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First of all I've been playing BF2 since it was released in June of 2005, so I can say that I have had considerable experience playing BF2 and experiencing the aforementioned situations.
Many a time I've been in games where there is not a numerical player imbalance, but rather a skill imbalance. This happens when one team has vastly superior skills compared to the other team and leads to a very one sided match round after round. For the less skilled team, these games can become boring and difficult to play and therefore causes a massive number of ragequits as the team can't even seem to break out of the spawn even by flanking and other numerous methods.
I have a possible solution for the "skill imbalance" problem and it is quite simple. One would be to autobalance teams by rank, and the other would be to randomize teams after every round. Personally I think the first option is better since it won't break apart teams after every round, but rather keep them nice and even with a few occasional switches rather than massive randomization.
In my opinion this would make the game more enjoyable, as even the most experienced, hardcore BF2 players know how frustrating it can be to be stuck on a losing team round after round.
What are your thoughts? I understand that with BF1943 DICE is going in a new direction in terms of matchmaking to make things more even, but rather than just organize matches with people of similar ranks, I believe it's better to just equalize teams in terms of ranks rather than entire matches.
On another note, teamwork can go a long way in terms of keeping teams balanced however, as you know teamwork is hard to get going on a team level in BF2, most of the time teamwork is found in only one, maybe two squads per team and squad to squad communication is virtually nonexistent.
Many a time I've been in games where there is not a numerical player imbalance, but rather a skill imbalance. This happens when one team has vastly superior skills compared to the other team and leads to a very one sided match round after round. For the less skilled team, these games can become boring and difficult to play and therefore causes a massive number of ragequits as the team can't even seem to break out of the spawn even by flanking and other numerous methods.
I have a possible solution for the "skill imbalance" problem and it is quite simple. One would be to autobalance teams by rank, and the other would be to randomize teams after every round. Personally I think the first option is better since it won't break apart teams after every round, but rather keep them nice and even with a few occasional switches rather than massive randomization.
In my opinion this would make the game more enjoyable, as even the most experienced, hardcore BF2 players know how frustrating it can be to be stuck on a losing team round after round.
What are your thoughts? I understand that with BF1943 DICE is going in a new direction in terms of matchmaking to make things more even, but rather than just organize matches with people of similar ranks, I believe it's better to just equalize teams in terms of ranks rather than entire matches.
On another note, teamwork can go a long way in terms of keeping teams balanced however, as you know teamwork is hard to get going on a team level in BF2, most of the time teamwork is found in only one, maybe two squads per team and squad to squad communication is virtually nonexistent.
Stacking an entire clan against a bunch of random pubbies would be about as exciting as a Pro-Am tournament where all the pros play on one team and all the amateurs play on the other. Or like five random people picked up off the street playing a basketball game against the Cavaliers.
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