T_H_0_R Players 1,015 posts 4,182 battles Report post #1 Posted May 22, 2016 I don't mind a potato team now and then, but today and on Sundays in general seems like it is best to stop playing all together. The stuff I saw people do today tops everything I saw before in my whole WOWS experience. Last 3 games were in Des Moines, first we lost literary in last few seconds and I am not complaining about that. The second two we had such a horrible MM that the other team felt bad. Usually 1 Montana on our side with 1 on their coupled with 2 Yamas (no BB was a part of a division). To top it off, a DD miss-match as well. Two bloody times in a row! But, the thing that beats it all was a CV driver from a 4 CV game. We were both in Taihos. Except that he was using Survivability Expert skill - on a CV... No matter that I am top scorer on the team or how much I try when you get potato teams coupled with borked MM there is no fun in playing. Especially on T10 with those maintenance costs. Too many weekend warriors that even put bots to shame... Anyone else had similar experience? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[RNG] Sanjuro_UK Beta Tester 139 posts 6,385 battles Report post #2 Posted May 22, 2016 Agreed. Matchmaking doesn't seem to want to try today - pretty bad yesterday, too. The matchmaking just needs to make people wait longer until the mm is more favourable/balanced - or work harder at balancing ships by tier. If the teams are balanced except for one team having Iowas, when you've got Tirpitzs, it's pretty much gg. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cosseria Players 1,064 posts 4,944 battles Report post #3 Posted May 22, 2016 I turn off all expectations of good play and avoid repair-intensive ships on week ends, especially the "event" ones. It's known that potatoes get dug-out in such occasions and I witness more steamrolling than usual. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[COSTS] Hanszeehock Alpha Tester 3,692 posts 5,959 battles Report post #4 Posted May 22, 2016 It's just luck. For every loss someone wins. Weekends can be horrible. Today I had 16 wins and one loss, so decided to stop ! Other days I cannot win, but it's only a game. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[POMF] Pekoe_Darjeeling Weekend Tester 2,385 posts 10,008 battles Report post #5 Posted May 22, 2016 At least your cv was not afk entire battle like the one in my team... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[COSTS] Hanszeehock Alpha Tester 3,692 posts 5,959 battles Report post #6 Posted May 22, 2016 At least your cv was not afk entire battle like the one in my team... I was the CV for the last 5 battles ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[POMF] Pekoe_Darjeeling Weekend Tester 2,385 posts 10,008 battles Report post #7 Posted May 22, 2016 I was the CV for the last 5 battles ! Well nice for you. You don't afk I guess? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
T_H_0_R Players 1,015 posts 4,182 battles Report post #8 Posted May 22, 2016 Half of the battles I played were in CV today. Other half in different classes. As much as you are good as a CV when half of your team dies in first 5 minutes there is only so much you can do. And when your other CV in team uses Survival Expert on 4th row, parks behind an island and uses auto drop - even less you can do on your own! What is funny he actually got a kill vs. a lone Tirpitz. Loss after a loss after a loss. And when I change ship I get botched MM. There was one guy in both matches with me when the enemy team had 2 Yamas + 1 Monty while we had 1 Mondty + stock Iowa. You just can't win. If I get one more weekend like that I'll stop playing on weekends and only after work. Not worth the money and effort put into this game. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[RNG] Sanjuro_UK Beta Tester 139 posts 6,385 battles Report post #9 Posted May 22, 2016 I turn off all expectations of good play and avoid repair-intensive ships on week ends, especially the "event" ones. It's known that potatoes get dug-out in such occasions and I witness more steamrolling than usual. The quality of players is not the same as balanced matchmaking. The matchmaker can't make up for bad players, but it can ensure you don't have Iowas v Tirpitzs, or one team having the only Yamato and an extra Shimakaze compared to the other team. