Group Sortie for Rating Matches Will be Removed in Future Update

[Zabine Chareux]

Yes, the devs just posted about this matter for the console version, where they're going to remove the ability to sortie as a group for Rating Match, while group sortie only available on Quick, Custom, and Clan Matches.

The update will come in like 2 more months for PC, so go ahead and play as a group on Rating as much as you can, since you won't be able to do it again after the update is implemented, and I dunno if the devs wants to backtrack their decision on this matter...

[628]

cool nobody use Group Sortie on PC since the population is too few to support any functions anyway

[Dishkah]

You guys were able to sortie as a group in rated to begin with?

[76561199483779798]

Still can't solve people trying their luck to higher rated.

You still can do a lot of "support fire" and eventually you would get to higher rated. If u can do rival win +3 everytime, you pretty much good level of assist.

So eventually this game, the raid would be more careful, the general and support is more sticky as team, but when Nightingale this kind of unit rush in, still the skill matter and would deflect how a team manage to react to special situation.
(It is up to the skill and how we willing to do our best part to help team, let go of heroism and focus on advantage unit).

Could most do it for fun (using weapon for fun together as a team), than watch all team die at the same time? XD.

They also can't solve people trying their unit first time in rated and fail like me though. For example, counting team's sortie count and the final rated would take consideration of all team's familiar. If 3 team member using new unit, the rated score of all teams winning and losing would become +4 or -4 etc. For 2 score everyone that using unit, more than 5 time. (Whole team using more than 5 time = +12, -12)

Smurf issue only applicable for first 300 match per ID though, no people have time for that. Moreover some people do some side quest in any other mode, everyone doing their own agenda, make the game unfun.

Just remove win/lose/KD and have fun XD, best if you mobile suit have 1 million hp, and everyone wont die. The game eventually just a showcase how gundam battle. Why waste time watching your mobile suit destroyed, just calculate damage as score XD

(Why no temporary disable unit, instead of destroy unit. Else need to make respawn faster, every second matter, that I do like the addict of the battle XD)

OK time for me to go take medicine again

[TuffPuff]

Originally posted by Aran Smithy:

cool nobody use Group Sortie on PC since the population is too few to support any functions anyway

This is the only reason i play this game is rated with my friends long q times suck but I will literally not be playing the game until they roll this back(Probably means i just won't be playing the game anymore unfortunately)

[Pookinston]

I always played group sortie tho, albeit it's always duo and for the most part I got into matches really quickly. On a good time max ~5 min wait.

[Fabulous Secret Powers]

Group sortie works on rated if you're close in rating and above C-. What a shame. This is an absolute boneheaded move. I'm sorry your netcode barely functions. This is not an enjoyable solution to the problem. This is not a solution at all.

Apparently people cried about being matched with groups. Just use your radar and get good.

[baltic1284]

Originally posted by Fabulous Secret Powers:

Group sortie works on rated if you're close in rating and above C-. What a shame. This is an absolute boneheaded move. I'm sorry your netcode barely functions. This is not an enjoyable solution to the problem. This is not a solution at all.

Apparently people cried about being matched with groups. Just use your radar and get good.

Issue is though it is beyond that if ya actually read the update report that but one issues with the rated group comms was an issue, the fact that rated wasn't even played group wise to an extent that it is in General and Custom also played a part also Rated matches are not that popular among the population over all, the fact those that are not in a group couldn't help at all with 4 v 1 scenario so before you cry GET GOOD look at it from the other side for once and realize it is an issue period.
Now yes the game in general needs a lot of work from punishment to this but over all to the game i will agree but saying get good when the issues are beyond that inst the solution either it is players like you that are holding this game back more then you realize good day.

[Zabine Chareux]

Originally posted by baltic1284:

Issue is though it is beyond that if ya actually read the update report that but one issues with the rated group comms was an issue, the fact that rated wasn't even played group wise to an extent that it is in General and Custom also played a part also Rated matches are not that popular among the population over all, the fact those that are not in a group couldn't help at all with 4 v 1 scenario so before you cry GET GOOD look at it from the other side for once and realize it is an issue period.
Now yes the game in general needs a lot of work from punishment to this but over all to the game i will agree but saying get good when the issues are beyond that inst the solution either it is players like you that are holding this game back more then you realize good day.

If your opponent's team is a group/party, then your team also consists of one, since the game will only matched party vs party, while the leftovers will be filled with randoms.

Meanwhile, people were complaining about how the game matchmake the groups, where the matchmaking system has done a really bad job in it, to the point that it's okay to matched a bunch of B+ and A players against A+ and S- players, which of course the results are obvious.

Another problem is the player's quality, where everyone who get matched with a group always expecting that their group can play the game with high skills + godlike coordination that will carry them to winning the match, which of course it's not always the case in literally any online game out there, including GBO 2, where individual player skills is still affects the quality of a group, and being in a group doesn't instantly boost their skills.

The devs could have improved their matchmaking system algorithm, so they could minimize the cases that I mentioned above. But nope, they just outright disable it, because they're a bunch of incompetent people who always run away from their problems, instead of facing it head on and also resolving it.

[sanjurosan]

Group sortie works like sh#t most of the time. Waiting in search lobby 30min> is no fun.