Why is matchmaking so broken?

(amazonHoliday) #1

is it just bad luck or what i got about 300 hours in the game but it seems like matchmaking is so broken anyone know if it’s broken or if people straight up sucks in the game i played for 5 hours and not 1 of the games was balanced

(srswizard) #2

There’s no matchmaking in casual, and yes, everyone sucks.

(CameFromThePast) #3

DB is 10/10, but its lobby balance is -100/10.

(Enzo) #4

Balance my child is a Fantasy in this game.

Balance what balance. Even the comps are pubs but hey don’t let them know they will be terra mad.

(amazonHoliday) #5

@srswizard said:
There’s no matchmaking in casual, and yes, everyone sucks.

True there but even comp got shitty matchmaking im only silver 2 never play comp so it was 1 Cobalt and rest was gold agianst silver and unranked

(Naralin) #6

Another balance thread. How many of them have been created since the open beta seriously?
And yet they discussed about audio in their last stream.

Sometimes I feel like they have a filter to hide specific words like: balance, matchmaking and RNG.

(cordovanJive) #7

It’s not an issue with the matchmaking system really, it’s the faCT nobody plays it. And so nobody gets correct ranks (because the pool is so small) and so you get unbalanced matches.

And pubs will always be imba, they can’t do anything to fix that.

(srswizard) #8

@amazonHoliday right, yeah, there really aren’t enough people playing ranked, for the matches to be balanced, and it’s premades vs randoms most of the time.

They still haven’t given people a reason to play ranked, in a form of rewards or leaderboards…

(LifeupOmega) #9

No incentives to play MM means low player pool. They really need to start making it a thing people want to play because dear christ you can only pub for so long before you get bored with clueless players.

(Whens_Phoenix) #10

I think they need to put a big PSA on the sever browser since people have seemingly forgotten what a sever browser does. Every single time I play there’s one guaranteed compliant about “matchmaking”.

And yeah it’s been answered a million times even in this thread; in case of competitive there is no playerbase big enough to pair people better. Unless more people start playing the mode the matchmaking will be ass.

(Scrazzor) #11

This game has a super high skill cap so one player can alone upset any type of balance. So balancing in this game will always be hard. Howerver I do have some suggestions that would help the balancing issue.

There is 5v5 competitive matchmaking and then there is 6v6, 7v7 and 8v8 casual. Why so many options? There is not much difference between 6v6 and 7v7 or 7v7 and 8v8. Whynot just have competitive 5v5 and casual 7v7. That would make it way easier to split players on servers matching their levels. If you are over lvl 10 you should never play against player under level 10 in a dream scenario.

Another thing that would help the balancing issue is longer time in the lobby. I don´t see the point in rushing the game to start when the server is almost never full when a match starts. The servers normally fills up during the first 2-3 minutes of a game and that bypasses any type of balancing algorithms. Extend the lobby time and use the balancing algorithms just before the game is about to start.

(LifeupOmega) #12

I’ll just bring this by after today’s play session because I’m honestly tired of playing with stupid and useless enemies and teammates. I want a proper ladder system with ranking that works and a populated MM pool. But this is a dream it seems.