Matchmaking is coming May 29th

[railguniz4noobz 2,394]

These two maps I'd gladly see in the Matchmaking system, Skylark in particular. It's a map that is not too big, yet spacious enough for most (if not all) turret and hull combinations.

Magnum has ruined kolhoz like it ruined chernobyl.

[geezer62 41]

Is anyone from TANKI paying attention out there? do you even care? 6 times i tried to enter battle today without success! Each time i selected battle type get the green game loading bar which almost make it all the way across before lingering just short of complete, and there it would stay! Each time i was then informed i had been removed from battle due to inactivity!! OMG How can i be removed if i am not even in a battle!?. Instead of wasting our time and patience on stuff that really didnt need fixing, fix your sever issue, and get rid of Matchmaker as at least before i could go into a non mission battle and play the game. And yes i also tried quick battle with the same result. Just because most of Russia is asleep doesn't mean the rest of the world has to suffer

[sezze100 416]

Is anyone from TANKI paying attention out there? do you even care? 6 times i tried to enter battle today without success! Each time i selected battle type get the green game loading bar which almost make it all the way across before lingering just short of complete, and there it would stay! Each time i was then informed i had been removed from battle due to inactivity!! OMG How can i be removed if i am not even in a battle!?. Instead of wasting our time and patience on stuff that really didnt need fixing, fix your sever issue, and get rid of Matchmaker as at least before i could go into a non mission battle and play the game. And yes i also tried quick battle with the same result. Just because most of Russia is asleep doesn't mean the rest of the world has to suffer

Yes today was a lot of difficulty to get inside , battles / server anything at all .

Also ... MM throws me in 3 maps , always ... any mode , even the quick battles it looks for me there are like only 3 maps in the system .  Theres like 50 maps possible to play , prob even more , but 3 maps ... are you serious . And you say to us ... you always play the same maps because of the xp it gets . :blink:

[r_Issimo2 1,495]

Today i felt better matchmaking.

[Picassoo 134]

If they make the matchmaking more fair (it already is better then when it first came out, there are less one-sided battles than before MM) and players learn that they do not have to leave the losing team since the crystal reward is just a little bit lower this will ACTUALLY be a decent update.

[Mickey_Nickz 589]

*Balanced Battles

*All battles start with full teams

 

we have to wait at least 2 minutes before joining a battle.

 

these are just few battles i played, these SS shows that current MM system is trash.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 12, 2018 by Mickey_Nickz

[Bydo 20,142]

It's time to scrap this MM System.. it's failed way too many times for your players .. seeing before this system came in we stood a higher chance on finding battles that were 10 min or closer to it and better entry time to join.. now were stuck with longer wait times and hard to get a battle close to 10 min.

 

change the system back to allow us the players to find our own battles. you can keep the system for those who wish to use it.. which as it looks not many will do so..

[Hancho 3,902]

After playing MM for some time, I do not enjoy it at all. In fact, it's more frustrating because every single time I get placed in the same map I've played before already - Massacre, Brest, Highway and other boring 'unknown' maps. Since MM, I have not seen/been in Iran map, the map I used to enjoy playing and dominating in. Rio is also my favourite map and since MM, the system managed to place me in that map only 1 time, really unfair. I miss my freedom of choosing the map I want to play and actually have fun.  I honestly don't enjoy MM system nor the maps I get to play in. Massacre, Brest and Highway are the main maps I get to play. It is getting boring. This MM system doesn't suit Tanki at all nor many people actually like it. If you have seen few positive comments about MM, doesn't mean people actually like this update. 

[Hancho 3,902]

 

What a surprise. After done writing what I wrote above, went on Tanki and guess what? Got placed into Brest map as usual, PERFECTO WOW  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  pathetic crappy update. 

 

 

And again, is this an actual joke? 

Edited June 12, 2018 by Hancho

[Bydo 20,142]

huge flaw in the system..

 

see your on hold waiting for the game to load timer and it takes more then the wait time say's, so you wait for say 2 minutes and 35 seconds and still no battle. so you click on the exit battle button, you then rejoin looking for a battle . surprise system takes you into one which only took 5  seconds to get you one.. in the mean time when your still waiting for the first timer to get u into battle , the system creates a battle but do's not take players who are waiting for more then 2 minutes to have them join. so those who are still on hold waiting could end up in a battle which has less then 6 minutes left to play when they do finally end up in a battle..

 

so in theory its best not to wait longer then battle wait time says and just reload into a battle.. say every 30 seconds then your faster in finding a full 10 minute battle.. and not something less time  for battles..

[r_eXistenZ2 1]

huge flaw in the system..

 

see your on hold waiting for the game to load timer and it takes more then the wait time say's, so you wait for say 2 minutes and 35 seconds and still no battle. so you click on the exit battle button, you then rejoin looking for a battle . surprise system takes you into one which only took 5  seconds to get you one.. in the mean time when your still waiting for the first timer to get u into battle , the system creates a battle but do's not take players who are waiting for more then 2 minutes to have them join. so those who are still on hold waiting could end up in a battle which has less then 6 minutes left to play when they do finally end up in a battle..

