Has the player base just gone wrong?

[Grimwill]

Last two weeks the quality of a random has gone from middling to utterly awful.

 

The fun of either being [edited] the opposition over and over with rarely a close and fun game is depressing.

 

Thoughts, just me or has everyone decent gone to play the Division?

[HMS_Worcester]

Last two weeks the quality of a random has gone from middling to utterly awful.

 

The fun of either being [edited] the opposition over and over with rarely a close and fun game is depressing.

 

Thoughts, just me or has everyone decent gone to play the Division?

 

There are still good random battles to be had. I had two epic ones today, one was really close down to the wire stuff. But yes, it can be frustrating sometimes.

 

Edit: I'm not really in a good position to judge the quality of play since I have only just got back into the game after a few months out.

[Kenjiro_]

Last two weeks the quality of a random has gone from middling to utterly awful.

 

The fun of either being  [edited] the opposition over and over with rarely a close and fun game is depressing.

 

Thoughts, just me or has everyone decent gone to play the Division?

Yep, sorry, my bad. I've been playing XCOM  2 for the past week since my idiot tolerence skill is in cooldown. I hope to be back soon

[BadGene616]

Tirpitz goes on sale, quality of random games t6-t10 guess to crap.

 

Happens every time :-)

[Azalgor]

Quality of random hit the bottom, you play with BOTs against people since the DD patch twick in the MM, and loosing 9/10 battles is standart practice on a run.

[ColonelPete]

Stuff like that happens.

 

 

 

 

 

[Lladdir_]

I can't comment on high tier matches but tier 4ish has become a serious [edited]. Solomon islands is probably the worst with entire teams immediately rushing the center only to lose half the team to torp walls from the enemy and then when they notice you going to A or C they complain about you not helping them.

[Cosseria]

8 defeats in a row this evening. I didn't break my record only because I fought with bayonet and hand grenades the last one. And yes, in at least half of them I could tell from the first 5 minutes it was going to be a loss. Quite depressing.

[Valerius]

Look at it from the bright side. Atleast you can claim to always be the best player on your team

[Admiral_noodle]

...and 50% of the time it's going to be the red team who have this problem

 

[Azalgor]

-I can't comment on high tier matches but tier 4ish has become a serious [edited]. Solomon islands is probably the worst with entire teams immediately rushing the center only to lose half the team to torp walls from the enemy and then when they notice you going to A or C they complain about you not helping them. 

 

High tiers is worse than that, because on low tiers i try to blame the inexpierience of players even if it may not be the case. But past tier 7, when you see the same gameplay with the same lemming and stuff, makes you just crazy, and the amount of DDs makes it even more fun, when the entire team just gets into 1 corner without caring for cap and just sinks, makes you wonder how the evolution works, most apes have not evolved in skill from tiers 1 to 10.

So if you have no high tier ships, then i can tell you that there is no point in grindig past tier 6 (8 tops).

[Hanszeehock]

It's the Easter holidays ! Things will improve when the kids go back to school !

[HMS_Worcester]

It's the Easter holidays ! Things will improve when the kids go back to school !

 

That is a good point, holidays always feel like extended bonus weekends!

[EsaTuunanen]

Going down the sewer.

Rear hiding [edited]are becoming more common even in Tier 5 BBs.

Kongos etc without scratch while half the team is already dead etc...

 

 

I can't comment on high tier matches but tier 4ish has become a serious [edited]. Solomon islands is probably the worst with entire teams immediately rushing the center

Wait until you get those same braindead zombies in Two Brothers.

 

makes you wonder how the evolution works

It doesn't work since "food growing in supermarket" made it unnecessary to have logical thinking ability to survive.

[YesYesYall]

I sometimes feel it's almost better to just wait 5 minutes after action stations before getting involved. Plenty just go banzai , you can't stop them and they can end up getting you sunk with them.

 

Yesterdays worst defeat:

[edited]

[chazwozza]

You're defeats are impressive I had a battle the other day and the bottom 6 players on my side were all sub 100xp

You just cant win with quality players like that I took a screenie I'll post it when I get back home

 

[Needy_Game]

any map that has a split structure is a nightmare, i always have a brain dead team on those.

match starts, i say my contumary ''split evenly please'', then everybody rushes to the centre and then go ALL to one side, every time, occasionally i get the wise [edited]who would comment : ''stfu evenly'' or something like that.

what makes me rage is the fact the most of my team is one side and then they all die, this is extremely frustrating almost as frustrating the high tier IJN DDs infestation

[ColonelPete]

splitting up is not the way to go,

combine firepower at the objective

[Aldramelech]

The Division has had an effect on several games I'd think, I've played little else but as I've got to the end game I've played less and less as it really depends on getting a competent group, and that only happens in prime time for me, so I've found myself drawn back here in off peak times, new ships didn't hurt either.

