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OPL3XITY
5 years ago

Diamond 3 to predators, will this ranked issue be fixed?

Hi! As some of you might know, the ranked system has been broken for a couple seasons already. The problem is simple, matchmaking is fair until you reach diamond 3. Once you're at that level, you wil...
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hayhor's avatar
hayhor
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5 years ago
@OPL3XITY Diamond and above is like 3% of all players. You cant have preds in platinum lobbies, which is why they end up with diamonds. Not much can be done about this or queue times would increase immensely.
  • OPL3XITY's avatar
    OPL3XITY
    5 years ago

    @hayhorYour reply made me think out of the box. What if devs made a simple algorithm to compensate for unfair matchmaking. So let's say you're matched with a lobby full of pros but aren't supposed to, you would be matched with diamond 4 players that compensate for the unfair match. I believe rocket league uses that kind of system.

    Before you can go up, you'll be matched with higher level players right before ranking up. If you go down too quickly from being matched with too good players, it will match you up with lower skills players.

    • DarthValtrex's avatar
      DarthValtrex
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      5 years ago
      @OPL3XITY If they did something like what you suggest they would have to eliminate pre-mades in ranked. It would have to be entirely solo queuing. I think that would be even worse than matching D3-Preds together.

      As @hayhor has suggested there just are not enough players in the Diamond, Pred and Master lobbies. There are only 500 Predators and I'd imagine about as many Master rank players. To keep them in their own lobbies would make the game nearly unplayable for them, 10% of them would have to be on at the same time in order to fill up a single lobby. If you get eliminated first, you would be sitting around for 15-18 minutes waiting for the current match to end before you could start another round.

      It just won't work. The difference between most Diamond players and Predators is the squad they play on.. Everything else is fairly minimal in terms of a difference.
      • hayhor's avatar
        hayhor
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        5 years ago
        @DarthValtrex If you watch any masters or predator on twitch it many times takes 10 minutes or more to get a match. I cannot imagine how long it would be if they had to only play each other.
    • hayhor's avatar
      hayhor
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      5 years ago
      @apostolateofDOOM Yes I know, likely due to needing them to fill queues.

      And for the record I'm talking current pred and masters, not past seasons.

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