Auto team balance

[Gemma the Dog]

I was wondering what you guys think of the auto-team balance feature on the BF1942 servers?

I'm trying to get into the team spirit with this game and it makes such a difference to have a few of your friends on RogerWilco so you can at least try and work as a team.

The few times we've tried this we often find that one of us will be switched to the other team when they next respawn...with no obvious warning in game.

It's quite hard to work on team play when you suddenly find yourself on the other team

(Of course...I might be missing something really obvious, so I'm quite prepared for someone to tell me I'm being a plonka and not doing so-and-so)

anyway...has this been your experience? If so do you think it can/should be disabled? I'm all for balanced teams, but people usualy come & go often enough that within a few minutes the teams should become balanced naturally.

and if they don't you can always have a quick moan

cheers

GtD

 

[Louster]

Yep I find it annoying at times too. I'm not sure that it's able to be disabled though.

 

[Deadmanwalking]

yeah i agree the lack of warnign sucks but the team balance is sorly needed. From my experiance most ppl join allies as the "axis are evil nazis etc wetc etc" so i join servers with like 12 allies and 7 axis.

Im not sure if they do it CS style where as the last player to join the team gets autod or whatever but thats somethign they should sort out.

 

[Deathwatch]

It can be turned on or off, but as said by DMW, the teams would be very unbalanced.

It can be annoying, especially if you're playing well on your team and are winning and suddenly you get switched to the other team and have to take back the stuff you just capped.

For clan/league games, it will be turned off ofcourse

 

[S-Gray]

aye.. when i played the Demo it was pretty annoying, i found that when i died i would be switched without even noticing it would always say "Spawn point has been taken" (Or somethin to that effect)...

 

[lojik]

The mad scramble for allied is more likely to be due to the better assualt weapon they have. I was starting to wonder if there was some secret trick for getting on allied team as up until today I hadn't managed to be on allied for more than a week, but today finally was put on the good side... and still lost hmpfffff

 

[Louster]

Actually I find it more annoying when the teams are forcibly even and yet the players in them are totally uneven, so one team is totally dominating and you can't really do anything about it.

 

[Gemma the Dog]

well...

I'm not against balanced teams...but changing you at random mid game seems a bit extreme.

It would be ok if it forces you to a team when you 1st join, and then only *let* you switch when the other team has less players.

and if it really *has* to force you to another team then it should make it damn obvious that it has done it....don't you think?

mind u...I hope it can be disabled...or it would be a tad difficult running a league

 

[xane]

Simple way to avoid team-switching.



Don't die

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

heh, yes, it is annoying, but surely you can tell that you've been swapped?

 

[jo.]

Not really... if you die and respawn quick enough, you're left standing at a spawn surrounded by "enemies" and can't work out why they're not shooting at you, and your bullets don't seem to damage them.

The auto-balance needs screwing with... if there's one thing more annoying than the lag, it's being on the losing team, going on a brilliant stealthy flag capturing mission and turning the game around, only to be swapped over moments later... then swapped back again after you've captured several flags yet again.

My current record is being swapped 3 times in 1 round.... grrr, that was annoying.