Okay, first things first.
The drives look quite nice (as always) and I’m happy that they extended the drives.
The core problems however remain:
- getting matched with a lot of casuals on your team (aka no drive tag) vs a lot of regular players (aka people with drive tags)
This makes the match extremely unfair and the only way I see this could be balanced is either by having the casuals get a separate queue during drives with each other or add sr decay if they haven’t played.
Casual players are players that don’t play comp at all except maybe season start or during drives. You can’t carry a team full of casuals vs regular comp players (casual players are higher placed than their actual skill level due to not playing enough comp)
- more points required and barely any checkpoints
This is beyond awful. The lobbies and matches are worse and winstreaks are way harder to achieve at this point in time. You barely make any progress and lose a lot, which is not fun. I’m not against there being more points required but add more checkpoints or remove the ability to lose points alltogether.
- getting constantly put vs groups on tank
I get that there aren’t many tanks, but playing as a solo tank vs 3-/4-stacks or Mercy-duos is hell. There is so much peeling and you don’t really get to coordinate with the group on your team either. I would like to see a feature that allows you to not go against stacks ALL THE time. There’s no reason that a solo player should go against stacks 95% of the time.