Bungie… The way you allocate players into 6v6 control games is beyond any criticism…
You put 1 or 2 skilled players (solos) together and pair them with 4 or 5 weakest players from the entire 12 player lobby… Whereas, the other team gets 4 or 5 skilled solos with only 1 or 2 weaker players.
So how this makes any sense whatsoever ???
Clearly one team will get destroyed.
And clearly the other team will get a very easy win.
And it’s like that 8 times out of 10 control games.
So… team balancing for 6v6 SBMM control games is very important and yet… you chose the most imbecilic way to "balance teams" because in reality your team balancing method makes these games hugely unbalanced almost every single time.
No idea what kind of metrics you people are using at Bungie HQ to justify this idiotic way for allocating solo players into separate 6v6 teams. Because in reality, it feels like the outcome of these games has already been predetermined before the start of a game.
When you spend 2 hours playing 6v6 control games, maybe 2 or 3 of these games will be fair (more or less) and the rest of these matches are huge blowouts. And the blowout starts immediately within 1-2 minutes from starting the match… So how is that even possible if your team balancing works perfectly fine, to have such huge skill disparities in solo 6v6 lobbies so frequently… game after game after game… etc…
It rather feels like your SBMM algorithms for 6v6 control are purposely putting 1 or 2 skilled solos on one team and pairing them with the weakest lobby players, while the other team gets 4 or 5 skilled solos paired with only 1 or 2 weaker player.
Why can’t you just use the snake draft method 👇
The highest-skilled player (P1) is placed on Team A
The second-highest (P2) goes to Team B
The third-highest (P3) goes to Team B
The fourth-highest (P4) goes to Team A, and so on
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2 RepliesAgreed. I’ll just keep leaving matches until they turn that shiz off. I’m not wasting my time in that trash. Nearly every game is a mercy. It’s actually pathetic how they just ignore the obvious issue.
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6 RepliesPvp should be removed and players who complain about it as well. It’s free content stop complaining and just buy something in eververse so us pve players can at least benefit of this useless side of the community
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2 RepliesBungie’s PvP team has driven off players. They have created an unhealthy ability spam mode infested with cheaters and bad lobby balancing.
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I believe there never was any balancing. Must be years back when I had the impression it was roughly balanced. My personal complaint is that Nightstalker builds have become far too dominating, in particular 6es. Half of the lobbies, sometimes more are invis Hunters. I understand the people wanna use op classes but it's just no fun on the receiving side.
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2 RepliesThey should just make it like gym class in high-school, RNG decides the sudo Leaders and they get a line up of the remaining guardians and each take turns picking for their teams lol
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Haven’t played in a couple of days ….pvp has been tedious ! But today did three games and they were all balanced games that were close ….very close ! Control really is like a jack pot machine ….yiu just never know when you will get a good game .
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1 ReplyEdited by eliteg: 1/14/2026 2:18:57 AM
elitegControl, control, you must learn control - 1/30/2026 2:18:35 PM
Listen when that happens you need to head to orbit to get into a different groups allocation. So [u][b]you notice the lobby is bad >> you reset the lobby[/b][/u] yourself by taking a breather. Don't just take it like a fool and stay in there.. yes wait until after the match so you dont get any negative flags. Its control... its casual but some people I do see in there with exalted/igneous + immortal... decked out to the 9s while I'm testing the strangest gear... it still comes out balanced for me 7/10 times. They are in teams and everybody else is solo... some folks just want to watch the world burn and couldn't care less... but most games are good if you stick it out imo (change strategy and guns give it a chance). ...But some days are worse than others and the reset of the lobby... nothings working... it can even be you > advanced gg is not workin 😂.. II'll be honest sometimes after a tough workout I am just bad at PVP, lol jump out take it easy its entertainment... (and 1st game after I write this.. I kid you not... I joined the match on the loss screen... the team lost the match 99-28 or something... next game is loading now... this is our game... this is MY game) [i]#thismygame[/i] -
I had to stop playing 6s because while sometimes my team was stacked too it was just so sweaty due to player population. The amount of skilled players seems to outweigh the unskilled in active queuing. Which seems crazy but realistic. I have better luck with trials but I went 4 losses in a row on trials queuing solo this weekend despite trying my hardest and it made no different. I’m not a god tier carry partner yet.
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Feels like you are forever stuck like that too.