The match-maker is, especially when it replaces players who dropped out during a match, awful. Is it really not possible have longer waiting times for fairer matches?

[demon09 89]

Games start out fairly balanced often, although the gap between the players is huge. But as soon as players starts to leave, they're replaced by very powerful tanks, which makes the matches very often in my experience fall into a boring, predictable pattern:

1. Both teams are evenly matched, but Team A does slightly better

2. Noticing this, some players in Team B quickly leaves

3. They're replaced by extremely powerful tanks, who slaughters Team A's tanks and turns the match completely one-sided

4 The match ends with Team A having been quickly crushed. Some Team A players leave and are replaced by extremely powerful tanks too, but it's too late to save the match.

I know that increasing match-making times is really bad for many player's experience, but I wonder if it's worth it when most matches are simply not fun anymore. It feels like most games I have fall into this predictable pattern, and it's really boring and irritating.

[Son_Goku 514]

It's not the matchmaker's fault, the whole game is simply flawed. Main issue is that people can rush through all ranks, and end up being at the Legend rank without knowing how to turn their turret. The playerbase just sucks, no matchmaker will ever fix that. And the gap between players is huge and will remain huge, because there simply are not enough players currently.

What I could imagine helping is decreasing the size of both teams and making games shorter. You can't change the matchmaker without having a solid playerbase, it wouldn't increase the queue time by just a few seconds - rather minutes, because there are hundreds or whatever games going on at the same time, and all of them would try to be balanced. Which will simply not work.

[Gabe2607 215]

There is no solution anymore. It is not an MM problem. It is the difference between too many heavy buyers, having equipment valued at 100, few free players having equipment valued at 5, and light buyers at 70. Skills are absolutely not making any difference, as anyway you get killed within 30 seconds max. Even today I shot a medium hull 4 times with my M7+ railgun with DD on, but nothing, even without pressing 1, buyers do not die.

Then add that you pass on top of boxes and cannot pick them up, the usual getting killed when you already took cover (they keep saying it is a delay, but it never happens to your advantage), keys on the keyboard getting stuck just in this software...

A major disgusting experience. One hopes to finally get a decent augment to keep up, but still ZERO on my main turret. In the meantime 78 skins... only good for those many 12 years old kids spending their parents money here. 

 

Edited July 13, 2024 by Gabe2607
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[demon09 89]

On 6/7/2024 at 1:24 AM, Gabe2607 said:

There is no solution anymore. It is not an MM problem. It is the difference between too many heavy buyers, having equipment valued at 100, few free players having equipment valued at 5, and light buyers at 70. Skills are absolutely not making any difference, as anyway you get killed within 30 seconds max. Even today I shot a medium hull 4 times with my M7+ railgun with DD on, but nothing, even without pressing 1, buyers do not die.

Then add that you pass on top of boxes and cannot pick them up, the usual getting killed when you already took cover (they keep saying it is a delay, but it never happens at your advantage), keys on the keyboard getting stuck just in this software...

A major disgusting experience. One hopes to finally get a decent augment to keep up, but still ZERO on my main turret. In the meantime 78 skins... only good for those many 12 years old kids spending their parents money here. 

 

Good summary of the Tanki experience!

I'm thinking about leaving myself, I don't think it's worth playing with the issues. The reason I do might be because of some addiction to the game, and not because I'm genuinely having fun...

Edited June 7, 2024 by demon09

[Jeers4U 665]

On 6/6/2024 at 12:08 PM, demon09 said:

Games start out fairly balanced often

 

I would have enjoyed seeing the final scores of this match.

Can't imagine many people on the team on the left stayed for the entire game, though.

I guess there weren't enough bots to make the teams even. LMAOOO!

 

[The-Operator219 88]

Not to get all "Old man yells at cloud" buuuut... Back in my day the matches were longer. And you could freely join whichever one you wanted. It was great.

[Jeers4U 665]

On 6/26/2025 at 8:23 AM, The-Operator219 said:

 was

The love of money and greed changes everything.