How about a trueskill matchmaking system?
A kin to what Halo 3 uses. I'm tired of being a lowly rank 3 spetznaz commander and going up against rank 12 jsf players. It's really not a good way to bring new players in to the game. Why should a newbie have to go up against someone who has been playing the game since launch and has every upgrade?
This is what turns me off about Theatre of War.
Also the unit killing. How am I supposed to rank up my units if they get killed by douchebags (<-- you need to filter that word by the way. Mods, get on that.) who play just to kill units.
My suggestion is to limit unit killing to only skirmish matches and the solo campaign.
As for the achievements/trophies, change them so they don't require you to kill units in TOW. Otherwise how else am I supposed to get the "12 units ranked legendary" achievement?
In my experience, the game just isn't fun to play online, I can't do anything when I'm playing against people who have tonnes of upgrades and kill my units.

There, that's my gripe, hopefully someone listens.

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Originally posted by TooTall91:
How about a trueskill matchmaking system?
A kin to what Halo 3 uses. I'm tired of being a lowly rank 3 spetznaz commander and going up against rank 12 jsf players. It's really not a good way to bring new players in to the game. Why should a newbie have to go up against someone who has been playing the game since launch and has every upgrade?
This is what turns me off about Theatre of War.
Also the unit killing. How am I supposed to rank up my units if they get killed by douchebags (<-- you need to filter that word by the way. Mods, get on that.) who play just to kill units.
My suggestion is to limit unit killing to only skirmish matches and the solo campaign.
As for the achievements/trophies, change them so they don't require you to kill units in TOW. Otherwise how else am I supposed to get the "12 units ranked legendary" achievement?
In my experience, the game just isn't fun to play online, I can't do anything when I'm playing against people who have tonnes of upgrades and kill my units.

There, that's my gripe, hopefully someone listens.

dude there is hardly enough people playing this game to find a match at all, this would completely kill the game, even more than it already is.

And i think they should make it so when someone wins a territory, THEY KEEP IT, no PF rule or other factors effect it.

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Originally posted by TooTall91:
How about a trueskill matchmaking system?
A kin to what Halo 3 uses. I'm tired of being a lowly rank 3 spetznaz commander and going up against rank 12 jsf players. It's really not a good way to bring new players in to the game. Why should a newbie have to go up against someone who has been playing the game since launch and has every upgrade?
This is what turns me off about Theatre of War.
Also the unit killing. How am I supposed to rank up my units if they get killed by douchebags (<-- you need to filter that word by the way. Mods, get on that.) who play just to kill units.
My suggestion is to limit unit killing to only skirmish matches and the solo campaign.
As for the achievements/trophies, change them so they don't require you to kill units in TOW. Otherwise how else am I supposed to get the "12 units ranked legendary" achievement?
In my experience, the game just isn't fun to play online, I can't do anything when I'm playing against people who have tonnes of upgrades and kill my units.

There, that's my gripe, hopefully someone listens.

Agreed you know i played tow about a month ago 2 matches i played 1 vs 1 i was sthrashed i mean raped hardcore and put tow down as crap but few days ago decided to get back to it and discovered 4 vs 4 where i play a lot better but im sure most people wouldnt go back to it so how about being matched up with equal ranks a least if you want to be and at the very lest on 1 vs 1

I called ubisoft to complain about how I just started playing multiplayer and played 5 theatre of war matches and each match I was put up against someone ranked in the top 10 ... with 0 losses and all of them had tons of unit upgrades and myself having none and each unit would get destroyed instantly ...they said its totally random on the matches and that there isnt anything to make it a balanced match in terms of upgrades or experience ... how can this be since I bought this game for multiplayer only shouldnt there be a refund for false advertising since they claim there is multiplayer and yet there is only unbalanced play and very few people available to play when you do play!!!!???!!! Can someone explain this to me ... I guess ubisoft figures they got their money from us purchasing the game so why put any more effort into fixing the problems .. how did this game get 4.5 star rating when this is 1 star of 5 compared to other multiplayer games like starcraft or red alert !! Anyone else as upset as I am at wasting my money since it was purchased for multiplayer playability only!!

