Is horribly broken. I should never enter a game where everyone on my team is under level 10 and the entire other side is over level 12 and spawn camping my side for the entire match. My teams skill level and situational awareness was more than horrible. There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of matchmaking.
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Black_Bob
(Black_Bob)
#2
Level does not equal skill, some people have played other competitive games for decades before dirty bomb, even if they are just starting dirty bomb at level 5/6 ish would be way better than someone whos only ever played dirty bomb as their first game and are currently level 14/15ish for example.
The only thing that matters in ranked match making is the competitive rank bronze, silver, gold cobalt and elite. sadly like all ranked matched making you need to calibrate which means having a few unbalanced games when you first start, but once you get going (10 matches) games are usually balanced.
Unless your are rolling as a 5 stack late on a Saturday night when few other teams are playing then match making gets a little dodgy, haha oh weve been stomped, but we enjoyed it and learnt plenty of new tricks, just make the most out of bad situations and learn what you can.
MTLMortis
(MTLMortis)
#3
[quote=“Black_Bob;64557”]
Level does not equal skill, [/quote]
I know that. I’ve been playing competitive FPS games since the OGL league with Quake CTF. That was not the case here and Dirty Bomb has no way of knowing anyone’s prior FPS history.
[quote=“Black_Bob;64557”]
The only thing that matters in ranked match making is the competitive rank bronze, silver, gold cobalt and elite. sadly like all ranked matched making you need to calibrate which means having a few unbalanced games when you first start, but once you get going (10 matches) games are usually balanced. [/quote]
I can absolutely guarantee you that no one on my team was ranked. Neither am I. There is no point in it until the problems get fixed.
You learn nothing when being spawn camped and flanked. I’m not just being whiny for the sake of bitching. This was a case of taking Man U and having a serious match vs grade schoolers. That should never happen. All it does is turn people off the game and especially competitive.
Black_Bob
(Black_Bob)
#4
You just learnt you could get flanked 
Recent experience from playing other games recently with match making like DOTA2 your first calibration matches will always be a guess/unbalanced, they usually place you mid table skill wise and if you win or lose they will move you up and down appropriately until you hit your actual skill level.
So if you finish your calibration matches you will start getting matches of your skill level, some people will have played pub to level 20 before trying out competitive that’s just hard luck, but at the end of the day they are still unranked like you.
toolboxSconce
(toolboxSconce)
#5
And what about numbers, man? I just finished game 4v6 lasting for more then 20 min in Ojective
Alex_Andra
(Alex)(Andra)
#8
Last match I played. 4 Unrank + Me V/S 4 Gold + 1 Cobalt… Yeah yeah, good balance…
I like the game, but the balance is really horrible.
Sometimes you can’t even spawn, and sometimes you have a bunch of noobs in front of you that you don’t even notice.
Fix it please, ASAP. This should be a priority.
Alex_Andra
(Alex)(Andra)
#9
@Black_Bob said:
but once you get going (10 matches) games are usually balanced.
Like I said in my previous post. 4 Unrank in my team V/S 4 Gold + 1 Cobalt.