Matchmaking is still trash . . .
Respawn's blog post was an outright lie.
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@dSKyNafinchinMy lobbies have changed drastically. The new changes I'm sure were sent in with s16. My games have been dreadful I'm being paired against 3 stack players with 50k + kills as a solo player. It use to be rough but nothing like I'm seeing this season. Enough so to where I'm hardly even playing the game anymore. It has become not as fun with the changes I'm seeing. Friends hardly even play anymore. I do not mind playing against preds or masters but to have half a lobby filled with them is beyond annoying. I can solo 1-2 people but 3? Just not doable by me with my skill level. No reason when going in solo I should be faced against teams who devote all their time playing together and being strong together when I'm solo. Needless to say these match-making changes are taking a tole on me.
Also it feels like they are tossing us all over different regions. Some games I'm at 20 ping other servers I'm at 120 ping or more. I tested out of science every single region in NA to see my highest ping when playing was a 50 ping. I then went to UK where I average about 120 give or take. So if I'm not seeing 120 ping on any NA server that I'm on and I am randomly this is meaning I'm being pushed to other regions. Typically id chalk it up as server issues but upon testing it was a clear sign something is going on behind the scenes. (Mind you just an assumption on my end) but upon testing I'm seeing a big difference.
@E9ine_AC I still think a lot of people don’t believe that these lobbies exist in pubs. I tell people all the time that the top “bucket” is essentially all Masters and Preds and they often tell me that’s impossible, because that would mean that high level players are playing high level players.
- @Axs5626Sxa5001 Those people have no idea.
- @hayhor Well dude, I'm glad you realize this. I always thought you were against this idea and thought it was make believe.
- @Unitee01 Hayhor (from my observations and experiences) has been rational on this matter.
He has, on many occasions, highlighted how lower to average skilled players do indeed currently benefit from the matchmaking used now.
- @Axs5626Sxa5001 I think youtube/streamers plays a role in this - people see high level players decimate lobbies and think they can do the same if they reach that level. Nope, it's literal hell on earth to maintain that bc of the lobbies you get. My only question is, how do they seem to get easier lobbies so often vs the rest of us? Luck? or just time? Or is it a population issue?
- @Unitee01 Well said.
