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New Traveler

4 years ago

Ranked Arena Matchmaking and MMR

TL;DR The placement match system is broken misplaced players get to hard intensity games in very low rank solo ranked players get matched with the duo and put against the premade trio carrying g...

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papahandsoap

4 years ago

Title pretty much explains it.

There is zero merit to ranking in this game if I either get a clean wipe or I have to 1v3. The matchmaking feels even more polarized in arenas. I either match with two serious gunners or two fresh installs.

Arenas has so much potential but every session I get a terrible experience with teammates that are level 40 or less with 20 kills on who they're playing while I'm level 500 and a consistent diamond player. This happens within my first 3 games every run.

TheApexLegendNu

4 years ago

@papahandsoapI think the problem is a few problems,

#1 Arenas is not a popular mode to begin with because of the lack of objectives like points to defend from or bombs to search and destroy

#2 Another Issue is what very little percentage of players that actually are playing Arenas is being split between Arenas and Ranked Arenas leaving you with terrible matchmaking...

What I think needs to happen is to entirely remove Casual Arenas and make Arenas into Ranked Arenas period because there is no reason to have 2 queues that are exactly the same and both have penalties whats the point in splitting the playerbase between 2 modes that are exactly the same... The matchmaking should be better than It currently is but by no means will ever be perfect until they add objectives or modes like death match with multiple/unlimited respawns to engage the playerbase... if we wanted a 3 v 3 BR game mode we would just play BR

papahandsoap
4 years ago
@TheApexLegendNub I think if they go down the rabbit hole of adding more and more game modes, we'll run into the same issue in all of the secondary game modes. Low player count because most will still be in battle royale and every other mode will have 3-5% of the playerbase. If they want Arenas and other game modes to succeed, they need to rotate them in and out (to prevent player populations in each type getting too low) and they need to properly structure the game type and the matchmaking for it.