Skill Assessment Change
Dear Respawn:
If you throw away your current skill assessment algorithm and adopted the following, what do you think would happen to the game???
Skill (mmr) would be calculated on the average accuracy across the individual player's three most-used automatics (minus any shots fired with no near enemy). There is the possibility that you should add the accuracy from their most-used marksman or sniper as well. Maybe even from their most-used pistol. I leave that to you.
My thinking is that this would remove any pretext that says, "This player is 90% accurate with autos but never wins, so it's okay to put him in lobbies where the average player can barely tell which end of the gun is which just because those players sometimes get carried and thus have "wins" on their record." I don't believe I've ever rage quit a match because an enemy out-flanked me, or the winning squad had and kept better position, or was even better coordinated over all. Those are all things I can understand, can actually SEE in the game, and can tolerate. But when the vast majority of players that I encounter can beat me in a close-range auto fight, then we have a bigger problem. Obviously in any fight one player will have superior aim. That's how fights are won and lost. But sometimes.... often?... sometimes you walk away from a fight and it was pretty clear the other guy didn't miss a single bullet, and I can't always be sure that mine even registered. But even if they did, if I'm facing off against a guy whose accuracy exceeds the ALGS average buy more than double... then I'm starting to not really care whether the guy is just good, lucky, or cheating. It just doesn't matter to me. All I'm thinking, as I'm rage quitting, is "In what world is there a matchmaking system that puts me in the same lobby with this guy?"
Now I get that matchmaking is necessarily loose in these golden years of the game. But let's at least start from a place of honesty where we compare apples to apples. MMR based on accuracy seems pretty simple, pretty manipulation-proof, and probably (unless I'm forgetting something) pretty fair.
Thoughts?