This has nothing to do with that. The matchmaking algorithm should still evenly distribute squads between teams. I assume you're a super cool full-squad player- wouldn't you rather fight a real fight instead of just redlining 16 randoms?

Wow, there's some real di*k heads playing this game, and your definitely one of them. Just to clarify, all I was asking for was a matchmaking system that made good matches, two teams mixed with squads and non squads.

Just a small effort here to clarify the terms.

There is No Matchmaking in DUST. There never has been and the future looks bleak for it.
Do Not Hold Your Breath, unless you want to turn blue and die. Then knock yourself out.

There is a hilariously bad squad deployment mechanism. How that is Supposed work is unknown, CCP/Shanghai has never committed nor commented on it. Just stuff 1 to 32 players into a match type that they have selected as one of their options.

And they said it was going to be better. Who would have suspected that it was going to get worse? Me. But, I am a cynic.


Also, check this url. Squad Deployment issues have been fixed, don't cha know? Near the bottom of the page. Mentioned more than once.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=34746&p=3


Welcome to DUST.

Just to weigh in a little bit, at one point in time there was matchmaking for a short while but it was disabled due to a bunch of people complaining they were not getting placed into matches as a squad
You win a shiny nickel if you can guess what sort of squads were not getting placed into matches, starts with a q and ends with a sync

I'll never understand why so many people want to play a team game solo. If it wasn't for the friendships I've made in this game I wouldn't be playing it. To be quite honest I think solo play maybe one of the reasons why so many QQ all the time. It should be extremely difficult and frustrating to play solo.

LMAO "Teamwork is op, nerf it"

I haven't played BF4 yet, but does that have a no-squad option? If not, then this argument has absolutely no leg to stand on.

There are different sort of players in Dust. I realize some people enjoy the social aspect of the game, I personally skip over most of those due to a lack of interest. Here's my side of the medal:

Often I start up the PS3 for merely ~60 minutes of Dust. That's perhaps two matches. I'm generally unlikely to spend some of that time on setting up a squad that shares my interest in gamemodes, I'd rather just get straight to the face-shooting. I bought a mic specifically for Dust, but then realized that I have no interest whatsoever in hearing other people's voices in my spare time beyond what can be communicated through attack/defend orders. I actually started paying attention to Dust when in an interview I read that Dust wishes to cater to both the casual and the hardcore crowd with the ability to scale between these two, much like in Eve.

That said I accept that other players are looking for a more involved style of play and I'm sure Dust can please everyone with the right mechanics. Personally I'm hoping for PC to be the summit for the hardcore players, public contracts to be a strictly carebear-kindergarden and FW to be a playground for those used-to-be pubbies that are looking to get more serious until they can muster the strength to claim territory in PC. Unfortunately FoxFour just designed FW to be a complement to public games, not a replacement. Well, perhaps it'll start working properly in 2015 then.

BF4 auto adds you to an open squad when you join the match so everyone is on one. Also, during spawn you can leave squads and enter new squads in seconds. The whole process is fluid and well done IMO. Dust on the other hand...

Nearly every match I've been in today has been a team full of squads against a team with none. Fed up with it, I don't generally squad up but it would be nice to have at least one organised squad on my team to prevent complete annihilation.