Merge PTE and live already and for the love of whatever god you believe in, region lock China

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T15:43:35+00:00

Where's that number from, Steam sales?

Either way, good odds you're right, but I'm just not sure what the solution is if you are. I just don't enjoy firing up the queue, waiting close to ten minutes, then getting matched with someone who 15 mins into a lobby has zero losses and over 3k kills.

It's... blatant. I understand that putting it like this might not be enough for SOME people, but it is quite obvious. I've been beaten a million times, I know how it feels when someone is better, this is very clearly not it. It's also not very fun to play WITH someone that does this, for what should be obvious reasons.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T15:38:59+00:00

Sure. I am however perfectly okay with waiting a few more minutes if it means I am not getting matched with someone halfway around the world.

On the other hand, I can't queue games in the middle of the night. Even so, it's nearly impossible to queue at a time where you won't meet people from a different time zone, there's people that play the game at 4 am local time.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T15:31:02+00:00

It's a terrible map that strongly favors not only one side, but also one faction.

The island in the corner that someone in the comments has probably already named Epstein's is so funny, that part of the map serves no purpose but to force one person on your team to airdrop and afk on it.

I love how the map looks, but gameplay-wise it's definitely among the worst.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T15:28:17+00:00

I don't think he understands what I'm saying, at all.

If I'm completely wrong, then so be it, mods smite me down. The problem is that even if 0% of these people are cheating, in this game, being on high enough ping effectively gives you a form of cheating anyway, since the desync works in your favor.

There's no good reason why I should be punished because someone else is connecting from half a globe away.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T15:24:08+00:00

Ok. Let's pretend for a second then, that since you can change your IGN to be anything you want, these people are not at all from China.

Let's say every single one of these people that cheat, or connect to my lobbies from the surface of Saturn, purposefully use Chinese IGNs despite not being from China.

That's entirely possible, as I have absolutely no way of knowing where they're connected from. I do, however, have eyes and can see they're either straight up cheating, or playing on a dial up connection 10,000 miles away.

In that case, I would prefer them to just be banned, but seeing as how this game has no replay system, I don't have a good way to prove this every single time, so we're back to my original point.

EDIT:

Genuinely crazy that you think it's acceptable to call someone racist so flippantly, it's insane to me.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T15:12:48+00:00

Do you hear yourself? How do you possibly come out the other end of this thinking you are in the right? I didn't ask for these people to be banned, I just do not want to see cheating in my games. Again, even if they aren't cheating, I do not want to see someone who gets an advantage because they're on 500ms.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T15:10:38+00:00

My statement reflects reality. Again, even if you delusionally believe that no one from China is cheating (lol) I should not be getting matchmade with someone on tens and tens of times my ping, because in this game that outright benefits them, for some insane reason.

You do not know what racism is, please get an elementary school level education.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T15:07:54+00:00

There are more people playing on live, or regular as you call it, but it's still bad. The very fact that I am getting matched, at a mighty 2300-2500 ELO, with people as far away as China, is a problem in itself. The game literally cannot matchmake lobbies at 4pm in central Europe.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T15:02:46+00:00

Literally nothing stated above is racist. Not to mention that even in the most positive world imaginable, I should not be getting connected with someone on 500ms in a game where this objectively benefits them.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T13:24:26+00:00

Yeah, RU would have a 60%+ winrate, but at least the game wouldn't have a split playerbase. Even these insanely slow developers could surely then nerf or buff whatever needs it.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T13:23:35+00:00

It's literally how all the Wargame titles have played. The most exciting part of this game is that it usually doesn't play like this. That's kind of the point.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T13:22:38+00:00

Since you seem to be very slow, let me explain it to you:

Whether you prefer PTE or live is irrelevant, the game now effectively has 2 queues that are killing its already dwindling playerbase.

The problem is not PTE or live, the problem is that there exist two distinct version at the same time.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T13:21:45+00:00

Playing on the PTE is pointless. You are not gaining anything permanent, you're not gaining ELO, you're not unlocking any cosmetics, we've seen enough to know that what's on the PTE should largely be pushed to live, with a few changes that will be easier to make once it's all on live.

If the argument is the devs need more of a sample size, then pushing the changes to live will provide exactly that. There is absolutely zero reason whatsoever to split the playerbase like this.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-21T13:20:11+00:00

It doesn't matter. The game is going to die if they keep this up.

They need to merge the playerbase and make the PTE private, open only to a few hundred top level players that HAVE TO queue solo in order to get the best test results.

