I PTO and have a human K/D of 2.27 so I guess I count as a decent player.Yesterday I was put into one terrible team after another for 2,5 hours straight.When I quit a server and did the matchmaking process again, the next team I was put in was equally terrible.In the end I just quit BF2042 altogether and played BF1 instead.To DICE/EA:If you want to use skill-based matchmaking then you gotta make it easy for the “good” players to group with each other.This means putting them into the same squads + give them an easy way of finding each other and squadding together in pre-round start.Right now the players who are supposed to help a team perform well have a cumbersome time if they want to squad together.Most of the time they just give up, accept whatever squad they were put in and then quit the server if it becomes too frustrating (poor team, no squad play and so on)

@VOLBANKER_PCI believe there is SBMM present in game but have no proof that it exists. I really don't believe EA/DICE have the technology to pull it off properly. Adding to players frustration.

@OSpazX what you will realize in here is the huge egos of a few. 'Narcissistic Personality Disorder': "my K/D is such and such, and I do all the work in my team (we lose because of them), everyone else who isn't as good as me is mentally handicapped." So much insecurity on display. Here's me thinking the BF franchise is rated 16/18+.Every day seems to be a day for online compensation; staring into their reflection on the water.

Would love to know how the algorithm works for 2042 matchmaking, because there are SO MANY variables.The one players always refer to is - KD.No. A brain-dead player can have a good KD, so that's literally not a factor at all.What can you do in 2042?Cap/defend objectivesKillReviveSupplyCounter(based on specialists)Various character abilities(spawn beacon etc.)Vehicle playGenerally playing smartBut I think it's even more than that.It's when, and why you do these things that matter.It's a very complex scenario..Really, I'd love some insight into it all.BTW: I'd never wanna rely on Stodeh in my squad or team.. He doesn't give a *.. Doesn't really play the game as designed, like most of those of his ilk.But, whatever..Seems like a good skin, nonetheless.

@VOLBANKER_PC I've seen saying that for a while now. I have 3.2 overall human k/d, 3.7 k/d on my main - Zain.It feels like every single game I'm playing with a brick wall. My team does **** all while I'm sweating my nutsack off trying to turn things around for no reason because we get shafted with a 400-500 point difference in the end.This is why in a lot of games I simply turn off my brain and just start farming enemy players and not even bother with capturing/reviving or anything PTFO related.Are you going to play for the next couple of days? Just out of curiosity, lets screenshot the games that we play and see how results stack up.

Going out into Guessing Land here.... but maybe when you are playing, there just are not many other "good" players out there.<RANDOM RANT MODE INITIALIZED>IMHO, K/D is a stoopid metric. Not as stupid as Win/Lose ratio....but close.Why do I say that? Well, I play as Support. Yesterday I just T1'd Falck, with my standard load-out of SFAR-M , a handgun, Weapon Crate and Grenade (Usually not used, as I have the incendiary Grenade on the AR. These days I'm playing Breakthrough, which is quite fast paced, of course.I spend most of my time trying to revive people, shoot them with the health syringe, and dropping Ammo packs for people to resupply. As a result, I don't get too many kills - Hard to shoot folks with Shock Paddles in your hands. And, as everyone knows, often someone camps looking at your dead body, hoping someone comes to revive them, and then boom goes the reviver.When I am not playing Support, I am an Engineer... jumping in aircraft to sit in that exposed seat to run the Repair Tool.For both Support and Engineer, most metrics are irrelevant.Win/Lose ratio? Well, that's going to depend on both your TEAM and the opposition TEAM. You can't control who your are lumped in with. So I ignore both K/D and W/L. In fact, I don't care about any "game" metric. (Too be honest, I've never been too good at FPS PvP, and I grew up during the Wolf3D/Doom/Quack era. Yes, I am old, and console (XBox) is just no comparison to playing on PC with KBM)The only metric that is important to me..... am I having fun playing this game. If not, I'll switch to some other GamePass game.Regards,OSpazX*Edit for bad spelling and sentence structure!

