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I'm sorry but I just cant agree with skill based matchmaking for games, mainly because in theory its all good but after having played Overwatch I know how ridiculously toxic people get and all the fun from playing casually with 59 other random people who can be either a total potato at the game or the best player in the server is lost, and I believe that the main thing on a battle royale, which is basically a gigantic arena where you don't know who you are facing until you get in a fight. There is no thrill or reason to get better if everyone is exactly at the same level, and even worse you start having to worry not to get degraded to lower levels because getting paired with random squadmates in skill based matchmaking gets frustrating VERY fast, especially on servers where people usually speak more than one language (and yes, the ping system helps a lot here but it still doesnt replace direct communication).
tl;dr I believe skill based matchmaking will make the community way more toxic, while taking away from regular players (who I believe are the core of the community) the fun of random encounters and the chaos a battle royale is supposed to be.
And btw, to the person who posted that people who are bad to the game don't get better by being matched against really good people, I really have to differ, as I feel I have greatly improved in other games playing almost exclusively against players who absolutely owned me (talking about SC2 here, playing against friends who were ranked Diamond and Masters while I was just starting playing online in Silver, soon I was able to hold a match against them). If I had not played against them I would had never made it to Diamond too, I would have probably stayed a long, LONG time in Silver or Gold having no real progress. And we are talking about a strategy game here, in which the luck factor of shooters (and by extention of BR games) is almost non existant and the outcome is purely based on skill.
@Caluka1337 wrote:
So basically you just want to have free wins.
I'm sorry but I just cant agree with skill based matchmaking for games, mainly because in theory its all good but after having played Overwatch I know how ridiculously toxic people get and all the fun from playing casually with 59 other random people who can be either a total potato at the game or the best player in the server is lost, and I believe that the main thing on a battle royale, which is basically a gigantic arena where you don't know who you are facing until you get in a fight. There is no thrill or reason to get better if everyone is exactly at the same level, and even worse you start having to worry not to get degraded to lower levels because getting paired with random squadmates in skill based matchmaking gets frustrating VERY fast, especially on servers where people usually speak more than one language (and yes, the ping system helps a lot here but it still doesnt replace direct communication).
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I am sorry but you don't seem to make too much sense...
On one hand you seem to be all against skill based match making.
On the other hand you plainly criticising someone as wanting "free win" is pointing out a big flaw of game without match maker.
But later you mention Overwatch and cite it as "proof" that match maker make people toxic (where does this come from, really?) and say match maker is a problem because it gives you "bad team mate"? Which is absolutely non sensical, how could a skill based match maker can give you WORST team mate that a random match maker?! :o
At any rate I too play a lot of Overwatch (level 2500) and I have many friends I play regularly with who are level 800 and more. I am low silver myself, I blame it on being 47. But some of my online friend are in the 20ies... and still high silver. Point is, you can improve only that much... You have some biological limit that would make play against way better player completely not worth it.
Point is, a skill base match maker help widen your audience, more people can have a good time.
And no, I will assert with the same complete lack of argument as you did, the reverse assertion. Skill based match maker does not impact player toxicity. And, if anything, could improve it marginally.
- 7 years ago
Exactly this! ^
How can somebody wanting matchmaking (therefore asking to play against people of similar skill lvl) be asking for free wins? That's EXACTLY the opposite! - 7 years agoi have been just killed by someone with 1000 kills.... i suppose i'll leave until you realize that is simply not fun for me (100 kills) deal with someone with 10X more played time / skill.
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