All the complaining aside, I liked the 2 vs 2!

+2 wins that aren't at any of these screenshots
my loses were because:

• teammate floating-random guy, afk and I could won if he stayed afk as it was 3-3, one of enemies was heavily damaged but my teammate rushed them, dealt 350 damage and died (once)
• bad teammate-random guy (twice)
• failed to co-operate with teammate-guild mate (twice)
• exploiter(s) in enemy team (rest of the loses)

as you can see it's very easy when you find good player to fleet with, you can easily have win rate over 80%

 

by choice or because they have noone to fleet with at the moment
it's not unfair but it's much easier to maintain high win rates when fleeting
but it's allowed and everyone can do it so it's totally legit and fair

 

wow
just because I am able to wipe out most (not all because some defeated me when I was fleeting with guildmate or going solo) normal players at my gs my complaints are irrelevant?
maybe my win rate is far beyond the 50% doesn't mean that I can't complain about exploiters, I would also have much lower win rate but I was fleeting with one good random guy and we even defeated some weaker exploiters, I would lose against them and also against equal opponents because my teammates were usually bad, so fleeting made my win rate so high
it was funny for me to fight against equal opponents (similar ship mk and gs) because it was fair, equal ships and items so only skill and tactics were the battle changing factor
but it wasn't funny to fight against opponents with same/bigger skill and supreme items because it was impossible to defeat them almost every time (sometimes it was close but we still lost or sometimes we defeated them if they were unskilled/to rushy/to weak), it's not funny for me to fight against guys doing 800+ damage every shot when my hp is 2.7k, it's simply pointless to fight when you know that you are going to lose but it's also pointless to float because you are losing coins by it so whatever I did was frustrating af for me because it was lose with 4-6 coins or lose with 0 coins (but without need to do anything and ability to do something else), get it? it was lost since the matchmaker put us in same battle and I could not do anything with it

and all those screenshots are what? they are irrelevant because they are taken by someone with high win rate? what about all those players that have similar gs to me but are much weaker (skill, tactics, not fleeting etc.) so they lose when playing against exploiters and also when playing against someone like me (more skilled than them, fleeting etc.)? they didn't shared they experience but they were suffering much more than me

 

I have high winrate too, due to the fact that my gearscore is lower than the average people in my infamy, so I am able to compete better. However, exploiters still ruin game experience. One round, my team was 2 mk5s and the other team was an mk1 and an mk3, and they somehow easily best us because of their op weapons.

 

Lol despite being seriously out matched in most matches I did enjoy this event lol was great learning curve! And I love the reward system
But I found fleeting very hard lol
I was consistently the smallest boat with the lowest gear score so if I fleeted with a mate around my size we were heavily out gunned lol at least going solo one of the 3 much stronger boats were on my side lol often wasn't good for that guy tho lol
And to top it off my mk5 friends said thier solo matches or when fleeting with some one else were pretty even lol but after a few matches with me they'd bail on me lol

Tho getting my ass kicked is still more fun with a friend lol
those two shooters were 10k gs each lol I had 6.2 k and my mate had just under 6k
Not a one off scenario either lol

But like I said I had fun

Um... My scores were usually better then that too lol

 

Not sure but I might have been responsible for breaking Xryn's 150 match win streak too? Lol

 

Rest In Peace @Gnu

Happened to me too whenever I fleeted

 

Loved the event!
Got 4 Legendary Pieces in the crates!

There was definitely something funny in the matchmaking when fleeting.
Here is what happened when I fleeted with a buddy from my guild and what I think could be the cause.

Both us were using our best setups, no gaming the system
Me: 2900 infamy - 7500 gear score
Him: 2500 infamy - 9000 gear score
We lost almost every battle we played together in the event(in normal ranked fleeting, we do great together)
The reason was, every battle was against Nightmare players with 11000 + gear scores.
Something in the algorithm was causing us to match nightmare players every battle.

We didn't fleet long enough for me realize this. My guild buddy has a Tier2 Legendary Missile Launcher(from his first piece combine and from weapon achievement).
Does anyone think my fleetmate having this one weapon is what is causing his trouble with matchmaking?

 

I think yeah, because now if the system sees someone with one really good weapon, then it will think that player has all really good items. To prevent previous high level players from putting a single strong weapon on a low level ship and one-shotting opponents.

 

I fleeted with MK6 for a while, almost always equal MK6 opponents. I decided to try my MK2 Defender in the fleet and the matches brought in MK7 Nightmare opponents due to my T5 Epic shield (which only adds the ability to absorb less than 1 of their shots). I took that off, and was back to MK6 opponents, and was destroyed again. So I saddled up my MK6 and destroyed my opponents instead. Obviously EventMatchmaker(tm) is a work in progress.

 

If you want to use use mk2 you need appropriate weapons for mk2. Try using T1E or T2R. Using high leveled items on weaker ships won't work anymore.

 

I had great fun. I didn't manipulate gear score (because I'm a good person), and I loved it. There was a huge amount of teamwork involved, and it was very skill based. 1v1 was skill based, but this basically added teamwork to that. You are fighting on your own, but you have someone to back you up. I wish it came around again soon.

 

I think it's good that EventMatchmaker(tm) works that way. I did tried all low level items in a previous event and found no combination that made it easy to win against MK3-4 boats which I was still being matched against. I'll try it again in the future as I like the change of pace, but not all that confident that EventMatchmaker(tm) will give me reasonable matchups.

 

Just fyi - I doubt that "EventMatchmaker" is trademarked .. and even if it is, I highly doubt that it has anything to do with BB ...

 

My 145 winstreak with Akagi was broken by HEINZ. and Arcturus Caius.

 

So not my fault lol

 

That match i unexpectedly found you in wasn't anyone's fault. I wasn't using my main speeder setup either.

 

Fair enough lol but if you couldn't carry me to a win, imagine how bad it was for the others who un expectedly found me on thier teams lol
Most of my team mates were hardest workers in that event I think lol

Would still like to know how or why I consistently got placed in matches like that one? Lol

 

Match making seems spot on for me this time! Lol boat strength maybe almost tipping in my favour