Faction war is rigged for Vikings. | Forums

[TheSmogMonster]

Seriously.
I noticed in the last 2 rounds, the vikings were getting pushed back on all fronts by ~5%. In the last 10 minutes of the round, they suddenly retook ALL the land in the area.

We all know that faction war is decided by the ebb and flow of asset boosts, and It looked like ubisoft was intentionally turning off samurai boosts early, so that vikings wouldn't get pushed back. Normally your faction gets pushed to its stronghold, and gets enough of a boost to push the other factions into their territory. Samurai had this boost active until the second last round, and then it just stopped.

Why even bother with the faction war when it's all rigged from the start?

[Altair_Snake]

[FunnyYaygerBoi]

Godamit!
I knew it was the Russian hackers all along!

[Braegulfer]

Seriously.
I noticed in the last 2 rounds, the vikings were getting pushed back on all fronts by ~5%. In the last 10 minutes of the round, they suddenly retook ALL the land in the area.

We all know that faction war is decided by the ebb and flow of asset boosts, and It looked like ubisoft was intentionally turning off samurai boosts early, so that vikings wouldn't get pushed back. Normally your faction gets pushed to its stronghold, and gets enough of a boost to push the other factions into their territory. Samurai had this boost active until the second last round, and then it just stopped.

Why even bother with the faction war when it's all rigged from the start?

Quite obviously a conspiracy, good eye man.

[Ezcendant]

The boost is based on how many territories were taken/lost in the previous round. It's just luck that vikings got their boost the turn before then end of the round.

Of course the fact the faction war comes down to luck isn't exactly a great system.

[Mothsinger]

I don't believe the winner is decided with owned sections at the end of the round, more like who put out the most war assets combined. Samurai got second with 0.50% less, Knights are last with over 1% off. No?

[godseamonkey]

if the faction war was based on war assets deployed you know who would've won right? vikings

[Altair_Snake]

I don't believe the winner is decided with owned sections at the end of the round, more like who put out the most war assets combined. Samurai got second with 0.50% less, Knights are last with over 1% off. No?

Knights were second, bruh.

[FramboisMan]

It's not rigged man, the Samurai just don't have as many active players at that time of day & those who are active aren't enough (with the weighted system) to counter it. Then again who knows. What I DO know is the round should have ended at 6am EST.

From another Post:

Is it just me, or are way less Samurai active in the "last hours" of the faction war? If yes, ****.
How is the Samurai Faction supposed to win one round or something then? How, if only the last turn matters and, what do I know, 60% of all Samurai are sleeping?
The Faction War is overall somewhat..."bad", but that's nothing new.

This is also a concern of mine. Consistently playing between 9PM & 3AM PST, I see that is when we make progress, up until about 6 am. During the actual day, namely the later afternoon, is when Samurai seem to not be there. I know I was just leaving an 11 hour shift at the time of the round closure. Will the rounds always end at around 6PM PST, 9PM EST?

Here's another thing that leaves me curious...The game launched at 12 AM EST & 9PM PST. If you have 6 hour turns & 57 turns then that makes 342 Hours in a round, 14.25 days. If Turn one ended at 6AM EST, then turn 57, the final turn should have ended at 6AM EST. (Removing the 6 hours of playtime from the first turn, the end of turns range is 14 days flat.) Here, look at this table I drew up (isn't copying over from excel, not going to reformat into html, sorry!):


Turns Knights Vikings Samurai Turn ends(EST)
1 17 15 28 6AM
2 24 15 21
3 24 18 18
4 26 24 10
5 25 19 16 6AM
6 15 22 23
7 17 28 15
8 15 34 11
9 14 36 10 6AM
10 19 28 13
11 17 22 21
12 17 29 14
13 18 23 19 6AM
14 15 28 17
15 21 26 13
16 27 17 16
17 20 24 16 6AM
18 17 22 21
19 18 21 21
20 21 15 24
21 18 24 18 6AM
22 12 30 18
23 18 31 11
24 19 24 17
25 23 17 20 6AM
26 15 19 26
27 23 14 23
28 15 17 28
29 17 17 26 6AM
30 16 12 32
31 15 18 27
32 18 25 17
33 22 16 22 6AM
34 14 23 23
35 11 26 23
36 18 27 15
37 20 18 22 6AM
38 12 19 25
39 14 15 31
40 12 21 27
41 14 14 32 6AM
42 7 20 33
43 9 28 23
44 9 35 16
45 12 28 20 6AM
46 18 21 21
47 23 22 15
48 22 16 22
49 23 10 27 6AM
50 24 15 21
51 22 22 16
52 22 29 9
53 23 23 14 6AM
54 15 30 15
55 18 23 19
56 14 27 19
57 21 24 15 6AM???
Total 1015 1266 1135
Avg. 17.80701754 22.21052632 19.9122807

(Side quip: Even if we went by average territories the Vikings still won, but we came in 2nd, GG)


SO explain why the round ended at 6PM PST (9PM EST).

The solution I ask for with round closures is rotate ending times to give everyone the opportunity to have a round close within their routine gameplay windows. This is if you are keeping round victories based off the final turn (which is really lackluster by the way.) If Ubi is trying to mirror the feel of a match, where after all the hits, dodges, block and parries it's the last hit that matters, then wouldn't a sound counter argument be that the last hit isn't always at the same time?

Another option is to make victories based on average territories held throughout the round. That fits everyone's schedules.

II may just have to

And if so that's fine; just lost the motivation to grind, that's for sure.

I don't believe the winner is decided with owned sections at the end of the round, more like who put out the most war assets combined. Samurai got second with 0.50% less, Knights are last with over 1% off. No?

It is based off who owns the most Territories at the end of the last turn of the round....kinda really stupid & demoralizing.

[Gray360UK]