.3 ill admit might be too much, maybe .7, but ±1.0 is not good, and is one of the main reasons the game is in its sad state right now.
1- thats a balance problem, not a queue problem.
2- even if i could argue that some of the BRs are horrific, the ±1.0 is why you have cases like an F14 from the 60s fighting aircraft like the F15E, SU30, and eurofighters. Versus a plane with… pheonixes. No, 1.0 wont cut it.
Ok, 1 minute isnt bad, most normal games take a good minute to queue, gaijins idea of people immediately quitting after waiting more than 5 seconds is a joke. Also are these squads all one nation? Or top tier russia? Top tier russia youre queing against 200+ people and split nations really confuse the matchmaker, my swuads usually only take 10-20 seconds except if its US+GR mid tier or russian above 10.7
That it self is a false argument. You argue Gaijin ain’t doing anything with decompression why would they try 2 BR step which risks killing the game. Afterall long lobby waits have killed enough games.
Also the cases you mention are fine, since both the KV and jumbo are next to death sentence to downtiers and light tanks. The balance doesn’t just lie in up, but also downtiers.
I’ve got to ask—what is actually being done about the long queue times for top tier Russia?
Right now it feels like every discussion about balance, BR changes, or adding/removing vehicles just gets shut down with the same excuse: “queue times would get worse.” But the queue times are already bad. Sitting there waiting several minutes just to get into a match at top tier completely kills the flow of the game.
It puts players in a weird spot where:
Balance concerns don’t get addressed
New ideas get dismissed outright
And the existing experience keeps getting worse
So what’s the plan here? Are there any changes being worked on to improve matchmaking or reduce queue times at high tiers? Whether that’s adjustments to matchmaking rules, incentives for other nations, decompression, or something else—it would be good to hear anything concrete.
At the moment, “queue times” feels less like a temporary issue and more like a permanent wall stopping any kind of improvement.
Would really appreciate some insight from the devs on this.
EVERY game I played was 12.7 - 13.7 bar one 12.3- 13.3. Fix the match maker!
The mirage is doing exactly nothing in a 13.7 lobby… and you get to experience it every game.
We had 3 fox 3 jets… TORNADO, JEFF, VIGGAN. The enemy as can be seen by flags… PREMIUM FLANKERS, F16s and other great jets. Our team= you couldnt pick worse if you tried… What is this BS?
Also let the camos be used for all variants of the vics in a tree. Then at least when vics like this become power crept from existence we can still use a nice skin for ones that are the exact same model in game that might still be useable.
2 more “balanced” lobbies I was treated to on Saturday. I cant even tell the BR range but once again its rigged.
Looking at this lobby more. 12.7-13.7 We have no 13.3 or 13.7. The 2 13.0s are f14Bs= just lol pheonix. The rest have bad radars and sparrows vs flankers and friends. Is this game meant to be fun and/ or balanced?
Prime example of why statshark or stats in general are worthless. And the game is balanced by said stats?! Can see why overall US numbers are so bad… and its not the players
The thousands upon thousands of players in the game at any one time indicate otherwise.
This is the false argument as there is no proof whatsoever that a 2-step gap would cause the queue time to increase. same number of players in the queue - they are just distributed in a btter way.
Add to the fact you would have fewer players leaving battles early because matchmaker no longer screws them over with giant uptiers all the time. Win-Win
LOL they are not fine. Get real.
Jumbo 75 should not be facing Tiger 2, just like Jumbo 75 should not be facing 4.7 vehicles.
Neither situation enhances player enjoyment of the game.
The queue times at mid tier (6.7 air) would ironically not be touched and just be left at the 5 minutes they are already at. The same lot of people will continue to play it just as much as the rest, maybe we could even see more people play it due to better balancing and not have sk 60s facing props.
Would just be teams of russia vs russia with all other nations becoming minor nations because how the hell are you meant to compete with the kh38, lmur, pantsir, bmpt and so on… I would grind the centauro 2 if not for the fact they ruined the spall liner, giving it huge gaps, while keeping the auto loader 5 seconds when it easily could have been less and been fine…
is snail joking? why did russia get pantsir sm, once again we get combo of the best CAS + the best SPAA in russia
and they didnt even need it because they were already good enough bruh
Genuinely hope the player base plummets with this.
Russia vs Russia all is Russia is Russia, it’s a little pathetic that Russian egos can’t handle not being the best in a computer game.
They just have no interesst in balancing there game.
There was only a short periode of time while Toptier was nearly balanced, then LMUR and the BUK arrived. But that was not enough, now we need a OP Pantsir, to make the gap even bigger.
