How would you feel about Auto Team Balancing?

[_Gamefan_]

I feel bad for the team that only has two players when mine has four. If the game would auto switch from the team with the most players would be more fair. This will hopefully cut down on some whining and allow better fairness. What do you guys think?

[Mexman7]

it will be nice if you could have the option to change teams

[Gun-Nut]

I feel this should beheld to be turned on and off and it would work well in ranked matches :P I hate it when I'm the only one left on the team because everyone else left ¬.¬

[madmax]

auto balance would be nice in some occasions...maybe only in ranked though. In player matches ppl tend to play splitscreen and with friends and they dont want to split up. In ranked even though ppl team stack it isnt really allowed so team balance would work in ranked.

[Dom Cruise]

thats a good idea

[Eleo]

Unfair teams isn't a huge deal in Player matches because they don't count for anything.

It can be terrible in ranked. One scenario I encountered was that all but one of my teammates left. So it was 4v2, for nineteen rounds. I had the lovely options of either bailing as well and losing 50 points, or getting my ass handed to me 19 rounds in a row. Of course that's 19 rounds lost, one game lost, and 19 times killed (with generally no kills to counter it) which effects your stats a great deal. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

However auto-balance would piss players off. Imagine if you're playing on a decent team and then get forcefully switched to the losing, less skillful team. Even if you're an above-average player, being stuck on a crappy team is still detrimental to your survival.

[Mike.Dude]

Forcing even teams is a bad idea. I'm sure there are some people out there going for Seriously... who would hate to be matched with possibly 2 unskilled players when his original 3 were doing great. I wouldn't mind having an option for switching teams in that instance though, just don't force people to move over.

[T360UK FOGSTAR]

Bad idea!!! Why should the team of 4 be punished just because a couple of p.ricks cant take losing a few rounds and quit!!!!

[smasher2000]

i think that the empty slots should then be made joinable to others or at least the person who disconnects should have the option to re-join the game just incase they lagged out or accidently lost their connection or something.

Its happened to me a few times, ive just lost my connection to the host randomly and then ended up getting negative feedback for it. At least if i was able to re-join the game i left, the team would only be a man down for a round or two at most.

[Zankou 666]

Bad idea!!! Why should the team of 4 be punished just because a couple of p.ricks cant take losing a few rounds and quit!!!!

GOOSFRABAAAA. So if your in a ranked 19 round match and 2 or 3 of your teammates leave, you wouldn't want even teams?

I think it's a great idea, not supposed to be stacking rooms anyway.

[DiscombobulatedThi]

GOOSFRABAAAA. So if your in a ranked 19 round match and 2 or 3 of your teammates leave, you wouldn't want even teams?

I think it's a great idea, not supposed to be stacking rooms anyway.

That's the opposite extreme. What happends when your on a good team, and them 2 guys on the other team quit, forcing you to go over there. You were about to win the game, then you get moved to the team who is about to lose. Not very fun.

I agree with previous ideas of letting the people who were disconnected to rejoin, in case it was an accidental disconnection. Possibly allow someother people to join, but that's pushing it.

[Shukuzen Kiraa]

STOP ALLOWING FRIENDS ON FRIENDS LIST TO JOIN RANKED GAMES..... stacked freakin teams vs a group of randoms usually ends up being a very boring game , half the team always quits... there was no point in removing host if your going to continue to let friends play together in ranked... let friends play player match and ranked be all randomized with auto team balancing, that way if ppl quit it doesnt end up 4on1, it would change it to 3v2

[geargunrunner]

just bring in a bot (one with above average skills, but not god-like) when people quit.

There, problem solved.

[perpetualheaven]

I think that would be absolutely amazing. It would make game so much better.

[{SM}LeadSniper]

mandate in Ranked
option in player.

thats what i say XD

[{SM}LeadSniper]

That's the opposite extreme. What happends when your on a good team, and them 2 guys on the other team quit, forcing you to go over there. You were about to win the game, then you get moved to the team who is about to lose. Not very fun.

I agree with previous ideas of letting the people who were disconnected to rejoin, in case it was an accidental disconnection. Possibly allow someother people to join, but that's pushing it.

though look at it this way, if your good thats more rounds and more points and kills. XD

[Lord Sphinktus]

Definately for ranked... It's soo stupid the way they have it now... still way to easy to stack. I would also really like to see a seperate matmaking system for party's/Squads/friends to play in for a ranking in a seperate catagory, like say, Organized Ranked Matches.

[Lord Sphinktus]

Also I think that droping connection once each day shouldn't be too bad of a hit on your ranking but for each drop above one I think Your rank should go down an exponential amount, so say 1 drop per day was 500pts. off your rank, Two Drops would be 1000, three drops would be 2000, four drops 4000 five drops 8000 and so on, so that if you have a cruddy internet connection, or you drop out of games as a strategy, you will go into negative rank score in no time, letting people know right away who to not bother playing with.

Also I would love to see an Xbox live wide feature, I like to call the connection penalty box. It works like this. If you disconnect from xbox live while playing a game, you gamer tag gets banned for 30 min. to cancel his 30 min bann, the gamer in question should have to fill out a 3-5 line form in the dashboard/guide, while listening to a message about good sportsmanship.

[Jumzie]

Make this optional. Add it to the search filters "Auto-Team-Balanced Servers - Yes/No". Or, as someone else suggested, add bots? Though up to host of course. And add that to search filters too.

And whoever said if you're going for "Seriously..." achievement, your on a good team, then you move to a crap team, that means you get all the kills? And on the good team your teammates will usually get the kills.

[OakCoast]

I feel bad for the team that only has two players when mine has four. If the game would auto switch from the team with the most players would be more fair. This will hopefully cut down on some whining and allow better fairness. What do you guys think?

This would be good and it would be good to autobalance teams in the beginning according to skill and experience.

[Justcallmetom]

your idea is horrible, the only thing that needs to be auto-balanced are players ranks on teams / improved matchmaking.

[ReaperX]

Awesome Idea! I've been in matches where the other team is stacked, at least 2 or more of my teamates quit, and the other team destroys me. I would love for balanced teams.

[Right Flank Rambo]

STOP ALLOWING FRIENDS ON FRIENDS LIST TO JOIN RANKED GAMES..... stacked freakin teams vs a group of randoms usually ends up being a very boring game , half the team always quits... there was no point in removing host if your going to continue to let friends play together in ranked... let friends play player match and ranked be all randomized with auto team balancing, that way if ppl quit it doesnt end up 4on1, it would change it to 3v2

Amen on the randomization...forget about the TruSkill and just let people play randomly against people all across the skill spectrum.

[breadtruck]

When I first started playing Gears I was surprised this wasnt already included. I was so used to a switch team option in Epic's UT's, I couldnt fathom why it wasnt in this game.

Some sort of team switch should be in there. Keeping the game fair when people quit or lose connection lets everyone have fun and enjoy the remainder of the round in this game.

[AceManUSC]

The option should be there. You can switch if you want to. Force switching would be a problem.