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JiboTV

7 years ago

Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

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CheeseyPos_3wtw

6 years ago

@S8N_Spawn

I agree with you and I think everyone in this thread against SBMM would agree with you that when you are a certain skill level, you should absolutely be matched against similarly skilled players. The whole point of our argument, however, is that we have a ranked mode where this is and should exclusively be the case. Ranked did not always exist, so initially SBMM made overall more sense since there were only public lobbies. Now, however, there is a MM option for ranked games with rewards where the competition is comparable and a MM option for casual games with no rewards. The frustration many people find is the lack of parody. Why include a ranked option at all if all of the games played are the same anyways? A BR game is designed to be random and RNG based. If you have a dedicated mode for aggressive, sweaty play, then keep the general mode actually randomized.

An as for that ranked game, I agree it’s early, but my point was not that I was already playing with Diamonds and Preds, which I expected, but I was playing with Season 4 diamonds and Preds, meaning they’d already hit those ranks this season, but last. That’s what confused me. I knew I’d be playing with diamonds at least this early on, but I expected those diamonds to still have gold/plat ranks for season 4 since I’m still only Gold.

I hope this makes sense. I can appreciate your point of view and I think you make some valid points, but it’s the overall setup that has a lot of people frustrated.

S8N_Spawn

6 years ago

@CheeseyPos_3wtw For sure it'll make pub games sweaty. The difference is you're not playing for RP, you're just playing. Ranked mode has you playing FOR something other than kills and changes the gameplay of most people in it dramatically.

Pub games don't have anything other than going for a goal (a win, a badge, you're most damage/kills, etc.) it SHOULD NOT be a mode where the benefit is for better skilled players to go up against less skilled players. Most people have the POV that it's ok for better skilled players to get 20 kill badges where most, if not all, of those kills came against people FAR less skilled, I'm not. I'm one of those far less skilled players, and it doesn't help me "git gud" to get wrecked before I even have time to react.

I think BECAUSE of the recent SBMM implementation and ranked mode I've gotten a TON better than way back in seasons 1 & 2 where I had absolutely no chance because I was getting matched up in games and dying to guys like backoffmyjankz (yes, in 2 separate matches, he's killed me 4 times).