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4/9/2022 6:19:30 PM
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Freelance lobbies are poorly balanced

I'm not sure if I'm just unlucky, but I always get the worst teammates. They usually botwalk into fusions or leave the game. I'm over here dropping a 3 or 4 kd each game and I still lose. I'm not Gernader Jake, I can't constantly win games on my own. I need someone with a brain on my team.

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  • There isn't a team balancing in freelance trials, because regular game mode doesn't have that and trials didn't even had matchmaking in the first place, so that's probably why

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  • It’s not just you. It’s awful how the lobby balancing is. I can’t get past fabled III for survival cause I get the worse possible people on my team when I get close to mythic.

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  • Edited by Spider: 4/10/2022 7:01:48 PM
    I know what you mean I didn’t go flawless this week because of a few people who weren’t the best, not their fault of course just match made against an enemy team that’s better. although every freelance week, I’ve had at least one person who intentionally sabotages or is afk the whole match.

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  • ALL lobbies are poorly balanced, its what they had to put freeleance in the first place. Unfortunately it only alleviated the stacks vs solos problem and did nothing to address the horrible lobby balancing. If lobby balancing was effective there wouldnt be a need for freelance as the balancing itself would prevent the stacks vs solos issue.

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  • The game grabs 4 good players and 2 bots then slaps 3 good players on one team. One unlucky soul gets put on carry duty. Click the launch button and pray

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      • Edited by ben: 4/11/2022 12:21:47 AM
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        The thing is, the freelance population is overwhelmingly made up of bad players. I dont want to look at every team I had in my card last night, but just looking at from the past 3 games, the career (not trials) k/ds of my teammates were as follows: 0.49 0.57 0.6 0.5 0.61 0.82 Earlier in my card I had a teammate who had a 0.12 CAREER k/d. Now I am the last person to obsess over stats and use k/d to measure how good a player is and judge them over it, but a trend is somewhat clear when you take into account the k/ds of my opponents in the same 3 games: 1.17 0.98 1.03 1.0 0.5 0.2 (this was a strange one) 0.8 0.75 1.35 so, out of the 15 players in my past 3 games of trials, there were 4 with a career positive k/d. 5 if you round up a 0.98. and every single one was on the other team. This is of course because I have a 2.3 which makes me a drastic outlier in these lobbies so the game tries its best to even things out by giving me the worst teammates possible and generally putting the better players, statistically speaking, on the other team. Is this fair? Well, yes, it would be less fair to put all the best players on the same team obviously. But it is, admittedly, pretty demotivating to be inspecting people as youre flying into a game and to know with a pretty high degree of accuracy who is going to be on your team and who isnt. I can make it work but I have to play out of my mind to do it. Ultimately I dont think the matchmaking needs to be changed. The root of the problem is just that not enough good players play freelance. Most good players would rather just play stacked with their friends, meanwhile freelance is obviously people with no one to play with (unless youre like me and just play it for fun) which generally (very generally) correlates to people who arent as good. And by arent as good I dont mean average. As evidenced by the stats I pulled from trialsreport these players are far, far below average.

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        • It seems pretty alright to me this week. Sure their are outliers but most matches I played were ok.

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        • I’m not saying it’s you but KD means nothing if you lose. Maybe you should sacrifice yourself and play to push with teammates if they’re dying a lot.

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          • I thought it was pretty good when I solo'd to legend. I wouldn't suggest it though for most people. It's tough to win on a regular basis, with no mic and no coordination. If you choose to play with randoms, you get random results. If I want to win, I make a team. Hand pick people you like and want to play with?

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            • [quote]I'm not sure if I'm just unlucky, but I always get the worst teammates. They usually botwalk into fusions or leave the game. I'm over here dropping a 3 or 4 kd each game and I still lose. I'm not Gernader Jake, I can't constantly win games on my own. I need someone with a brain on my team.[/quote] So hear me out, go on the lfg type Trials *desired skill level* need 2 more Solved your problem

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              • You've won 9 of 10 games, n you've played a huge amount of .35 players, just stahp

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                • Solos thought that freelance was going to be the way for them to go flawless. Turns out, it wasn't the mode holding them back from flawless. Who would have seen that coming?

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                  • Lobby balance... On one plate, the feather of a pure white dove, glowing like an angel feather in the morning sunlight. On the other plate, a hippopotamus with irritable bowel syndrome caked in it's own excrement. Bungie: "Is this balanced?"

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                  • It's almost like trials wasn't initially balanced for solo play lol

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                    • People asked for freelance… so expect to get absolute bots on your team, people who don’t give af about winning and just want some loot or the pinnacle. Freelance is NOT a good idea. IMO

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                    • I knew this would happen when they introduced freelance. People would just move on to the next excuse as to why they can't go flawless. I wonder it'll be after "bad teammates"...

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                    • I got blueberries when I went solo flawless, I faced players that were miles better than me and still beat them. You know whats the secret? I adapted to their strategies. If you guys really want to go flawless on freelance you gotta be a good player, no excuse. Don’t expect to go flawless when your own skill is lacking and you are expecting to get carried. So many times I would get potatoes that would run off and die and it was up to me to solo a 1v3. If it wasn’t for my builds and kill clip perks I would’ve lost too. I was prepared and Im always prepared to face every BS everyone comes up with. So instead of blaming everything for your loss, actually think to yourself why it is that you lost. All I’m gonna say again is if you want to hit flawless, you better be good enough to 1v3 in freelance.

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                      • Yep

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                      • This is the normal freelance experience actually. The thing everyone wanted

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                      • Freelance is better than regular. I don’t have an issue going flawless on either but solo pubstomping in freelance is better than mowing down players with a stacked team and sharing kills.

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                      • Today I decided that I will never play in the Trials flawless pool again. That's now Clash, Control, and the Trials flawless pool that I do not enter. lol.

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                        • They need you to carry these players so they don’t come on the forums complaining and asks for nerfs lol

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                        • Nah, the pvp in this game is just -blam!-. Just leave for a game that actually takes skill like apex

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                        • If the game matchmade my teammates the same way it does for my opponents, I’d be getting 17+ flawless cards per weekend lol.

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                        • We are not dealing with the best PvP/sandbox team. This current group apparently is only hand cannon and shotgun certified.

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