I love to unit Kill. XButcherofAngelsX

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Originally posted by XHorridxXxKingX:
I love to unit Kill. XButcherofAngelsX

yea its well fun to airstrike a a support helicopter

I dunno if anyone else posted this already (i skipped pages 2-5) I would like to see a smarter matchmaking system if 4 jsf r in a lobby waiting with 2 SGB for 2 more SGB and 1 SGB is sitting in a lobby by himself, it should automaticly move him into the most populated game.

I would like to see 3v3 become available if possible, it wouldnt be very complicated, give each player 1 extra deployment and play it like a 1v1, start with 3 guys off the bat, instead of the 4 u get in 2v2-4v4

I would also like to see the ToW make more sense from time to time, no more colliding frontlines day after day after day, no more earning a territory in the south of an enemy country just to hold it the rest of the war and attack from the north.

I would also like these "grey days" to stop. its frustrating comming online during my week off of work just to NOT play.

and finally, for the games where your unit promotions do not count, then i think your KIA's should not count as well.

oh sorry 1 last thing, if a commander unit kills you but quits/dashboards when u start getting revenge then anything THAT INDIVIDUAL COMMANDER KIA'd should not count..it would keep players in the game if they knew they had to finish it in order to actually "kill off" your legendary artillery...no more hit and runs.



Thank you.


SpooN04

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Originally posted by tmolony:
I called ubisoft to complain about how I just started playing multiplayer and played 5 theatre of war matches and each match I was put up against someone ranked in the top 10 ... with 0 losses and all of them had tons of unit upgrades and myself having none and each unit would get destroyed instantly ...they said its totally random on the matches and that there isnt anything to make it a balanced match in terms of upgrades or experience ... how can this be since I bought this game for multiplayer only shouldnt there be a refund for false advertising since they claim there is multiplayer and yet there is only unbalanced play and very few people available to play when you do play!!!!???!!! Can someone explain this to me ... I guess ubisoft figures they got their money from us purchasing the game so why put any more effort into fixing the problems .. how did this game get 4.5 star rating when this is 1 star of 5 compared to other multiplayer games like starcraft or red alert !! Anyone else as upset as I am at wasting my money since it was purchased for multiplayer playability only!!

No im not upset, unlike u i purchased this game when it was full price but only got into it amonth or 2 ago, and in my opinion this is the BEST strategy game out there (everyone has theyre own opinion). I find it the SMARTEST game I can remember playing in forever simply because it is the closest game to CHESS, since Chess.

No bases to build means that ur strategy is alot less consumed over who can get more money and build the bigger army...its about the combat.

If ur frustrated that ur first week u played all top-10 guys (btw none of them have 0 losses on xbox360) then I would advise to you, keep playing and get better so the next time u face those top 10's u can unit kill all theyre stuff and make it alot easier for the next guy, thats what i did back when i sucked at this game..and now i am top 10.

So dont give up, keep fighting and learning..this is not CoD, u dont pick up the remote and r good at the game, u need to LEARN endwar.

or you could just give up and go put in a game that everyone is good at like call of duty.

its really your choice.

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Originally posted by SpooN04:

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Originally posted by tmolony:
I called ubisoft to complain about how I just started playing multiplayer and played 5 theatre of war matches and each match I was put up against someone ranked in the top 10 ... with 0 losses and all of them had tons of unit upgrades and myself having none and each unit would get destroyed instantly ...they said its totally random on the matches and that there isnt anything to make it a balanced match in terms of upgrades or experience ... how can this be since I bought this game for multiplayer only shouldnt there be a refund for false advertising since they claim there is multiplayer and yet there is only unbalanced play and very few people available to play when you do play!!!!???!!! Can someone explain this to me ... I guess ubisoft figures they got their money from us purchasing the game so why put any more effort into fixing the problems .. how did this game get 4.5 star rating when this is 1 star of 5 compared to other multiplayer games like starcraft or red alert !! Anyone else as upset as I am at wasting my money since it was purchased for multiplayer playability only!!

No im not upset, unlike u i purchased this game when it was full price but only got into it amonth or 2 ago, and in my opinion this is the BEST strategy game out there (everyone has theyre own opinion). I find it the SMARTEST game I can remember playing in forever simply because it is the closest game to CHESS, since Chess.

