower tiers and it is acceptable for me during peak hours.  However at T8, I start to have issues because of how unbalanced T10 is against T8.  Once you get to offpeak hours the matchups are often so annoying to play that I often just decide to stop playing.  Its quite common to continuously get matched up to TX games (60-80% chance of facing TX).  I often notice the MM is incapable of making even teams.  For example, giving one team 2 Yamatos and a Montana vs 2 Zao and a TX DD when these people aren't even in division together.  Other times one side has a midway, and the other side has a T8 CV or sometimes even no CV.

 

I think one solution is to remove 5 minute guaranteed game.  This guarantee basically overrides any type of fairness in MM after someone or some group waits 3 mins.  I feel like doubling the wait times or even removing them for CV would reduce a lot of the stress on T8 and T9.  You would get more TX in a game together and they would be forced onto lower tiers less often.  Alternatively you could have the game keep track of if they were the lowest tier in the last match and if so they are guaranteed a pass from being the lowest tier consecutively. 

 

While this might upset some people that manage to get to TX, it could also keep the game more healthy if players are not so frustrated with MM that they quit the game.  Personally, if i was playing TX, I wouldn't mind being encouraged to play it during peak hours and have to wait longer during non-peak hours. A healthy game is much more important in the long run.  The less active players there are the worse MM will get, which will cause more players to quit and make MM even worse.

[Sinboto]

was in a T9 match this morning, luckily I was in a CV so I had a essex with me, but still pretty bad luck.

[Naughtius_Maximus]

Fuso/New Mexico in World of Tirpitz. Featuring, Tirpitz errywhere!

 

Alternatively I have 100+ games in a Fubuki for a reason

[MrDeaf]

I would only be really annoyed if it was Midway vs. T9 CV

 

The other T8~10 ship disparity does not feel like they cannot be overcome some morsel of teamwork or someone carrying the team.

[Taichunger]

Just got out of another one of those incredibly stupid Lexington vs Midway battles. You know how those go, no need to even explain. Unfortunately we had the Lexington.

 

This DESPERATELY needs fixed. If we have to play with CVs -- and WG won't give us a check box so we can select to play without those wildly OP, game ruining ships -- then for [edited]'s sake they have to be balanced. This is especially true when there is a Midway around, since it is far and away the most OP ship in the game.

 

The Lexington vs Midway MM has to be stopped. ASAP. The only thing that should go against a Midway is another Midway. Even a Hakuryu isn't good enough. It's ridiculous that the Midway hasn't been nerfed when the stats make it obvious that it desperately needs one.

 

Taichunger

[Wo_9]

Just got out of another one of those incredibly stupid Lexington vs Midway battles. You know how those go, no need to even explain. Unfortunately we had the Lexington.

 

This DESPERATELY needs fixed. If we have to play with CVs -- and WG won't give us a check box so we can select to play without those wildly OP, game ruining ships -- then for [edited]'s sake they have to be balanced. This is especially true when there is a Midway around, since it is far and away the most OP ship in the game.

 

The Lexington vs Midway MM has to be stopped. ASAP. The only thing that should go against a Midway is another Midway. Even a Hakuryu isn't good enough. It's ridiculous that the Midway hasn't been nerfed when the stats make it obvious that it desperately needs one.

 

Taichunger

 

 

dont nerf freedom plz

[Taichunger]

LOL

[hipcanuck]

They need to leave it alone for now.

 

World of tirpitz will end when the German cruisers come out, ppl are just getting their commander skilled up.

 

CV's were beat up pretty badly, even tho they needed SOME of it, in 4.1 (?), and this has resulted in a thinning of the CV playerbase. Seems the population drop is around tier 6 when AA becomes a serious problem. Until something is done to fix the tier disparity between AA and plane durability, high tier CV's will be fairly rare. The monthly statistics should show the number of games played by CV's has dropped considerably. Im in tier 5/6/7/8 matches regularly and perhaps half my games have no CV's.

[Dr_Venture]

I'd rather the seal clubbers in their midway's wait a bit longer than get shoved into a match against a tier 8 and break the MM into stacking all the X's on one side.