Battlefield 4 I shouldn't have to hate our autobalance

[Dib19]

Just like the title says, I shouldn't have to hat our autobalance, its really getting annoying playing BF4 and doing well and then I die once at the wrong time and then autobalanced. Its a bit of a pain, obviously its not deterring people from playing on our server but its driving me mad. I don't know what the best way to make it better is but I was thinking maybe only scramble the teams at the end of a round and not during it, then people won't complain that they were switched onto the loosing team when they were doing well or that they were pulled from their friends while playing. Tell me if anyone has a better idea but that's just what makes sense to me.

 

[Wizekraker]

Your are not only one complaining. I believe we are looking into updating it.

 

[Slash]

I'm with you Dib on everything you said. I know it helps the balance out, but I get tired of the hate comments from it by the pubs. I could care less if they get separated from playing with their friends.

 

[Jake123]

Isnt there a way that it takes the last person(s) who joined a team and switch them? NOT the people that have been there since it started? I know thats how COD did it.

 

[xitreon]

Yeah, it's ubalancing teams more and more these days

 

[DarkRaven]

Hello guys,

Several have made posts recently about the plugin issue. We have contacted the tech team to install an update to the plugin and BF leadership will look over settings for it.

 

[TofuJello]

I remember one time I sneaked up and capped E in locker, then got killed at E and got auto balanced. Then what do you know, I had to fight and try to get back what I just capped 10 sec ago. LOL

 

[alex2142hp1]

:chair: know the feeling egg i always get autobalanced from winning team to loosing team:w00t:

 

[epicfail331]

Yes the pain is strong with this plugin. It is overly aggressive I think. If it is being looked into and gets fixed I will be happy. The scramble at the end of round is a good idea but it should keep friends/squads together.

 

[startroooper]

Yeah I know the feeling, I was flying the chopper and telling my team to have more stingers to force the other team from abandoning C......boom get team switched......get like 50 stingers in the face flying to C on siege

 

[MyCampGround_HHA]

Isnt there a way that it takes the last person(s) who joined a team and switch them? NOT the people that have been there since it started? I know thats how COD did it.

I was wondering this very same thing! If it did this it would be awesome!

 

[MyCampGround_HHA]

Yes the pain is strong with this plugin. It is overly aggressive I think. If it is being looked into and gets fixed I will be happy. The scramble at the end of round is a good idea but it should keep friends/squads together.

I agree 100% I usually only join on servers to catch up with friends and have a fun game with them. Getting switch to the other team can be annyoing, but this doesn't happen that often to me thank God but when it does it can be very frustrating lol.

 

[Moridous]

Maybe if it was actually admin controlled and used only in the event where the winning team held all conquest points and was spawn camping...

 

[epicfail331]

Maybe if it was actually admin controlled and used only in the event where the winning team held all conquest points and was spawn camping...

That could possibly start a "Badmin" flamewar. Admin control could work. While I have faith in our Admins it could also start up accusations of abuse of the plugin.

I don't know the ins and outs of the plugin, what settings it has I mean, so I don't know all that could be set up with it. I have seen it start "balancing" at the start of a game before and even in the middle when one team has say C point in Op Locker and not much difference in score. I have also seen it not balance anything when one team is spawn killing the other with a very wide score difference. It comes down to Leadership and those who have access to the plugin to find the right balance.

I have seen a lot of complaints when I actually look at chat (which I need to do more of) concerning the auto balancer so something needs to be done about finding a good balance to keep things fair and keep people playing on our servers happy.

My earlier suggestion about end of round switch would be a good start keeping friends squads together.

 

[bored2death]

So I just found your TDM server played a couple of games thought it was a real good server was going to add to favorites then(screech brakes)......I got team switched during a game cause I was doing good..

That's total crap!!! I kill myself during a game to help my team to win and then I get switched to the losing team then 2 seconds later some goober joins the server and gets on the winning team now enjoys the automatic win for him that I helped.

Sorry but that's BS only time you should switch a player is to even out the numbers and that should only be Last person to join the server gets switched!!! not a player that's doing ok..

I know it's your server and your rules and that's fine but I wont be returning.. I'm not going to have a ton of losses on my battlelog or my game time ruined just because I was team switched because I'm doing good.

Thanks for the time.. I enjoyed it for a few games.

 

[epicfail331]

^^^This is what I see in chat when the balancer does its thing. We need to fix it ASAP.

 

[v2__Zexs]

Hope they fix that for you guys. I really don't see a problem with it. I get switch by Killercankill all they long and don't bother me. I have even requested to be switch to help other team (Major-Shrapnel) (I like to be in the losing team and earn my kills the hard way; and I still have fun. You can't be always in the winning team or with your friends. Sometimes you need to deal with the way the system works. I'll have to agree with the round switch but then again if you get put into bad team then people complain about stacking teams.
IMO

 

[epicfail331]

I agree with you. I don't mind getting switched all that much. Only at times is it bothersome and that's usually when I'm in a squad and we're working well together. There will always be accusations of team stacking. I just have seen a lot of complaints about being switched lately and that's why I think it should be looked into. either in the current plugins settings or a new plugin.

 

[Scientisto]

I dont mind being switched normally either but sometimes when you're playing with friends and it switches you, that is really annoying..
Switching the last person to join seems the most logical choice.. But can there be an option to get back when you are automatically switched? So if it bothers you, you can get back and someone not minding that much can be switched instead..
Giving that choice to the admins would be way worse according to my opinion cuz there will be way more talking and hating about it and most people would take it personal.. And that would be like putting our admins way front for people to bitch about and our servers are one of the very few servers that are not abused by admins.. I dont think they will ever abuse it but people who blames autobalancing will blame the admins way harder, even if they did the balancing perfectly..
That's what I think..

 

[KILLERCANKILL]

Guys the fact of the matter is that the current multibalancer has played a key role in our high rankings. It prevents consistent base camp and generally helps to keep the server balanced specially at night when not many admins are on. It is tough when you get moved away from your friends but the plugin is configured to balance regardless of squad, team or clan. But its also one of the reasons why people like coming back to our servers as we actively try to keep the game tight, I cant count how many times I have seen rounds on our severs go down to the last 10 tickets, which is a rarity for other servers.

While I understand that the plugin is not perfect and can sometime make bad changes but its something we are constantly refining and updating. The plugin analyses many things before switching you such as squad score, KDR etc so sometimes it may not be clear to you why its you being switched but there is sound reasoning behind it.

We are looking to update the plugin this week and make a few more changes.