A Proposed Rework to Skill Based Matchmaking
NOTE: It's only lengthy because I tried to answer as many questions as possible It NEEDS to be much more dynamic, adjusting your skill rating after every game, either raising it slightly or lowerin...
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@apostolateofDOOM you're dealing 1000+ damage which implies you're hitting shots. That indicates something about your skill rating. You could have always positioned yourself better or heard the guy. That indicates something about your skill. But this guy walked up behind you while you were healing. He hit you so that indicates he's good enough to hit a person which gives him a very tiny boost to his skill rating based on accuracy and engagement rules. You lose a tiny bit because of your poor positioning. But I want to stress how little you would lose in such a circumstance. You could not lose any at all. This is an open forum. Hitboxes factor into accuracy and while Respawn suggests certain characters are used certain ways, you don't HAVE to use them that way. I got an aggressive 19 Kill 4600 damage game with Rampart and used her walls 4 times that game. I didn't even use Sheila. The aim assist system in this game is how they track accuracy. You really think that if you shoot 30 bullets into a wall Respawn decreases your overall accuracy? You'd be put into skill brackets very similar to ranked with with RP. Except RP becomes your skill rating. There'd be a range to allow for plays having better or worse games still in the same bracket. Keep having good games, keep moving up the ladder.
And you're absolutely wrong. There is NO FLUACTUATION WHATSOEVER in the lobbies now. That's the whole point. That's the key point to all of this. Fluactuation. Dynamic. Always changing. Real time. That's exactly my problem with SBMM now. You're hardstuck in pred lobbies with nothing to do about it. There is NOTHING YOU CAN DO.
@ErectRainbow You need to acknowledge that the lack of fluctuation is your perceived truth, not the general truth. In my case, there are days when the first few matches feel extremely hard and sweaty, but later I get good matches, with top placements (including wins) and decent stats. Then, there's a lot of difference between the lobbies where I solo queue and those where I party with friends, so there's a lot of variation if you mix the two. And even sessions where I consistently get high level players in the lobby (pred, master and diamond trails), matches feel very differently. I actually got almost 3 consecutive wins in a day like this. In another I had an extremely boring win with 0 kills and 0 damage for the whole team, as everyone else kept fighting outside the ring for too long. That match was followed by a couple of sweat fests and then another few rather boring matches.
I think the fear of "preds" is getting a bit unhealthy. They can be killed by players far worse, they don't have extra shield or health and their bravery often makes them vulnerable. I've seen many die without kills and with low damage, picked up downed ones, had boring matches with them, killed a few surprisingly easy. Fear makes us panic or paralyses us, so we often end up losing the duels because we actually perform way below our skill.
I think the fear of "preds" is getting a bit unhealthy. They can be killed by players far worse, they don't have extra shield or health and their bravery often makes them vulnerable. I've seen many die without kills and with low damage, picked up downed ones, had boring matches with them, killed a few surprisingly easy. Fear makes us panic or paralyses us, so we often end up losing the duels because we actually perform way below our skill.
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