Blast is still a mess with the special units, Wookies are dramatically stronger than the special units on the other side. I've only seen the absolute shittiest Rebel/Resistance teams lose.
Speaking of losing, after speaking with some friends today who seem to consistently experience the same thing I've been bitching about for weeks now (getting fucked but team rebalancing, aka it doesn't exist) I decided to spend a couple hours and do some testing. Per the patch notes
here for 1/24/18 they implemented the following team rebalancing:
Matchmaking - Adjustments have been made to matchmaking. Before you would stay on the same server and you faced the same team over and over again. Now, the matchmaker will try to optimize teams between rounds.
I have found this....not to be the case, but had attributed it largely to being faced against squads of people and the game just not accounting for that, which is fucked but okay sure. But I decided to stay in the same lobby for an extended period of time to see what happened.
I never saw a single person get moved. I even kept track to make sure I wasn't crazy and this was me just being a shitty player and complaining! The "place" is what place I got on
my team with the thinking that if I either did really well or really bad it would have to shuffle accordingly, and then I just eyeballed the top 4-5 players on each team at the end of the round to see what happened on map change:
- Hoth - Won - 1st place (worth noting this was probably the hardest team carry victory I have ever pulled off in a game in my life, I am uploading this shit)
- Hoth - Lost - 1st place, I don't notice any top player changes to Takodana
- Takodana - Lost - 3rd place
- Takodana - Lost - 3rd place, I don't notice any top player changes to Crait
- Crait - Lost - 2nd place
- Crait - Won - 2nd place (by 30 points ;_;), I don't notice any top player changes to Kashyyyk
- Kashyyyk - Lost - 4th place
- Kashyyyk - Lost - 2nd place, I don't notice any top player changes to Death Star 2
So at this point I'm like there's no way this is still happening; all of these games it's been mostly the same top 5ish players on the other team (with a few folks coming and going so it doesn't appear to be a Squad), and me and one other decent guy on our team, no changes I've seen whatsoever. So I intentionally start tanking to see what happens.
- Death Star 2 - Lost - 7th place
- Death Star 2 - Lost - 6th place. I make a list of the top 10 players on each side, NO ONE GETS MOVED
- Jakku - Lost - 5th place
- Jakku - Lost - 1st place, I make a list of the top 10 players on each aside, and again NO ONE GETS MOVED
So as far as I can tell the rebalancing they supposedly introduced either literally doesn't work, or is so broken and inconsistent it might as well not be there. They've already said the next patch will also have balancing stuff, but I'm super pissed off because I've spent the last few weeks "waiting out" shitty lobbies to see if teams would rebalance on map change and not paying super close attention to more than one or two names and probably didn't realize it was never working. The team rebalancing did actually work to an extent in BF2015 (it was pretty heavy handed about it usually) so I figured this was just something like that. So I've been raging and getting mad when I could have instead just been bailing immediately and getting a new lobby.
Why do you do this to me DICE.