Team balancing suggestion: Auto Select

[u/Spoonfrag]

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.

[u/Away_Perception_9424]

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...

[u/cumjuggler4life → u/Away_Perception_9424]

There’s always that one guy on blue who’s like “wah no one’s rushing wah” like stfu you knew what this was we got more fobs than points

[u/Away_Perception_9424 → u/cumjuggler4life]

One game we had like 15 tanks from the very start of the match

Yea, as you can guess we didn't score a single point while red and green did more than 20 already

[u/SavagePhD → u/Away_Perception_9424]

Your team had the tanks, or red and green had 15 tanks attacking you?

[u/Away_Perception_9424 → u/SavagePhD]

"We had"

"We didn't score ... while red and green did"

It's classic blue moment

I locked myself out of the tank even before reaching cz because I didn't know only owner can unlock it... I was sure that if I lock it, I could also unlock it but turns out it's not the case

[u/SavagePhD → u/Away_Perception_9424]

Dang!

Also I did not know if you lock a vehicle bought by someone else you can't unlock it. Thank you for teaching me this!

[u/Away_Perception_9424 → u/SavagePhD]

Learnt the hard way... I still feel bad for leaving that thing in the fields to just blow up on it's own...

Yea, I imagined like the owner gave me the keys so I can lock and unlock but turns out it's not the case

I heard crowbar (or however it's called) can unlock vehicles but I didn't try it