Got to play people better than you to get better...
well once you have a good chunk of sp neways

I have over 9mil sp, it's not that I can't hold my own, it's that the blues can't... But they could've if they had the support from the top tier corp that left the battle because they were scared of the other top tier corp.

I see this a bit.

Im not saying it towards you but the pansies that back out.

Glad I'm not alone in this... It's pretty annoying honestly, especially in skirmish, getting stomped to the redline for 15-20 minutes, it's not even fun if you're doing the stomping.

I can't understand why you'd leave a battle that would be close and fun.

Is this really a thing? .

I've been getting pretty frustrated lately because of this... I've been playing since open beta and have had some incredibly good battles where both teams duke it out and the battle is super close and super fun.

But recently a new trend has occurred, the pubstomp!

This isn't happening because the matchmaking system is so bad, ok maybe partly the reason but the other reason and most frequent reason is because of a select few, the pu**ies.

Multiple battles over the weekend went something like this... I enter the warbarge and see that the teams are pretty evenly matched, 6man sqd of xxxx on our team, 6man sqd of xxxx on their team (xxxx=good corp) the battles looked as if they'd be extremely fun and close and then the pu**ies get sand in their clam and one of the 6man xxxx squads leaves the battle leaving a bunch of non squaded newberries to face the other dominant and now way better stacked team.

I can only imagine two reasons this is happening, 1. You're a pu**y or 2. You're a pu**y who's scared to lose proto gear and won't run a battle where your facing a decent opponent because you may lose said proto gear and even more so you're such a pu**y that you won't run anything besides proto gear in a pub battle.

Ok, I've vented now and I feel better but just know, if your squad leaves a battle because of the opposition, you're a pu**y, pu**y

But recently a new trend has occurred, the pubstomp!

new trend

The abuse of the word "P**sies" makes this argument a little hard to get-along with, except i do agree that there are certain matches that have a handful of skilled players while the other team has hardly any. Except the thing i'd have to say about that is that it's natural, every now and then you will come across a team of more experienced players that are more organized and as a result lose, and vic versa, sometimes you will have the dominant team and totally crush the opposition. You can't have perfectly balanced teams every game, that's just a reality.

This isn't new.

I've been getting pretty frustrated lately because of this... I've been playing since open beta and have had some incredibly good battles where both teams duke it out and the battle is super close and super fun.

But recently a new trend has occurred, the pubstomp!

This isn't happening because the matchmaking system is so bad, ok maybe partly the reason but the other reason and most frequent reason is because of a select few, the pu**ies.

Multiple battles over the weekend went something like this... I enter the warbarge and see that the teams are pretty evenly matched, 6man sqd of xxxx on our team, 6man sqd of xxxx on their team (xxxx=good corp) the battles looked as if they'd be extremely fun and close and then the pu**ies get sand in their clam and one of the 6man xxxx squads leaves the battle leaving a bunch of non squaded newberries to face the other dominant and now way better stacked team.

I can only imagine two reasons this is happening, 1. You're a pu**y or 2. You're a pu**y who's scared to lose proto gear and won't run a battle where your facing a decent opponent because you may lose said proto gear and even more so you're such a pu**y that you won't run anything besides proto gear in a pub battle.

Ok, I've vented now and I feel better but just know, if your squad leaves a battle because of the opposition, you're a pu**y, pu**y

3 seperate occasions this happened, all within a 2 hour window.

nah matchmaking is the reason. I have 2.3 Sp spent and i go out use1 or 2 lives then sit in the MCC for the rest of the match if my team gets red lined. I do this because everyone has more SP then me and there is no point in giving them free kills.

If my team is unwilling to win from the start i am not going to sacrifice myself for them...and i sure as hell am not going to sacrifice myself to help the other teams SP WP K/D ratio.

You all have more SP then me. You all have Uber powers that i do not. You all can go **** yourselves.

I see it a fair bit, too. Sadly, most often it's a name I recognize as a "good player" before the "left the battle" text. People cherry-picking fights to stomp, it seems.

I've backed out of exactly four matches since I began playing DUST. Two because the rest of the corp mates in my squad left the game (even though I urged them to suck it up and stick it out), two because I was too damn frustrated with the Dukes of Hazard LAV fest to continue.

It's cowardice to leave a match because the other team has players that can stomp you.

I've been getting pretty frustrated lately because of this... I've been playing since open beta and have had some incredibly good battles where both teams duke it out and the battle is super close and super fun.

But recently a new trend has occurred, the pubstomp!

This isn't happening because the matchmaking system is so bad, ok maybe partly the reason but the other reason and most frequent reason is because of a select few, the pu**ies.

Multiple battles over the weekend went something like this... I enter the warbarge and see that the teams are pretty evenly matched, 6man sqd of xxxx on our team, 6man sqd of xxxx on their team (xxxx=good corp) the battles looked as if they'd be extremely fun and close and then the pu**ies get sand in their clam and one of the 6man xxxx squads leaves the battle leaving a bunch of non squaded newberries to face the other dominant and now way better stacked team.

I can only imagine two reasons this is happening, 1. You're a pu**y or 2. You're a pu**y who's scared to lose proto gear and won't run a battle where your facing a decent opponent because you may lose said proto gear and even more so you're such a pu**y that you won't run anything besides proto gear in a pub battle.

Ok, I've vented now and I feel better but just know, if your squad leaves a battle because of the opposition, you're a pu**y, pu**y

Just another reason to have squadless options for pubmatches.

I am working on a rewrite of matchmaking as we speak. We share the same concern.

I am working on a rewrite of matchmaking as we speak. We share the same concern.

What is the goals you are trying to achieve when rewriting the matchmaking? Are you trying to balance skill? SP? WP? Prototype vs Prototype? Shorter queue times?

I understand matchmaking is very complex, but also you can't please everyone. What is CCP trying to achieve here?

Well the goal is simple, create an even probability for a side to win or lose with the least dependence on individual players. How that is achieved I will write about in a dev blog when we are further along with our simulation.