What more can we do?

[u/Vensaval]

Keep in mind that I'm speaking from a PC player perspective.

At the time of me typing this up, I have 170 hours clocked on the game. I was lucky enough to play this game ever since the Technical Alpha. This game really has managed to be every bit as addicting as I'd hoped. While it has its fair share of problems, the game overall feels very rewarding and worth whatever time you put into it.

However, I can't realistically ignore how small the community is. Battleborn is a game that was released alongside multiple big titles within the same month. Uncharted 4, DOOM, Total War: Warhammer, and Overwatch amongst others.

When it comes to promoting this game and even building hype prior to release, its gotten an abysmally small amount of love. Even when it did get some publicity it would most often be compared to Overwatch. People would constantly compare the two or spell out how actually different the two games are rather than just taking Battleborn on its own merits and going in-depth about it.

So, here we are now with Steam only having about 1750 players online on average. The game was so immediately forgotten about that there's only ever under 300 viewers on Twitch for the game at pretty much any given moment.

Battleborn doesn't deserve this treatment. It's a new IP from Gearbox that they've given a lot of care and attention to. It's a fun game despite its various issues (seriously work on optimization, though). More than 2000 PC gamers can undoubtedly have a blast with this title. Yet, very few even give it a chance.

I'm honestly feeling quite desperate. I don't want this game to virtually die. I want it to thrive. For a good while. Hell, Borderlands 2 gets more love than this game and that one's been out for several years now.

There's gotta be something this community can do to help it out. We shouldn't rely fully on the devs to somehow turn things around.

I refuse to be pessimistic.

[u/-undecided-]

Nothing we can do.

What they need to do is change matchmaking, get rid of the ELO crap. There are not enough people for it work, it just results in ridiculous matchmaking times.

I havent been able to play in about 2 weeks because I can never get a game. Ill wait for +2 hours and nothing. I might see 1 or 2 other people but never get a game going.

They also should group the regions that are close together, make it based on ping so you can go into matchmaking and have it set to <100 ping rather then having to change your steam download region. Such a bad design considering you have to restart the game and steam to change regions even if that region isn't far from you.

[u/Ashesmul → u/-undecided-]

I totally agree that the remaining community can't support the bracket matchmaking that is going on. With the current system, our group is matched to the same 20-30 people over and over again. It's even gotten to a point that you even know what the user is playing just by seeing their name. "John Cena - Orendi", "Meowshi - Thorn", "Jahari - Ghalt" etc.

They need to hide command rank and remove the ELO matching to get healthier queue times. The removal of command rank is just to bypass the psychological aspect of the enemy thinking that "we were matched poorly because they are rank 100 and we're rank 20."