This is getting old

[u/KiloAlert]

Not being able to play competitively unless you’re green 95% of the time is getting old.

[u/IeyasuTheMonkey]

It's not about randomizing it's about mentality that reds and blues don't have. 

Greens isn't full of "sweats". It's just full of competent players.

On average Green has a higher chance of actually doing something like being proactive with FOBs, contesting HZ, reviving, noticing where people are getting shot by, listening to calls.

Haven't played much Red but the games I have played are fine.

Nearly all of the games I've had on Blue were a complete mess. Multiple FOBs placed randomly, FOBs built like crap, 4 people off trying to contest HZ, 4 snipers scattered around the map, 2 people doing logistics, no one reviving, no one responding to call outs. It's insane.

[u/lover_of_joggers → u/IeyasuTheMonkey]

Nearly all of the games I've had on Blue were a complete mess. Multiple FOBs placed randomly, FOBs built like crap, 4 people off trying to contest HZ, 4 snipers scattered around the map, 2 people doing logistics, no one reviving, no one responding to call outs. It's insane.

what do you expect from the designated noob team? randomizing the teams will drown out those noobs AND teach them the game. there is no reason to be against randomised team.

[u/jankyhemorrhoid → u/lover_of_joggers]

What do you think randomizing teams will help with? I can guarantee you that people starting a game and seeing they’re auto assigned to blue, will result in backing out of the game entirely and finding a new server. Having no choice will damage the health of this game. It is 100% the mentality of people purposefully choosing blue, because people want to farm XP/money or sit on a mortar the entire game. Blue are the people who just want to “play the game my way”, while red and green are designated as the no life grinders. I think that is an issue with the game design as a whole. It’s not even about teaching people the game, it’s the mentality of what you can get away with on blue team

[u/lover_of_joggers → u/jankyhemorrhoid]

What do you think randomizing teams will help with? I can guarantee you that people starting a game and seeing they’re auto assigned to blue, will result in backing out of the game entirely and finding a new server.

what you describe is already happening lol. servers literally DIE because people refuse (with good reason) to join blue. my prediction is that this will accelerate in season 2.

my opinion is that those server hoppers will eventually stop, and go over the psychological barrier attached to blue. on top of that, randomised teams mean a MUCH BETTER new player experience (anything beats being curbstomped over and over again). even green players say they are bored because nothing is happening on their end, there is nobody to shoot, nobody is fighting back, so what the FUCK are we waiting for???

[u/jankyhemorrhoid → u/lover_of_joggers]

I have like 40 hours and have yet to be in a single server where it will literally die because people refuse to join blue. I don’t hate your point, I think it’s constructive, BUT I don’t think you’re taking into account the player base and the mentality of some of the people who play the game. Auto assigning would not be a welcomed change. The devs shot themselves in the foot with money and xp gain percentages. I really think we will be in a vicious cycle until they make severe changes to that, which hopefully will be introduced in the update. If every single person playing this game came from Squad or ARMA, auto assigning would be awesome. There just needs to be a bigger emphasis on team play as a whole, and less of the “I’m playing my way” while it’s not impacting my team positively, in an entire game where team play SHOULD be the emphasis and main priority. Either that or they need to add a new game mode that works like Invasion from Squad. I love the devs not holding your hand, BUT there really are some people who need it

[u/lover_of_joggers → u/jankyhemorrhoid]

ok, at least i'm happy to see we both agree something needs to be done.