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Guys I’m calm person and also not really good at playing these kind of games. But don’t you wanna really do sth with this rank system otherwise I will vomit… rly discussing
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I agree on using those mismatches as a learning experience. A lot of players won't want to hear it but it does help you get better if you can look past the irritation factor. Our team has definitely improved from trying to avoid the "just quit out" mentality.
That being said, I think playoffs are a different beast. Due to the current matchmaking, your success or failure depends too heavily on your luck in matchmaking. Even with each round being a best-of-7, its not enough to correct for the unfair matchups if you are unlucky. In the playoffs it really should take the individual RP of each of the players, average it out to get a current average team RP, and then set a cap against other teams current average team RP. Say you cant match with a team outside +/- 2000 average RP.
In my opinion the playoffs are one of the balanced. Because you get similar RP opponents that doesn't have like 3000RP more than you have. So for me playoffs was shockingly good experience because you got similar opponents agains you. Thats my personal take. If i played random games vs other clubs it was a nightmare sometimes, because that all were 2-4ranks higher players and more RP players.
Playoffs 1point, random team vs 0point
Unfortunately this isn't my experience. My team matches up against the gamut in the playoffs, silvers to elites. I think we've only ever seen bronze in regular season. We are gold 2s. This particular playoffs have been bad luck for us. Half our games vs teams full of diamonds where even if we compete in the first period they eventually pull away.
EA_Aljo, I hear you, but with only two cups, the Elite division has too large a distribution of the good to unbeatable teams.
EA_AljoCommunity Manager
You're only playing teams competing for the same cup. Their rank isn't taken into consideration, but typically teams in lower divisions will have lower rated players. There of course could be higher ranked players on those clubs though. I don't really see how we could restrict matchmaking by not only cup, but player rank. There would be very few matches then and wait times would be very long.
I totally understand the frustration when going up against higher skilled players, but that's also jut the competitive nature of games. In the real world, playoffs are seeded so the top team plays against the bottom team. The best I can advise is to stick with those difficult games to better learn how to play higher skilled teams.
All respect. Your advice should go to the developers. Being matched against 4 purples. When you are 2 gold. Is not a learning curve. It's a exploit fest that has no hope of a competitive game. We want competitive games.. don't have to win. We want hockey games. Fun hockey games. Please advice your developers and lets make a good game together..
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