I just finished this stopwatch game that ended in a draw with all objectives finished during both sides.
Check this out: balanced to the second! images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/437199346627660625/1B7CE6BE4650E792450F30F03234B8F617DB6380/
Proof that MM does work sometimes!
Fleshpound
(Fleshpound)
#6
[quote=“Lumi;15681”]I just finished this stopwatch game that ended in a draw with all objectives finished during both sides.
Check this out: balanced to the second! images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/437199346627660625/1B7CE6BE4650E792450F30F03234B8F617DB6380/[/quote]
I never knew that MM is starting to be more balanced(on that example) than my medic mvp support.
Lumi
(Lumi)
#7
The server was full before I did the screenshot and there was someone in front of me, making me second. But indeed a good medic makes all the difference. After this game I played another one with 4 medics in my team who all only played to heal themselves. Needless to say that we lost…
SteelMailbox
(SteelMailbox)
#8
[quote=“Lumi;59181”][quote=“BanditFleshpound;59149”]
I never knew that MM is starting to be more balanced(on that example) than my medic mvp support.
[/quote]
The server was full before I did the screenshot and there was someone in front of me, making me second. But indeed a good medic makes all the difference. After this game I played another one with 4 medics in my team who all only played to heal themselves. Needless to say that we lost…[/quote]
Its kinda of a bad idea playing comp while sawbonez and sparks are on the rotation, everyone uses them with no idea what they are doing.
Lumi
(Lumi)
#9
It wasn’t comp, it was a pub game. I own both Sparks and Sawbonez, have had him for more than two months and her for over a month. Just prefer sparks to sawbonez as a medic, while I had a support xp mission with sawbonez in my squad going on. And that fateful 4 medic game I played Arty, so I had a completely different squad.
And indeed, many people don’t know how to use new classes…
Ardez1
(Ardez1)
#11
[quote=“Lumi;59205”]@steelMailbox
It wasn’t comp, it was a pub game. I own both Sparks and Sawbonez, have had him for more than two months and her for over a month. Just prefer sparks to sawbonez as a medic, while I had a support xp mission with sawbonez in my squad going on. And that fateful 4 medic game I played Arty, so I had a completely different squad.
And indeed, many people don’t know how to use new classes…[/quote]
Matchmaking doesn’t affect pub matches. Quick join doesn’t really check for skill level or competitive ranking when placing people in games. At all. It is just whoever shows up during the game. People could have easily left and joined during the duration of the match and that could have changed the outcome.
So this isn’t really an example of MM, just an example of a close pub game.
Amerika
(Amerika)
#12
[quote=“Ardez;59249”][quote=“Lumi;59205”]@steelMailbox
It wasn’t comp, it was a pub game. I own both Sparks and Sawbonez, have had him for more than two months and her for over a month. Just prefer sparks to sawbonez as a medic, while I had a support xp mission with sawbonez in my squad going on. And that fateful 4 medic game I played Arty, so I had a completely different squad.
And indeed, many people don’t know how to use new classes…[/quote]
Matchmaking doesn’t affect pub matches. Quick join doesn’t really check for skill level or competitive ranking when placing people in games. At all. It is just whoever shows up during the game. People could have easily left and joined during the duration of the match and that could have changed the outcome.
So this isn’t really an example of MM, just an example of a close pub game.[/quote]
Quick join does try to play people who are not level 5 yet into level 5 and lower servers. Same for people who are 10 and up with Min 10 servers. There is a pub ELO system that records how well you did in the last 10 matches and tries to sort people at the start of a new lobby as well. But new joins are not sorted…they just go to the team that is down a person or the attacker side if teams are even.
So there is some sorting done…just not much and it’s effectiveness is pretty questionable. I still think pub matches should do sorting at the start of the warm-up period as opposed to in the lobby. But that comes with negatives too.