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    Default Is anyone else getting ridiculously uneven matches? Also general MP bugs/lameness.

    Sigh. Avatar conquest has so many problems.

    Today I boot up the game, decide to play some multiplayer. First game I fight someone my level but he alt+F4s when he sees that almost all my units are samurai and not ashigaru like his. Ugh.

    Next match bugs out on the recruitment screne. Of course since there's no back button, I have to alt+F4 myself now.

    After staring at the Shogun 2 splash screen for 43 minutes (it seems like it sometimes), I end up in my next game: me as a 4 star with less than half the avatar campaign map discovered vs. a 9-star with bow warrior monks and naginata samurai.

    Next game: fighting a 10-star with several VET 9 katana samurai, and two vet 4 Great Guard cavalry. And somehow the stupid army balance meter above the map interprets the battle to be in MY favor just with some yari samurai, katana samurai and a couple archers, a few vet 1 and 2 here and there. Just because I have a few more units than he.

    I want to like avatar conquest so much but there is so much crap getting in the way of enjoyment. Here's hoping the may uber-patch fixes everything.
    Last edited by Graphic; 04-24-2011 at 23:27.

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    Default Re: Is anyone else getting ridiculously uneven matches? Also general MP bugs/lamenes

    I'm done. I can't play avatar conquest anymore until matchmaking gets addressed. I just spent literally the last couple hours trying to take one province on the avatar conquest campaign map. EVERY. SINGLE. GAME. is vs. a 9-10 star spamming elite vetted units. And then the one time I got an even match the coward alt+F4s out about 10 seconds after starting the match.

    CA have definitely tried my patience with the TW series in the past but I've never been more frustrated. Avatar conquest is a complete joke that's completely unfair to new players and those who don't spend every waking moment playing multiplayer.

    I really wish The Org didn't have a no tolerance policy on swearing right now.....

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    Default Re: Is anyone else getting ridiculously uneven matches? Also general MP bugs/lamenes

    Try hosting a game, setting your own rules (no artillery, etc). If you do this during primetime hours you'll find someone within a minute.

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    Default Re: Is anyone else getting ridiculously uneven matches? Also general MP bugs/lamenes

    Rocinante, that works for a hosted battle but it does not give you clan influence, clan tokens, avatar experience, and it does not unlock any units or map regions. If you want to improve your avatar you have no choice but to play MM. Edit: APPARENTLY THIS IS INCORRECT
    Last edited by Dionysus9; 04-26-2011 at 18:25.
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    Yeah matchmode where one player is the host isn't the best way to handle it. You need dedicated servers and a system where it's not just grinding your way to the top. Your skill should go up when beating players with same skill or higher and with your win streaks based on the avg of the skill lvl of players you have beaten in your win streak. When you lose your skill should drop... Right now it's just grind grind grind and dealing with people that d/c all the time and the tons of dodges.

    At 5k funds the low rank player probably will have the hardest time against a high melee general, where bow gen and leadership gen aren't as bad to deal with. Some of the low rank players complaining about getting matched vs high rank players is just because of the fact they don't know some of their skills like rally or spearwall, but more so just because most aren't very good and are just learning the game and not so much the vets... I've lost to a couple rank ones that were decent players where I didn't have the numbers to deal with them, but ofc I was using a bow gen at the time and not a melee general.

    The more you play the better you'll get and the more vets you'll get, so in time it'll pass... You don't need high vets to beat a high ranked player, just make best of your numbers especially if you got missile advantage against a tiny army, just use rally and block with a couple of units while keeping the rest back and firing away with your missile units.

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    Default Re: Is anyone else getting ridiculously uneven matches? Also general MP bugs/lamenes

    Ah, but it does Dionysus. It doesn't give you clan influence, and perhaps not tokens (if i remember correctly you get tokens). It gives you experience, unlocks units and map regions as normal. I usually host 2v2s with friends and just use MM for 1v1.

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    Default Re: Is anyone else getting ridiculously uneven matches? Also general MP bugs/lamenes

    Quote Originally Posted by Rocinante View Post
    Ah, but it does Dionysus. It doesn't give you clan influence, and perhaps not tokens (if i remember correctly you get tokens). It gives you experience, unlocks units and map regions as normal. I usually host 2v2s with friends and just use MM for 1v1.
    As Rocinante says, you do indeed gain exp/unlocks/map regions in normal hosted games in the battle list.

    @OP My advice to you Graphic is to grab a few friends, set down some ground rules to make things fair (Friends wont have any problem not fielding any vets and will somewhat balance things), and get stuck in for an nice evening of total war ;)

    After some nice games and some laughs with friends, you'll have about half the map opened (increasing the amount of unit types you have access to ofc) and will have begun to not only increase General rank, but begin to form your own veteran units and make future battles a little more fair.

    Feel free to add me for some games when ive got some spare time if ya like, and ill field armies without R9 vets heh. Details are below if your interested.
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