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JiboTV

7 years ago

Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

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TerrorFirmerIE

6 years ago

Just to add my 2 cent. I logged in for the first time ever for this.

The game is being ruined for me with SBMM. I have no idea how it is calculated, but I have k/d of 1.0, avg 350 dmg per game. Fallen from 1.7 and 480 dmg. Lately it's like this:

0 kill, 0 kill, 0 kill, 1 kill, 0 kill, 0 kill, 1 kill, 0 kill. Always low damage too.

It's not fun. I much, much prefer the system where you throw everyone together, you have some good games, some bad games, but it's always engaging and unpredictable.

Now it's very predictable. I just die all the time, constantly, getting murdered by clearly better players (so not sure how the sbmm is working, I have gone from 1.7 k/d to 1.0 and in freefall)

It's not fun anymore, I'm starting to dislike the game. Two of my friends stopped playing because they say it's not fun either.

I have bought all the season passes and some coins because I wanted to support the game but I won't be any more going forward.

A game should be fun. I understand matching people together in ranked mode, but what's the point of doing the exact same thing in public matches, the whole point is to chill out and have fun, not for every game to be a sweatfest and frustrating.

ilya_lizard

Rising Veteran

6 years ago

@TerrorFirmerIE wrote:
0 kill, 0 kill, 0 kill, 1 kill, 0 kill, 0 kill, 1 kill, 0 kill. Always low damage too.

It looks exactly like my average game evening before SBMM was implemented. 👿

TerrorFirmerIE
6 years ago
I really don't understand how SBBM is working, because I just started playing ranked instead and I'm currently in Platinum III and progressing, my k/d there is something like 1.5 and average of 600 dmg per game or so.
When I play public, the game is just impossibly hard, the enemies are so much better than me, and way better than average game in Platinum. Keep in mind I'm a 'normal' player with a k/d now of 1.0 but this is the adversity I'm getting in public.
I honestly have no idea what way it's working with public but it's really baffling. I also noticed that lots of people in my lobby have trails which I believe means they are diamond or apex predator?
But like why an earth are these people constantly appearing in my lobby when I'm an average player with a k/d of 1.0??! It's not fun. I just get wrecked every single game
- JiboTV
  6 years ago
  @TerrorFirmerIE wrote:
  I really don't understand how SBBM is working, because I just started playing ranked instead and I'm currently in Platinum III and progressing, my k/d there is something like 1.5 and average of 600 dmg per game or so.
  When I play public, the game is just impossibly hard, the enemies are so much better than me, and way better than average game in Platinum. Keep in mind I'm a 'normal' player with a k/d now of 1.0 but this is the adversity I'm getting in public.
  I honestly have no idea what way it's working with public but it's really baffling. I also noticed that lots of people in my lobby have trails which I believe means they are diamond or apex predator?
  But like why an earth are these people constantly appearing in my lobby when I'm an average player with a k/d of 1.0??! It's not fun. I just get wrecked every single game
  Point-blank, I cannot give you all the answers. Your feelings are exactly why I made this thread with hopes in the back of my mind of potentially receiving developer response. If you are skilled average within your skill range and are fighting the average level of player within your skill range, you will come to expect a low K/D around 1 to be normal.
  Thank you for taking the time to write out this information and offer your perspective.
  - CheeseyPos_3wtw
    6 years ago
    @JiboTV
    I also appreciate how you’ve approached a lot of this. Out of my group of 7 friends that play I tend to do the best. BARELY made Diamond 4 (All I wanted was the trail) with a KD of 1.35 lifetime/1.8 Season 3&4. But I can’t play with my friends anymore because I’m not good enough to carry them through the hell that are the casual lobbies I’m dropped into. I cannot even begin to compete with even Diamond 1’s and 2’s consistently, let alone premade Pred Squads. Yet every game, that’s all I see, to the point where my group dreads queuing with me.
    
    Interestingly enough, in my one and only ranked match this season, in Gold 2, I was immediately placed in a lobby with exclusively SEASON 4 diamonds and preds. Season 4, meaning they’d already hit that rank THIS season, not last. I was befuddled. And subsequently demolished. But this led me to understand that the game has absolutely no idea how to MM certain people, casual or ranked. I literally cannot seem to get a match with anyone not above my skill level/consistency(with this being the major issue for me).