trikke, on 02 May 2019 - 06:10 AM, said:
not stupid and cruel at all
that's the way all 'team sports' work sometimes you win as a team, sometimes you lose as a team
hardly ever seldom never is every member of any team equal in ability except... maybe tennis or bridge
If it was a team. All too often it is the bots and matchmaker associated with bot aircraft and skill placement that determines the winner of a match. There is no "team" when it's 1 to 3 players and a bunch of bots. They've even seemed to have reduced the bots willingness to follow player commands (such as f7 sos), which they, albeit anecdotally, seemed to sometimes help out before. The really cheap thing about that is that now the bots will give "affirmative" or whatever callbacks. But, whatever the player is calling out doesn't seem to affect their control logic at all, anymore.
So, when every team member is not equal AND the game decided which of the teammates were not equal by mismatching bot skill, then there is no "win" or "lose" as a team. It's win or lose at the game's whim.