[Admiral_noodle]

The Division has had an effect on several games I'd think, I've played little else but as I've got to the end game I've played less and less as it really depends on getting a competent group, and that only happens in prime time for me, so I've found myself drawn back here in off peak times, new ships didn't hurt either.

 

Off peak is the way to go for good games. Weekends, evenings and holidays usually end up with very one sided stomps. 

 

Sometimes it it is a ridiculously easy win though, have to remember that. But the influence you can have in these games is limited. 

 

For or me it's the tier 8 games which seem most bizarre. You'd have thought that by tier 8 people would understand the game. But when I'm top of the team by a mile in a tier 8 game, sailing a very bottom tier New Mexico, something is wrong.

 

Battlefleet gothic armada is also out so that might have had a minor effect to for the more strategy fleet oriented players. Well I've been giving it a go anyway. 

[genai]

splitting up is not the way to go,

combine firepower at the objective

 

Listen tho this guy and you will end up with many terrible games

Unless enemies are braindead too, then you might have a shot... but if they have a brain and notice your team lemming and adapt, its easy win for them!

 

Like on Trap, 10 ships from my team end up sitting at A in the corner and hugging the islands there, i spot and engage DDs in my fletcher and there is no one who can shoot them. Its like they herd themselves into the corner and then get spammed by torps and shells from all directions, bound to give broadside to some.

 

Smart enemy will always win against grouped up enemy, kite and slow down with torps on the side where lemming train is and push the other, get into cap/flank them and force them to split all while you still get to shoot at whoever has broadside to you, while they shoot at ships running away from them, or running at them, while getting torped from 2 directions! Much fun

 

Have fun in your lemm... i mean "fleet" gameplay

[EsaTuunanen]

Smart enemy will always win against grouped up enemy, kite and slow down with torps on the side where lemming train is...

What?

Lemming train which doesn't go the long way f*cking half of the border length of map all the way to behind enemy's cap?

That must be some very rare endangered specie.

 

 

You're defeats are impressive I had a battle the other day and the bottom 6 players on my side were all sub 100xp

You just cant win with quality players like that I took a screenie I'll post it when I get back home

I wonder if players were same as in this enemy team missing that by 16 points.

But then again have to applaud consistency of teams:

 

Though that kind steamrolling isn't satisfying victory.

[ColonelPete]

 

Listen tho this guy and you will end up with many terrible games

Unless enemies are braindead too, then you might have a shot... but if they have a brain and notice your team lemming and adapt, its easy win for them!

 

Like on Trap, 10 ships from my team end up sitting at A in the corner and hugging the islands there, i spot and engage DDs in my fletcher and there is no one who can shoot them. Its like they herd themselves into the corner and then get spammed by torps and shells from all directions, bound to give broadside to some.

 

Smart enemy will always win against grouped up enemy, kite and slow down with torps on the side where lemming train is and push the other, get into cap/flank them and force them to split all while you still get to shoot at whoever has broadside to you, while they shoot at ships running away from them, or running at them, while getting torped from 2 directions! Much fun

 

Have fun in your lemm... i mean "fleet" gameplay

 

The objectives are the bases or the caps. If you end up in a corner, you did something wrong.

[Penguin_mafia]

The only time lemming train strategies work is if the enemy team has a lemming train as well or they dont know how to cap and win by points against a lemming train. The other day i had a game where my entire team apart from me, a dd and a bb lemming trained south, we somehow managed to fend off half of the enemy team by ourselves, even sinking 4 of them and holding the cap for a while before we all sank, in that time our train had somehow managed to lose half of its ships and the cap circle.

[Frank_F_B]

The only time lemming train strategies work is if the enemy team has a lemming train as well or they dont know how to cap and win by points against a lemming train. The other day i had a game where my entire team apart from me, a dd and a bb lemming trained south, we somehow managed to fend off half of the enemy team by ourselves, even sinking 4 of them and holding the cap for a while before we all sank, in that time our train had somehow managed to lose half of its ships and the cap circle.

 

LOL, great team

 

But lemming trains can work, when all work together and a couple of DD's stay behind to, indeed fend off the enemy by denial of area using torps. Prob is you dont' get sh*t for tactical team play.