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[TWF] Bushpanther Beta Tester 131 posts 23,953 battles Report post #10 Posted May 22, 2016 Well the MM didn't really play tricks with me today, but the potatos did... Funniest match I had tonight on Ocean...T6-T8 match, 6 or 7 Tirpitzes, 2 DD's on each side, me in the Sims grinding a new captain. At the start I headed for A and asked for support. No reaction at all from the team - usually not a good sign. Both teams proceeded to sail diagonally across the map, along the axis of the caps, shelling eachother. I capped A, I capped B and finally at C got across the enemy Mutsuki and Fubuki. Sank the Mutsuki and chased the Fubuki away and capped C. Match ended soon after, we won on (cap-)points, a grand total of four ships sunk during the match. Except for me and the enemy DD's nobody even tried to close in on the caps...well at least it was funny to watch :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KptStrzyga Beta Tester 4,868 posts 5,014 battles Report post #11 Posted May 22, 2016 It`s not funny. I did 192k damage in Shokaku and still lost. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[RNAF] HMS_Worcester Beta Tester 1,609 posts Report post #12 Posted May 22, 2016 I learned a long time ago to never play at weekends, I value what little sanity I have left too much. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[TTTX] Mayv Players 1,952 posts 7,021 battles Report post #13 Posted May 22, 2016 Divisioning makes a hugh difference. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
T_H_0_R Players 1,015 posts 4,182 battles Report post #14 Posted May 22, 2016 Divisioning makes a hugh difference. Did division. First Taiho with Baltimore, then one more friend showed up. No luck. Taiho and Baltimore division got us 1st and 2nd places in the match, but that alone doesn't win matches. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[MBSSX] OldschoolGaming_YouTube Beta Tester 3,274 posts 16,879 battles Report post #15 Posted May 22, 2016 I had a T10 CV yesterday divisioned up with 2 T2 Dds?! In a T10 game? They were laughing the whole game in chat until we lost. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AmazingBeaver Beta Tester 435 posts 5,528 battles Report post #16 Posted May 22, 2016 Agreed, this sunday was the worst ever. Had couple good matches, some wins some defeats, but most of the time it was my team yolo rushing and dying in the first minute, and those players were good, above 50% WR and over 1000 matches but they just played like first timers. Wen't for some Co-Op for chills and the freaking team lost against bots battle after battle. Maybe people just didn't wan't to play, everyone wanted a quick yologame, win or not? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[CAIN] G01ngToxicCommand0 Beta Tester 2,177 posts 23,318 battles Report post #17 Posted May 22, 2016 I don't mind a potato team now and then, but today and on Sundays in general seems like it is best to stop playing all together. The stuff I saw people do today tops everything I saw before in my whole WOWS experience. Last 3 games were in Des Moines, first we lost literary in last few seconds and I am not complaining about that. The second two we had such a horrible MM that the other team felt bad. Usually 1 Montana on our side with 1 on their coupled with 2 Yamas (no BB was a part of a division). To top it off, a DD miss-match as well. Two bloody times in a row! But, the thing that beats it all was a CV driver from a 4 CV game. We were both in Taihos. Except that he was using Survivability Expert skill - on a CV... No matter that I am top scorer on the team or how much I try when you get potato teams coupled with borked MM there is no fun in playing. Especially on T10 with those maintenance costs. Too many weekend warriors that even put bots to shame... Anyone else had similar experience? Yes, played two games today with absolutely horrible matchmaking and horribly bad players, or bots, was ROFL stomped in both and called it a day finding something far less frustrating to do. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cosseria Players 1,064 posts 4,944 battles Report post #18 Posted May 22, 2016 The quality of players is not the same as balanced matchmaking. The matchmaker can't make up for bad players, but it can ensure you don't have Iowas v Tirpitzs, or one team having the only Yamato and an extra Shimakaze compared to the other team. Indeed tonight it really 91$$&6 me off by constantly putting me in teams with less DDs on dominations, or with markedly inferior ships. No way, and I really mean that, I could win a battle at T 7 or 8. Once the first ship was gone, the teams litteraly crumbled. