Profile Based Matchmaking
So after another game with 2 looting Larry's who seem to never leave the area they land until everything is looted (they landed swamps) while I crossed to the other side of the map trying to find a s...
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It's very good idea, but I think EA don't want to do with this anything so we can just do posts on forum thats it.
I don't think this is a good idea because it could be exploited I believe. I think it could be open to manipulation in some ways.
What I think would be really, really wonderful is if we had a much improved friends system. Battlelog used to be great for friends.
I would say as well that my style of play is not necessarily either aggressive or not. I use aggression in a controlled way. I can play very aggressively but when I choose to. I also like to think deeply about how I play but to also allow my play to emerge over a lot of played time. I like to play with very intelligent and tolerant people from a similar background to my own. But that is very, very, very difficult to do. Gaming these days stops that from happening. There is a wholesale attitude to matchmaking that puts entire regions together. It's much harder to make friends that way. With a poor friends system it's harder still. Factor in thinks like age, language, experience and other factors and unless you are lucky enough to be in the core demographic you will probably struggle to find what you want. It wasn't so bad when we had private servers and clan servers in PC gaming. Then you just picked your clan which was most likely quite local to you. We are absolutely light years from that these days.
Fair point about possible abuse of such a system, I doubt people who hate going skulltown, or hotzone will be convinced to set aggression to max because Shroud said on stream they should do it. I don't think the introduction of preferences of going to make people change their already preferred playstyles.
As for trolling, ergo, people behaving contradictory to their settings, this is something which already happens.
As of right now, it happens frequently where one squad mate just going his own way.
Obviously, any system like that would need to go through extensive testing before seeing the light of day, in case what you say happens, and player behavior becomes so predictable that the whole charm of battle royales is gone. I'm talking about every game being pretty unique due to chaotic player behavior.
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