1) Get rid of autoteam.
Was a big discussion on it before and plenty of players, more known than myself agreed that pubs suck due to autoteam, next to overcrowdedness & lag.
Players can change sides if it becomes 3v1, etc. on their own. It happens all the time. Autoteam only kicks in as a troll move after you've been fighting hard for ten minutes and learned how to play with your current pub teammates. Even if there is no gap in players/score. trolllllautoteam kaboom, new teams, sides, colors. No other FPS I've played does this. Ruins pubs gameplay, and is part of the reason people go rambo instead of using teamwork.
2) Playerslots for servers maxed at 10. Even the largest official maps like Arabian/Avenue only -just- handle 5v5 games comfortably. 10 less laggers as well. Half the load for the server.(know nothing about the server stuff but this makes sense to me \:D ) Leaving extra slots for specs only of course, if possible. This is a good part of the reason for the shotgun's heavy popularity in pubs. You're on these tiny maps with 20 people running around, no room to move, autosplat. Why should the worst match gun in the game get 'rage weaken that!' from people? It shouldn't, it's the server size problems. Stick those noobs into a 5v5 on iceroad with a shotgun, they're done.
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Was a big discussion on it before and plenty of players, more known than myself agreed that pubs suck due to autoteam, next to overcrowdedness & lag.
Players can change sides if it becomes 3v1, etc. on their own. It happens all the time. Autoteam only kicks in as a troll move after you've been fighting hard for ten minutes and learned how to play with your current pub teammates. Even if there is no gap in players/score. trolllllautoteam kaboom, new teams, sides, colors. No other FPS I've played does this. Ruins pubs gameplay, and is part of the reason people go rambo instead of using teamwork.
2) Playerslots for servers maxed at 10. Even the largest official maps like Arabian/Avenue only -just- handle 5v5 games comfortably. 10 less laggers as well. Half the load for the server.(know nothing about the server stuff but this makes sense to me \:D ) Leaving extra slots for specs only of course, if possible. This is a good part of the reason for the shotgun's heavy popularity in pubs. You're on these tiny maps with 20 people running around, no room to move, autosplat. Why should the worst match gun in the game get 'rage weaken that!' from people? It shouldn't, it's the server size problems. Stick those noobs into a 5v5 on iceroad with a shotgun, they're done.
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