A while ago PE, eh OKW, finally arrived, and i played them. Upon release everything was fine. I had long and good games. Pretty much no matter which patch. Watched some streams, L2P a bit more, all in good fun.
Recently:
But there's something seriously wrong with my games in the past two weeks. I had games were i literally built only 2 Volksgren the whole game, and still won, and my other mates were often not doing anything either.
Rank too high, no similar ranked opponents maybe?
Since i loved USF in COH1 i obv. went back and tried them in their current state, this time without an arranged team, and guess what happened in the majority of the games:
http://i.imgur.com/uik7mcT.jpg
So Axis got slightly higher prestige, but it's just XP anyways.
Guess it must be the balancing, and 4v4 is just screwed, right?
And maybe i'm just a noob and need to L2P more, which wouldn't explain though why i don't have any issues in arranged teams (!), at all, or maybe i should blame faction balancing... yeah, it's the balancing.
Hello match making:
A while ago, when i was playing OKW, i started checking all ranks after nearly every game, and the spread often (mostly always) looks like this:
Allied:
1. ~20, #6710
2. 20+, #573
2. 100+, #8311
4. 200+, #4950
Axis:
1. ~300, #45
2. ~300, #12
3. ~250, #67
4. 300+, #54
Approx number of games (without AT) with same faction, ranking in 4v4 (+/- 2% for anonymity, no particular order)
And this is actually one of the more "fair" ones.
On OKW side i had it even worse, i got mixed with another top10 player, and 2 top50 players against... guess... right, none of the enemies had any higher rank than 12k. Yes, there's a k, for thousand.
4 axis players from 3-40 face 4 allied newbies in the 12.000-28.000 range, and that wasn't the first time, it happens like every game.
Or maybe let's chill a bit and only spam Luchs?
http://i.imgur.com/srMRECj.jpg
"gg"
TL;DR, get to the point noob:
There's no point in having "top players" face some people who barely know how to play a faction. It's boring and utterly retarded for both sides.
But worse: besides the even more retarded "searching as" feature, stuff like this is letting a player believe the factions are highly unbalanced, or even certainly unplayable in team games, while this isn't the case, or at least not to the degree some people make you want to believe it.
(Yes, there's balancing issues, but that doesn't even matter in such games, nor would it matter for the average player).
Sadly though every game i see someone writing "omg, xyz OP!", then i check his rank later, and he got like 20 games and is rank 20.000 something. Great... a game full of wolves, and you throw some sheep into it. Must be certainly fun for the sheep. MM wise i was at least lucky when i started this game, but it starts to become absolutely ridiculous.