Is Blizzard going to address the Community Flare addon CHEATING that enables pre-made versus solo-queue BGs?

Is Blizzard going to do anything about the pre-made groups solo-queueing individually but using addons to cheat the system, allowing their pre-made coordinated groups to play against those who solo queue?

The addon “Community Flare” is being used to cheat. It’s not fun. Solo queued battlegrounds are resulting in for example 15 randoms from various realms playing against 10 players all coordinated (and on the same realm), + 5 lucky randoms.

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Probably not that lucky. For players who just want to have fun and don’t care about things like win rate, rating, ego, or conquest points, it’s not really “lucky” to end up on a team with a partial premade and have no pressure from the opposing team.

Try it, you can just sit there afk, and it’s an automatic win. It’s not fun at all. I usually queue up for multiple pvp scenarios at once, so I try not to eat the 15 min debuff. As a result, if my teammates are roflstomping the opponents, I’ve recently just started tabbing out and waiting for it to end.

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You’re confusing a lot of different ideas with each other.

#1. The thing that allows groups to play against solo-queue players is the system Blizzard has settled on, at least for now. Whether you queue as a group or solo, you will be placed in the same queue. I believe the system tries to pit groups against each other, but they’re not separate games.

#2. No addons or special tricks are needed for multiple groups to “sync queue”. All this means is that you have multiple groups coordinating when to hit the queue button. It’s not hard to go, “3, 2, 1, queue”.

#3. The Community Flare addon is not useful for sync queueing, it’s for dodging. It was created by someone and is now used by people who absolutely do not want any kind of challenge. The reason (mostly) Horde often see their epic team start with fewer than 15 players is because of these dodges and the fact there is no penalty for dropping a queue pop.

#4. You’re talking about regular BG’s and not epics and it is very unlikely Community Flare is being used successfully in regulars. There are too many games and no reason to dodge, the dodgers mostly (or completely) stick to epics, and there are too few open communities in which joint membership is required for the addon to have any value.

#5. You’re freaking out about people being on the same realm and that is almost entirely irrelevant. Premade communities are almost all massively not based on any realm and there is nothing about being on a realm that is required to group. I’ve played games on my Tich chars with 8+ other people from Tich and none of us knew each other. That’s what happens when certain realms have a lot of people who PvP.

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Don’t listen to this guy. He’s one of them. This isn’t settled by any means and they are blatantly breaking the rules.

We get that. There is obvious value in people using them or you wouldn’t be using them. Need or not doesn’t change the reality that they ARE being used.

It’s for dodging while queue syncing. A distinction without a difference.

Unfortunately we don’t know, though the problem has gotten to a level you would think they would say… something. We’ll keep pushing to get these players banned as they should be.

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Found an abuser of the system!

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Understanding how reality works means I’m an abuser? Ok buddy.

I’ve done 5-player groups for regulars. Never came close to losing as there just aren’t that many decent players who queue regulars. It really wasn’t fair. And really, come to think of it, it is abusive for me even to solo queue into regulars. I think I’ll do it some more.

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Yet your non-stacked win rates are average. :roll_eyes:

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Buddy don’t listen to the filithy Que synch cheaters. You are accurate! Well done and well said

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No. They are not going to take action against this.

Ugh same old go around, people who like to cheat at pvp defending horrible practices. I personally don’t care if Blizzard thinks this is ok or not. I feel like it sucks and ruins pvp and they should change it.

They need to fix pvp queuing so you can only do premades in rated. EOL

They likely won’t and even more egregious they won’t engage on it at all. They just suck at this anymore.

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Takes it happening somewhere they care about for them to jump.

Which this is happening in unrated pvp which gets changes once an expansion usually. So

There was this macro in dragonflight which pretty much functioned as a kickbot and they banned people for using that but only cause it was being used rated.

Which is unfortunate that they let unrated go to s cause its where most people start. And if the start blows then nobody has any reason to continue.

It was a conditional macro. It was spammable until the proper spell it was intended for was casted. Bicmex made a YouTube video demonstration of how to make and do it. It’s been fixed and i won’t link it cause blizz loves to ban. :upside_down_face:

This explains the all Tichondrius BG Blitz I got into the other morning. I’m on Azuremyst…

Has the panda returned from his shame hiatus to gaslight people with forced fallacies as to why it’s fine yet? I don’t see him in here…

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there are two addons:

Community Flare: a public addon which mostly just does automatic queueing with party lead and it counts how many people from your community are in that game. the only unique feature is the member count. this addon is useful for syncing. the functionality in this addon that makes it easy to sync it not unique to this addon.

Community Flare Details: a private addon which shows how many groups are in queue and when they pop, this is useful for dodging though its intended to make managing large groups easier for leaders as they can see when people pop instead of relying on self reporting.

the point of both addons isn’t and wasn’t originally to enable premades vs solo, it was mainly to make managing already existing premades easier. these addons don’t enable anything that wasn’t already going on and had been going on for as long as the game has been out.

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There isn’t a way to circumvent team selection.

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I’m saying what’s the point relative to blitz? If the team selection is random, you’re not gaining anything. I guess if you were trying to avoid a specific person, but that doesn’t make sense. I have had plenty of games with all Tich people. This isn’t unusual.

Look, I’m all for them dealing with this addon and addressing the premades, but I think we are muddying the waters if we think it’s impacting blitz.

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The add on referenced in the title of this thread only works for random bgs… at least I think so? Either way, the add on caught major attention through random bg que syncing. So this thread is most likely about that, not BGB.

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That’s why I asked if you meant blitz. The premade community is using this addon for dodging other premades. What good is it going todo for blitz? It’s not for helping players get on the same team, and even if it did, that wouldn’t work for blitz. They are running a different addon, a private one, for getting everyone on the same team. But again, that doesn’t help with blitz.

You can’t circumvent the team selection part of blitz. So even if you got into the same bg as a group, the chances of you being on the same team are still 50/50 over the long run. Maybe you game it once or twice if you get lucky, but eventually someone is going to take a loss and you’ll be in a different MMR bracket.

Nah…he’s gone. Probably in a big shame spiral.
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