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How are uneven teams balanced?


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#1 aethernet

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Posted April 25 2011 - 12:06 AM

How are uneven teams balanced? Does it have anything to do with Energy Units (EU)?
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#2 lavalamp1138

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Posted April 25 2011 - 03:38 AM

That's entirely dependant on how Adhesive Games plans to handle matchmaking and joining midway through a match. At this point, we don't know anything about either of those two things, so we'll have to wait and see.

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Posted April 26 2011 - 01:42 PM

Some approaches I recently saw:

1. World of Tanks - matchmaking before the game, no ability to join in-game, no way to join a chosen team, unless you're in a predefined platoon/tank company (as you can guess, this happens in the game lobby); matchmaking done according to tank class/tier (not always 100% even, but provides a balanced game)

2. Monday Night Combat - matchmaking before the game, unless players choose a team; based on player skill, which is calculated from his/her previous performance; has a sporty feel to it (cause the whole setting is a sporty one, to be honest); you can join in-game, and you get automatically assigned to a team (autobalance exists and is enforced depending on server settings)

3. Altitude - matchmaking before the game, based on player rank (= experience amassed throughout your whole career); you can always switch teams, but it is not encouraged by the community, unless you're balancing the # of bots out.
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Posted April 26 2011 - 05:45 PM

Obviously unbalanced teams are hard to deal with effectively, you see big name publishers just throwing in an auto-balance system, but for users that can be a big hassle, since you want to play X class or with your friends. While this is probably the most standard way of doing things, I would not be surprised if they just sort of let you keep going without a player (like CoD or Halo), at least so long as the team sizes stay lower.

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Posted November 27 2012 - 11:09 PM

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View Postlavalamp1138, on April 25 2011 - 03:38 AM, said:

That's entirely dependant on how Adhesive Games plans to handle matchmaking and joining midway through a match. At this point, we don't know anything about either of those two things, so we'll have to wait and see.

We have waited, we have seen.

I wonder if they know any more at this point.

Hopefully the players feedback will give them options to fool around with during the last days of CBE3 or even Open beta.

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View Post[HWK]HUGHES, on March 15 2013 - 08:35 PM, said:

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Posted November 27 2012 - 11:54 PM

NO idea how they do it. IMO it should be based on ones overall kd.




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