#7

As a Humble Bundle lvl 20 who was steam rolling lvl 100s on a regular basis I can tell you why I’m not playing Battleborn anymore:

  1. Game is poorly optimised and runs like crap on my GTX970 i5 4690k (very inconsistent fps that can go as high as 120 and as low as 30). This is the worst thing you can have in a fast paced game like this.
  2. People leave matches on a whim without any sort of penalty

Fix these 2 issues and I will come back to playing the game. If not then I’ve got plenty other games I can play.

2 Likes
#8

This is what i keep preaching. This game will stay dead until GBX fixes the optimization.

#9

The optimization issues are a legitimate criticism. Fortunately, Battleborn is a “living game”. Every week hot fixes are released on Thursdays (there will always be a “Battleplan” post on the forums detailing the hot fix changes) and major patches seem to be on a monthly schedule. So I encourage you to check-in weekly to see if the problem you are having have been fixed. I used to (it just died today :sob:) run a 760TI and I had to run w/ medium to low settings to get decent to good frame rates depending on the map.

#10

Deal. I’ll keep an eye out for that “our game doesn’t run like sh!t anymore” patch.

#11

Once a player quits a game they can’t play in any other mode or match until the game they quit ends. Additionally, the game has an in-game reporting feature to deal w/ chronic quitters and other types of unsavory behavior. You can read about it here.

#12

@jYorkElder
I’m not hoping or expecting that the majority of the Humble Bundlers will come back. It’s more of zero cost mindset because the worse thing that can possibly happen if we engage in this exercise is that we are ignored. In the best case we bring some people back and some is better than none.

1 Like
#13

I thought so too, but multiple people have been saying you can in PvP, just not PvE.

At any rate, while I appreciate the thought, it is way too late for this. And it will continue to be a problem as long as there are people more interested in padding their kill counts than growing a community.

2 Likes
#14

Yeah, pretty much too late unfortunately. PC numbers are back down to topping off at 1,000 or so. In a couple weeks it’ll probably be back down to were it was before the big humble bundle sale. Fact of the matter is people don’t stick around for long in this game.

I’d be willing to bet the consoles don’t aren’t faring as wonderful as some people seem to think also. This game just isn’t newbie friendly. At all.

#15

You can actually start a new match when you leave… you just have to press “NO” when the game ask if you want to rejoin the match you just left. Works on both PVE and PVP

#16

This is not a solution but lip service to the community. I can bet my top dollar that they haven’t warned/temp/perma banned a single person because of afk/leaving. With the game having 1k people online at peak times you would’ve noticed a change if they started banning leavers (as in having fewer matches with leavers which is clearly not the case).

Leaving a match will shorten its duration from the usual 30 mins to like 15 mins or less if more people start leaving. Basically I can leave a match go make myself a coffee come back and re-queue again.

What an actual solution looks like: game keeps track of how many games you left. If your leaver % goes above a certain threshold (let’s say 5%) you automatically get a penalty e.g.no xp until leaver % goes back to under 5% or you can queue up only against other leavers/afkers until leaver % normalises.

#17

And I don’t think it needs to be. Battleborn is a smart game for smart gamers and it’s just not going to be everybody’s cup of tea and we have to be okay w/ that.

In a lot of ways Battleborn reminds me of the original Borderlands (another Gearbox game) where it was derided by some in the gaming press for its art style/direction and thread bare story (i.e., it was not another COD or Battlefield just like in today’s reality where Battleborn is being derided for not being Overwatch). But it found an audience despite the negativity directed at it. Now people talk about Borderlands as a “classic” and “genre defining” and a whole host of other lovely adjectives that were missing from the mouths and keyboards of those who had nothing positive to say when it was first released.

Battleborn doesn’t need to be the top seller or be on the Steam top 10 to be successful. It just needs a robust and healthy player base where queue times are not insane and the people playing the game are having fun. And if that excludes people who are repelled by a game w/ depth that’s fine by me.

5 Likes
#18

I’ve heard whispers around this here forums (don’t remember the specific thread) that GBX is taking the reporting seriously but given that the feature is only ~ 21 days old it doesn’t seem unreasonable that there aren’t massive bans because the point is to identify chronic abusers, not simply anyone who quits for any reason.

#19

The PS4 community seems dead as well, matchmaking times can be up to 30min (if I’m lucky). Had a friend who were interested in the game, sadly I just couldn’t recommend it because of that.

However, when I’m finally in a match the game shines like the star it is, and I really enjoy myself (despite some swearing, of course). But something must be done about the matchmaking, more than once I’ve been on a squad of people all bellow CR30 against a premade squad of people all at CR100, suffice to say, my teammates often don’t stay for long, I’m thickheaded enough that I don’t give up. However just as many times I’ve gone against a so called CR100 “master of Caldarius” only to utterly kick their mechanical butt.

I enjoy the game, I really do, but the long matchmaking is killing it for me.

1 Like
#20

The biggest community thats suffering right now is the Australia/New Zealand community.

Minimal servers, constant red bar connections, poor matchmaking and no communication from any dev in a month.

I really enjoyed the game but these consistent issues mixed with an apparent black out of an entire market has made me put this game away.

1 Like
#21

player numbers ara already dropping to the all time low on pc like before humble bundle, I guess it is too late to take profit from the humble bundle. PS4 is very low now too and capture seems like impossible meltdown is often down to like 15 minutes wait and incursion remains the only viable option.

weekends is a bit better but still far away from optimal.

We will just have to wait and see what GBX/2K will do to improve MM and get players in the game. bringing a few people in with low price won’t be enough as most of them will get scared away by the stomps and long wait times.

before bringing in small numbers of players there needs to be a rework of some core aspects of the game, else all the hard work/promotions will help nothing in the long run

3 Likes
#22

I seriously wonder how many people have good framerates for BB on the PC without some heavy engine tweaking. Game’s a horrible experience for anyone who has to aim with frame drops everywhere.

No one’s going to stay if they need a $800 card upgrade just to play this.

#23

Hey @andreico123 I found the thread.

#24

Pretty sure PvP will not let you play another match, and electing “No” just leaves you at the lobby. I disconnected from a game and experienced that myself, not that I was going to find another match, but I was unable to do so anyway until it ended.

#25

I already did it once… my game as crashed and when rejoining i failed and pressed NO instead of YES, and the matchmaking just found an other match. While my mates were still playing on the other match.

Maybe a difference betwen plateform, i’m on PC

#26

I noticed that happens sometimes too. Some days I can rejoin another match right after I disconnect and other days I can not. It happens several times during those days which is awesome when I play solo.