- OksanaBayul
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- Elder Legendary Member
I really have no problem with Matchmaking becuase you cure many problems with how you weight the games. Popular/Appropriate maps receive a higher weighting, but you still get a taste of everything. It works for me.
I too play the 360 BF2, and the voting thing is OK, but it still feels a bit off.
Back to topic:
It makes little sense to me to let the average gamer try to take on the difficult task of discovering balance issues in a game. Leave it to people that study the game, rather than those that just play it.
For example: I'd wager you could take the average gamer, throw him on Foundation Slayer 50 times in a row, and he'd be waiting for the BR to respawn all day, not knowing they do not respawn when held on that map. Or, he'd simply not think about the BR spawn issue whatsoever.
Sure, the average gamer can see the Banshee on Ascension in a Rifles game was inequitable, but little things will be missed. Little things missed can quickly ruin balance. It's a tough job, the balance testing, you really can't miss anything.
And I never get the feeling the average gamer on this board considers the impact of starting spawns. You can get a raw deal with the starting spawns, and I'm happy to hear they are working on perfecting the spawn system. It warms my heart.
Posted by: Sir Fragula
Some thoughts on Matchmaking and the alternatives.
I've been playing an awful lot of Battlefield 2: Modern Combat on the 360 recently. That game has dedicated servers, with a some servers using map rotation and others using a voting system. Both are broken, in that they produce non-optimal results. The rotating servers are always empty because people don't like the possibility of getting a map they don't know inside out. The voting servers almost ALWAYS without fail play Backstab, Deadly Pass or A Bridge Too Far, because the largest minority can play them in their sleep in order to advance in ranks, and the remaining players are unorganised in their voting.
Just a consideration for those wanting to go down that route...