Skill-based matchmaking in BF2042

16 Replies

sk1lld
Legend
2 years ago
@VOLBANKER_PC

I believe there is SBMM present in game but have no proof that it exists. I really don't believe EA/DICE have the technology to pull it off properly. Adding to players frustration.
VOLBANKER_PC
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@sk1lld I think you are right.

Just got an idea though:

Out in the long list of which players are on each team, what if there was an option on each player called “Suggest squad”?

Then the recipient can select “Accept” or “Decline”.

If recipient selects “Accept”, he’s moved into the squad of the person asking to squad.

Of course there would still be a need to remove someone from your squad. Otherwise it just autofills with random players.
X-Sunslayer-X
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@VOLBANKER_PC my personal best was getting MVP in a lobby for 10 games and loosing every single round with an average of 1.5x the score of the 2nd placed in my "team" needless to say i question if the BF community even has their monitors/TVs turned on at times or if they were held back in elementary school until adulthood....
VOLBANKER_PC
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@X-Sunslayer-X Yes, so many players do poorly in BF2042! It’s not unusual for half the team to have a negative K/D.
UP_LordPlumber
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@VOLBANKER_PC I've seen saying that for a while now. I have 3.2 overall human k/d, 3.7 k/d on my main - Zain.

It feels like every single game I'm playing with a brick wall. My team does **** all while I'm sweating my nutsack off trying to turn things around for no reason because we get shafted with a 400-500 point difference in the end.

This is why in a lot of games I simply turn off my brain and just start farming enemy players and not even bother with capturing/reviving or anything PTFO related.

Are you going to play for the next couple of days? Just out of curiosity, lets screenshot the games that we play and see how results stack up.
VOLBANKER_PC
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@UP_LordPlumber That may become my way of getting some fun out of BF2042 too.

I will try to remember to take screenshots of the scoreboard but for the time being I have actually gone back to Battlefield 1.

Nice K/D btw.!
OSpazX
2 years ago
Going out into Guessing Land here.... but maybe when you are playing, there just are not many other "good" players out there.
<RANDOM RANT MODE INITIALIZED>
IMHO, K/D is a stoopid metric. Not as stupid as Win/Lose ratio....but close.
Why do I say that? Well, I play as Support. Yesterday I just T1'd Falck, with my standard load-out of SFAR-M , a handgun, Weapon Crate and Grenade (Usually not used, as I have the incendiary Grenade on the AR. These days I'm playing Breakthrough, which is quite fast paced, of course.
I spend most of my time trying to revive people, shoot them with the health syringe, and dropping Ammo packs for people to resupply. As a result, I don't get too many kills - Hard to shoot folks with Shock Paddles in your hands. And, as everyone knows, often someone camps looking at your dead body, hoping someone comes to revive them, and then boom goes the reviver.
When I am not playing Support, I am an Engineer... jumping in aircraft to sit in that exposed seat to run the Repair Tool.
For both Support and Engineer, most metrics are irrelevant.
Win/Lose ratio? Well, that's going to depend on both your TEAM and the opposition TEAM. You can't control who your are lumped in with. So I ignore both K/D and W/L. In fact, I don't care about any "game" metric. (Too be honest, I've never been too good at FPS PvP, and I grew up during the Wolf3D/Doom/Quack era. Yes, I am old, and console (XBox) is just no comparison to playing on PC with KBM)
The only metric that is important to me..... am I having fun playing this game. If not, I'll switch to some other GamePass game.
Regards,
OSpazX
*Edit for bad spelling and sentence structure!
VOLBANKER_PC
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@OSpazX The thing is: I play Falck too as Main. I revive and give health. Yet my K/D with Falck is 2.2 or something like that.

There is no law in nature saying if you do your duty with revives and give health, your K/D will be bad as a result.
Alethes
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@OSpazX what you will realize in here is the huge egos of a few. 'Narcissistic Personality Disorder': "my K/D is such and such, and I do all the work in my team (we lose because of them), everyone else who isn't as good as me is mentally handicapped." So much insecurity on display. Here's me thinking the BF franchise is rated 16/18+.
Every day seems to be a day for online compensation; staring into their reflection on the water.
Hudson1531
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@VOLBANKER_PC Agreed that’s an interesting idea.

Would love the a i m botters to be clumped together in matches 😂 saves them from ruining my game