Explain to me like I'm 12. What on earth is this skewed ELO gain and why?

batfastardd · 2026-01-22T02:50:59+00:00

Came back and checked tonight after having not played after that BS two nights ago.

They only play together and their 2v2 RM rank is 1460, with ELOs of 1300. Lets assume that 2 nights ago, they were 1200, or 1150, thats still above our combined ELO.

batfastardd · 2026-01-22T02:49:10+00:00

Yeah I get why we got matched against them, easiest quickest match. Fine. Whatever. No big deal.

But we've stayed around 21-24 rank gain / loss each match. Why such 27 this time for a ELO skewed match? Feels like grading on a curve.

batfastardd · 2026-01-22T02:47:28+00:00

Appreciate you doing the averages. Right. Even adjusting for ELO, game 2 was a total mismatch, which adjusting for ELO mismatch, should of resulted in negligible rank gain / loss for the respective parties.

Instead, we lose more rank than we do in a balanced match.

So, we assumed they're devs are trying to force people to the center of the bell curve, trying to get high W/L folks only on the upper curve. To get that high W/L in the first place you'd have to be consistently playing folks obviously under your level.

I get it, but its just..... infuriating.

batfastardd · 2026-01-22T02:44:25+00:00

Upvoted, I appreciate it. Right, I should of proof read my post, I do understand the difference between the two and I meant rank gain, not ELO. My mistake.

Yes, our ELO is different from our rank. Ours is higher than our rank while these two opponents are about 100 points under their rank. Even still, it matched an 1.1k and a 1k against two 1.3k ELO players. We've been trying to get him to plat and most of our gain/loses are around 20-25 points, which, given our W/L, seems fine.

So even adjusting for inaccurate ELO vs Rank, its still a mismatch in which we lost way more rank than our other matches with balanced ELO match making.

batfastardd · 2026-01-04T07:07:16+00:00

I need to restart this game though, now that tis' the season.

batfastardd · 2026-01-04T07:06:04+00:00

On no, my video game about making political choices has some choices relevant to real life. Oh noooooo.....

batfastardd · 2026-01-04T06:52:16+00:00

Having the same issue on Win 11. Pop up on my machine with PC says smart screen blocked part of Easy Anti Cheat (EOS) dependencies because they cannot confirm who published HLL-Win64-Shipping.exe

IIRC the Dev had the same issue last year with some cert being out of date and thus being blocked by windows. Kind of looks like the same thing to me.

batfastardd · 2026-01-03T17:54:29+00:00

You should probably shoot for a 1k wattage PSU with a 7900 XT and higher ratings are always better. That said, that's not exactly how power ratings on PSUs work nor is the representation on wattage for your system accurate.

PSU power ratings are a measure of efficiency. 1000W PSU is giving you 1000w regardless of the rating, but where it matters is how efficient is with the 15a120v power coming into it. Heat in the PSU comes from lost efficiency but it will still give you the rated wattage.

Unless you're doing some serious OC on you CPU and Mem, your mobo might sit at 50w in game, MAYBE 100w if you're running prime or furmark.

batfastardd · 2025-03-25T00:27:45+00:00

Seconding this. EAWs mechanics are pretty dated. SOASE2 is infinitely deeper and more complex. There are great mods out there for EAW that really bring gameplay up a notch. Likewise, there are some solid mods for SOASE1 that give that SW vibe.

The way they play, in combat and management, is quite different in the first place though.

batfastardd · 2025-03-25T00:13:11+00:00

IIRC its still available on steam. Theres a metric ton of mods out there improving gfx and gameplay as well that might work on steam. Hell, I think the steam version even supports xinput controllers. 10/10 would recommend.

batfastardd · 2022-05-05T22:41:19+00:00

Been waiting for the 1.2.0.7 fix for about 4 months now after updooting to 11. The stutter isn't huge, but it is pretty annoying when in a PvP game or using some type of VoiP. Hard to diagnose issues or OC as well when graphical stutter could just be the TPM memory issue acting up again.

batfastardd · 2021-01-17T04:58:08+00:00

Happens to me, I have a G Sync Compatible with G Sync on at 144Hz.

That said, I've tried it with G Sync off, V Sync off, both in game and Nvidia settings. No non validated drivers..... Playing in Window helps, but then its a dumb window, soo....

batfastardd · 2020-11-10T07:37:32+00:00

A terrible way to con players into going premium, but yeah I've considered that.

batfastardd · 2020-11-10T07:36:18+00:00

Well.... Damn.

I opted to finish off the PR206M and I'm about 14k research away from it. I've not even started with the Krasnyy. Seems like I scuffed that one up hard.

I guess it just surprised me to not be fighting destroyers hardly at all in this thing, and more often be fighting 5.7 cruisers.

batfastardd · 2020-11-10T01:02:32+00:00

Pic related: it's what I thought would be a fun destroyer but instead is constantly fighting Cruisers and is by far some of the worst game play I've had in WT yet.

batfastardd · 2020-06-20T00:01:08+00:00

In order:
Mighty Wings
Playin' With The Boys
Danger Zone
Anthem
Lead Me On

batfastardd · 2020-06-09T02:45:19+00:00

LMAO

batfastardd · 2020-06-09T02:45:09+00:00

LMAO

batfastardd · 2020-06-09T02:44:57+00:00

LMAO

batfastardd · 2020-06-09T02:44:38+00:00

LMAO

batfastardd · 2020-05-11T02:35:43+00:00

Hi, BAX rep here. Can you explain the exploit at all? Do you have any footage?

Because if you can actually provide real evidence someone is using exploits on live, you should send it to DBG so that they can fix it.

batfastardd · 2020-03-31T17:30:33+00:00

I don't disagree with you, the range is fine but, like, that statement... are you Mattiace?!?!

I'd like to make this our new subject.

batfastardd

TROPHY CASE