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EsaTuunanen Beta Tester 3,552 posts 8,863 battles Report post #19 Posted May 22, 2016 Weekends can be horrible. Today I had 16 wins and one loss, so decided to stop ! How did you pribe/hack match maker to get such actually working teams? Since patch or two ago (or was it start of this event) it has been hard to get any MM consistency even during weekdays with many cases of ship disparities and consistently piss poor players/bots in team. Agreed, this sunday was the worst ever. Had couple good matches, some wins some defeats, but most of the time it was my team yolo rushing and dying in the first minute, and those players were good, above 50% WR and over 1000 matches but they just played like first timers. WG should stop all plain match amount based contests/events. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Acetessigester Beta Tester 237 posts 19,475 battles Report post #20 Posted May 22, 2016 Two idiots TKed each other in PVE. A brainless BB division went together to find AI CV for 15 min. A noob in Hakuryu couldn't hit some AI BB even once with all 5 squadrons of bombers. Of course there are more such players in PVP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] Leo_Apollo11 Quality Poster 7,146 posts 31,598 battles Report post #21 Posted May 23, 2016 Hi all, I don't mind a potato team now and then, but today and on Sundays in general seems like it is best to stop playing all together. The stuff I saw people do today tops everything I saw before in my whole WOWS experience. Last 3 games were in Des Moines, first we lost literary in last few seconds and I am not complaining about that. The second two we had such a horrible MM that the other team felt bad. Usually 1 Montana on our side with 1 on their coupled with 2 Yamas (no BB was a part of a division). To top it off, a DD miss-match as well. Two bloody times in a row! But, the thing that beats it all was a CV driver from a 4 CV game. We were both in Taihos. Except that he was using Survivability Expert skill - on a CV... No matter that I am top scorer on the team or how much I try when you get potato teams coupled with borked MM there is no fun in playing. Especially on T10 with those maintenance costs. Too many weekend warriors that even put bots to shame... Anyone else had similar experience? I can also add Friday/Saturday/Sunday... This is my experience from Friday: "Played (rather well) 10 games - lost all 10 games... :-(" http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/52000-played-rather-well-10-games-lost-all-10-games/ Initial 3 games: Full Friday: Leo "Apollo11" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[EXNOM] Spuggy Players 557 posts 6,203 battles Report post #22 Posted May 23, 2016 Loving the "elitist" attitude in this thread........... Seriously guys. Having bad games on a computer game really isn't worth getting this upset over. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JiksTBS Players 255 posts 13,157 battles Report post #23 Posted May 23, 2016 Win rate was nothing to complain about yesterday but the MM was having one it's ... interesting days. A couple of examples: Domination on Northern Lights, they had 6 DDs, we had 3. Enemy team was wildly over-confident and we somehow won. Then the real mystery, tier 7 match where we had 11 ships, enemy 13. Only ship on their side that didn't belong was a Myogi, everything else was correctly tiered, four divisions on their team. This was prime time so was somewhat baffled as to what the MM was smoking and this was a rather horrible loss, unsurprisingly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fiery_Kathy Beta Tester 1,022 posts 3,947 battles Report post #24 Posted May 23, 2016 Win rate was nothing to complain about yesterday but the MM was having one it's ... interesting days. A couple of examples: Domination on Northern Lights, they had 6 DDs, we had 3. Enemy team was wildly over-confident and we somehow won. Then the real mystery, tier 7 match where we had 11 ships, enemy 13. Only ship on their side that didn't belong was a Myogi, everything else was correctly tiered, four divisions on their team. This was prime time so was somewhat baffled as to what the MM was smoking and this was a rather horrible loss, unsurprisingly. do you have a screenshot of thay? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JiksTBS Players 255 posts 13,157 battles Report post #25 Posted May 23, 2016 (edited) do you have a screenshot of thay? I do indeed ... but just spent 20 minutes trying to get the image to upload. Time to move on, I think. Edited May 23, 2016 by JiksTBS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
