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Super Monday Night Combat Invitational - Now with more DOTA!
- Thread starter Goon Boon
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rohlfinator
Member
Right now there's no punishment at all (other than not getting the CCs/prizes from matches you leave). Their long-term strategy is to have the matchmaking match leavers with each other, but I don't think the player base is big enough yet for that to have any effect.
I certainly wouldn't mind if they gave leavers a slight CC penalty for the next 3-5 games, but I think Uber is worried about alienating paying customers.
I still have a love-hate relationship with this game... I've been matchmaking with a friend, and we rarely win games anymore (even though the two of us are consistently top of our team, usually by a decent margin). Neither of us can tell if we're doing something wrong, or just getting constantly screwed by the team balance.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Does this have controller support or am I going to get wrecked using a controller? Will try either way since I loved the first one.
I use a keyboard/mouse but at PAX East I saw some people playing with controllers.
Haven't checked, but the steam page says yes
http://store.steampowered.com/app/104700/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/104700/
mysocksarepink
Banned
Alright. I booted up SMNC.. It says Log In... I planned on using my beta account. The moment I hit log in it takes me to the register page... okay, I guess I have to for the first time
finished up and now it's hanging on "Connecting..."
wut I do gaf
finished up and now it's hanging on "Connecting..."
wut I do gaf
Ravensmash
Member
I play with a controller, find it a lot more suited to a game like this (console background!).
Does feel like there's a bit of aim assist when using one?
GuitarAtomik
Member
Awesome. I already started downloading it this morning before work since I randomly noticed it. Can't wait to get on later.
I wonder if it's a good solution to implement good bot AI when the player leaves. They can just push bot lanes, spend money on bot spawn, and be an annoyance at the annihilator when needed. There's not too much benefits for killing players. I certainly get lots of kills and still lose the match.
Also, the game doesn't really have a good way of gathering folks, does it? Can we make our own channel and join up?
Earthstrike
Member
Have they fixed matchmaking yet?
rohlfinator
Member
I've wondered about that... seems like a lot of work for a relatively small team to implement, though. And any bonus they give to the team that's down a man will be incredibly hard to balance -- if it's too weak, it just prolongs the game further, and if it's too strong, it could swing the game in the other direction (and it would really suck to lose because the other team got an artificial advantage).
The only good solution will be to prevent people from leaving in the first place. But that's easier said than done.
It does skill-based matchmaking for everything now. Still not perfect, but better than it was when it just took whoever was available.
walbertsmith
Member
Wow.
I see now what you guys are talking about with quitters. They need to institute penalties for that shit.
I see now what you guys are talking about with quitters. They need to institute penalties for that shit.