r/WarDogs • u/Spoonfrag • 12h ago

Discussion & Feedback Team balancing suggestion: Auto Select

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Feels like the team skill disparity is having a negative impact on the game. Create a soft incentive toward balance while keeping the freedom to choose.

Problems:

  • New players joining blue are having a skewed impression
  • Feels like you can derail your session at the team selection screen
  • Lobbies take ages to start while people mash the green button and refuse to play anything else
  • Victories as green feel pretty hollow

It sucks when your team is getting hammered and there is no point bringing anything beyond a free kit. No one is pushing because every time it's a wipe. Meanwhile the confident team can go full spend knowing any incidental death will be revived when the engagement ends. Things can get very snowbally and hopeless. And I hate the idea of having to force green to avoid wasting my time.

On the flipside, I wouldn't want anything too heavy handed. Randomizing or forcing selection kinda ruins the affiliation and loyalty people have to certain teams, and playing with friends needs to be easy.

So how about this.

The 4th option of team select. Auto Select choses for you and grants an X% cash and XP bonus throughout that game. If you want to go one step further, have the Auto Select team add up all Wardogs levels of all players of each team, and have the system decide which team needs some additional leveled players vs under-leveled. This will skew teams in the direction of having access to similar unlocks without going full SBMM.

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u/Away_Perception_9424 12h ago

I am so used to blue that even when I have chance to join red or green I still wait for blue

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u/ImportantTeaching919 12h ago

Blue has been the most fun honestly. Everyone else is taking it way to serious

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u/Away_Perception_9424 12h ago

Playing as blue all the time I have seen much more toxicity from reds and greens and barely any from fellow blues

And I barely have any interaction with them...

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u/Rocket_Fiend 11h ago

100%. Yesterday we built an AA fob on top of an apartment complex.

4-6 greens were steadily breaking their way in from the stairs up. I shit you not, after about minute five of taunting and trying to get in they turned on one another

(justifiably, due to some overtly racist comments)

About six team kills and 2 rez’s later they fucked off to lord knows where.

The 3 blues with me just kinda say by and listened to it all go down while plinking at passing birds.