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Titanfall |OT| Titan Online. Signal When Ready.
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Hero_of_the_Day
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Been playing all morning and haven't had much trouble finding Attrition games. Been having some good close matches too. Maybe I'm just lucky, but shit seems better so far.
Side note, I can't fucking use burn cards quick enough. Every match I just go through three, get back to the menu and it tells me I'm full again and need to use some if I want more.
Side note, I can't fucking use burn cards quick enough. Every match I just go through three, get back to the menu and it tells me I'm full again and need to use some if I want more.
Pretty funny really, we were having a close match imo, 230 - 200, and there was a team of 3 Gen 8s who ALL quit. LMAO, they need wins to regen and they won't even take a loss.
Had a better time with the new matchmaking for a few games, but it really does seem like I always am teamed up with a stronger team, so it's even harder to lose if they don't quit.
Hip Hop
Member
It put me off 2 weeks ago and haven't played since.
Awesome game, horrible matchmaking experience.
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
I really thought the beta matchmaking would have stayed in beta for a while longer -- my friends and I avoided that gametype because it often put us in uneven teams more than not. I think the best type of matchmaking for this game is to simply throw looking for skill out the window in favor of even player teams but also after every match there needs to be a system where it finds new players to match up with so if a team is stuck with a team that is just a higher skill than them then they will only be stuck there for one match. Also, mix up all players except for ones in an XBL party.
If they did, it hasn't reached the EU servers yet.
I have been stuck in the infernal loop of trying to find team-mates, then once found, struggling to find an opposing team. Matchmaking has been borked for some ungodly reason. 2 hours of searching, I played one game this evening.
Not too sure what the fix was for? Was it to even the playing field for matches? Anyone actually seen this in action?
Not too sure what the fix was for? Was it to even the playing field for matches? Anyone actually seen this in action?
TrueGrime
Member
Pretty funny really, we were having a close match imo, 230 - 200, and there was a team of 3 Gen 8s who ALL quit. LMAO, they need wins to regen and they won't even take a loss.
Had a better time with the new matchmaking for a few games, but it really does seem like I always am teamed up with a stronger team, so it's even harder to lose if they don't quit.
Gen 3 with 7 fucking points and a Gen 2 with 13.
It does do what it was intended. My matches aren't any closer, but my teammates are stronger and the other team no longer has newbies etc. But it used to prioritise speed, now it tries its best to evenly match people. I have only ever had real close matches and great opponents when I play in a party of 6.
Probably got dropped into the match late.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Did he join the match late?
TrueGrime
Member
It's hard to give guys the benefit of the doubt of that happening, but I've seen numbers like this with guys in the game for the entire time. Not sporadically either. It's common.
Lostconfused
Member
1 death and 0 kills, pretty much a given that was a late join. You'd have to be AFK in a pretty secure spot to not die repeatedly I imagine.
He joined late. I had a Gen 8 on my team who left in the first few minutes because we didn't have the lead.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
I've seen this a couple of times. One guy was a Gen2 30-something, ended with 0 kills either titan or pilot, double digit deaths. He had some minion kills so I know he wasn't just standing there.
The Albatross
Member
Why is there an influx of rage quitters now than before? I haven't played attrition with the new match making, basically I only play hardpoint.
High probability of joining late. Happens to me all the time and the best part is joining a Hardpoint match where my team only have 3 (that includes me after joining it) vs 6...
I don't think the changes were in affect then. I seemed to be the first post noticing it when I booted it which was around 3AM EST, I played for about 2 hours then stopped as it was the most frustrating time I had with the game yet. Long matchmaking loops, people quitting a lot throwing teams off and never getting replaced, stuff like that.
And this almost seemed true too, I couldn't get anything done with this last night so I was switching around to the carbine and shotgun. But it might have just been lag since the connections seemed worse.
From my experience the lobbies were all very high gen(like 7 or 8+) while some of my teammates were only around level 30 on the starting gen which seems daunting, so I noticed lobby quitting and having it try to replace them but games starting lopsided anyway.
Otherwise, they also in a lot of cases seemed to be coordinated teams. I saw things like getting on a titan, having him immediately turn around and have his friend punch me off when before I got on he was not looking that direction. Titanfalls all around the same time, staying as a group, etc. Even if it's matching based on skill, individual skill is different from fighting a team...so people quit, threw teams of more, game never replaced them, extra people quit, etc.
constantstatic
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thats the problem with skilled match making high level players don't usually stick around to get beat up on they just leave and find a new lobby. atleast when you are destroying a team of low levels they stick around and finish the game. also playing solo on this new match making is awful I'm constantly getting dropped into loosing games then it breaks up the lobby and put into another loosing game twice in a row.
TrueGrime
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Rarely get dropped into a lobby if I'm going solo. It's always in the middle of the game on a losing team. Which doesn't surprise me because more than not, there's going to be no spots open on a team that's doing very well. That spot you took was more or less a rage quitters spot.
TrueGrime
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I don't condone rage quitter but I know how frustrating it can be to be a high skilled player on a team that isn't cutting it. This game is not CoD where you can shoulder the burden alone if you're a kick ass player. One really bad player can drag the whole team down. 2-3 bad players and you're done for.
