My thoughts about the new season changes
I have never been more excited for a season like I am right now. They have done a really good job and they obviously care for the game a lot more than what the majority of players think. For those o...
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at least they tell you in adavance , they dont want to assemble balanced teams.
ill bet this UI item will vanish in a couple of days, when they realize ppl will just quit the lobby if they get presented with the red line at the bottom of the pit multiple games in a row.
I've actually got to the point where I'm way more interested in what the distribution curve tells me than I am in the match. And honestly, I'm not sure if I've misunderstood which data they're presenting, or am somehow not reading it correctly, but: What I see in matches where I check no fill is exactly what I would expect to see and it's consistent from one match to another. What I see when I'm in a squad does not always make sense. Best example is this: I've seen a match or two where the curve looked identical to the one above. I would assume that means that no one in the entire match falls outside of the grey area. Including myself. And yet when I solo my "team" of just me always presents as a red line that hits the exact high point of the bell curve. If I'm that statistically average player, then how am I suddenly, when teamed, in any part of the grey area when it falls well to the right of the bell curve peak? Makes no sense to me. What am I missing???
yea i noticed the same, i guess that visible bell curve doesnt reflect the general game skill curve nor the curve of active players in that lobby (it would just give too much information about their well guarded hidden MMR i guess), so the position of the grey area has to be taken with a grain of salt
I've kept chewing on it and what may be going on is this: the grey does not represent the range of skill of every individual in the match. It represents the range of skill of each team averaged, just as the red line represents the average of the three members of your own squad. It makes sense, but it also shows that there will be players in every match, probably a lot of them, who fall well outside the grey area, and that is not good matchmaking. It doesn't matter if they're far higher or far lower than the average. It just doesn't make for a good match, and that it consistent with the way matchmaking has been for several seasons now, and it also explains why it isn't any better this season, even though the information "unintentionally" makes things look okay. Very clever, Respawn.
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