Thread: Vs OKW23 Mar 2017, 13:18 PM
OKW has no MG-counter in early game. They also don´t have a vehicle counter until they build their first truck. So just use Maxims or Clown-Car with Penals/Pios equipped with flamers.
In case of Maxims you need to make sure they are protected by some conscripts.
In case you go with T1-> Clown-Car with Flamer-Penals can rape everything OKW has in the first few minutes. Just dont let the clown-car fight against 2-3 squads since the Clown-Car easily dies from normal infantry rifle fire. While you chase OKW squads over the map make sure to use your remaining infantry to cap the map. No matter which strategy you use be aware that OKW players usually try to be very aggressive early game in order to take your fuel or cut-you off from it. So be a bit conservative until you have your Flamer-Penals or multiple Maxims out otherwise you might get totally wrecked in the first few minutes. |
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Three maps removed from 1on1 matchpool while none are added? Bombarded Refinery and Market Ruins were decent maps too. Not sure why they are removed?
Hill400 added? I thought they removed that map because it´s such a pain to play on it. |
I think you are actually talking about "level", not "rank". Seems like you are rank 1223 with SOV right now which translates to level 6. The levels are relative to the number of players playing on the ladder. Somebody that is smack in the middle of any given ladder, you will be level 7, regardless of how many players are on that specific ladder.
You might want to check out this article.
Now, it is correct that the matchmaking will not necessarily try to match people on the same level, but with the same ELO value which is not shown. And these might translate to different rankings and thus level depending on the faction.
The article mentioned above is about a year old, but I checked recently and found to my surprise that the numbers didn't change significantly. So, if we go by the old numbers:
You are SOV level 6; to get a reasonably balanced matchup, you'd have to play vs. an OKW level 5 or a OH level 7.
Your level with OKW is 8; with the diagrams from last summer you might expect a reasonably balanced matchup playing against an level 9 Soviet or a level 8 USF.
With USF you are level 9; again with the statistics from last summer, a balanced matchup would be an OH player at level 10-11 and an OKW player with level 9.
Now, when looking into the data for the article I found that matchmaking found those sweet spots only in about a third or so of matches. Given the lower number of players now, it is likely worse now.
Great. Thanks for the info. |
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Last match was against PanzerGrenadierAngreifen who is currently 3rd in Wehrmacht while I am 600 in USF.
Thanks...I don´t even want to play 1on1 anymore because of this.
Match was found after searching for about 10 seconds. So very short searching time too.
I don´t know what to say about this... |
Remember that the "rank" you are talking about is based only on your standing in the ladder, while the matchmaker uses your elo number. The elo number is what ladder is sorted by, but if a ladder of one faction is shorter than the other, or more tightly packed, you can be matched against people who have same elo, but completely differend ladder standing and rank.
That might be the reason why my matches are always kind of unbalanced. So USF rank 10 = OKW/OH rank 12? |
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Same applies for me. I used to play OKW, switched to USF and find it much easier and enjoyable. Being able to beat rank 12-14 players regularly. I could never manage to do that with OKW no matter how many games I played. |
Thinking that MM would match me always equal ranks, is bad perspective. If MM would do that, you won't able to climb ladders. It must be more likely to match you slightly better rank rather than lower rank to give chance you to climb your correct rank. Remember that losing higher rank doesn't hurt your rating much. It is kind an expected situation.
Yeah so everyone always plays against higher ranked players. Can´t you see the flaw in that logic?
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So what about my opponents who have to fight me despite having lower rank? |
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So you are trying to say that at my skill level (my ranks are between 9-11 in 1on1 and 2on2) there are just no active players? But ranks between 12-16 are more active and thus I always get matched up with them?
And that the ranks below me dont have active players either?
Is there a possibility to show my recent 1on1 matches in this forum? Like the player card but for recent games?
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What is it that I don´t understand.
Matchmaking is supposed to find you fair games. So sometimes you will get a opponent with equal rank, sometimes slightly higher, sometimes slightly lower.
My last 20 1on1 games have almost always been against higher ranking opponents. Played once against a player 7 ranks above me. I played twice against players 6 ranks above me. I played lots of games against players with +5 ranks. On average my opponents are easily 3 ranks above me. Of these 15 games only 3 have been against players one rank below me. Two have been against equal ranked player. I have never played against someone more than one rank below me in these 20 games.
I am getting tired of having to play these lop-sided games every time. I am a bit better than my rank suggests but I just don´t think it´s fair that my opponents always rank higher than me. If only rank is used by matchmaking why do I keep getting matched up with higher ranking players all the time?
I thought it was a conincidence that this keeps on happening so I played some more games but it is always the same.
Strangely in all other game-modes matchmaking works fine (including pre-made 2on2s etc).
So god damn frustrating. |
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