Is team stacking/pubstomping still a pandemic in TF2?

[Aya]

Have been absent in TF2 for a few months to me having a mentality of "The only winning move is to not play", since the past two years of my TF2 convincing me that supporting Valve = supporting team stacking... except you can't not support Valve due to a lot of Non-Valve games using Steamworks for their copy protection.

[Cee]

Messaggio originale di steve the Vogon:

I love this argument, "everyone needs to get better at the game", but as stated, when you have a party of pub-stompers who wants to stick around to get better?

The vast majority of "I want to play with my friends" argument translates to "I want to roll the other team continuously and lol while we do it."

Almost every server I joined today had whatever team I joined almost empty, the previous slots probably once filled by rage quits with the other team stacked with decent players either spawn camping or rolling.

Yeah, tons of fun.

You'd have to have 5-6 players with good skill joining that mess to even have a hope of gaining ground which likely won't happen in the pubs.

Then it ends, the decent players stick around, get queued up together again, rise and repeat until they get bored with grinding the other team and leave.

Matchmaking (or as I call it, Match Mangler) is nothing of the kind until parties are disallowed, restricted, or some kind of auto-balance breaks them apart when things just get stupid balance-wise.

Why necro & salt?

[JumpingBarista]

As a new player, TF2 gets very boring when I don't stop dying from unfair team skill levels. Maybe the Pyro update will help make the game more fun.

[Aya]

Because it's still an ongoing issue and that the only thing that will ever get Valve to improve the situation is if they start losing money? I'm a adamant towards the belief that if you support Valve, you support team stacking.

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I think it does balance grouping with friends to a small degree, whenever I play with my friends who have red badges we face against players who also have red badges and even get destroyed sometimes.

[Squeakers]

Ok, who necro-ed this?

[POOTISMAN]

Yes it is. Started this session 40min ago, i still havent had a balanced game. Its steamroll after steamroll after steamroll ... Its just boring. The removal of team scramble was the worst idea the TF2 team ever had.