Forum Discussion

3 years ago

Matchmaking for new players.

How is a new player supposed to get hooked in the game, when on the 2nd hour of playing I'm matched against people with over 10k kills?

gameplay discussion

Midnight9746

Hero+

3 years ago

The problem is there's not going to be a good matchmaking system or even a better one. There's too many people smurphing, cheating, boosting players, there's also the problem with a lot of casual and legit players stop playing because of cheaters and smurphs, so you just get preds, noobs, and cheaters mix.

Matchmaking would have to put cheaters and smurphs into the same lobbies and stop pairing up casual players with new players. A lot of the matches I play, I'm put in a losing position, as the other two have NO idea what they're doing.

reconzero

Seasoned Ace

3 years ago

@Midnight9746

"too many people smurphing, cheating, boosting" - this is true, and yet it's always been true of any game that sustains a high population over time. I can't say (yet) that I feel like I'm getting lobbies made up exclusively of predators + noobs + cheaters, although I will say there are a LOT of noobs. But that's also true of any game with a steep learning curve (all games nowadays) and it's also a burden felt especially by veterans who choose to solo queue (definitely me). Still this season seems better to me than last, although I'm first to acknowledge that it's premature to say anything just yet.