You can in Attrition.
TrueGrime
Member
Not against a full party team averaging 40-50 points a game.
constantstatic
Member
I have put up many 100+ games and still lost due to awful teammates.
lastflowers
Banned
Two of my 130 point games beg to differ.
When a player goes 0-9 with one minion kill...you just have to wonder
Forsaken82
Member
Not when they both only have 1 death...
This isn't a game where you walk away with 1 death and a low score. If you have 1 death in this game from the start its because you steam rolled everything. if you have a low score, its because you got steamrolled.
They were very likely dropped into the game late.
All that aside, Prestiging is not indicative of skill.
I don't know what it is, but it really seems weaker. I just used the carbine for the first time in weeks and I was dropping people like I used to with the C.A.R. before today.
You can carry the team by doing more than just getting a lot of Attrition points.
I sometimes go 7 deaths because I need to force my team to have a higher Titan count, once I achieve that I watch their back and kill minions. I shout this down the mic lol
TrueGrime
Member
Haha. At least kill minions motherfuckers! Is what I want to say.
game put me into a match in progress full of gen7 and higher. I was the only one on my time.. yay.
also, there needs to be a way to cancel joining a match in progress, especially since you can't specify or select maps. Having to sit there while it's joining a match with some shitty map is annoying. especially since everything is sooooo slow. leaving the lobby is slow, connecting is slow, leaving a match is slow, ugh. So ending up on shitty maps or joining a match that's fucking over already or being put in empty matches is even more frustrating. they either have to focus on speed or quality matching, slow, shitty match making is just going to drain the community.
honestly, the game is great. finding a decent match can be challenging. but I'm getting sick of how much time I'm wasting doing nothing but watching a non-responsive ui. oh and if you put the console to sleep any where but the main lobby, resume from sleep doesn't work.
also, there needs to be a way to cancel joining a match in progress, especially since you can't specify or select maps. Having to sit there while it's joining a match with some shitty map is annoying. especially since everything is sooooo slow. leaving the lobby is slow, connecting is slow, leaving a match is slow, ugh. So ending up on shitty maps or joining a match that's fucking over already or being put in empty matches is even more frustrating. they either have to focus on speed or quality matching, slow, shitty match making is just going to drain the community.
honestly, the game is great. finding a decent match can be challenging. but I'm getting sick of how much time I'm wasting doing nothing but watching a non-responsive ui. oh and if you put the console to sleep any where but the main lobby, resume from sleep doesn't work.
I've said it before. They only needed a mercenary playlist and most of the complaining about unbalanced teams will be fixed. This new matchmaking is not helping the game. COD has nice snappy matchmaking where you in and out of games. Waiting in lobbies is the worst. You can't prioritize skill over the matchmaking experience. They should add a playlist where no parties are allowed and just keep the matchmaking like they did at launch.
HoodWinked
Member
wait so they migrated the broken ass beta matchmaking into the primary matchmaking? so stupid.
its sad because when i saw on reddit where one person was having good results and posted all the games i thought to myself this beta this broken ass beta is going to go live with no changes and its going to suck.
to me the beta was just as unbalanced as regular matchmaking but MUCH slower.
its sad because when i saw on reddit where one person was having good results and posted all the games i thought to myself this beta this broken ass beta is going to go live with no changes and its going to suck.
to me the beta was just as unbalanced as regular matchmaking but MUCH slower.
Blue Ninja
Member
No problems with the speed, but I got matched against a team of G5's and above that completely destroyed me.
My biggest issue is that I'm having a real tough team differentiating players from the background sometimes, they really don't stand out.
My biggest issue is that I'm having a real tough team differentiating players from the background sometimes, they really don't stand out.
The Librarian
Banned
For those of you having problems, what playlists are you guys searching in?
Hardpoint. In the 4 hours I've tried to play this evening I've had about 3 decent, properly matched and fun games. The rest have all failed due to team mates or the other team quitting and the rest of the time was spent looking for matches in the lobby.
Hip Hop
Member
They are going to go back to the old matchmaking, right?
Right?
I really hope so.
Skill should have never been a variable in the matchmaking.
Attrition and hardpoint.
Did anyone else get a message from xbox for a week of free gold because of sign in issues on titanfall's launch? haha.
It could be, but not like this. At least it should be taken into account with team balancing, but there is no team balancing. Teams are persistent.
The Librarian
Banned
I know I've said this before, but try Variety. About 30% of my matches in there are close matches. The rest is split between good leads and blowouts (but that's the nature of matchmaking). I haven't had any hard times finding matches or dealing with players who drop out, but that's just my experience as a Level 50 Gen 2er.
No, good MM absolutely should take skill into consideration.
Look at DOTA - I wait 3 and a half minutes in a queue before every game. That being said, the game then lasts 40 minutes or so. So the search takes around 10% of my game time.
I wouldn't mind giving that up for Titanfall but apparently people accustomed to COD aren't willing to do so.
As long as they add a queue that ignores parties, and they rebalance the damned teams after each game, things should be better.
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