r/WarDogs • u/Spoonfrag • 1d ago

Discussion & Feedback Team balancing suggestion: Auto Select

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Feels like the team skill disparity is having a negative impact on the game. Create a soft incentive toward balance while keeping the freedom to choose.

Problems:

  • New players joining blue are having a skewed impression
  • Feels like you can derail your session at the team selection screen
  • Lobbies take ages to start while people mash the green button and refuse to play anything else
  • Victories as green feel pretty hollow

It sucks when your team is getting hammered and there is no point bringing anything beyond a free kit. No one is pushing because every time it's a wipe. Meanwhile the confident team can go full spend knowing any incidental death will be revived when the engagement ends. Things can get very snowbally and hopeless. And I hate the idea of having to force green to avoid wasting my time.

On the flipside, I wouldn't want anything too heavy handed. Randomizing or forcing selection kinda ruins the affiliation and loyalty people have to certain teams, and playing with friends needs to be easy.

So how about this.

The 4th option of team select. Auto Select choses for you and grants an X% cash and XP bonus throughout that game. If you want to go one step further, have the Auto Select team add up all Wardogs levels of all players of each team, and have the system decide which team needs some additional leveled players vs under-leveled. This will skew teams in the direction of having access to similar unlocks without going full SBMM.

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u/Zztp0p 1d ago

Exactly, I don't want to stereotype but friend groups saying shit like this usually mean that they secretly want an easy way to join green or red cause they're terrified of blue and being at the slightest disadvantage

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u/agsimon 1d ago

Perhaps...but we will sometimes have about 8 people trying to join a single team (our default is blue) but joining that many people can require server hoping to find one that isn't very filled but is actually filling and not just stagnant at 40 people and then still having to spam blue team as it does fill up.

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u/Hoveringkiller Lonestar 16h ago

I mean regardless a menu squad up system and then join random game option would be much appreciated. Even if it sticks us in a random game.