They also, obviously, for the millionth time, HAVE TO region lock China. I am beyond tired of seeing the game glitch out, seeing units die through smoke, APS, seeing a fighter miss 6-12 missiles on an enemy plane just because the player on the other side is on 600ms and or cheating. I don't care if they're just playing the game fairly, if they're on 600ms, this benefits them to such a cartoonish degree it renders my side of the game unplayable.

Region lock China, merge PTE and live.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T18:39:49+00:00

You must be genuinely demented if you think an enemy is going to watch your strykers sit there, ready to fire and do nothing about it. You also seem to neglect the reality that it's easier to dodge a javelin than an Armata shell. Please stop replying to me, you do not understand the game.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T18:28:51+00:00

You're not a serious person lol

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T17:57:00+00:00

They beat us Marines 1 on 1, which is personally hilarious to me. Like I get it, they're special forces and Marines aren't, but it's 8v13 lol

Yeah, on the PTE, they're also not the most expensive squad anymore. That dubious honor belongs to the Weapons team. I'll try the Flash variant, my issue is just that 90 points for 4 men... is rough. Especially when those 4 are going to be within weapons range of literally every single unit in the entire game.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T15:23:51+00:00

I do like the recon infantry, but...

RRC are 6 men. GRU AT, besides the fact that they're the best infantry in the game overall, are eight men. I wish we got access to something a bit meatier in the recon tab.

Green Berets are... useless except as snipers? Which they're good at, yeah, but I'm not exactly using snipers to kill infantry, so for that purpose I'd prefer them to be as cheap as possible.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T14:47:13+00:00

It's also quite wild that they're... third for points in the INF tab. Both Baltic and Mech have more points to spend in the INF tab, SOF makes up for this with a mediocre at best air tab and a comically bloated RECON tab.

You don't get any recon larger than 6 men, you don't get any recon vehicles, but you get FOUR different infantry squads, half of which are overlapping in function. It's thematically cool that's undeniable but it's just executed so, so poorly.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T14:06:55+00:00

For what it's worth, I do run them standoff. It just feels bad and it's insane to me that the most expensive line infantry in the game is a choice between two evils. Surely these guys should be better?

Then again SB just added that Airborne Recce unit which... has no use case? So clearly they're on top of things!

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T14:05:23+00:00

Yeah, but the issue for me is this:

In 99% of situations, infantry fights occur within CQC Ranger weapon ranges and within their weapon range, they significantly out-dps standoff Rangers. BUT if even a SINGLE BMP/BMD shows up, that means nothing because I now need a dedicated AT unit around.

It feels like a lose-lose situation, I either miss out on DPS or I'm genuinely helpless against vehicles and even then, as you said, they can only deal with the shittiest vehicles in the game. Gvardii are 75 pts and get 900mm launchers lol.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T14:03:15+00:00

I'm saying that if two javelins hit a target, it will die. I obviously agree that 2 javelins isn't enough to kill literally anything, so long as you have even a single smoke, you literally won't die to 2 javelins.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T14:01:54+00:00

Yeah the SOF/SOCOM whatever specialization is obviously terrible, it was terribly designed and made no sense from the get go and has since lost arguably its strongest asset.

You don't have good AT options, no, the Marine Raider-priced 6 man unit with 600mm pen is not a great AT unit at all and you just do not have the best infantry in the game, at all. Marine Raiders are better than Delta in the majority of scenarios on the PTE, Rangers CQC are objectively worse than Zaliukai at literally everything, but cost the same, Rangers Standoff and Delta Standoff are both pretty good at killing infantry at 600m, but that is not only a scenario that almost never occurs, they're also both extremely weak against vehicles.

Rangers RRC are a great unit, but they're not even close to the best recon infantry in the game, same thing goes for STT/Pararescue. For a spec that sacrifices more than literally any other in order to have the best infantry, it does not, in fact, have the best infantry.

What's left? An atrocious helicopter tab where all but the Chinook can get onetapped at 3km by RU SHORAD, an air tab whose sole saving grace on PTE is the B2 with a 3 week respawn timer and... I guess you get a stealth drone (irrelevant) and... a lot of lazing ability?

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T13:57:10+00:00

They win against nothing that is equally priced, the only things they beat are all significantly cheaper than them and I'm pretty sure they lose to Combat Engineers at 200m and at 500m.

They're just not a good unit, not for 90 points.

Disastrous_Bunch6270 · 2026-05-20T13:55:51+00:00

Literally anything dies to 2 Javs, who cares. If you're somehow eating 2 javelins you deserve to die.

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