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[Jeye]

ELO aint working, we are joining the 8 man que and are fighting 4 man grp / random puggies game after game.

[KinLuu]

This is great.

Everyone knows what to do and how to play now. It is so smooth. No more stupid rambo charges. No more chasing the 3L.

Is this real life, or just fantasy?

[Gallowglas]

Deamhan, on 19 February 2013 - 12:24 PM, said:

I've had 4 drops and so far not seeing an improvement.

2 were 8-0
1 was a win by cap for them (we had 4 left, they had 2)
1 was 8-2

FAIL ELO

ELO isn't going to guarantee you don't get 8-0 losses/wins. That's impossible. It just means that it tries to match you with people who have historically similar wins/loss records.

[RagenBull]

ferranis, on 19 February 2013 - 12:07 PM, said:

Sweet, most matches seem to be very close now

I wonder how it is for people with inflated stats...

probably no worse because they are facing other people with inflated states. Only a small % are really that good most are disconnect kids

[Johnny9s]

Just lost 8-0 but it was a good game. Lots of cover use and back and forth fighting. Everyone was really damaged but we lost the first 2 mechs then it went downhill from there fast.

[bloodnor]

best match i have had in a long time. even if i had died with no kills it was an epic slog out

[KinLuu]

Seriously.

This is like the best patch ever. Ever.

[Davion5150]

Adrian Steel, on 19 February 2013 - 12:36 PM, said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

Exactly. Even if Elo wasn't actually implemented, but the patch says it was, there would be people claiming that Elo is working and improving the quality of their matches.

[Balfor]

Failed to find a Match for 6 Times.

The 3 Games I played were all not right matched.

Ah..make that 7 Times failed to find a Match.

Hoping this will improve

[mayakashiii]

Didn't notice any difference. Still either mopping the floor with my enemies or getting stomped it's 50/50.

Also still lots of disconnecters, afkers and 6/7v8 games.

What I like the most is the increased amount of time it takes to find a game. Takes forever now.

Edited by T Hawk, 19 February 2013 - 01:49 PM.

[KinLuu]

Great. And just when I was praising the patch in the sky, I can not find any more games.

[Lheo]

jup waiting 10 min to play a match is a big FAIL.....ELO should search max 1 min then match like before the patch imo...

[armchairyoda]

Broceratops, on 19 February 2013 - 12:02 PM, said:

Broceratops is undefeated and now that his ELO is too high for goons to TK him Broceratops truly has no natural enemies.

The "-" in front of a number does not make it large. Besides, goons can't TK. We're not allowed to via [REDACTED] communicae from Supreme [REDACTED] Lord [REDACTED] of the Lower [REDACTED] Highlands, Me[REDACTED]tro.

[SociopathicSquirrel]

Davion5150, on 19 February 2013 - 01:42 PM, said:

Exactly. Even if Elo wasn't actually implemented, but the patch says it was, there would be people claiming that Elo is working and improving the quality of their matches.

Except that ELO is implemented since last patch, and matchmaking is actually implemented this patch. So this can't be a placebo, and additionally we have no control group by players who aren't included in matchmaking to compare.

If people report better matchmaking and more serious challenge in the long term, then this is it, even though there's cherry-picking effect and confirmation bias to take in account as well.

Fail science is fail.

Edited by SociopathicSquirrel, 19 February 2013 - 02:04 PM.

[Stoicblitzer]

Shismar, on 19 February 2013 - 12:20 PM, said:

I do not remember the planned stat wipe being related to our Elo rating. Afaik this is the starting point we are at now.

May have already been said. tl;dr. our elo is separate from our visible stats and it has been calculating in the background since Feb 5 patch.

[elbloom]

eLOL fails horrible, matching 5 assaults against 1 and other horribad things, but it´s still funny.... (if you like being stomped occasionally)

[Broceratops]

armchairyoda, on 19 February 2013 - 02:00 PM, said:

We're not allowed to via [REDACTED] communicae from Supreme [REDACTED] Lord [REDACTED] of the Lower [REDACTED] Highlands, Me[REDACTED]tro.

This is one of the most [REDACTED] sentences Broceratops has ever seen.

[LT Kinslayer]

Even though I'm a little annoyed with the wait times, so far as a pugger all my matches have been pretty interesting.
And elo has improved the game experience for me so far. Although my sample is rather small. (+-10 matches)

Better teammates, no afk's etc.

Oh and better opponents too! You know, people that will actually hit me consistently in the same spot.
I look at you, almost dead atlas in River City!!! (still my own fault i died to you though)

Maybe I just got lucky so far, who knows? I'll see if my experience changes when I play some more on thursday.

[zverofaust]

As a strictly solo player ELO has made absolutely no difference to me. I think out of the 10 or so games I've had today my team won once. Every other game was a loss, most complete roflstomps. So same as usual.

This is also despite me having 3.7 KDR. I find it pretty funny that I'm getting 2-3 kills minimum almost every match yet still have more losses than wins because I'm being placed on garbage teams of ***** pubbies.

[LT Kinslayer]

zverofaust, on 19 February 2013 - 02:34 PM, said:

This is also despite me having 3.7 KDR. I find it pretty funny that I'm getting 2-3 kills minimum almost every match yet still have more losses than wins because I'm being placed on garbage teams of ***** pubbies.

OR:
If you loose more than you win, it might simply mean that you are not as great as you think you are, regardless of your KDR.