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[ImageOmega]

COD Match Making and Console (PS3 and xBox) Play style sucks for PC!! There’s like 12 play styles in COD and I only liked and played 2 of them they rest sucked! I agree COD is popular but how Popular is it for PC and take that and divide it by 12 game mod’s… I waited for sometime 30 minutes in-order for that stupid match making crap to put me with a full server… And the server needs to be somewhat full to lock in the players…

Dedicated servers with a server browser and competitive matchmaking (plus ladders) can co-exist. See CS:GO for example.

[FireWater]

Matchmaking is key to fostering and evolving an audience, while also allowing the top level of players to compete with the very best. I don’t believe you need to ‘dumb’ down the game to provide a gradual learning curve. It’s more about presenting players with the basics and opening up the deeper facets of the game over time. Staging a learning curve is a lot more effective than throwing everything at the player at once. Not everyone wants to play Dwarf Fortress.

While I agree with you whole-heartedly with regards to tiering matchmaking to create as many close games as possible, I believe that sometimes people just want to hop in a server and play.

I am going to make a post to describe this a little more accurately.

[Hundopercent]

Dedicated servers with a server browser and competitive matchmaking (plus ladders) can co-exist. See CS:GO for example.

I believe this would be essential for XT at the moment.

[INF3RN0]

[QUOTE=FireWater;472133]While I agree with you whole-heartedly with regards to tiering matchmaking to create as many close games as possible, I believe that sometimes people just want to hop in a server and play.

I am going to make a post to describe this a little more accurately.[/QUOTE]

That’s why you have both options and everyone’s happy

[FireWater]

Yeah I agree, but who knows what will be allowed.

[acutepuppy]

I really do like the CS:GO matchmaking system, though it had the benefit of an established audience.

I think starting with a very simplistic system would be best, having users be able to “choose their difficulty” is a good way to go. This has worked well for War Thunder.

In War Thunder you have Aracde, Historic, and Full-Real battles. The rules are the same, but the controls and physics are much more complex, and people take the game much more seriously. The rewards for in-game currency are also much higher for winning the higher tier matches. XT could establish this idea with changes to the rulesets rather than core concepts.

I love dedicated servers, I really do. I’d love to run one for XT if they are available, especially with the Reddit community. If the game has excellent social matchmaking functions (easy and rewarding to add players to a “play with/against/recommend/avoid” preference), that would really modernize the experience for me. I don’t mind getting stomped, as long as the players killing me aren’t total jerks.

[FireWater]

I like how valve did CS:GO, choose whatever server, or for competitive, bring as many people as you want or go solo. I often find the matchmaker effective win or lose, I’ve had very few blowouts either victory or defeat. I have Master Guardian 2 rank, which I think means I am in the top 15% globally.