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[ArcDemon]

I know this is not a new issue, but with the ELO match maker we are sometimes getting drops where one team weighs far less then the other due to an imbalance in mech composition.

Take for example this match I had tonight. On one team you have 5 mediums, 2 lights and a single heavy for I think 355 tons total. The other team has 3 assault mechs (one a hero), 3 heavy mechs (one a hero again) plus a medium and light to round things out at about 565 tons. So this is basically a group of mediums pitted against a group of heavies and assaults.

This kind of imbalanced match leads to teams getting slaughtered, their pilots pulled down by all that extra weight while their trimmer, fitter foes crush them with ease. This match saw the enemy team move to capture theta while their one light capture kappa. They then regrouped inbetween and where attacked by most of the other team in a grand melee that saw their fat, stubby mechs brutally murdered with no chance to defend themselves.



Dropping teams with few or no mediums or lights to defend themselves with is like a death sentence. The match maker needs to ensure that at least a few good mechs are included to balance out all the big wastes of metal.

[Urdnot Mau]

You mean that mech classes should be taken into account by the matchmaker?!?!
That we should have enough people to fufill every role they said mech classes perform ?!

Edited by Urdnot Mau, 08 April 2013 - 03:07 PM.

[Merky Merc]

Getting dropped with mostly heavies and non-cicada mediums against assaults and light mechs is pretty awesome.

Especially for conquest on the bigger maps. You have your mediums getting one shotted by the assaults and no way to catch and kill all the lights weooooooo.