Hello, I'm in love in this game, think it's unique and all of you doing amazing and great job with it. I have spent nice piece of my life in - about 2,4 K hours so far, since open beta. I woud like to give something from me to this game and community tryin to improve it.
Unfortunately, there are things that happen lataly, that makes this game much more harder to enjoy, even for such comitment player like me. That is why I decided to write this post with a few questions and advices.
A.Matchmaking problem
This is immposible to enjoy this game playin with randoms. After crossplay this is even much more painfull. Even one lower-skilled teammate makes match so unbalance that ends game with lost. It's problem for boths sides - for higher reps "more skilled" players and lower reps 'less skilled'. I try to persuade new friends to join with me into game world, but ALL of them just can't walk into, too high barrier to entry - no playground JUST for newbies. They are match with randoms, most likely with players like me (about 400rep), tryin to stay in game or leaving after few minutes being replaced by a USELESS bots (returning to that). No fun for both: newbies left cos of constant death, team stays with bot - game is lost. Conclusion - no chances to play PvP with friends, randoms skills-scale in matchmaking is too great - unbalance game.
1.On what is matchmaking based on? Why 9/10 games I'm matched with much more weaker players?
2.Why my teammate after leaving is replacing by lvl 1 bot? ALWAYS 0-2 kills by bots after game? BOTS ARE USELESS, one ragequit and game is lost - waste of time, more ragequits, greater lost.
3.What shoud I do to have balance matches with randoms? Like I said randoms skills-scale is too great. 6/10 matches ended with at least one BOT = one-sided game, no fun for both sides.
B.Crossplay
Great idea to conect platforms, more players to enjoy, love it! Turning Off crossplay is pointless - NOT a chance to find matches on PC, 20 min of waiting and matchmaking crashes. Still, not a huge deal, we want more players. What problem is that? Like I write before, more people gives even greater disproportion in skills - back to MM issue.
1.Why there is no playground for newbies?
C.Laaging and cheating (toxicity)
Sensitive issue, huge problem of game. Most of conveniet gampley is when ping is around 15-40ms, and that is what most players have. Ping above 50ms is noticable on high lvl of gameplay, and going for arond 75-80ms is about a limit for not getting frustrated. Above 90ms is getting UNPLAYABLE on high lvls. It's opinion, my, and most of common pro players, that we can considered as a fact. That is the reason what people use that to cheating, useing common tools, laagswiching, VPN's etc. THIS IS A TRUE PROBLEM THAT MAKES PEOPLE TO LEAVE THE GAME.
1.What is UBI doing to fight that? I don't need to play with someone with 60-80-100ms ping more than me, why they shoudn't play with themselfs?
2.Why there is so many console (rare PC but still) players with conveniet for them high ping, and laag that gives them HUGE ADVANTAGE?
3.Why there is no penalty for high ping and laag? People shoud be encourage to lower thier latency and ping NOT OPOSITE.
4.There are games with 4 teammates, with latency around 120ms, laughing, being toxic, and proud of cheating - "COZ UBI DOES NOTHING' - I can only report that, buy WHAT IS UBI RELLY DOING WITH THAT?
5.High latency and FPS drops - some cheaters have ping jumping in conveniet way from 60ms to even 350ms, 600ms!!!, with huge FPS drops for me (240fps to 50fps) that makes game unplayable, what is Ubi doing about that?
6.Lately I can see a lot of console players with this high-latency-ping-laag issue - What anti-cheat is used to prevent console players from cheating?
7.How actually reports works? I report with whole team that 'player' and see him again and again in games - then mates quits, Bots joining, game lost. So how it works?
8.How actually reports works against toxic behaviour? I see every day 'players' that treating me, my kids, mother etc. I know that some are just frustrated because of reason I wrote, but how to deal with it? Is reporting working?
I woud like to get answers on that few qustions. I still try to enjoy this game and try to invite new people to community, but every day I'm getting futher and futher from that.
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