Profile of Rosbone

But this affects ALL players and is not Soviet specific, which was your original point.

The soviet specific point was:
So me as soviets with only 3 squads on the field will beat an OST and an OKW who each have 4 squads and MGs???

Meaning it is hard to carry (when mate goes middle) as soviets when the enemy will outnumber you and have MGs.

The whole point of this topic is:
- The game has too much RNG
- Certain factions and maps are insta-loss situations
- Match making sucks bad

The easiest to fix is the match making. It will also have the greatest impact.

As for #3, the only faction that really needs an adjustment is UKF. I think if you took the CELO of the average UKF player, doubled it, then added a 0 behind that, then it would reflect the skill level of a player of any other faction.

That is the general rule of thumb for Brits, add a zero to their rank

In my view Brits are very strong in 4v4 with:
1) Strong early infantry.
2) Fast MGs.
3) UC is sometimes hard to deal with.
4) Bofors
5) Mortar pits

None of these require massive skill to be effective. So brit mains are never forced to be great tacticians. So their skill level may be lower than other players. My brit rank is always my highest rank even though I never play them and rarely play them correctly.

The real problem is that Brit players will drop if they lose any emplacements. If anyone loses a 300 mp squad they dont even blink, just keep playing. A brit loses a bofor and they will drop immediately after pinging their team mate.

So as a low rank soviet you get two types of games where you should just drop immediately:
1) All soviets.
2) All brit team mates.

Dont even bother playing that garbage.

Is it even possible to get out of elo hell?

It is possible. But it has absolutely nothing to do with skill. It is 100% RNG and shitty Match Making.

I would guess level 16 and up may be mostly skill since these people tend to not crash every other game. And not go AFK every other game.

Its just hysterical to me that I play a game of soviets against a person who just bought the game and my team sucks so bad that we lose. Then switch to OST, brits, usf and play with the top 5% of players and win easily.

Like I keep repeating over and over. This game is completely broken and no one cares. It is much easier to sit and pretend their skill is what makes them better than other players. It is not. It is RNG with the dog squeeze Relic server.

And that is not even all the garbage RNG built into this shit game anyway. Like a mortar will wipe an entire squad on the move with its first shot with no vision. But a late game arty piece will get 2 kills. How do these Relic guys sleep at night knowing they are completely incompetent. How do you get up and look in the mirror knowing you made the shittiest decisions ever made in a game and go to work with a smile on your face?

I dont know, that should be a pretty entertaining read

Matches like this are always a crapshoot if the match turns into two separate 1 on 1s where the higher rank in the lane might overly dominate if there isn't good teamwork.

I agree with this. That would be a great change to the MM to limit the spread of ranks. See Aerafields post were I went against him and he had like 10k rank team mates

That is one nice thing about having maps that have a strong middle section (Belgorod for example). If one player is getting dominated, they can fall back to middle to:
- Get VPs.
- Push the fuel cutoff.
- Make sure the stronger player does not get flanked.
- Even double the better players side if the stronger enemy does not chase to middle.

It is one way that maps can help balance team games. Any noob can make an MG and spam mortars to try and protect the middle and hold out for a VP victory.

For 2v2 it also helps to have a safe fuel.

Once again it comes down to the community doing everything they can to make Coh2 a fun experience and Relic not responding. We had map patches and 100 balance patches. Please, just ONE server patch would be great. We beg you. Or at a minimum implement some of these ideas into coh3.

Regarding ELO hell, just l2p. Your placement may oscillate between the ranks, but your average rating will improve only if you grow.

This is just false in 4v4. May be true on 2v2.

I only play for fun. Dont care about rank.

When maxims were OP I was level 14 sov. After the nerf I went to about level 12 and held there ever since.

Recently I went from Level 12 to level 4 in a week of bad match making, afks, bug splats, etc. And cannot get past level 6. I win about 1 out of 4 games generically. And if I win, the MM immediately puts me against much higher ranked opponents and the win is erased.

So I am playing with people who just bought the game and I am level 15 in OST and BRITs. Seems about right.