Is this a statistical anomaly? Or something else?

[Alisi]

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There will be no balancing among the GCs as long as the bot problem is still in place. Frankly, I don't know why everyone doesn't switch to MS in protest. My last match was 30 minutes or so ago. One enemy team was entirely bots and the other had a majority of bots. I only saw one or two on that second team that acted like they weren't bots. And I felt badly for those two people who were obviously stuck on a shitty team. They tried to work around it (stealing bases, getting the smaller ices) but there really wasn't much they could do.

And we all know PVP isn't SE's priority in this game. It's more of an afterthought. Perhaps a big demonstration of protest is what will be needed to deal with this situation.

[Brownondorf]

The more i play frontlines the more maelstrom are driving me insane omg. Just had the quickest game ever, one of those game where all the small ice pops then its a deathmatch. Well mael just came to our base and totally Roflstomped us, game was less than 7 minutes... and flames actually pretty much did nothing at all. They patiently waited for the game to end lol.

[AdamZ]

Wut. People don't solo queue into the same GC. We don't care what gc we end up in. When we premades well just carry whoever team we get in. Why would we risk being in separate parties and matches for the sake of being in one GC? Especially when we've been clamouring for freelancer for so long.

It is likely a primal thing. But they are doing it to ensure one of the other parties is not a bot party. Most of the good players where Mael on primal, shortly before freelancer came out. Given how GC did not matter, most then are still Mael now. So we are back to a pre freelancer state where the better players que to Mael. The bots que flames/adders, and it just further feeds the issue we had before.

If they where doing what you say on primal, you would get these pre-mades in the other GC's (like you did after the start of freelancer), but you do not get that anymore.

Again, Primal thing, we likely have more bots, cause primal...

[Synestra]

On chaos mael wins mostly because they are opportunist and have no fear of doing some actual pvp, i did some freelancer pvp with few ex-static members last weekend and this was really obvious when going against mael. Both adders and immortal on chaos is filled with cowards compared to mael so that is the main reason they lose/gets roflstomped, so if that doesn't get "fixed" mael will keep dominating. Mael gets its share of crappy matches but it is way more rare compared to adders and immortal, adders are good second but oh boy immortal is kinda lost cause already.

[Brownondorf]

Actually the worse thing is that mael wins a lot because flames have absolutely 0 tactical awarness and 0 clue how to play this mode it seems.

Lets say mael is leading with 1200 point, adders second with like 1000 and flames are third, who are flames going to attack? ADDERS OBVIOUSLY.

ALL. THE. TIME.

They always focus adders for some reasons, bacisally allowing mael a free win.

At times it feels like they are teaming up on purpose with the intend of making adders lose.

I've seen both team raid adders spawn at the same time on multiple occasion while i can count on one hand the amount of time it happenned on someone elses spawn.

The game would be more balanced if flames weren't so dedicated to attack adders all the time for some reason.