 

so in theory its best not to wait longer then battle wait time says and just reload into a battle.. say every 30 seconds then your faster in finding a full 10 minute battle.. and not something less time  for battles..

I also realised this. It is still annoying. I found that I have reduced play time of this game because of the MM; I don't want to waste time for waiting, and also the unbalancing teams, entering at the middle or near the end of battles, unreasonable ranks distributions etc etc. If they are not going to improve it, one day I will cease playing.

[wolverine848 13,097]

I also realised this. It is still annoying. I found that I have reduced play time of this game because of the MM; I don't want to waste time for waiting, and also the unbalancing teams, entering at the middle or near the end of battles, unreasonable ranks distributions etc etc. If they are not going to improve it, one day I will cease playing.

They definitely need to re-visit their algorithms.

 

Between the (poor) map selection and the amount of time left in battles, was better sifting through battle list.

 

For the same investment of time for battle-list gave better results.

[CooperO 7,956]

After playing MM for some time, I do not enjoy it at all. In fact, it's more frustrating because every single time I get placed in the same map I've played before already - Massacre, Brest, Highway and other boring 'unknown' maps. Since MM, I have not seen/been in Iran map, the map I used to enjoy playing and dominating in. Rio is also my favourite map and since MM, the system managed to place me in that map only 1 time, really unfair. I miss my freedom of choosing the map I want to play and actually have fun.  I honestly don't enjoy MM system nor the maps I get to play in. Massacre, Brest and Highway are the main maps I get to play. It is getting boring. This MM system doesn't suit Tanki at all nor many people actually like it. If you have seen few positive comments about MM, doesn't mean people actually like this update. 

I guess I should consider myself lucky then. So far I haven't been sent to a single Brest or Highways. Maps I have been sent to: Massacre, Industrial zone, Forest, Highland, Serpuhov, Kungur, Silence, Barda, Polygon, Red Alert, Year 2042 and possibly also Tribute but I'm not sure about that one anymore. So far I like the suprise, but I can imagine that if you get sent to Brest often, it becomes rather frustrating.

[Bydo 20,142]

I also realised this. It is still annoying. I found that I have reduced play time of this game because of the MM; I don't want to waste time for waiting, and also the unbalancing teams, entering at the middle or near the end of battles, unreasonable ranks distributions etc etc. If they are not going to improve it, one day I will cease playing.

 

I hear you and feel the same way .. less time to play means I might think about joining a new game to invest in . seeing I enjoy good battle time and not crumbs . why stay if they don't improve the wait time..

I guess I should consider myself lucky then. So far I haven't been sent to a single Brest or Highways. Maps I have been sent to: Massacre, Industrial zone, Forest, Highland, Serpuhov, Kungur, Silence, Barda, Polygon, Red Alert, Year 2042 and possibly also Tribute but I'm not sure about that one anymore. So far I like the suprise, but I can imagine that if you get sent to Brest often, it becomes rather frustrating.

It could be our ranks on what is left to battle on . seeing been in higher rank battles and a few lower ones today and find it depends on the time to start playing in real life . if you start to early you get more higher ranks compared to later then your normal time you jump into more good level battles..

[jjg_the_dark 455]

I guess I should consider myself lucky then. So far I haven't been sent to a single Brest or Highways. Maps I have been sent to: Massacre, Industrial zone, Forest, Highland, Serpuhov, Kungur, Silence, Barda, Polygon, Red Alert, Year 2042 and possibly also Tribute but I'm not sure about that one anymore. So far I like the suprise, but I can imagine that if you get sent to Brest often, it becomes rather frustrating.

"but I can imagine that if you get sent to Brest often, it becomes rather frustrating" gee now if you can imagine that, why can't the person who designed this MM system imagine it?  The major frustrations with this atrocity are:

1. You cannot choose the map you want to play

2. You cannot choose who to play against. Someone at Tanki thinks that lower ranks like to get destroyed by legends with fully upgraged equipment

3. Not only the battle time is short now, by the time you wait 2-3 min to enter a battle, there is only little time left and if there is time, most of the time the flag count is so unbalanced that the battle ends shortly after you join.

4. It is a rare occasion if the teams have equal amount of players!  Since the inception of this atrocity, I have been in very few battles where the teams are balanced.  Wasn't "balance" one of the major reasons for shoving this down out throats? So, where is the balance?  

5. Since you do not know in which map you will be dumped, you have no idea what combo to use. Consequently, you wind up blowing yourself up in order to get the right combo for the map and by then you are already behind in the score and your D/L is bad.  Also, now, if I understand correctly, self destruct costs more points. Nice, huh?

 

Again, these are just some of the problems with this MM system. It proves again that whoever designed this system, did not think it out properly and did not even test it properly.

perhaps some day, Tanki will understand the reasons for the frustration but then again I do not think the decision makers are capable of understanding the basic reasons for the complaints let alone show some creative thinking.

Edited June 12, 2018 by CooperO
Kindly refrain from using profanity and insults.

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

Does anyone agree with me that the matchmaking system needs improvement?

