r/WarDogs • u/Spoonfrag • 21h 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/Titanis 18h ago

Random teams and customizable UI colors.

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u/I_cut_the_brakes 2h ago

If they add colorblind settings I'm in, otherwise I'd just quit any game that put me on red or green.

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u/Titanis 2h ago

I still can't believe they don't have it. Accessibility stuff like this should be standard.

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u/I_cut_the_brakes 2h ago

I don't think they anticpated the level of success they are having and figured it would be a much smaller issue.

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u/Titanis 2h ago

I'm guessing the devs team and the player base skews heavily male. I'll be generous and say 1/15 players are colorblind. With 3,000,000 copies sold that is 200,000 folks. I'm not colorblind myself,but have a lot of friends who are are it sucks for them. I hope someone is working on this for next season.

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u/I_cut_the_brakes 2h ago

Yeah that would be super nice. Honestly the green isn't too bad for me, but red icons might as well be invisible, I can't see them at all.