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streaks can swing vastly. you can get lucky and never get a worthy match and get your streak up 30+. happen to me for like two months at least. multiple times.
I posted an update of the streak average over the past month. There have been no vast swings, just a steady increase for allied streaks and a steady decrease in axis streaks. I agree with you, we should be seeing vast swings when we have a balanced game, but its been a month and you aren't seeing this. In fact, we are seeing the opposite.
Does this imply Allies unit are over performing in large scale games or people that play Allies more now improved over time?
This is actually a good point, I would say both. Allied teams have certainly got better but there is no concrete objective data to prove that. Also balance patches have been favoring allies lately, one would think this has also contributed to some degree.
I think many veteran players from coh1 stuck with axis due to familiarity. I think with this and the early balance issues (axis being op) of coh2 contributed to an overwhelming axis advantage. As allied players progressed it helped even the playing field; coupled with recent balance patches you are starting to see the tide being turned.
Whether or not some of the balance changes were warranted is a separate issue.
I thought it nerfed the hype. When the alpha was set to launch people were excited and talking about it. Now obviously the NDA is important but it went way too far, IMO. Third party organizations enforcing and power tripping certainly contributed to the squelching of information and overall hype. (Von Kluge even threatened me with legal action from Sega when I didn't even apply for the alpha.) Even if the buzz was negative or positive it got people talking about the game, looking for pictures or just the general excitement about it. Now it seems, meh.
And what are the parameters once again ? Did you compare number of won games from previous week to now or you just took out their actual streak?
What group of players? Top10, Top50, Top200 ?
Top 10.
Top 10 teams typically lose to other top 10 teams, not always, but for the most part. I watched some of the games that broke the axis streaks and they were certainly broken by other top 10 allied teams.
Its been concurrent testing since I first posted this back in April 29th. People snapped back that this was a poor indicator because win streaks change 'by the minute' and 'day by day'. Point being, its been about a month, data has stayed relatively the same - the allies have continually increased their streak average while the axis streak average has declined. This is over about a month.
what the flying FUCK is going on, you guys know better than this don't you? call each other up over skype and call eachother names but can we not do it here.
in other related news:
back on topic (you don't have to agree you do have to follow the rules.)
Yes back to the topic. So a lot of people scoffed at my parameters for this post (which was win streak) to show some general data for 4v4 since recent changes. Naturally, allied fan boys argued that this was inconclusive data because streaks are changing every minute and it could be different one day to the next (basically anything to minimize the point). Well its been a few weeks now so here's another update:
Allied winstreaks increased to an average of 26.2 from 23.1
Axis winstreaks decreased to an average of 12.1 from 12.7
Allies have slowly increased.
Axis have slowly decreased week by week.
People will defend their faction but for those who enjoy all aspects of 4v4, there is clearly a change in the landscape.