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JiboTV

7 years ago

Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

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DarthVaapar

6 years ago

@JiboTVSo you did review your post, and still decided to post it anyway? Ok...

Every single attribute that you ascribe to me, you posses. You just demonstrated that in your post. Literally every single criticism of me, you just displayed. Every. Single. One.

It’s very easy to micro-analyze someone else’s post line-by-line, but you should set the bar higher. All that results is ever increasing larger responses. Just look at your posts sequentially.

I will once again ignore your insults, name calling, and personal attacks.

So why don’t we start over. If you are confident in your original position you should have no objection.

Originally you claimed that you were a very good player and that you were being “punished” by SBMM because of this, since you were being matched with others of your own skill level. Please correct me if this interpretation is wrong, and elaborate either way.

VoKks9

6 years ago

@DarthVaapar I agree with you that matching players against others of the same skill level is completely fair. The thing is, players like myself aren't being matched with players on an equal skill level, I and so many others are being matched with players who are twice as skilled. If SBMM put me into a game with players of equal skill I'd never complain about it again, but it's just not doing that. It becomes exhausting going into the game time and time again just to be destroyed by a pre-made squad twice as good as me.

SBMM is not working how you would expect, for the most part, I get some people just want to PUB stomp through the lobby and that isn't fair. However, people like me have an issue with fairness, not the fact I can't run through the lobby and flex on players worse than me. In the games current state, that's what is happening to me.

xSagez
6 years ago
the whole point of a BR is that you get tossed into a random game of 100 people with random levels of skills and try to win. What is this pubstomping everyone is talking about. Not everyone is going to play like a bronze nor have they ever even before sbmm. And if you are bad at the game and want to play in lobbies of people around ur skill level then play ranked.
DarthVaapar
6 years ago
@VoKks9 Yeah it appears that 3-squads consisting of players with very different skill levels is a thing. There’s no way for any system to match all three of such a squad with like skilled opponents. I play solo or with one friend and in my experience matches are more balanced overall.
JiboTV
6 years ago
@xSagez wrote:
the whole point of a BR is that you get tossed into a random game of 100 people with random levels of skills and try to win. What is this pubstomping everyone is talking about. Not everyone is going to play like a bronze nor have they ever even before sbmm. And if you are bad at the game and want to play in lobbies of people around ur skill level then play ranked.
I think this is an underrated comment. A BR is a competitive environment where you have people of various skills duke it out. I do also discuss the counter-arguments to this claim and how I disagree with those counter-arguments in separate response posts here. If they want to add a ranked mode so it is people of a similar skill, I do not disapprove. But if they planned to just give up all semblance of a casual mode, I feel disconnected from the game I did appreciate. I believe a lot of other players feel or will feel this disconnect as well based on the discussions I have had.
Ranked does to a good degree accomplish what these people in support of the current state of SBMM imminently desire. I encourage them to play ranked and keep on playing while expressing how they feel.