No bases to build means that ur strategy is alot less consumed over who can get more money and build the bigger army...its about the combat.

If ur frustrated that ur first week u played all top-10 guys (btw none of them have 0 losses on xbox360) then I would advise to you, keep playing and get better so the next time u face those top 10's u can unit kill all theyre stuff and make it alot easier for the next guy, thats what i did back when i sucked at this game..and now i am top 10.

So dont give up, keep fighting and learning..this is not CoD, u dont pick up the remote and r good at the game, u need to LEARN endwar.

or you could just give up and go put in a game that everyone is good at like call of duty.

its really your choice.

completely agree i even got into about amonth ago and was disapointed i didnt play it sooner you know i didnt play as soon as i got it at launch because i went into 2 1vs1 matches but got thrashed now i only really do 4vs4 and have improved a lot

I've been playing this game on the 360 since it came out, and the most annoying part for me it's the unit killers. It's way too hard to level up your units, and the double experience points helps a lot to solve that out, but it only works on the weekends.
The solutions that I've found about this is pulling out of the game if the guy it's a unit killer or just play in maps where the enemy doesn't have air support.
I will encourage Ubisoft to standardize double experience points as a daily thing, reduce the time it takes for a unit to get killed or something like that.

I think it was a very bad idea as a game design decision to give achievements for players that perform the most annoying action of the game as unit killing is.

Unit Killers are an issue, but if they are going to offer a trophy for killing 500 units then its going to be encouraged in order to get all of the trophies possible. I dont agree with unit killing. but the problem is not enough people are playing the game just now so when it happens, you know straight away you recall the name and if its 4v4 you kill them all to make sure you got the 1 person who did it. then all 4 are branded unit killers and now so are you.

i have notice that more people are leaveing the game because of unit killing so if the game is to live on unit killing should stop people are geting sick of it includeing my self

Do these posts really get read by the T.O.W. team? If they do then great! End war is one of the best stratagy games ever made! some people have made these points before but here is what I think would make T.O.W. a better game for everyone:

1) Different faction upgrades that would make them stand out from each other. At the moment I feel the only thing seperating the JSF from the EFEC and SGB are; range, Speed and strength respectively. Why not a specialised vehical for each faction or different upgrades beyond level 8?

2) I for one would like to see more maps be put on the game, like twenty more. Sometimes I like to get really drunk and play this game but for a european it was quite frustrating. At one time we were forced right into our capital and remained there for about a month, wasn't much fun.

3) How about merging all the servers together? I bet its frustrating for the EW team to work on all three servers. Why not merge them? it would incredebly benifficial for all the players aswell. We wouldn't have to wait so long for a game and would have a varied range of stratagies come into play.

This would make the game go from great to absolutely awsome!!!

P.S. is it just the europeans but the servers been down for five days now. Any idea why?

Can you explain "3 Servers" Do you mean PS3, Xbox 360, and PC? Please clarify.

Give efec some downloads to slightly beef up arty.

I'm thinking either rate of fire, or range at the high end. No arty should have range that efec arty does hehe.

Gunships could use yet another mobility to make them much faster then the other ones.. since they have no armor.. they may as well

Based on PC:
Okay played the game seems good, think the voice commands could like work a little better with different acsents cause it doesn't seem to understand me saying "two", probally thinks im saying "to".
Played Theatre of War and well like everyone says, how you get a match. You either get a match against some guy with full upgrades or someone living in the middle of nowhere with a system lucky enough to hit 2fps.
Also what would probally increase playablilty is the ability to actually talk to other players, or your own faction atleast.
If no chat system is invented then multiplayer is doomed. Also why is PC left out on that map pack? are we black?
Finally Ubisoft screwed up Assasins Creed on PC when it was released so dunno why I bothered to give them a second chance with an RTS. Goodluck getting a Dev team for this game.

ok, so what they need to do if find a way so everyone on each side can talk to each other. This would result in cordinated attacks/ counter attacks against the enemy. Also it would help fractions determine a plan that works. It would basicly be a feture in which you join a channel with everyone who is on ur faction is on and you can talk to thiem and stratagize everything before you go onto the battle map.