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New Vanguard

26 days ago

EASHL 6vs6: Atrocious Matchmaking

As a random player/gamer, not someone's buddy, bro, member of a club or any of the other nonsensical monikers, this online portion of the game really favours and caters to being a part of a group. Se...

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WFWR26

Rising Traveler

24 days ago

Its in 3v3 too...my buddies and myself finally bought 26 on sale for 30 bucks (we will never pay full price for another NHL ever...havent for at least 6 years). Anyhow, hop on 26 last night for our first chel club games together. We are level 11-8-1-1. We get matched up for our first 4 games against prestige 2's-3's-4's. Multiple platinum, purple diamond, and fire badge players lol. Finally for our 4th game we get a favorable match up of levels ranging from the 20's to 40's for an overall team. What even is the point of the rating system, if they arent going to use it to matchmake games. Its pointless. Mideswell not even have ranks.

Modulater83
New Hotshot
24 days ago
Just FYI, you don't really need to bother looking at the levels with regards to matchmaking. All the levels will tell you is how much time a person has put into the game. That can correlate to skill level in a general sense as a higher level will mean someone who played the game more, but their rank (Silver, Gold, Plat, etc) or RP number will give you a better idea of the match up. There are plenty of high level players who have modest ranks/RP.
That said, I agree with your point. My team is composed of high silver and golds. When our opponents are silver, gold, or even plat, the games tend to be competitive and we have a good win%. When we face diamonds we've been able to beat them with really careful defensive play but will lose a majority...and then there are the elites (fires)...I don't think we've ever beaten a single one. Even close games eventually break open in the third. There does need to be a significantly reduced chance of matching up with a team that far outside your rank.