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[BigBadHarv]

as in the title.
why is the matchmaking so horrendously bad? its very hard to understand just how lopsided it is. every game is a crush.
do pgi not realise just how bad the public are at this game? you literally have to wade through **** in every game. your input to the team barely matters - if they are crapbads, you lose. if the other team has the crapbads, they get crushed. its actually ridiculous just how bad the matchmaking is.

[A banana in the tailpipe]

Because it doesn't really base each team off their skill, but how much damage they can do. Then you've got two teams who can dish out an even amount of damage, so the first team to draw blood usually steamrolls the other.

Edited by lockwoodx, 13 May 2013 - 12:35 PM.

[BigBadHarv]

played 4 games there
lost 3 of them 8 - 0
the other was 8 - 3

its amazing how consistently bad the general public are at this game and if you play solo, you have no choice but to put up with them.

winning is luck. its that simple

[Acid Phase]

Not to mention "ELO" is invisible to the public in which case you don't know what skill level your teammates are on. So in my opinion it's non existent, especially when you spectate your teammates and see some terrible piloting. Nowhere near on our skill level. A numbered or a star rating should be implemented with a lobby drop. So that we can all see what kind of teammates we're dropping with.

[BigBadHarv]

another 8 - 0
you try giving the teams basic instructions. they angrily ignore your instructions then ****** into the other team.

gaming in 2013 is torture if you are in anyway good at the game

[Darius Deadeye]

BigBadHarv, on 13 May 2013 - 12:29 PM, said:

as in the title.
why is the matchmaking so horrendously bad? its very hard to understand just how lopsided it is. every game is a crush.
do pgi not realise just how bad the public are at this game? you literally have to wade through **** in every game. your input to the team barely matters - if they are crapbads, you lose. if the other team has the crapbads, they get crushed. its actually ridiculous just how bad the matchmaking is.

I rarely experience this "crushing" you speak of, but usually when it happens, one side played horribly and the other fairly well.

By that I mean, if one side has one, maybe two mechs suicidally stray or afk, and the other side has 8 mechs cooperating, well...

It really is the natural order of things, and no amount of matchmaking is going to change this. Individuals will be individuals.

To add to that last point, even the best player can have a bad day, simply not concentrate or be testing a new build.

Vice versa, the worst imaginable player around might have a sterling day, and for once in his life, hit everything there is to hit.

In games that only last 4-5 minutes (on average), with most people running around in groups and focus fire being the name of the game... You really shoulnd't rely on matchmaker to be the maker or breaker of any games, but rather causality. Matchmaker works fine buddy, it's causality and unpredictable nature of man you're forced to argue against.

IF you truly want to see change to the fights you participate in, take command. Take charge. Shout orders and insist that people follow them. Shine by example and apply the wisdom of Sun Tzu to the battlefield. Make your teammates better, by leading them to victory. Otherwise, as was stated above, individuals will be individuals.

Edited by Darius Deadeye, 13 May 2013 - 01:04 PM.

[Keifomofutu]

Full classed based matchmaking needs to come back. I've seen tons of matches where one team gets 3 lights and one team gets none or one.

That match will be a stomp almost every time. Either its a small map and the light team gets wiped out or its a large map and the light team caps without firing a shot. That is never a good situation.

In conquest on the bigger maps if one team gets way more lights then the game might as well declare the winner right off the first second and save everybody some time. No matter how the brawl goes the lights will outcap the other team.

Elo does not make people faster. The imbalance is killing way too many games.

Edited by Keifomofutu, 13 May 2013 - 01:02 PM.

[Ken Fury]

BigBadHarv, on 13 May 2013 - 12:52 PM, said:

another 8 - 0
you try giving the teams basic instructions. they angrily ignore your instructions then ****** into the other team.

gaming in 2013 is torture if you are in anyway good at the game

Well good thing you're not.

[Ter Ushaka]

BigBadHarv, on 13 May 2013 - 12:41 PM, said:

if you play solo, you have no choice but to put up with them.

winning is luck. its that simple

Make some friends, and make your own luck.

[BigBadHarv]

Tank Boy Ken, on 13 May 2013 - 01:04 PM, said:

Well good thing you're not.

yeah im really bad lol

Edited by BigBadHarv, 13 May 2013 - 01:10 PM.

[Ter Ushaka]

BigBadHarv, on 13 May 2013 - 01:09 PM, said:

yeah im really bad lol

~*MY STATS*~

[Darius Deadeye]

BigBadHarv, on 13 May 2013 - 01:09 PM, said:

yeah im really bad lol

If you're doing that well, then I don't see the need to complain? Where you expecting never to lose?

[TheMadPoet]

It's been my experience that matchmaking has improved greatly. I always PUG and used to experience huge runs of pre-mades stomping us PUGs. In the past couple of months, I've seen many, many more close games, even with four man drops on the other team.

Sure..win some..lose some..and a few are wipes in either direction, but the overall percentage of close games, at least for me, has gone way up.

[BigBadHarv]

Ter Ushaka, on 13 May 2013 - 01:10 PM, said:

~*MY STATS*~

Ter Ushaka, on 13 May 2013 - 01:10 PM, said:

~*MY STATS*~

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[color=#959595]anyhow, im complaining because matchmaking is extremely poor in this game. its positively hilarious just how unblanced 80% of the games im in are. i dunno, i think its actually the nature of the player base. the standard is extremely low so the matchmaking reflects that chaos in its outcome[/color]

[PropagandaWar]

I won't mock the Pugs or "other" team for not listening in chat. Hell half the time you miss it. If we could get actual coms in battle life would be a lot better for everyone. With that being said I have run quite regularly into weight differences. Sometimes in our favor (Do a lot of medium lance runs). More often than not on thiers which is fine if its not all bloody assaults who either synced or somehow 8-mans magically appear in standard queue.