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Arkena Wyrnspire
Turalyon 514
Turalyon Alliance
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Posted - 2013.11.26 22:09:00 -
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A little irritated with one of my occasional forays into the Ambush gamemode, I decided to see if many ambushes were like the one I'd just played.
So I fitted up a dampened scout, hid back a bit, and watched through a scope.
Match 1:
Full squad on my team. Mostly using protogear, two were using GEK-38s but were in protosuits. Other team populated with NPC corps and various randoms, no squads. Won 74 - 00.
Match 2:
Two full squads on my team. Couldn't tell if an entire squad was using proto but there was a lot of it. Other team mostly NPCs and randoms, no squads. Won 76 - 00.
Match 3:
Full squad on enemy team - mostly proto. Squad of three on my team from a corp I'd never heard of. Lost 00 - 67
Match 4: Full squad on enemy team - did not see non-proto players from that squad. My team composed of randoms, no squads. Lost 00 - 70.
Match 5:
Full squad on enemy team - mostly proto. Witnessed one of the most disgusting matches I've ever seen - the entire squad was using scrambler rifles and clearly using the bypass-overheat bug. Lost, didn't catch clone count.
This is pretty much why I don't play ambush.
A few things to note:
1. The spawn system is god awful. Several times I saw people still spawning into a huge pack of enemies. This persisted for some time every time it happened, leading to lots of spawn killing. Typically the spawn shifted once or twice once every last dot was exterminated.
2. Matchmaking is horrendous. It's an insult to call it 'matchmaking', frankly.
3. The scrambler rifle glitch is ridiculous. It's in fairly wide-spread usage now, and it shows.
Honestly, if I was a new player and my first few matches were consistently like that? I'd be out. Wouldn't look back.
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Arkena Wyrnspire
Turalyon 514
Turalyon Alliance
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Posted - 2013.11.26 22:27:00 -
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Doc Noah wrote:Pretty sure they turned off matchmaking a day after they implemented it due to issues with 5-10 minute wait times.
There just isnt enough players to give matchmaking a chance, tiercide or lonewolf matchmaking is the only way.
The lack of players couldn't possibly be related to how ridiculously difficult it is to get into this game for a newbie due to the constant stomping, could it? 
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Arkena Wyrnspire
Turalyon 514
Turalyon Alliance
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Posted - 2013.11.26 22:45:00 -
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Sephirian Fair wrote:Yes, it's a joke. The only way to have matchmaking in this game is to do it yourself. There's a "Leave Game" function. Use it. CCP refuses to do anything about Public Contract matchmaking by taking the necessary steps to help the newer players. \
Meta level restricted contracts or a solo queue contracts were needed and were heavily petitioned to CCP before their supposed "Improved matchmaking" was implemented. They ignored us and we're still left with the most atrocious matchmaking of any FPS I've ever played.
They refused to implement those because of the small player base and they didn't want to segregate it any further, but without them, player retention is pathetically low. "Friends don't let friends play Dust." I like it and I have tried introducing several friends to Dust, but every single one of them hate it and I refuse to even attempt it anymore until CCP takes their head out of their ass and takes the necessary steps to correct their mistakes.
This is exactly it.
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