I doubt any of you know who i am and i doubt even less it matters. I've been playing Interim Apex for maybe two or three months (my memory sucks so its a guess), i found out about it while discussing renegade in another C&C oriented mod community and at first i was thinking that between the maps and the new content i could never go back, it was like everything i could have wanted out of original renegade....then i started to notice the same trend i see in a bunch of shooters.
It seems to me alot of the time that the opposing team seems to always have some of the same players, in particular the BEST players. I've been told that it chooses at random but i don't feel confident about our chances to win when the opposing teams players all have hundreds of recommendations apiece whereas ours MIGHT have 100 between us all. I've lost count of how many times literally half our base got rekt by a single guy in one attack even when our entire team is dropping everything to take him out in just this one week alone, how can one microwave tank constantly wipe out multiple mammoth tanks, walkers and light tanks at the same time? even if we DO kill his tank he's even MORE powerful the second he's on foot where we can't gun him down and for some reason we can't crush him by ramming into him, we can't shoot at him at all due to how close he is whereas he is stripping away our armor like he's going through a can of pringles, you can't get out to gun him down because he'll just steal your tank and if your friends get light tanks to shoot him with he just kills them in ONE HIT! it's like we're starting shit with saitama from one punch man! you just have to sit there and take it, hoping someone else gets a lucky shot.
If this was one or two games i might just ignore it but i've seen it happen every single game i've played over an entire week and i can't remember seeing my team win over an entire month even one time, sure you can say that its about the "Struggle" to win but for that to work it has to BE a struggle. I'd rather have a hard-won victory then just get effortlessly steamrolled match after match, a 4v6 can still be fair if that four has their shit together and the six is just okay at best, shit it'll probably still favor the four. Whatever judgement you guys use to determine team balance focuses on the numbers but it seems to ignore completely how good those players actually are, half our team ragequits so to balance it out you give us the guy who has been afk for 30 minutes? gee.....thanks, this will really balance the teams....
I'm not going to pretend like i'm some badass pro who got the controls changed on him or some shit like that, at BEST i am average, maybe even ABOVE average. I REALLY try to work with everyone else and support the team where i can but i'll never be more then average and if i have no chance of having a real match why am i even here? the ONE time this month an admin forced someone really good to switch teams to try and balance it, when our team began to quit like crazy and it turned into 10 vs 6, the dude got so angry about being put on our team he decided to quit outright instead of playing it out. Really? I get winning is where the fun is but how can you even find any challenge if you keep stacking the teams like this? even an endless string of victories HAS to get stale and boring after awhile.
I can already hear people getting ready to tell me to "lern 2 play" but seriously, when your entire game revolves around these hardcore badasses just stomping newbies all day, i'm not going to try and get better, i'm just going to LEAVE and play ANOTHER game where i've actually got a rats chance in hell. I may be making assumptions about your community but i would assume the last thing you want to do is chase off anyone new. You gotta let em WIN a few if you want them to come back, we see the same thing in casinos with electronic slot machines, if you set the win chance to nothing everyone just goes to another casino but if they see someone win big every now and then, they'll think they could be next and keep coming back for another go.
