Being a player who has been playing Battlefield for 15 years, has a consistent 2+ KDR and plays the objective, I find it odd that I consistently play for hours without winning a SINGLE game. I am constantly placed on the losing team. Even if I am the only one getting objectives on my team, end up placing top, it doesn’t matter. Is team balancing just awful in BFV or something?
I had to play 14 games to get my first win on my account. Wondering if others are having this same issue. I think I’ve played maybe 2 or 3 rounds so far where team play was happening on my side. Pretty uninviting if you ask me.
Team balancing is awful. Never use match making, join a server off the browser or you’ll have extremely high odds of being put on a losing team that has people constantly dropping.
I almost exclusively use the server browser and im regularly put into the losing team due to that team is more likely to need filled after people start leaving.
I want an option to only join games about to start,i dont care if it increases matchmaking times,give me that choice dice.
Like I mentioned many of times in other threads here. It feels like joining a server for conquest I got like 98% chance of joining a spot left by a rage quitter on losing side. Most of the time it is. Very seldom I get tossed into a easy win.
That’s because when a team is losing there are a lot of people ragequitting and in less than 5 minutes the losing team have 27 people against 32 aggravating the problem and causing the losing team to be steamrolled and if that was not enough the winning team get more points, more arty spam, more V1, more Sturmtigers/Crocodiles for them, aggravating the problem even more. I have 42% winrate due that. I always use matchmaking anyway, I don’t really mind if I win or lose.
Joining a server will likely put you on the losing team as it is usually players on the losing team who quit first while winners tend to see the game to the end. With BF5 having no team/skill balance system, it will keep the players on the same team for the next match so when one team begins to steamroll, they will likely continue to steamroll since the game keeps all those players on the same team.
There definitely seems to be a bit of a dip in overall skill level in V but I think the biggest factor a lot of people seem to forget is players no longer being able to switch teams.
I admit, I was guilty of occassionally switching to the winning side in the past (though in my defence I could tell extremely early who had the better team), but now it seems like people are just bouncing the very first moment anything turns sour.
There aren’t any penalties in V for leaving early right? No problem for the person leaving but in-game that team needs to pick up the slack which is never good
Consistently after a match when I look at the scoreboard maybe the top 4 players on each team have done adequately in terms of overall score and K\D. Then there’s a huge, sheer drop where the average score and K/D is tiny.
I really don’t think that the majority of the player base understand how to engage with V, and it’s not inexperience as the players are almost all level 50.
I’m on PS4 Europe are things different on X Box and PC?
With all due respect, but your perception is flawed, your winrate is at 46%, which is, after 50 odd rounds still a rather small set of data. You are basically winning about as much as losing.
There’s no team balancing during the game, only at the end of a round. Which is why you get matches that have 28 vs 10, sometimes the servers decides that the numbers in the match are okay and decide that trying to fill the server is not top priority so the only way people can join is by using the server browser.
Finally someone using stats for something sensible. After 15 years of playing the game original poster should know how to look this up himself.
Having said that, there is not much balancing happening in the game. If you are at a losing side, it is quite likely this team will lose next match also because only rarely a squad is moved cross teams. The only hope is that the ‘I wanna be carried to a win’-quitters leave and make room for better players with less focus on their K/D and more on the objectives.
this is like pretty much every game. normally I count 12-17 recon players… guess where they are…
also none of those numpties knows what a spotting flare is
anyway:
to be honest I dont care if Im on a losing or winning team. I play mostly breakthrough so provided I’m on a side I prefer to be on a specific map I’m OK.
Arras - defending
fjel - attacking (it’s awful to defend)
rotterdam - defending but dont mind attacking either
devastation - probably defending especially in the church but I’m happy with either
narvik - attacking
aerodrome - attacking
twisted steel - attacking
hamada - quit as soon as it loads
panzerstorm - quit as soon as it loads
The biggest problem here is the vast majority of people do not even understand how to play the game so many people run of solo into the middle of nowhere thinking they will get a nice kill streak to post on you tube.The biggest sin i see teams committing is letting your home flags(flags closest to you spawn getting capped and then the whole team just zergs on one flag.For people that don`t understand if you let you home flag get capped and you only attack the middle flag you are going to get flanked by the enemy over and over and over again.
This games mechanics to have a higher chance of winning are centered around flanking the enemy so if you see you home flags either taking or being capped take them back asap i have managed to turn around a lot of matches where we almost lost to wins due to this and also trying to stick with you squad which should go without saying and if your on a squad that is making those mistakes leave that squad and join another until your on one that understands this.
Stop worrying about winning.
Try your best to do what you can to win and improve your own performance ( and be happy you did your best ) but realise that there are no teams in this game (that is a misnomer) only sides. Teams require teamwork , teamwork is achieved through communication. There is no communication throughout the side you are on, only random squads which maybe (if you’re lucky) communicating within squad but almost never with other squads. Then you have the random loners doing their own thing on top of all that.
You cannot control how people play the game or where they go. Also people are actively discouraged from defending areas by large sections of the ‘’ community ‘’ who call it camping and sneer at what they consider low spm or kpm and even dice who discourage it through the scoring system. This means that often the opposing side takes a flag with out having to fight for it ( I’m obviously talking about CQ ) because most of your side are off chasing points.
Back when bf had decent RSP then scrims could be organised between two proper TEAMS where comms were used and no ingame points were scored and then it was worth concerning yourself about winning.
I have more fun playing with this in mind than worrying about winning a public match.
Just my thoughts, take or leave them.