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5/15/2025 5:06:56 AM
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What the hell is going on with lobby balancing right now?
Returning player. Been a guardian since D1 launch but took about a year off. I’ve been back in the crucible in between catching up on seasonal content and man. I have never seen lobby balancing this bad in my life. They will put a 3 stack on the same team as the highest elo in the lobby and just throw me on the team that’s essentially full of players that range between “decent” to just downright bots. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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1 ReplyDuring your year off, they have adjusted the team balancing multiple times, and have managed only to make it even worse than it originally was. On top of that, the player population is extremely low, so you get very lopsided connections on a regular basis as well which only makes it worse (or in other words, the match might have seem fair stats-wise, but turned into a one sided stomp because players on one team had such a significant connection advantage).
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Just the fact that a premade team is in the same lobby with solos is idiotic.
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Edited by Rainey: 5/15/2025 7:48:36 PMConsidering there's only about 25-30% of the player base there was a year ago it's probably lack of options for match making to even things out.
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The have too many filters at play with a small population.
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eliteg🤕🥴😵💫🤢...👍👍 - 3/14/2026 3:24:49 AM
Yeah those 3 stacks and above should stay out of Control. I don't know if its a game-networking issue or cheating too but those groups always showcase a lagger/warping.. and they inevitably crush the lobby in most cases. I had a lot of great close matches yesterday but I def remember when those 3 stack joins happen... I'm leaning to pre-viewing the lobby and bouncing out when I see the 3 stack. As a community if we left every time we saw a 3 stack and above.. Bungie will get the message. -
Its been horrible for years where have you been
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It’s been like this forever. If you have a high kd and high kills in crucible it will give you complete bots vs high elo stacks or solos.
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Yeah, experience this on a regular basis in crucible (rarely go into crucible because of the seeming crap "balancing") Ive seen multiple times 2 fireteams of 2 on the same team, along with seemingly placed with "bots" as OP lovingly calls them.. not to mention the amount of times in CONTROL that im the one of the few, or only person capturing points, only to have the opposing team all run at me at once... Not only that, the same opponents that somehow quickscope through walls and apparantly have the super hearing from turtle beach, when allies, suddenly become teddy bears who hesitate to fire at the opponents... Oh.. not only that.. god forbid you win ONE GAME... it pops up with a "Finding a New Match, We're breaking up these teams to find a new match", why didnt it do that a few games ago when i lost like 3 times in a row Bungo??? (apparently im not the only one who experiences this.. as a post from 2019 posted about a similar thing: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/254501279)
