Guild Wars 2

I played well and won a lot of matches as a solo que player and my reward was…

Being put into constant premade stompfests where I suddenly felt like a terrible player, losing every single match by scores like 500 to 160, 500 to 75, etc.

I’d be winning a 1v1 to take a point, and 2 opposing members would appear in no time and kill me. Thanks, TeamSpeak!

I understand why this happens. I look forward to the day when there will be enough players for a true solo queue with no voice-communication advantage.

if i remember right there will be no solo que? They said something like “you are so good in solo that you will get matched vs premade”

They need to get over their whole hitch of trying to let the system balance itself out. It doesn’t work.

Before, we had three modes. Hotjoin, Free, and Paid. Casuals play paid, people looking for organized but still casual play or looking to improve used free, and people who did paid were the hardcores. So it just works out right? No, it doesn’t. What happens is the people in paid go pupstomp people in frees, and both go to hotjoin and think they’re gods incarnate.

So now we have this new solo queue and MMR system. If you solo queue, well your MMR is going to be low enough so you’ll be matched with bad premades or other solos. Obviously this isn’t true and doesn’t work.

I don’t understand ArenaNet. Just use the tried and true already. The sPvP community literally can not take any more of this hipster and innovative crap.

Sanis.1096:

if i remember right there will be no solo que? They said something like “you are so good in solo that you will get matched vs premade”

False. They told us they currently not comfortable splitting the player base into solo and group Q. They will however be “watching” player feedback and assessing its possibility as a separate entity. In the SotG Jon Peters mentioned a trend of “organized” solo Q members forming groups to beat established teams (rare).

The 999999 thread complaining about the lack of solo queue, and still no official word from anet

Hot join.
1v1 no party join, solo only.
1v1 party join, no solo.

Problem solved (for the mean time).

Infectious.4836:

Hot join.
1v1 no party join, solo only.
1v1 party join, no solo.

Problem solved (for the mean time).

Custom Servers
1v1 Unranked, invisible MMR solo/duo queue
1v1 Ranked, visible MMR 5-man queue

I fix’t PvP fer you ArenaNet.

dear anet
i don’t play your pvp game any more
i think you should:

• delete hotjoin
• add ranked solo queue — losers kicked, winners keep playing (gw1 ra)
• change 1 round tpvp to premade-only — losers kicked, winners keep playing (gw1 ta)
• change 3-round to scheduled times (gw1 at)
• bonus 1: allow joining solo queue as unranked for no rewards
• bonus 2: button on mists screen to join solo, or view “other options”
• bonus 3: make sure noob pve know about ranked solo

thnx bye

I’ve been doing solo queue for a while now (sometimes duo que), but I have been getting paired up with premades as well and as much as there is a disadvantage when it comes to communication, i try to the best of my abilities to communicate plan before and during the game with the other solo queues and it actually tends to work…Lately I’ve been getting paired up against premades but I have also been getting a good team strategy that I type up to my fellow solo queues and I have won against many premades…All I am trying to say is a great amount of people who solo queue do it and tend to think that they are on their own throughout the match, but if you actually try to communicate with them (ESPECIALLY before the match starts) you will have a higher chance of winning.

And when you win especially against premades it is all that much more rewarding…

COMMUNICATE! COMMUNICATE!
For example (Spirit Watch):
BEFORE MATCH START I will literally say something like the following:
“I will be heading to their node in order to stop them from capping it in case they get the orb”
“One person should go to our close node and then to raven if possible – Who wants this role?”
“The rest of the team head down to orb (put down aoe’s on orbs so they won’t get it) target people (ctr + click and press “t” to follow that target)."
“After the initial fight at orb you will then roam points and orb throughout the map”
“With a few people dedicated to only capturing points.”

and then if anyone has an opinion and wants to add or change something they tend to do so.

DURING THE MATCH:
I tend to always announce when I am capping a point (especially to allow orb runner to see available points for them)

I tend to call out points that an enemy is currently capping to send someone/me there.

and so on…

If you do this I am not promising that you will 100% win against a premade of course not, but I can guarantee that you will increase your percentage of winning by a lot more.

