Skilled-based matchmaking

@Hiddensniper154 This season has been ridiculous. I keep getting paired with the lowest ranked, worst players out there. I'm getting slaughtered every match. They definitely changed something this season or an army of newbies have joined the game.

@Hiddensniper154 There is no matchmaking in this game. Zero. People should stop implying there is one.

I'm at silver 1 currently. I get into a match with another guy and another spot is empty. So the two of us drop and get destroyed during the first encounter against a group of three with one guy having 31k kills.

Think about it. 31k kills in silver 1.

@BaronKreight << There is no matchmaking in this game. Zero. People should stop implying there is one. >>

Agreed. Part of why I am just doing my 2 matches a day as whomever, and then out.

I am annoyed with being terrible but experienced terrible (creeping up on level 250) and my squad always being levels 1 to 25, with zero kills, and then because they think they will be the next streamer they hot drop an area with 5 other squads.

When you're new and you suck, you need to gear up. And when you're experienced but you suck, you need to gear up and maximize your 3rd party options to win (which is how I have all my wins).

@BaronKreight If there was no mm you would have a better experience just judging from the math alone. What you feel happening is 100% intentionally being done to you. SBMM working 100% as intended, = keeping your interest by making it unrealistically hard in any way possible.

Test it by losing a bunch in a row and see lobbies getting progressively easier as a result over time.

Go and do the math yourself - what percentage of players are below average? The vast majority is. Who can make it to diamond / Master / pred? Very few by comparison, so why do you think you see more sweats than casuals on average, assuming you are above average? It's because the vast majority of bad players are hidden from you and because the matches are planned out that way from the start. Some matches you have for eg. 20% chance of winning from the start and some 0%, others around 60%..it all depends on many variables obviously, and also how many matches / kills you had recently. For me it can be 1 good match in every 10-20 games played. Considering the amount of players available I would call that a unrealistic number to have fun or achieve decent success. Sad thing is the difficulty level of lobbies scales with your own progression, so even if you improve the high you get from it would be short lived.

I believe there's is also some algorithm being collected on your personal data as to when you leave a game after a certain amount of losses/wins. And that influences difficulty of your lobbies as well.

@BaronKreight Ugh. Please stop.

I am an above average player who consistently only plays Masters and Preds in public matchmaking. This is STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE if there was no SBMM.

Sbmm exists and whether you acknowledge it or not, it’s making your life easier than if matchmaking were random.

@BaronKreight There is very obvious matchmaking in this game. Your example is extremely flawed. That 31k kill person in silver is there because they don't play ranked much. Not all of the best players play ranked. Some stick with pubs but go into ranked to farm low lobbies up to a certain point.

@Zkepz You too get Constanly paired with guys who just started playing?