One word: Matchmaking
I've had my fair amount of NS2. Since day one I've had a lot of fun playing this game but every time a steam sale starts I basicly stop playing. And why? You join a server only to see almost every server imbalanced and stacking. It's true when a rounds ends decent player check out other decent players and stack.
So my last 5-10 games basically consisted of 4 greens + 4 normal vs 8 normal. Guess the outcome. In each case after a 1-3 rounds the greens exit-ed, and I can only presume they will never return because the game cannot have been any fun for them.
So for the love of god, please download World of Tanks and learn from their matchmaking system. Short version:
-if you join a game singly handed you get auto-matched.
-you can form a platoon with max 3 and can queue for match-making as well, but they will be either 1: placed in higher tier games or 2: if another x man platoon is queued vs-d against them.
-if you want bigger team-joins you get sorta clan-wars or pub-ensl kinda matches.
And the player is base is not "too small" for this. Last 48 hours player numbers have been around 1000-3000. Even those 1000 should be enough to get some balanced games going on. And I for one would rather wait 10min in queue and play a decent game instead of stomping/being stomped for 5 rounds in a row.
(U)we need to realise that with a asymmetrical gameplay you need some sort of match-making in order to compensate the skillgaps. It's not a marine vs marine game where rines only have grenades and 100 "different looking but shooting the same" guns like in bf/cod.
I've had my fair amount of NS2. Since day one I've had a lot of fun playing this game but every time a steam sale starts I basicly stop playing. And why? You join a server only to see almost every server imbalanced and stacking. It's true when a rounds ends decent player check out other decent players and stack.
So my last 5-10 games basically consisted of 4 greens + 4 normal vs 8 normal. Guess the outcome. In each case after a 1-3 rounds the greens exit-ed, and I can only presume they will never return because the game cannot have been any fun for them.
So for the love of god, please download World of Tanks and learn from their matchmaking system. Short version:
-if you join a game singly handed you get auto-matched.
-you can form a platoon with max 3 and can queue for match-making as well, but they will be either 1: placed in higher tier games or 2: if another x man platoon is queued vs-d against them.
-if you want bigger team-joins you get sorta clan-wars or pub-ensl kinda matches.
And the player is base is not "too small" for this. Last 48 hours player numbers have been around 1000-3000. Even those 1000 should be enough to get some balanced games going on. And I for one would rather wait 10min in queue and play a decent game instead of stomping/being stomped for 5 rounds in a row.
(U)we need to realise that with a asymmetrical gameplay you need some sort of match-making in order to compensate the skillgaps. It's not a marine vs marine game where rines only have grenades and 100 "different looking but shooting the same" guns like in bf/cod.