I am very glad that we are witnessing the emergence of a good new tradition - online conversations about MWO. However, as a player, I am still more interested in specific information:
1) What problems of this game are defined by the PGI leadership (namely, the PGI leadership). If the management forgot something or decided to ignore something, we, the players, could remind about forgotten problems;
2) What problems will be solved first;
3) What methods of solving problems will be adopted.
Daeron, I really wish you the best of luck with your work, I really hope that the game will get out of the hole it fell into. But my hope is weak.
In the spring and summer of this year, there were many discussions on the game's forum about how to make this game at least a little better, a little more interesting. The PGI leadership said it heard what the community was talking about. As a result, decisions were made that made the game even worse than it was in 2019 and early 2020.
The players asked the developers to make the games interesting, balanced, and not the kind that end with a score of 12: 0 - 12: 4.
A lot of work was done for this: developed a new system for calculating matchscores for players; reset the player tiers; set up the matchmaker for a long time. And for what? All these actions did not lead to any positive consequences because the management refuses to understand - no settings for calculating the players tier, no settings for a matchmaker will be effective as long as there is a combined queue of solo and group players in quick play. In such conditions, it would be difficult to set up a matchmaker well even in the best years of the MWO, and with the number of players currently in the game, it is simply impossible.
Previously, the matchmaker always selected teams by tonnage, by the level of players, but even then people were unhappy with the fact that the overwhelming majority of games ended with a score of 12:0 - 12:4. But now it has become even worse: now the cadets (and these are people who have not even played 25 battles!) are participating in games with level 1 players; now the matchmaker may not take into account the tonnage of the furs at all. With a pooled queue, you simply must sacrifice one thing: either tonnage balance or player level balance. But it often happens that both of these components are sacrificed and one team gets a premade out of the strongest players on assault mechs, and the second gets random players several cadets, while the second team is also inferior to the first in terms of the total number of assault mechs.
As a result, I have a reasonable question: what has become better with the introduction of spring-summer changes?
Do you understand that the combined of solo and group queues alone made all the work done in the spring and summer senseless, and this ucombined also will not allow any positive changes to be brought to life in the future?
In order to better understand the problems of MWO, I can advise you and the game developers to play this game more.
Let the developers take part in games in which one team has 10 assault mechs, and the other only 1. Let them be in a team that has 3 cadets, and four very strong players are pre-assembled in the opposing team, or they will find themselves in a situation in Conquest mode, when their team has 7 assault mechs, and the enemy team has 6-8 fast mechs. Maybe then they will begin to understand what problems prevail in fast play. Perhaps then really correct and balanced decisions will finally be made.
P.S. Sorry for such a long message. This is a cry from the heart.
Edited by Voice of Kerensky, 02 November 2020 - 09:42 PM.
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