So you are wondering why you lose matches all the time and are thinking the bots are rigged from the start.
Are the matches pre-programmed losses.
Is the win really up to the player and how they play the game despite the bots.
What about the balance of the matches ? are they so out of wack that it is impossible to win.
I have been researching match balance for an extremely long time but what made me decide to discuss
" RIGGING " and post what my research has shown me is this post http://forum.worldof...st__20#topmost.
Now understand this is only 10 battles from 5:21 AM to 7 something AM on 7/8/2016.
This is only a fraction and small subset of my research. There is no room on this forum for me to post everything.
Bots come in 3 different flavors : beginner, warrior and veteran ....or something like that, could not find the list.
How are they distributed during the match maker process and what criteria determines which side gets what ?
Who knows ?
Maybe the skill level of bots is dependent on tier level rather than player skill.
Such as tier 1-4 are beginner Tier 5-7 are warrior and tier 8-10 are veteran.
I do not have a mod to read what skill level bots are in the matches so it is only a guess for me.
What I can do is share my experience over the course of 10 matches at tier 5 flying the Spitfire 1.
I have 290 battles with a 61% win rate in that particular plane and a 3 skilled pilot. OVERALL 28112 battles 62% win rate.
Does my experience level determine the enemies I will face ? or even the friendlies I have on my team ?
I have replaced human pilot names with TOTAL BATTLES, Win Rate / battles for plane, win rate in that plane.
Match # 1 WIN : If the skill level of bots is determined by players XP then it would stand to reason that we should be facing veteran bots
While the enemy should be facing beginner bots. Or because it is a tier 5 are all bots warrior bots ?
Match 2 : WIN: 1 human vs 1 human the rest bots. If bots are rated by tier then both sides would consist the same skill level bots.
my guess would be all beginner bots with the enemy having 1 tier 5 warrior bot.
Match 3 : Loss, to be fair I had internet trouble and was basically DC's during this match but included it to show the match makeup.
I was also the first one eliminated.
Match 4 : Loss : I went low and gave up altitude too soon and the KI-43 nailed me from behind.
Match 5 : Win ACE+1 : I stayed high for this match and worked my way from high to low. As you can see by the XP gap
there is no " new " player protection and MM will just toss a match together.
Match 6 ; Loss : This match I engaged to late while trying to get everyone rallied to a certain spot I was high while everyone else engaged low.
I gave up altitude too late and the XP'd player chased me down. Once I was down I was swarmed by the low altitude enemy.
I could not get a lock on a single plane while I was busy evading and being attacked form different angles.
Match 7: Win : With my XP you would think that the enemy would have better bots than mine if the MM rigs the game.
The enemy would have all warrior bots and I would have all beginner bots. However perhaps both teams had
Warrior bots and I just stayed high picking of the ones that stalled. This match really came down to plane type versus plane type.
Match 8: WIN Tier 5 versus tier 4....no contest. Although the other human tier 5 Spit did put up a good fight I was able to " coordinated attack " for help.
Once he was gone the match was just clean up and go.
Match 9: Win: Stayed high and worked my way down. As you can see there is no way of determining " criteria " for match or bot make up.
Whatever is in queue at the time is tossed together and bots are added with no " justification " towards a win or loss.
Match 10 : Win: This was not even a fair match being basically 3 humans versus 1 human. The enemy human did start high but was overwhelmed by us.
The enemy XP-50 bot was chased down out of high altitude at the start of engagement and never tried to come back up.
While the Green bots were all high the enemy was all mid to low altitude.
Simply a case of us diving on the enemy from above and winning.
Edited by losttwo, 08 July 2016 - 07:04 PM.