Lol, Sometimes I even add in that you should’nt forget to finish and revive teamates around you (so basics of pvp)

Evo.9180:

So why would any solo player even want to invest his time into improving his rating? To get to the point where he will only get stomped by pre mades who have an unfair advantage? Yeah, really good motivator to continue playing. Games are supposed to be fun, not frustrating.

Take care of the casuals, please. Hot join isn’t cutting it.

If you advertize this game as E-Sports-game you have to take of the competitive players as well as the casual players.
What would fix it is that we have the option to play Frees rated and unrated.
Rated has to be SoloQ and PremadeQ only. Frees can still have the system which we currently have.
Custom Arenas may also fix a good amount but hopefully there is no payment involved. Profit can be made elsewhere like through the Gem Shop and e.g. exclusive skins for PvP.

Other stuff which has been quite popular in GW1 can be implemented later.

And against a good pre-made with proper preparation there is no chance one can win solo. Only if the pre-made messes it up enough.

Laserbolt.6731:

I played well and won a lot of matches as a solo que player and my reward was…

Being put into constant premade stompfests where I suddenly felt like a terrible player, losing every single match by scores like 500 to 160, 500 to 75, etc.

I’d be winning a 1v1 to take a point, and 2 opposing members would appear in no time and kill me. Thanks, TeamSpeak!

I understand why this happens. I look forward to the day when there will be enough players for a true solo queue with no voice-communication advantage.

Teamspeak doesnt give much of an advantage to be honest. Use your map and you UI and you will be fine. Bad players need teamspeak. Your problem probably wasnt teamspeak but the fact that your teammates were bad.

Larynx.2453:

Infectious.4836:

Hot join.
1v1 no party join, solo only.
1v1 party join, no solo.

Problem solved (for the mean time).

Custom Servers
1v1 Unranked, invisible MMR solo/duo queue
1v1 Ranked, visible MMR 5-man queue

I fix’t PvP fer you ArenaNet.

CA is already on the way…

reedju.5786:

Sanis.1096:

if i remember right there will be no solo que? They said something like “you are so good in solo that you will get matched vs premade”

False. They told us they currently not comfortable splitting the player base into solo and group Q. They will however be “watching” player feedback and assessing its possibility as a separate entity. In the SotG Jon Peters mentioned a trend of “organized” solo Q members forming groups to beat established teams (rare).

what about this?

Tyler Bearce.3427:

The point is to have competitive matches. If you are so good that you beat every other solo group. Then yeah you should have at least a reasonable shot at beating the lower tier premades.

Sanis.1096:

reedju.5786:

Sanis.1096:

if i remember right there will be no solo que? They said something like “you are so good in solo that you will get matched vs premade”

False. They told us they currently not comfortable splitting the player base into solo and group Q. They will however be “watching” player feedback and assessing its possibility as a separate entity. In the SotG Jon Peters mentioned a trend of “organized” solo Q members forming groups to beat established teams (rare).

what about this?

Tyler Bearce.3427:

The point is to have competitive matches. If you are so good that you beat every other solo group. Then yeah you should have at least a reasonable shot at beating the lower tier premades.

Apparently ArenaNet doesn’t realize that success in solo matches is largely irrelevant when there’s 5 other unaffiliated players assisting.

Just because a person wins 5 solo matches in a row doesn’t mean he can carry the rest of his team when they suddenly fight a full premade. This logic is just dumbfounding.

ensoriki.5789:

Larynx.2453:

Infectious.4836:

Hot join.
1v1 no party join, solo only.
1v1 party join, no solo.

Problem solved (for the mean time).

Custom Servers
1v1 Unranked, invisible MMR solo/duo queue
1v1 Ranked, visible MMR 5-man queue

I fix’t PvP fer you ArenaNet.

CA is already on the way…

Did I ever say it wasn’t?

No, I didn’t. Custom servers should simply replace hotjoin completely as the browser based system. Sure, ArenaNet can have some official servers, but they said they wanted to treat sPvP like an FPS. Custom servers are integral to most PC FPS games.

Have maybe 10 official servers with the full 16 players and map rotation. Then all the other servers are player created, have custom rules, possible passwords, etc.

I agree with OP. I tried a few games last week and guess I was just lucky that I had 10 or so good games. I actually though it was fixed. Then the premades started polluting my fun once again and had to go back to hotjoin.