23 replies to this topic

[ohtochooseaname]

Since there are a lot of opinions floating around, I just thought I'd try to get some aggregate data by asking these poll questions and see where it goes. I think this topic is much like the ECM debate: there is a very vocal minority, with the vast majority being somewhat ambivalent.

[Nonsequitur]

ELO just isn't working at the moment IMHO. I've given it my all by playing as much as 6 hours per day since ELO was introduced in the hopes that the system would gather enough data to give me some good matches but it just isn't happening. I get perhaps one close match for every 10 that I play. All the other matches are either my team rolls the other team or my team gets steam rolled. Come on PGI! You'd think that after a week of constant playing I'd be able to get at least some decent games half the time.

[Calem]

Loaded poll is loaded. Getting shot is preferrable to getting torn to pieces, but that doesn't make it good.

[senaiboy]

Strange then, since I'm getting a lot more close matches than ever before. Even the ones with 8-0, 8-1 losses, it was because the other team outplayed us, not because the players on our team are just bad. I've played about 12 hours of MWO since ELO started, using light/medium/heavy mechs.

There is still the occasional player that ignores everyone and kills himself, but that's pretty rare now compared to before.

[Fomorian]

Been seeing a load of Assault loaded teams lately. Though a few of those matches were 8-0 stomps, but a few were hard fought wins 8-4 kind of affairs with the winning side torn to pieces and barely winning the match. But usually it's a stomp lol.

[Irvine]

The 3L madness has made me not appreciate the new system as much as a should. Apparently my tier in the system if filled with Cravens...

[Gen Kumon]

Average player skill in my matches seems about the same. That is, two or three good players, maybe one really good, and the rest seem like it's their first week. So meh, overall. Maybe it just need more data to average thinks out. Still too early to comment, I suppose.

On the other hand, since they relaxed the weight matching? Total chaos. Most matches I've played in have had at least a hundred ton difference between teams. I've seen it as high as 200, with multiple assaults on the other side and nothing bigger than a Dragon on mine. Making matches rather frustrating.

[sycocys]

I spent a good deal of time purposefully dragging mine down to see if it actually worked, but either the matching isn't in effect or it doesn't go down much at all (ie I pre-set myself far too high), because even sunday evening I was still matching up against players in the top of the boards consistently.

[ohtochooseaname]

I've had some crap games, but I've had far more truly epic games than before.

[Treebeard Longstride]

I'd say most of my matches have been pretty even, a few steamrolls one way or the other, with one glaring dissapointment of a game. The enemy team had fairly distributed weight classes. Our side had 5 lights, 2 mediums and a heavy. We had more ecm than we knew what to do with, but that doesnt help when the collective firepower of 5 mechs adds up to an atlas. We almost got away with capping their base, but we started to early and they had enough time to come back and kill us.

tl;dr: Combine Elo with even weight class distribution

[Corvus Antaka]

I love it. matches are way closer. I havent seena newb humping a building trying to figure out which way his PPC is pointing in a week. It's glorious. Matches are actually challenging, and quite close. blowouts still happen, but hey, thats the nature of norespawn, mechwarrior, and life sometimes.

[Cest7]

Would be nice if it still matched tonnage

[Karenai]

Was nice during the event, but after that it's elo hell for me the whole time.

No close matches since the event ended. People seem to misunderstand how the new system works and complain about the lack of assaults.
The only close matches are when you kill 5+ guys by yourself, after oyur teammates suicided into the open fields of glory by death.

Edited by Karenai, 25 February 2013 - 09:39 PM.

[Jaxass]

See the pinned match making feedback thread for my full opinions.

Cliffs - ELO is a complete and utter failure... matches are far more un-balanced than ever

Edited by Jaxass, 25 February 2013 - 09:56 PM.

[Butane9000]

I've had very few matches be complete stomp fests. In fact in the 30+ matches I've played my teams only been rolled completely maybe once or twice.

Most matches are extremely well balanced. We don't always win but the fights "fair".

[TechKiller]

It's good beginning of that ELO! I very liked it! Most part of matches became balanced and more interesting.

[Lincoln Kotare]

Matchmaking balanced...lol and I died from a TK.

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Edited by T o o m b s, 26 February 2013 - 07:05 AM.

[Elessar]

Yep, it does ...
Wins/Losses are now more even (well, slightly biased towards win for the group I am in)
and on average even the losing team has ~3 kills at the end of the match
(at least according to the statistics from the last ~100 battles since Friday in which i took part).

Before ELO-Matchmaking there definitely was a larger number of battles which resulted in stomping the other group (i.e. 8:0/8:1-Wins)

[Kaeseblock]

It feels like the matches are more even now.

To see if ELO is really working, it would be necessary to see the ELO values of all pilots.

Btw, @ PGI:
I would like to see at least my own ELO rating.

[ove bababoke]

Didn`t see good balance by now. Msot battles finish like 8-0 or something.