Server mixed teams after a full round ended

Hey, please make sure the teams getting mixed after a full round has ended. So it would fix two realy annoying things: https://100001.link/

it will avoid that a 5 vs 12 will happen that frequently.
it will avoid that one side will may be have bad experience through unbalanced teams dragged through multiple full rounds. https://192168101.dev/
In short: Auto-Balance and better experience through new mixed teams.

People in the forums or players - if you read this, make an account and confirm that you want that. Please do that so it is considered as wanted feedback. Thank you! Have a nice day. https://1921681254.link/

last edited by AronasEwing

This^
Nothing like having a crushing defeat round 1 then 50-80% of demoralized team quitting and having the opposing team then bullrush through all the objectives before the "balancing" has time to plunk one person over—crippling the pacing of a match that could be easily salvaged with a balance in players.

I don't think that goes far enough though. There needs to be some heuristics to account for player rank when balancing (since map knowledge is probably the single-most important advantage in such a lethal game), limit the amount of "balancing" of any single player (high scoring players tend to get swapped back and forth multiple times, losing plenty of playtime), account for the sole defender or attacker on an objective as to not spoil critical moments, and in general avoid swapping "living" players.

Maybe apply some weight system to all players on aforementioned and additional factors, then during balancing countdown wait for the most weighted player(s) to die to swap, or some "idle" movement threshold (outside of any objective), or if any one player's weight is grossly exceeding all others than maybe a last-resort mid-action swap.

I'm not sure if any such measures have already been put in place; I haven't had the frequency in gametime or active observation, but historically the "balancing" system has been lacking in satisfaction. The OP is definitely the most noticeable of its flaws though.

Until there's effective infrastructure for a competitive scene, PUGs will continue to get slogged by groups on a team retaining full roster while the other rage-quit before waiting for the slow decay that is the current "balancing". Hell, that might be the only time where unbalanced team sizes would be fair—short-roster groups vs full-roster PUGs.

last edited by toltecher