I cannot tell you how often now I have gotten a much lower finish in battlegrounds then I should have cause I am the unlucky guy who runs into Eles as they start going off. I just got fifth with a really good build because it happened to be the third best. Any other match up and glide through easily. Instead, I ran into Eles back to back and get smoked for 25 damage.
Even worse though! Is when I have the second best build and we get to top four, I draw ele immediately and he hits me for 30+.
Ele’s make the game unfun and whenever I see the matchup coming I cringe cause at almost any point in the game I know I am gonna lose.
I cannot understand at all why they made all the changes they did and did not fix this. It is a super bother.
I am at 29 health and have been beating everyone I meet badly for many turns then get suddenly destroyed for 30+ damage out of nowhere? This isn’t about skill. I said its no fun. I would like to stay in the game and play the fun comps I put together longer.
I do not get this effect against mechs or demons, who are also very strong right now. Only Eles. They are gigantic out of nowhere and scale insanely.
Can only happen when there is 4 or less people remaining. The 15 damage cap remains until then. If you ever wonder what the current damage cap is, hover your mouse over another player on the side bar. On the bottom, you’ll see the current damage cap.
Once the damage cap is above 15, expect to die instantly to any combat loss.
I start getting annoyed how Battlegrounds are extremely sensitive at how it matches you with others. Yesterday I had 3 games in a row that I NEVER got a to play a ghost when I had at least 4 rounds with ghosts in the game. I was not even high health and others with high health and armor were playing ghosts.
Just an FYI the the person getting the ghost early on and mid game is influenced by who created the lobby and higher MMR. Blizzard confirmed that when Jeef/Babbit figured it out.
What? lol What are you talking about? Its impossible to have close matches in the top four? This does not remotely reflect the reality. I lose in the top 4 and survive lethal all the time. I see streamers doing this. You are just being contrarian.
And this guy comes in and calls me a contrarian. Yeah, how dare I stay on topic and not talk about random events not discussed inside the topic itself.
I suspected it’s “rigged” by the MMR, because my “ghosting” is terrible after a win streak and especially after a I pass a Ranking threshold (eg 5k yesterday).
It’s not something you see but done in the background of the lobby system. One player in the lobby is designated by their system as the “creator” of the lobby and then everyone else is filled in behind them. So whoever is the “creator” of the lobby is given priority on the ghost like those with high MMR. That doesn’t mean much since normally a lobby is formed behind a high MMR player.
This whole thing was accidentally discovered because Jeef and Babbit at the time were running private tournaments so they had a measure of control over who was creating the lobbies.
IMO this can also be a detriment. If you get the ghost the first or second round of a lobby because someone dropped that is just a complete waste and now everyone else that gets it later has a WAY bigger advantage.