[jjg_the_dark 455]

 

Is anyone from TANKI paying attention out there? do you even care? 6 times i tried to enter battle today without success! Each time i selected battle type get the green game loading bar which almost make it all the way across before lingering just short of complete, and there it would stay! Each time i was then informed i had been removed from battle due to inactivity!! OMG How can i be removed if i am not even in a battle!?. Instead of wasting our time and patience on stuff that really didnt need fixing, fix your sever issue, and get rid of Matchmaker as at least before i could go into a non mission battle and play the game. And yes i also tried quick battle with the same result. Just because most of Russia is asleep doesn't mean the rest of the world has to suffer

Oh, yes! That "removed form battle for inactivity" has been around for a long time! I was getting that error message very frequently even before MM. I also get more frequently no this nebulous "an error has occurred" and of course I get kicked out of the battle! and guess what? by the time I rejoin, my team is behind the score and the battle is almost finished.
By the way, no one at Tanki pays attention to what's happening and if they do, most of the time, they have no idea how to fix it. The recent "upgrades" prove that since they had to have a 5 hour unplanned downtime when they changed the "new" XT skins.

 

 

Does anyone agree with me that the matchmaking system needs improvement?

Hahaaaa! this has got to be the understatement of the year! Nice effort to be Politically Correct! In plain language, the MM system needs to be dumped in the garbage. It reminds me the old Soviet Communist system: the state knows best what it is good for its citizens and the citizens shut up and fall in line with whatever decision is made by the rulers of their destiny.

[CooperO 7,956]

"but I can imagine that if you get sent to Brest often, it becomes rather frustrating" gee now if you can imagine that, why can't the person who designed this MM system imagine it?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I'm a player who experiences these kinds of things first hand (except in this case the 'being sent to Brest over and over again'). I don't know their reasoning behind the map choices and I don't know how exactly maps are picked by the matchmaking system, but what I can tell you is that the complaints about map variety from players were, and are still being passed on to the developers.

For point 5, the best thing (in my opinion) to do in case your equipment is really not suited for the map is to start playing and change your equipment as soon as you get destroyed the first time, instead of self-destructing right upon joining. As for your other points , they are valid concerns and are what you might call 'growing pains' (with the exception of the 1st one). I hope to see them fix these issues sooner rather than later. The 1st point is currently considered a downside of the system by many, so a map filtering system would be a welcome addition.

[jjg_the_dark 455]

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I'm a player who experiences these kinds of things first hand (except in this case the 'being sent to Brest over and over again'). I don't know their reasoning behind the map choices and I don't know how exactly maps are picked by the matchmaking system, but what I can tell you is that the complaints about map variety from players were, and are still being passed on to the developers.

For point 5, the best thing (in my opinion) to do in case your equipment is really not suited for the map is to start playing and change your equipment as soon as you get destroyed the first time, instead of self-destructing right upon joining. As for your other points , they are valid concerns and are what you might call 'growing pains' (with the exception of the 1st one). I hope to see them fix these issues sooner rather than later. The 1st point is currently considered a downside of the system by many, so a map filtering system would be a welcome addition.

You see, the point I am trying make is that Tanki implemented something that they knew it had some serious shortcomings. All the points I made, were brought up in last year's trial run of the MM system (October/November was it?). Since they implemented the MM system and they did not take into account the previous issues that the players brought up, it tells me that, while you may pass up the issues to the developers, either the developers ignore them or they do not know how to handle them. Having managed IT departments for many years in organizations much larger than Tanki, I can tell you that we deployed a system that was not fully "user compliant" only once. After that we learned our lesson and we never forced anything down to the users unless if was a critical security issue that had to be addressed or else the organization's survival was at stake. In this case, sorry to say, this was not thoroughly though out, the user complaints after the live trial were not addressed and the game got much worse.  

Again I do not understand why the Battle List was taken away while it was a known fact that the MM system had all these shortcomings. The easy solution will be to bring back the normal battles in the Battle list, not just the pro battles, and let the users choose to click the MM buttons while the developers address the MM shortcomings without pressure.  Chances are that very few players would use the MM buttons and the complaints will be minimized.

[ironCzar 36]

Does anyone agree with me that the matchmaking system needs improvement?

 

MATCHMAKING JUST NEEDS TO GO AWAY

FOREVER

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

Developers will not roll back this huge matchmaking system update which has been in the planning stage since last year. What the matchmaking needs is improvement and new features which must benefit gameplay and tasks much more.

[Spurger 174]

Developers will not roll back this huge matchmaking system update which has been in the planning stage since last year. What the matchmaking needs is improvement and new features which must benefit gameplay and tasks much more.

The simple fact of the matter is that our ability to choose which map WE wanted to play on was taken from us and no amount of "improvement and new features" will change that.    

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

I do understand that, but you can choose your own map in pro battles.

[Spurger 174]

I do understand that, but you can choose your own map in pro battles.

And what if I don't want to play PRO battles? Same result. I'm still forced to play in a way that I don't want to. And so we're back to my main point.  

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

Well, if you don't want to play pro battles you will have to play matchmaking battles. Unfortunately, for you, you cannot choose your own map in matchmaking battles.