The captain is still sometimes selects any player and not as supposed to one of the “best” players in the team (by SR).
Btw. that was a T5 match.
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Also saw it many time this week in t3. Most of them were in squad.
Not sure about the “best” but the top 3 … so if its random… I will have to go out and pick me up a lottery ticket as I sure was chosen alot this past week.
I allready make a topic about this 2 weeks ago and nobody seems to give a dam
My question is this:
Why did the devs change this? They gave ZERO notifications that they were going to change the MM to whatever the current rules are. They had a good system for picking Caps, but they apparently threw away all of their recent changes for the very system that infuriated many skilled players. I was in a round with a captain that had an SR of 800 about three days ago. He died within a minute—something I’m not making up. I was obviously annoyed, because I knew his SR before he died. I had hope, though, but it was misplaced; of course a captain with an SR of 800 is going to be terrible…not sure what the devs are thinking.
So, Developers, please give us back the old system for picking captain. Top 3 SR slots for each team, randomly decided. This is what you promised your community, and then you went back on your word and changed the system without saying anything. Did you really think we would’nt notice? Or is it a “bug” that you’ll fix on the next update? We will see. For now, I am much less excited for CR matches than I have ever been.
Yeah, a 1500+ captain dodging out because they are sick of being captain, and a surprised 1400 player with a subpar captain ship is much better than seeing some sub-1000 captain be picked that all-but-guarantees a loss for the team over a squad of 1200+ players. Because even the best of teams can’t protect a captain from his own ineptitude.
1up from me as well.
You need to fire that programmer. And is this really that hard to correct? Really? You’ve launched 3 patches. Do i have to teach you? Is it that hard to make an array of integers, order it, and select a random of last 3? Really?
I understand you take other things into consideration, but the average Joe out there doesn’t care, he gets angry when waiting for 5 minutes for a match in T5 and gets something like this. I’m average Joe. Last night i had as well a captain with SR under 800. Today with 900. It’s an improvement i know.
Fix the damn little things. The ones that are easy to fix. Like this one. Like having 3 2 man squads in a team, and 0 in the other.
Fix this stuff for crying out loud.
Error maybe you can enlighten us pls.
Patch notes OBT v.0.10.1
No notes to indicate this has changed since the last group of patches.
General
Squad balance
A squad with 3 pilots can be balanced with a 4-pilot squad and vice versa
Both squads have to be equal in power
A 2-pilot squad can be balanced with a single pilot
The total number of pilots in teams is always equal
New captain pick rules in ‘Combat Recon’
The captain is chosen randomly from the 3 strongest pilots
So if this is not the case and we are having pilots being picked outside of the “Criteria” then is there a possiblity that one of the servers may not have a complete patch installed ?
Could there be a possiblity that we are having a HIT or MISS dependant upon what server you may catch ?
This was the same. Our captain was at least 4th maybe 5th.
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/3318334931072000949/E11FE7C9D1B5E73C69161E1B52CE4CD76CC6CA74/
It almost seems to me that if you are in a squad there is some sort of bump treating all in the group as one. Possibly choosing from those 4 plus another 2? I only mention this as the times I have noticed it the captain has coincidentally been in a squad.
So if this is not the case and we are having pilots being picked outside of the “Criteria” then is there a possiblity that one of the servers may not have a complete patch installed ?
No it’s working as intended according to Antibus (somewhere in the patch discussion thread of that patch or at least around that time frame). Selection is not going by SR (alone).
No it’s working as intended according to Antibus (somewhere in the patch discussion thread of that patch or at least around that time frame). Selection is not going by SR (alone).
What a load of BS from the devs. They cannot tell us that this is working as intended! I was not in a squad, all other players in the team had an SR or more than 1300. If they chose by the “best” pilots and include W/Lr then I still cannot imagine the low SR guys would be even remotely considered for captain. And if they pretend they consider other things, then why did I get selected 2 times in a row for Captain even when there were other pilots with similar or higher SR around?
So far it hasn’t happened that often but when it does it is frustrating especially with all the other things we have to endure with matchmaking and low player population.
Here was his post, apparently it goes by match-making weight:
[http://forum.star-conflict.com/index.php?/topic/22913-star-conflict-obt-v0101-discussion/?p=261447](< base_url >/index.php?/topic/22913-star-conflict-obt-v0101-discussion/?p=261447)
And obviously it’s BS.
if beginners never gets picked for captain, they will never learn ?
if beginners never gets picked for captain, they will never learn ?
They will learn if they are in a team where their SR is close to others. But what is the point of being captain if you don’t know how to survive? Keep in mind to compensate for loosing your captain you have to kill the enemy captain and have more kills or killed all enemies. Being a captain is a big responsibility in the team!
there are high DSR players who still make tactical errors as captain. how is that any different from beginners who are easy to kill?
both are liabilities
there are high DSR players who still make tactical errors as captain. how is that any different from beginners who are easy to kill?
both are liabilities
The probability of loosing your captain is lower with people that have a high(er) SR!
that’s my point - if you are going to lose the game anyway, might as well let it happen early 
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think captains camping behind spawn point for eg.
that’s my point - if you are going to lose the game anyway, might as well let it happen early
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think captains camping behind spawn point for eg.
Well I’m not a seer like you who knows what’s gonna happen and who will suck as captain.
I’m not shallow enough to believe SR will fix captain issues.
I’m not shallow enough to believe SR will fix captain issues.
So you are saying a guy with SR 800 is equally as good as captain as someone with SR 1500 or 2000.