FORUMS_

In a real battle, there is always somebody giving the orders! In a game full of total strangers, a lack of clear cummunication or absolutely no communication, inexperienced gamers and sometimes joining a game in the middle, on the losing side (in my case, I'm alway totally disorientated joining a game half way through), all these parameters just don't go in favour of winning the game.

Maybe matchmaking could do something about this. SPM, captures, defends, kills/deaths etc. All measurements that could be put together to categorize everybody in team-based games.

In DOM or all other team-based games for example, you could be categorized as;

• Recruit
• Soldier
• Mercenary
• Veteran

Then you could be put into teams of comparable strength, similar to the league play games. Maybe this system is used in league played games with different measurements.

Just an idea!

TDM/FFA is too hard for them because the objective is to kill, and they suck when someone is hunting them down, not the flags.

This whole thing frustrates me.

P.S. Do you have a song/mantra you repeat over and over whilst watching the cap countdown creep up agonisingly slowly? I do, feels like if I keep saying it I might just cap the flag just before getting slaughtered!

I lost a game of Dom on Meltdown yesterday, in Ground War (9v9).  I finished the match with 7 caps (5 of them solo caps of B), while nobody else on my team had more than 3.  I only managed 3 defenses, primarily because I spent most of my time sprinting from my spawn to the B flag when I died while going for/getting those caps...no worries, still tied for the team lead in that category, too.  I was 28-16, good for a score of 3850.

The leading scorer on my team went 41-20 with 2 caps & 2 defends.  I went back and watched the game in Theater mode; his two captures were recapturing the home flag in the first half (after nobody could be bothered to go back and defend it against the one enemy player who crept around to it, and then capping the home flag to start the second half.  His two "defenses" were killing enemies in the tunnel underneath B-Dom (the game counts those as defenses on this map, even though you can't cap from down there).  The majority of his game was spent sprinting through that tunnel and into the opposing office building to hunt snipers; he literally never even set foot within capping distance of B.

Another player on my team went 31-9 with 1 cap and 3 defenses.  His secret?  Spend the entire match in the upstairs office near our home flag with his sniper rifle, the majority of that spent prone & staring at the interior doorway after his shock charges & betty went off.  His only cap was the home flag in the second half, and all 3 of his "defenses" were sniped shots of guys who happened to be near the B flag.  The majority of his kills came courtesy of an escort drone which he pulled out of the one care package he earned.

Had a split screener on the team which went a combined 43-40 with two combined "defenses" (also in the tunnel underneath B, by player 2 who spent the entire game down there).  Each side of their screen had the same 3 caps: all of the home flag, at the start of each half plus the one re-cap.

The rest of the team:

• 19-22, 2 caps (home flag at the start of each half), 0 defends.
• 21-11, 2 caps (start of each half), 3 defends (tunnel)
• 10-18, 0 caps, 0 defends
• 7-9, 1 cap (start of second half), 0 defends

The only time in the entire game where I had "help" in capping B was when one teammate ran across the flag while I was getting the opening cap of the second half.  My final death came about 40 seconds from the end of the game, literally a split-second from finishing my sixth solo cap of B; any other teammate so much as looking at B would've gotten the cap & won the game (assuming we held it).  And it wasn't like the other team was so great, either: their only player who went positive finished at 22-20....but, they had two players with 5 caps apiece, and they actually did their best to defend B (which wasn't much, because that only meant killing me whenever I went to recapture it).

I left the lobby immediately after the end of the match.