Matchmaking is broken!
So I play with two of my friends and we play mostly Pubs. We are gold level players. Never climbed above gold 1. And yet, in pubs, we keep betting annihilated by players with 4k, Master/Predator ...
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@Sand_spitterdamn forum protection system marked my post as spam... geez.
Long story short - will not rewrite it now, cba.
1. Demotion - only change you have after season demotion is that for a while lower level players suffer because now all Diamond+ players are in Gold 2/Plat and still can play every rank (season 9 change). Yet the fact that now you are getting matched with very mixed teams e.g. one team can have a Gold 2 (ex diamond), Silver 2, Bronze 4 does not mean that SBMM does not work, it is just a period of randomness where higher skilled players will have an easy time and rank up very fast, I saw some of my friends who were high Diamond reaching high Plat/Diamond within 2-4 days.
2. What is your perfect case scenario then? Putting you into lobbies which you can win say 50% of a time or higher aka discriminating other people or actually use current system where probably average win percentage is between 3-5% because applying basic math gives you exactly that result:
if we assume that every fight you take is 50/50 -> winning first fight 50% chance, winning two in a row 50%*50%=25%, winning 3 in a row = 13%, 4 = <5%, 5 = <3%. Make your conclusions of how many fights you take or not take and add to that skill difference (that some squads will be higher skilled) and you get your win percentage = SBMM works just fine.
3. Not sure why there even should be SBMM in pubs as most play them as free for all, I even have had comments when IGLing like "stop trying so hard, its pubs" "chill out dude, we don't need IGL" "have fun" etc. Public always has been a place where people just come for crazy stuff and most of the time they would be happy to see not a win (secondary) but the fact that they completed 10 challenges, got 5 badges, 1 apex pack, 5 new skins, dealt 100000 damage, got 30 kills, were kill leader etc. etc. A few care about winning really there and ones who do usually win.
4. Not sure there are actually 2 different systems of SBMM, matches I am getting are pretty consistent and trust me they are not very motivating, I rather want to quit this game than keep playing which I do when games are just crazy hard, sometimes play <10 ranked games a day.
Matchmaking is a steaming pile of hot garbage, specially in RANKED Arenas. Teammates are always below level 100, mainly below level 70, and enemy team is usally level 100+ with premade teams (as given by club names), sometimes the enemy teams have low levels, but those are usually just cheaters and smurphs.
It's nearly impossible to play any mode, due to the terrible matchmaking, and rampant unchecked cheating/smurphing.
- @Midnight9746 Ranked and Arenas is the keyword here - honestly, I don't understand the game mode and even less the difference between Ranked and Not ranked mode.
Play a few games, did find that yes matchmaking is just bad, most players push the action even more than in BR... this mode maybe is somewhat playable when you play set team vs set team, otherwise it is total trash without any carry-over effect.
At best I could say that you can practice you 1 vs 3 here but again how useful it is when enemies are either really bad - you can easily win multiple 1v3 during the game or vice versa as per the concept of BR 1v3 is close to 100% not winnable given time to kill and damage output.
To sum up - I dont and never will play Arenas.
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