Stars? So you think the be-all and end-all of playing is still stars? News for ya - lots of players play to have fun. And having a chance to win is a big part of that. MatchMaker has lots of problems. The rank brackets are often way to wide. You think the Major General is gonna have fun in a battle with lots of Legends? And then there's the lag of loading players into the map that allows one side to cap a flag before defenders have even loaded. Haven't even brought up the OP-of-the-month equipment that the Devs keep introducing...

Well, he did use the term "Legendary". Hard to tell if that was sarcasm. And... my point still stands. TX might not have closed because it was bad. Could have closed because the two games were too similar. They were not different enough to draw in newer players.

Two games = half the number of players in each game. it was unsustainable.

That's very vague. Please elaborate.

By that you mean "not loaded yet"? Have seen enemies making off with the flag before defenders have been loaded to the map. In this way Matchmaker is a HUGE fail.

Why do you keep brining in KD ratio? It only gets you a score due to the "K" half of that ratio. You can have highest score in the battle with a KD of 0.21

Those were two different examples. 1) Hunter approaching you (anywhere) and 2) someone stealing the flag. If your flag is stolen the only thing you should care about is killing that tank. Period. DD is your best way to do that. Especially if one shot could kill it or put it on death-bed where a strong breath finishes it off.

All depends on situation. There's plenty of times you want to activate DD first. examples... Hunter approaching with OD ready... DA won't help you at all. Or when enemy has grabbed your flag and you have long-range turret. DD is your best chance to stop the tank.

Fixed it for ya. Only time K/D ratio comes into effect is when you are tied with someone. If you get kills or lots of "assists", system does not care how often you die.

Why sad? Lots of ODs generate score for their user. Dictator was basically just boosting those team-mates so they could continue to outscore the Dictator. It really did need that kind of incentive. It was weak compared to the demi-god status a lot of other ODs was conferring. If teams evenly split up the pot, I could see your point. But that's not how it works.

Along with Dictator. I'm so disappointed by the number of Vikings I still see. It's pretty much the most selfish hull. And talking of team-play... just quit a Siege battle on Yorkshire where 5 of my team were camping in the base. FIVE. No way I'm playing with selfish people like that.

Isida healing sux. Takes forever to heal someone is thus is very, very boring. That's why I hardly ever use it now.

Jumping off a cliff and not overturning is far different from climbing walls.

No. For reasons already mentioned. Many players do not play in groups, so they will be at a huge disadvantage when they end up against a team that has 6 friends and 2 randoms. It would make battles less fun and less competitive. Might benefit you. But not majority of players.

So 2015-2017 and 2019 you "sparsely" played. At best I call that casual "light". And, if you played 1 hour/day in 2014 and 1-2 hours/day in 2018, I'm very surprised you only made it to Marshal. In that approximate time I made it to Legend... and the time to get from Marshal to Legend is > than time from recruit to Marshal.

I am sure. There are long gaps before I see specific maps. And I don't mean days - I'm talking 3-4 weeks. Rio is a prime example. It comes up far less often than pretty much every other map. It's not even close. I might see it once every other month. And reverse... over a week I will get same group of 5 to 7 maps repeatedly. For whatever reason I see same map back-to-back or 3 battles out of 4. And it happens way more often than random chance (out of 35) will suggest is likely. If it's not rotating groups then it's definitely weighing a specific groups far more than another group of maps that get very little weighting at all.

Then it wasn't XP/BP format. Someone just named their battle XP/BP.

They came up with creative wording that "explains" why that combo works. It's bunk - but the Devs won't change their mind because it's a way to sell ( $$ ) the heat immunity hull augment.

What are you talking about? How is Freeze-Dictator XP/BP?

I remember the battle-list and I could always find battles that were NOT Silence, Polygon or Sandbox. I played a lot on Serpuhov, Esplanade, Deathtrack, Kunger, Novel and Rio. And current map selection on MM is terrible. It is obviously rotating smaller groups instead of randomizing the entire pool. The way I get repeat maps for a couple weeks, over and over. Then a new smaller subset after that for 2 weeks. Why can't they just randomize the entire pool?

Yeah, Deathtrack and Skylark are awesome maps. Used to play them regularly when we had battle-list. They better bring those 2 in for the second 2-week "experiment". Instead we get Stadium and Highways... ?

What's that... 1 battle per day? I started in 2015 and it took me 1.5 years to reach legend and I consider myself "casual".

Ahh... OK.

That's not specifically for complaints. And... mine was a rhetorical question...

Why not?