If i dont bring a scanner, we dont have one
If i dont bring uplinks we dont have any
if i dont bring a squad theres no squads on our team
if i dont bring ammo, we dont have any
if i dont bring AV we dont have any
if i dont defend our only base we lose it
if i dont attack a base we dont get new ones
if i dont countersnipe the snipers they shoot freely
if i dont get rid of the forge gunner nobody will


fix matchmaking so that i dont have to do everything please...

Have a little faith in your fellow players!

Is this a matchmaking problem or a problem with blueberries?

This.

Less a matchmaking problem, more a blueberry problem.

its a matchmaking problem when if i que solo i have all of these problems without exception.


aka aparently the matchmaking system thinks im good enough to carry a team.... so it gives me a team that needs carrying

Quite a arrogant statement I'm glad you think so highly of yourself.

Getting back on topic I think this is less a matchmaking problem and more a problem with the player base.

Is this happening solo or squaded? I was assuming the new matchmaking system would eliminate this. The problem is you have no idea the sp base of your team mates they may just be really bad experienced players although that is highly doubtful.

statistically speaking havning 20mil+ SP is rare.

it pretty much requires that you started at last full SP reset and have used boosters a few times.


this stuff happens when i bring a squad of 3 or less.

aka if im not pubstomping in a full 6 man deathsquad of hand picked players its a clusterfuck....


only 1/10 games do i even find people talking on mics

it follows the pattern, i literally have to bring it with me into a game if i want it at all.

if i want AV, i have to bring an AV guy
if i want uplinks i have to bring someone with them
if i want defenders, i have to bring my own
if i want attackers, i have to bring my own.


its just wierd that it always puts me with entire teams of people that arnt on par with my skill level... if i dont bring it myself... it dont get it.

no team support from randoms

If i dont bring a scanner, we dont have one
If i dont bring uplinks we dont have any
if i dont bring a squad theres no squads on our team
if i dont bring ammo, we dont have any
if i dont bring AV we dont have any
if i dont defend our only base we lose it
if i dont attack a base we dont get new ones
if i dont countersnipe the snipers they shoot freely
if i dont get rid of the forge gunner nobody will


fix matchmaking so that i dont have to do everything please...

I think the lack of a tutorial for the blueberries result in DUST blueberries being the worst in all of the FPS games.

Have a little faith in your fellow players!

Is this a matchmaking problem or a problem with blueberries?

Nope... this is problem new gamers now.
They come , do 'fast pew pew'... and noone of them trying to think what he must do.
They want anything 'NOW'. If not ... cry or leave with taughts that this game is:
- unfair - keyboard/mouse
- veteran pub stomping
- why I must stay in this game for months to get anything...

But some of them stays and become hardcore ;)

Dust is what it is.
Hard, free and player requiring attention...
Stay if you like this.

This has nothing to do with tutuorials, or the game being to hard for new players to comprehend.
Because the game isn't that hard to comprehend.
So stop acting like you're special because you "Get it"


It has everything to do with the game itself and how much it sucks and encourages people to just AFK.


AND matchmaking.

Let me repeat...

MATCHMAKING.....
Has never worked, for any game it has been in.

Oh, sure, it works at that most basic level of throwing a bunch of people into a lobby together, I'll give it that.
But no game that I know of today from Halo onward has had a Matchmaking system that actually put "quality" matches together.

The matchmaking system is broken. Matchmaking system should allow for players who don't want t wait around to find a team to pick up the game and join a lobby with similar minded players of similar skill and SP. sort of like CoD where you can select mercenary battles where there are no teams allowed. The second problem is the disparity in skill, where noobs and vets are mixed in randomly to produce teams (only to get stomped by a group of 6 elite players).

Everyone should be given a score or players rank based on whatever (SP, Average match points, k/d etc..) and you should be placed in a lobby with similar skilled players. Problem is the game time with go from 6-8 seconds to 25-30. Most vets don't see this as a problem but game developers want players playing and not sitting in a lobby waiting (yet they don't seem to care how long it takes to find a team).

