I do not want to play in and vs a half team if i queue up as a solo player in unranked or ranked. There is no way one can influence the outcome in the current matchmaking because eiter you get carried by a half team or you get destroyed like 500-50. Even if the game is close you as a solo player wont make a big difference because half teams got their own tactics and dont care if you draw and ping on the map or try to communicate in team chat.
Please arenanet, dont abuse solo players as gapclosers. Let soloplayers play vs other solo players and match the half teams with other half teams! Id rather wait 2 times longer to have a balanced game then playing games that are deceided in the first minute or games that i cant influence.
Many of my guild members I play with are new to pvp and get stomped very easily.
With another premade pvp team, we will get stomped. However, with pugs, we will still get stomped. Pugs and premades aren’t at all different unless they are top tier. There are videos of top tier pugs stomping a premade team.
I don’t have such extreme issues with the new system even when I queue solo or with a buddy or 2, we always get pretty close up matches ( 400+ vs 500 points) even versus G teams. The new system is totally better the all-solo teams from before. Of course that’s only the viewpoint of someone who is rank 40, even thought we still get matched vs dragons its still fun.
Ruining matches for others is not the solution here, you’d only get yourself penalty and hate from your teammates because in the end they’d be the only one who’d get screwed
This is for people who claim Solo Queue unranked is not an option:
From my perspective, it depends on mindset. Are you a gapfiller or are you the guy that’s going to be rocking it solo and pulling your team ahead? Don’t be a victim.
Unranked queue is easily dominated by experienced solo queuers. All I can offer as an insight is my personal experiences. I’ve played 152 unranked games, 90% of those being solo, and I’ve won 124 of those games for an 81.5% winrate. Playing a combination of my Engineer main and Warrior alt using this build:
I’ve only encountered a handful (<5) of games where I faced a 5 man premade on Teamspeak who my team was permanently in the downed state against. It took the wind out of my sails pretty fast but it’s almost never that I can’t make a difference as an experienced solo player.
The rest of the games it was often:
5 Solo players vs. 5 Solo players, kind of uncommon though.
A duo queue vs. trio queue. Very common.
5 solo players vs. a quad queue. This matchup happened a fair bit, but on a team of all solo queue players, I’ve stomped more than a fair share of quad queue enemies.
Use strong builds as starting points, master a profession, do all in your power to push your team ahead before you become a victim of perceived matchmaking and declare solo queuing as unplayable.
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This is for people who claim Solo Queue unranked is not an option:
From my perspective, it depends on mindset. Are you a gapfiller or are you the guy that’s going to be rocking it solo and pulling your team ahead? Don’t be a victim.
Unranked queue is easily dominated by experienced solo queuers. All I can offer as an insight is my personal experiences. I’ve played 152 unranked games, 90% of those being solo, and I’ve won 124 of those games for an 81.5% winrate. Playing a combination of my Engineer main and Warrior alt using this build:
I’ve only encountered a handful (<5) of games where I faced a 5 man premade on Teamspeak who my team was permanently in the downed state against. It took the wind out of my sails pretty fast but it’s almost never that I can’t make a difference as an experienced solo player.
The rest of the games it was often:
5 Solo players vs. 5 Solo players, kind of uncommon though.
A duo queue vs. trio queue. Very common.
5 solo players vs. a quad queue. This matchup happened a fair bit, but on a team of all solo queue players, I’ve stomped more than a fair share of quad queue enemies.
Use strong builds as starting points, master a profession, do all in your power to push your team ahead before you become a victim of perceived matchmaking and declare solo queuing as unplayable.
My problem is ranked. I do great in unranked as a solo player, but in ranked, I’ve lost four games in a row in complete blow-outs and I’m afraid to queue again. I’ve never lost so hard and I usually feel like I can influence a match. In those matches, it was laughable. This is a pretty slim sampling, but it was enough that I was discouraged at the outset from solo queuing again.
And I hate Courtyard in all formats. It’s stupid chaos.
Even if the game is close you as a solo player wont make a big difference because half teams got their own tactics and dont care if you draw and ping on the map or try to communicate in team chat.
You weren’t the guy in my match (4 Q) that kept pinging Svanir and getting mad we were not coming were you? Lol jk….but seriously we had that. If we go in at 4, we usually tell the solo player what our plan is and depending on what class just ask him to +1. Always communicate through match and try to get him where we need to be. This being said 95% of that 1 solo player just ignore you and free roam. Then we get kittened and it doesn’t work out. Only about 5% of the SoloQ people we came across actual tried to help as a team and play into our strategy. That is just my experience.
Only about 5% of the SoloQ people we came across actual tried to help as a team and play into our strategy. That is just my experience.
solo queuers dont care, solo queue is about making yourself look good. not about working as a team. …in a team game.
Sounds about right lol. SoloQ is dead. SoloQ’ers needs to get the ME mentality out of their heads. I was never a SoloQ man and I didn’t realize that they were so selfish and unhelpful. In SoloQ you were still on a team and it takes a TEAM to win. Not sure how they missed out on all the team memos. (This does not speak for the entire previous SoloQ pop. Just 95%).
its still fun.