... and left all but about 3 of the battles. The level of distaste I'm feeling rising in me is causing me to start feeling like avoiding the game, rather than playing it. Has the mentality of players really sunk to the depths of just turning every battle into a free-for-all killfest? It seems that most battles are like that these days. I'm getting very good at detecting stomping behaviour in the other team and leaving battles to save my time and effort. I don't see the point in just endlessly throwing expensive suits and clones in them at the enemy for no real gain. Battles are stomps and I too often find myself on the stomped side....

Of course, without playing it their way, I'm practically not playing at all. Soon I will probably simply not log in.

Of course you'd say that - it's the standard complaint amongst those who think people shouldn't leave battles. But no, I usually don't know whether I'm losing or not when I quit. Sometimes my team wins, but most of the time, it loses. I solo which means I have no say over the team I deploy with other than to leave.

It's more telling to note that the overwhelming majority of my battles are losses. That can't be because I was on the team, or even that I left the battle. They were going to be losses anyway, because the matching system in combination with squadding and qsyncing tends to put the squads on one team, then fills both teams with solos and noobs. The simple, logical result is that a solo or noob will usually be on the losing side. This is the logical deduction from the fact that I am usually on the losing team.

In any case, the usual reason I leave is the type of opponent I encounter. I won't fight people who exploit anything in the game to their advantage. I also leave whenever I detect stomping, because I don't tolerate it. I won't participate in it, and I won't fight against it. There's always the possibility I'll be deployed as filler in a team of stompers and I usually experience that as an extremely boring battle. The stompers have already dealt with the enemy before I have a chance to. This type of battle is very rare.

So cutting a long story short, yes, I'm usually losing when I leave the battle, but I don't know that at the time. It's a fair bet though!

And I guess you've said everything in that reply.

No, for me the object is NOT to win, at least not at any cost. Using exploits, qsyncing and squadding (stomping) has become the order of the day now. The problem of course is the game which allows all this. No I'm not asking for people to not squad. But it would be very much better if there was a mode where solos didn't have to come up against squads. It used to be that solos didn't actually have to most of the time. But as a solo I can assure you these days, squads are the order of the day in virtually every match and I'm always on the other team. I had 5 battles in a row today, all losses. I left all but the last one, but that was a loss as well. I KNOW when they will be losses, because I've become adept at detecting when the battle is that one-sided right from the start. So I leave when I detect it, simple. Problem is, it's most battles now. It used to be just the odd few...

There might be a point to all this if the battles were evenly matched but they never are. ALL battles are stomps. Either you're in one of the stomping squads or you're on the other team and you're stomped. Doesn't take much to win if you're on the stomping side....