If you wanted to go further you can be ranked by on class as well to give every team balance of assault, heavy, logi and light.

Personally I want to pick up my controller and join a game where I don't run into elite 6 man teams who stomp the noobs on my team. I much prefer a mercenary mode, no teams just pick up and play. Work with your team and don't waste my time forming a group or waste my time entering a match where the teams are unbalanced. There is no reason as a solo player i run I to hell storm type elite teams every match who just beat up on players who have 1/10th their SP.

There is no skill in pub stomping and matchmaking should reflect balanced matches.

I hope I spaced everything out. Using iPhone

-Cots

when people with over 20 mill sp who are multi specced a majority of the time running alone get dropped into matches with 15 scrubs maybe 14 scrubs on their side thats a problem..i have both proto av unless i bring a squad mate i havnt seen a fellow av user put ina match with me my matches tend to be logi low as well as i am a proto logi i guess thats why when i do see a aver on my side hes a mlt user or stnd driving around witha saga dieing repeatedly to turrets.

I completely agree. I would add that the matchmaker should be able to detect pubstompers. When there is a complete blowout in a match, and there are players that all have massive K/D and WP relative to the median score of the rest of their team they should be "penalized" by having their matchmaking rank increased significantly. This will force those players to fight better players in future matches.

If i dont bring a scanner, we dont have one
If i dont bring uplinks we dont have any
if i dont bring a squad theres no squads on our team
if i dont bring ammo, we dont have any
if i dont bring AV we dont have any
if i dont defend our only base we lose it
if i dont attack a base we dont get new ones
if i dont countersnipe the snipers they shoot freely
if i dont get rid of the forge gunner nobody will


fix matchmaking so that i dont have to do everything please...

Let noobs learn together and let the others avoid their torment.

Please tell me you're joking. This forum is filled with two types of poster:
1. Those complaining about the small player base, or
2. Those complaining about how new players are terrible.

Notice a correlation there?

The problem stems from two basic issues:
1. The game really, really does a poor job of "breaking in" new players. Simply throwing a bunch of new players into Academy Battles together isn't going to help them out; I could throw my 8 year-old daughter and some of her friends into a car and tell them to learn how to drive--but unless someone that actually knows how to drive is in there with them, they aren't going to get very far.
2. Many of the veterans on these boards are openly hostile towards players that are "beneath" them. Perhaps if they spent more time helping out new players instead of complaining about them, we might actually see an increase in the number of players that stick around and play often.

Please tell me you're joking. This forum is filled with two types of poster:
1. Those complaining about the small player base, or
2. Those complaining about how new players are terrible.

Notice a correlation there?

The problem stems from two basic issues:
1. The game really, really does a poor job of "breaking in" new players. Simply throwing a bunch of new players into Academy Battles together isn't going to help them out; I could throw my 8 year-old daughter and some of her friends into a car and tell them to learn how to drive--but unless someone that actually knows how to drive is in there with them, they aren't going to get very far.
2. Many of the veterans on these boards are openly hostile towards players that are "beneath" them. Perhaps if they spent more time helping out new players instead of complaining about them, we might actually see an increase in the number of players that stick around and play often.

+1

But what is ccp going to do to help indoctrinate new players into the game? Longer academy? PVE? I hope something...

how should we help them?

non of them use mics, none of them squad, most probably don't even watch team chat.

the very few I do talk to that have mics, more often then not aren't asking any questions.

theirs no systems in place for mentoring, or teaching players.

dust university is a corp currently built for the purpose of teaching players, if new people can't find their way into that corp how are we supposed to do anything about it?

Lot of talk about blueberries but where's your huckleberries? You're complaining about not being able to fill multiple roles at once while running solo in a squad based FPS. You want to run solo, that's fine but you're not playing the game the way it's intended to be played and you will be at a disadvantage for it.

The OP isn't talking about running solo he's talking about the matchmaking system and how it pairs his squad with lower SP players who don't contribute to the required tasks of the team. It's a matchmaking topic that has turned into a topic of teamwork and training. No one here is talking about running solo.

its a matchmaking problem when if i que solo i have all of these problems without exception.