Maybe.

Its not the game's fault, its the player's fault to be either too pro or too scrub.

I think soon as CCP finishes ironing out the deployment snafus they will work on the seeing the balancing done.


Also remember after patch day lots of people spawn in and don't really play because they are fixing and working on fittings. Plays hell with match making all together.

Dude the answer is complicated.

On one hand, you have gamers with their uber desire to win and with that, they will choose any load out to give them an edge. While that is cool bro, that can have negative impact on the game and you can't change that.

On the other, you have devs who try to balance the game by their own numbers and player feedback. But whatever the Dev adjust, initial point about player finding the best load out, comes into play.

So its a never ending cycle. For instance, CalAss once ruled the day. Complaints came in and numbers crunched. Back then, the words racial parity and balance were thrown out so casually like powdered mints at your favorite restaurant. Balance could never be achieved because whatever CCP changed, the cowherd would just migrate to the next big thing and exploit that.

Remember people complaining about nade spam? Slaylogis? Terminator tanks? Drop ships? Swarm launchers? Nanohive camping? Most has been changed only to later on be complained about for their weakness or OPness. Some are even making a comeback. What will we do then?

The cycle never changes. Sometimes the transparency and the gamer himself, really fogs what is true balance.

Therefore, proper balance is never achieved. Just acceptance of current state (survival) which is perceived falsely as balance.

You shouldn't pay any attention to the quality of matches this week, which has been generally awful.
Why?

Because the Krin Salvage Event, which causes everybody and their mother to don't give a flying kitten about winning (or helping teammates), and just focus on their individual goals. I don't blame them, as I did the same

Secondly we just had Warlords 1.2 dropped which shook the meta at its core with Tiericide and Smaller Fireteams. All great changes, but I would wait a week or two until everybody's Mu score and matchmaker have time to settle.

Good question.

Since 1400Z this morning I've been running pubs solo to try and track what the matchmaking experience is like for noobs.


Here are the results.


Shouldn't be much of a surprise

the only way to stop that from happening is to run in a corp or a squad. no way around. trust me i know.

Which is the problem.

Anybody should be able to play a game of Dust and have fun. A landslide is not fun for me no matter which side I'm on.

Dude the answer is complicated.

On one hand, you have gamers with their uber desire to win and with that, they will choose any load out to give them an edge. While that is cool bro, that can have negative impact on the game and you can't change that.

On the other, you have devs who try to balance the game by their own numbers and player feedback. But whatever the Dev adjust, initial point about player finding the best load out, comes into play.

So its a never ending cycle. For instance, CalAss once ruled the day. Complaints came in and numbers crunched. Back then, the words racial parity and balance were thrown out so casually like powdered mints at your favorite restaurant. Balance could never be achieved because whatever CCP changed, the cowherd would just migrate to the next big thing and exploit that.

Remember people complaining about nade spam? Slaylogis? Terminator tanks? Drop ships? Swarm launchers? Nanohive camping? Most has been changed only to later on be complained about for their weakness or OPness. Some are even making a comeback. What will we do then?

The cycle never changes. Sometimes the transparency and the gamer himself, really fogs what is true balance.

Therefore, proper balance is never achieved. Just acceptance of current state (survival) which is perceived falsely as balance.