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

reconzero

Seasoned Ace

3 years ago

@Highresista Remember that matchmaking is more art than science - the qualities of your opponents definitely has something to do with queueing as a full squad, but it has to do with a lot of other things as well. I'll eat my hat if you persevere for a while and things don't get any better. It isn't fun to give matchmaking the time it wants to figure out your skill, your teammates skills, and then find you a solid match, especially if you're playing lower population playlists or queueing at off-peak hours. But it will get better. Maybe not good enough to justify the grind, but better just the same.

Midnight9746

Hero+

3 years ago

@reconzeroI get matches, where teammates are low leveled or new players (can tell as they have bad game awareness and they would get killed or knocked a lot, doing little to no damage to enemy players), meanwhile in the sky, are diamonds, masters, and pred skydive trails. With the most common form of cheating, being wall hacks.

Its honestly sad to see high ranking players, with a good chunk of them just using cheats (Not more than 10% of them though). I typically see about 2 preds, 3 masters, and 4 diamonds per match (or 2 masters, and 6 diamonds, with like 1 pred), and only 1-2 of them are using some form of cheats. When I don't see this many high ranking players, its players between level 10-30 with 20 kill bomb, 4k damage and whatnot. You know, the ones people have been calling smurphs.

Oftentimes, the cheating players are the same ones every other match. Sometimes I would die to cheaters in one match (can tell as they're running out of the ring and shooting at my team, even though they had no awareness we were there, shooting with no recoil, aim seems to be guided as they lock on to each member on my team, aiming at walls and slowly looking around (during spectating) and you see them follow someone out of cover, and these cheaters just become the champions in the next match.