I feel like Pixel back in the day doing a rage thread but I had thee most frustrating Ranked MM of my life yesterday!
Looking forward IMO DB will turn away from being a pure shooter. It already has in Comp play like Dirty Cups and DB Nation and whatever that Lion thing is. They are all doing 1 Merc limits… Sooo Basically if your Fragger sucks or you have an Aura on attacking you are going to loss. That is basically what DB is right now. Combine that with some very bad maps right now and limited mercs and its time take a small break.
My example above with the Aura is pretty bad because all the teams in Comp or those events will have very specific strats and classes. I do see a problem when we have more and more mercs released with the better team not winning and just simply bad luck of the draw picking mercs. But again scrimming and strating should eliminate some of this and actually make some mercs useless.
I got my but kicked last night and it makes me want to /quit the game forever because the feeling it gave me. I had 3 completely wrong classes and felt useless. One was a fragger but I knew if I switched to having two fraggers the other team would QQ and with 3 minutes left and our loss was given I switched and they still cried… So basically the two mercs I had where useless against the Defense the other team set up. This was a very good team mind you and they were running their comp strat but if I had fragger I feel I could have broke it. 13 minutes of banging my head against a wall on a small stage 1 terminal… How dumb!
DB is KILL KILL! However when you finally do the enemy team spawns right back on you… Spam Spam… This rage might just be the crappy maps and the more i think about it that is what I think it is. But even some of the bigger maps it is still just crazy spammy and you need a good fragger to win.
I am so filled with rage after that last match yesterday its unbelievable and I can only see this game getting worse when it comes to this frustration. (Unless maps improve greatly) But this class vs class, merc vs merc game match up is going to be though for SD… Pure shooters will hate it because they cant get a merc that can carry and Objective players will hate it because they will get rolled. Combine all that with pre-made 5’s actually running a strat in a Ranked MM and say good bye to DB. All that will be left is Events like DB Nation for a very small few players and havent we all seen that before.
I know Dev’s hate to hear posts like this and QQ spooky didnt get Fragger go run home and tell your mom but thats the point… I would like to know the ratio of the player base that SD wants in Pubs vs Ranked vs Third Party Comp. I am sick of pubs and do not have time for Third party comp so Ranked MM matches are a perfect way to relive the good ole days very quickly. In ranked MM there is no merc limit so I could have gone fragger and probably should have because why not I want to win. But what if it was a scrim or pug where people call one merc limit and you are stuck with nader… However you suck with nader yet you know you probably should win if everything was balanced. Are you saying too bad you are stuck with your class you picked so suck it up… That is a horrible game feeling to be basically useless in a match. But then again 50% of the other mercs would have also felt useless and thats the point. Fragger, Medic, Medic, sniper or 5 bushwackers haha!
Sorry for the rant but Im sooo pissed off and playing useless mercs on bottleneck maps… Fragger is broke for comp because no one else has nades and medics are to weak to assist in direct head on pushes. This game is a giant camp and spamfest. Shot run and heal push kill die spawn repeat. boring…
EDIT: Even though this is a pretty uninformative rant there is a lot of good information below.