Game Quality (non-score matches vs scored matches)

Fresh off of the heals of the 5+ day 5v5 Guardian TDM, plus after regularly playing the other ones, I notice a significant differnce in gameplay. When playing hundreds of the non-scored games, I rarely experience lag, my shots generally go where I aim, and my ship doesn’t feel like a lethargic sloth. However, as soon as the non-scored game ends, and I resume playing the scored games, it goes back to the schizophrenic gameplay quality that up until now, I, and maybe others, have been confusing for poor matchmaking, in-game balancing, lag, etc. It’s like 1 game works well, followed by 3 where no shot effects the other team, and my ship barely has the power to crest a wave. Both game types were played from the same locations and rock solid connections.

Can someone please tell me if they also notice this. If so, why would there be such a dramatic difference in the quality of gameplay between scored and non-scored BB games? I mean, I love BB, however, playing the scored-games, right after the non-scored is so infuriating that I feel like waiting until the next non-scored match becomes available.

 

Hmmmmm .. have noticed something similar to what you mentioned. Some games, the ship can barely move through the water (feels like it's struggling to get up to speed) while in others, it moves much more smoothly.

 

I mean, for over 1-year now, I have experienced these issues, which myself, and others have theorized to be intentional “balancing”, etc. The devs denied this, but then why were we experiencing this. Now, after playing enough of the non-scored matches, it’s starting to make perfect sense, and yes, something is really off. If scored BB matches function like my experience of the non-scored, I would never complain about any performance issues! The question is, why is there such a difference?

Why is my same device, in the same location, rocking a few hundred non-scored games, in over 80% of them, I was dishing out more damage than any other player. But now, hours later, in most of the scored-games, I can barely hit what I am aiming at, and my ship acts like it’s dead in the water. I am more than happy to post screenshots so it doesn’t appear that I am exaggerating!

 

This problem is especially bad the last few days. In addition , game also crashes, freezes more often. And forget about matchmaking, it seems there are 5 boats randomly thrown on each side with no matching logic. The strange thing is that if rovio stops using any logic for matching, then why does sometimes it takes 1 to 2 minutes to find a match?

 

Here is what was really strange, up until this morning, I was playing the remaining 30-min of the 5v5 Guardian TDM, which was working perfectly fine, no issues whatsoever! The very first scored-gamed that I played within minutes of the 5v5 Guardian TDM ending, was problematic, and continued to varying degrees throughout the day. This has been my general experience with scored-games, lots of in-game issue, Why is that happening? Especially since the preceding 5-days of Guardian TDM was all-around working great, just like the majority of the non-scored games that I play.

 

Hey there, good to here from you, and happy holidays. I get what you’re saying, and my concern isn’t the infamy (i’m less than 10 wins from breaking 4k), It’s the gameplay, and its super obvious when going from hundreds of non-scored immediately to scored. I mean seriously, the ship lost its maneuverability, and my 30-77k per game has fallen to 3-11k. I wish you could see the difference in aim/hit, and mobility, its night/day!

By the way, the win/loss ratio under TDM was also around 50/50, so that’s not the issue, but the gameplay itsel was dramatically different!

 

With my granade launcher, if I’m climbing a wave, and the enemy is close, no matter how high I aim, sometimes it’s showing my aim point as right in front of me, then I fire and obviously it goes way over my wave, into the distance.

 

Here are the results of my last games before, and immediately after the switch from TDM to scored... I am “flyhighone”, and something is not right.

 

Here are the remaining...

 

I wish BB would always have the following games available for play: TDM 2v2, 3v3, 5v5, CTF 5v5, and lastly 5v5 scores games. I would enjoy this so much more, and would mostly be playing the non-scored 2v2 and 3v3 games without complaints!

And,to address the question of this thread: what’s the major differences between the non-scored and scored games??? For example, selected server locations?

 

@TheAntiSnipe @Ash KOT I can vouch for this. The game has no issue moving the turret horizontally but where the unfriendly is on a higher elevation the reticle doesn't move vertically without manual intervention, hence shooting above / below the ships.

 

This latest TDM is still Mitch Bette than the scored games , no question about it, but nor nearly as consistent as the original one I was mentioning when I started this thread. It looks like the win/loss balancing that we see must be server selection, although, I need to examine this further, for example, winning team member locations vs server location. Does anyone know where the different BB server locations are, I want to create a spreadsheet to see if this theory adds-up?