Guild Wars 2

I started playing unranked queue thinking things might have gotten better from just regular hotjoin- something I can play when taking a break from ranked. In terms of player activity, yes- things have gotten better. I haven’t seen any leavers or people who AFK in middle of game (for whatever reason). No more ‘auto-balance’ getting in the way in middle of playing.

But few things that still exists that are very frustrating from time to time with this new unranked queues:

1 – Matchmaking. Most often I get queued up against Premade groups as a PUG group. Either that or just about every match I play is very one sided.
2 – Communication. Probably the biggest issue of them all. No one really talks, not even map pinging to indicate for help. Something is needed to encourage players to communicate more often when playing in a PUG match.
3 – Inexperience. This is to be expected, but this goes back to the first issue I mentioned where matchmaking needs to be improved a lot better still.

I know a lot of things I said can’t be helped at most times. Most people come in unranked matches inexperienced or not to just have fun or doing so to get better with PvP in this game. But I wish something more could be done to make the PvP experience feel ‘fun’ by finding a way that people interact better to perform well in game. Skill level comes with research and playing the game often (map awareness, timing, skill builds, etc), but communication I feel is a whole another thing.

Let me know what others think…could be just me but unranked queue has been not very fun for me at the moment. Big skill gap differences and no communication still remains a big issue for me. Will just stick back to other things and avoid unranked queue for a while. Maybe I am stressing out too much on something that isn’t that big of a deal. Sorry if it has been with this thread.

Thanks,
Eulura

Just wanted to add something off the side that trying to improve matchmaking by setting up certain skill caps can cause problems with queue time…but I am sure something could be done to fix this, hopefully.