Skill based matchmaking in the mystery portal!

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@asukojo wrote:

For the boss hunt, the pseudo might be adjusted once the player passes normal level:

MatchMe (level)

    if (I've pass crazy & all team member has passed crazy level)

             Join me 

    otherwise

             matchMe (level -1)

   

If a player has pass crazy, match me to a team that already pass crazy,

Otherwise, match me to a team that at least pass hard -> normal 

If still can't find at team that at least pass normal, matchMe based on the rank.

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See, to me this sucks. I really enjoy helping struggling players with boss hunts. (I'm not a one man army or anything but I like to think I make a considerable difference.) I've finished all 4 hunts on craaazy (though I am missing the squash reward due to a disconnect) so I am happy to play any difficulty. Now I feel like I'm going to end up in craaazy matches over and over again with people only interested in farming stars at the most efficient rate. I'm sure I'll get other matches occasionally but only if the craaazy matches are full. I'm also worried I'll end up in lobby of people looking to help newer players only to find the rest of the team is doing the same. (thus, helping nobody.)

On the reverse I'm sure many people will finally get the hats they have struggled for. Then again, they didn't feel like having a boss hunt this month... *grumble* *grumble* So I guess we won't know until the next one, the actual impact.

A few thoughts.

All we have on this topic so far is a cryptic tweet from J Wiebe and our observations from the last portal.  So we don't know very much.  We will need to observe at least a couple more portals to get a real handle on what changes have been made.  For all we know it may have been a one time experiment.  And we have no idea if this will be implemented for boss hunt, though of course it certainly could be.  I will most likely continue to play boss hunts with people I already know rather than randoms.

My suspicion is similar to one voiced above, that this is testing out ideas for the future.  There seem to be a lot of complaints recently about matchmaking in turf takeover and I could see this as a step towards trying to better balance those lobbies.  I know I start playing with my friends, and before you know it there are six or so max ranks on one team.  Some players are amenable to switching teams to even out the odds and some players are not.  I could see parties and groups being split up by the game at some point in the future.

Gotta run, perhaps more on this later.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PvZGardenWarfare/comments/7z197x/popcap_please_remove_sbmm_i_cant_play_in_dead/?st=jdwdsl4u&sh=34a733bf