On 6 separate accounts, I have the current same results:Performing well in Mixtape will impact your BR MMR rating and give you sweatier lobbies. One of the 5 accounts on which this is tested provides me the most clear evidence. I currently have an account with 500+ deaths and no damage and no kills. Performing well on this account in Mixtape then switching to BR puts me in lobbies with Master and Pred trails, and many Diamond trails (despite my BR stats reading as 0)The same is true for the other accounts. Losing 50-60 games with under 100 damage and early elimination will drop me into weaker BR lobbies, but this is altered the moment I do well in Mixtape, where I am instantly put back in lobbies that are majority Masters players.

@Airish85 There's a difference between being in lesser lobbies and the 'right' lobbies. Too many people think the 'right' lobbies mean they are guaranteed to get some kills and/or win a game. In 5 to 10 games it is really easy to have a few unlucky, a few where the person made poor plays and a few where they just got outplayed by similarly skilled opponents. Sometimes people need to really look at what happened. It's the only way to improve.

@Airish85 1- I never said the MM is good right now. The whole pairing of one great player with a mediocre and low skill level team is poor.2- The MM blog post talked most about premades so if you are solo q, it probably does not affect you as much.3- We have no idea if the new MM is even on all servers yet.4- From what I can tell the new MM has not rolled out on servers I play. The above still happens.My point still stands that it isn't the MM that kills people every match. But like AA to mnk people or my legend is underpowered it is a crutch people cling to instead of looking in the mirror. I make excuses for my deaths too.

@Axs5626Sxa5001 I agree that mixtape affects the rest. What's weird tho is mixtape seems to be fairly random for me. To the point I tend to perform at a high level on almost every team I'm on in it. I see my share of preds and masters but also see a mix of people with complete lack of game sense on the same team.

@hayhor This seems to be their current "answer" to matchmaking fairness. All teams seem to have one or two TTV-level players, then on down the line to people who can barely eke out 200 damage.It's one of the most ridiculous things I've seen, considering that the single high-rated player can literally wipe the entire lobby solo. It's common for one person to have 20+ kills and over 4k damage, while others only have 2-3.The worst is when there are smurfs involved as well, which tends to shift the match toward one team heavily (several yesterday were 45-to-9 level of bad, even when the other team was missing a few players).

It takes 50-60 games! Wow EA must really hate the players.The whole MM is stupid. It encourages you to play stupid. I think EA/Respawn dont understand that 99% of the player base does not get what the BR means.And they should treat it at such by KDR & average dmg being the only evaluative tool for MM in pubs. Its not the ALGS or ranked you know where you get some reward for positioning and you know playing battle royale. Lets say you accidentally drop somewhere quiet and the whole lobby does the typical with 5 teams left after first ring you are once again on the losing end with the matchmaking evaluating you wrong even if you get 0 dmg done for the whole of the match. Officially done for this season. Played a bunch of matches today without getting a single kill.Then got two accidental kills (Caustic gas canister was probably closest thing to the players when they were caught by the ring) and the way I see it that the MM sees it as the highpoint of my day and nothing good coming at me in the next matches.

Mixtape and BR share a Matchmaking Rating

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hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Airish85 There's a difference between being in lesser lobbies and the 'right' lobbies. Too many people think the 'right' lobbies mean they are guaranteed to get some kills and/or win a game. In 5 to 10 games it is really easy to have a few unlucky, a few where the person made poor plays and a few where they just got outplayed by similarly skilled opponents. Sometimes people need to really look at what happened. It's the only way to improve.
meece
3 years ago
Problem comes in two directions:
1) Matching isn't granular - by design it's destroy or be destroyed. They intentionally match crap players with good ones so they get a sense of 'achievement and progression'
2) Way too easy to pingpong between those extremes
Real fkin simple
Airish85
3 years ago
@hayhor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c 🙂

Got outplayed by a better player. Or beamed by some 20B 4K trio (wonder how that happened with the new fair MM that these SoloQ sweats got in the same team... or even worse if the premade got in the same lobby). So what you are saying is just Git Good right? Dont make mistakes. Because with the MM we have now you cannot make any mistakes or miss shots.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Airish85 1- I never said the MM is good right now. The whole pairing of one great player with a mediocre and low skill level team is poor.
2- The MM blog post talked most about premades so if you are solo q, it probably does not affect you as much.
3- We have no idea if the new MM is even on all servers yet.
4- From what I can tell the new MM has not rolled out on servers I play. The above still happens.

My point still stands that it isn't the MM that kills people every match. But like AA to mnk people or my legend is underpowered it is a crutch people cling to instead of looking in the mirror. I make excuses for my deaths too.

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