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Battlegrounds Matchmaking
Halpy
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what are the criterias for bg matchmaking. I get matched against people with hero ratings 2 to 3 times my rating often and get in very disadvantageus spots as a result. so many big threats ranked up to the roof and only 3 champs I can ban and I feel like I have to play significantly better than them just to have a small chance at winning.
I believe this shouldn't be the case and bg should provide a fairer pvp experience. what are your thoughts about this and how can this issue besolved?
I believe this shouldn't be the case and bg should provide a fairer pvp experience. what are your thoughts about this and how can this issue besolved?
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What this causes is for many of the stronger players, to include myself, to sit back and wait for the top players to advance to GC. As the weaker or middle pack players advance higher up, there are less middle or weaker players in the higher tiers and this increases the chance of getting matched up with stronger players who are still stuck in gold.
If your annoyed about still being in gold, imagine how those Paragon players feel. But basically, people in your position will likely have to wait until the next wave.of paragons gets out of that tier.
This whole matchmaking setup is absolutely ridiculous. Meaninwhile GC is flooded with UC and Cav players who can't hold a candle to most of the players below them and with less rewards, all because they don't have to face the stronger players until GC.
The weaker players are ahead of the players way stronger than them because of the 10th time I've explained this to you in other threads, the weaker players DO NOT FACE THOSE MUCH STRONGER THAN THEM IN VICTORY TRACK. They are facing much weaker players where there are much larger swing gaps in skill and much smaller gaps in rosters.
If those weaker UC and Cav players in GC deserve to be there, why can't they face the stronger players along the way? Meanwhile I know of tons of Paragon who are stuck in gold because of the massive shift of competitive matches between strong, medium and weaker players.
If they can't beat a TB or a Paragon to the point they don't get matched with them, why in the world should the be higher in the rankings and getting better rewards than someone they would never be able to beat?
Yet, people with stronger Rosters, and "stronger" Players aren't fearing well in their own Matches.
So which is it? Should the Roster matter, or should it not? If they were truly stronger Players, they wouldn't be stuck, regardless of what they're using, right?
As I've said numerous times, to include on threads you've directly responded to, the BG matchmaking process should consider absolutely nothing other than the tier of the players. Anyone in bronze should fight anyone else, no pi, no prestige, nothing else should matter.
This is how it works in AW and it allows matches to balance out over time when people settle in on the tier they belong. Although they would need to do something about the complete reset every BG season.
Kabam could create different "leagues" for BG if needed, something like a beginners, moderate and end game tier where these groups only face others in that league, however, it would be for different rewards.
Why should someone who has no chance in beating me be getting better rewards than me in a competitive rank rewards system?
War has War Rating that carries over from Season to Season, and it stabilizes in the off. BGs start with a mishmash every Season. There isn't enough time in a Season to balance out in any reasonable way that doesn't only benefit one demographic.
The only thing is sure, is that matchmaking should be TOTALLY RANDOM, within same tier of course.
Any other parameter added to matchmaking, is matchmaking manipulation, like sandbagging was.
During sandbagging players were manipulating system to get easier matches, now Kabam algorithm manipulates the system and gives easier match ups in lower accounts.
It’s about the same situation, if not worse.
Both systems are unfair, but in the case of sandbagging players at least, had some kind of control, while now they can’t do anything more other than keeping prestige as low as they can.
Something very obnoxious on a progress based game.
Ironic is yesterday, Kabam was sending at game Email 6* signature offers 😂😂😂
Who intends to buy Prestige, apart from top AQ ally players and players who still ignore how BGs VT works, during this situation?
Prestige matchmaking complaints post will appear more and more as the time pass, when more Paragon accounts realise what’s happening:
Lower accounts are stripping off them their rewards 🤭
There is more than just one side to this. The scoring is the same for everyone. If people who are allegedly stronger, and claiming others are getting easier Matches, why aren't they winning their own? Seems to me like people want what they call fairness when it benefits them, but not when they have to have the same success rate with what they're bringing.
If people focused more on winning their own Matches instead of passing judgment on the Matches of others, they might have more success.
I really don't have a dog in the race either way. I play casually, and I'm fine wavering between Bronze 1 and Silver 3. My concern is for fairness, and not just "Gold stars for everyone.". I mean a fair contest for as many sides as possible.
People play until their skill plateaus, or they reach the top. That's how competitions work. No question. It's not that simple when you have a Matchmaking system that pairs you with Champs that vastly overpower your own, making the Damage you inflict much lower than the opponent. You have a couple minutes to lose as little Health as possible, inflict as much Damage as possible, and measure that against your opponent's results. When the Damage you can do is altered to a certain degree, and your opponent is increased to a certain degree, that affects the results. When that's a possibility, you need some kind of mitigating factor until the results reflect the ability. Not just because "We spent more time on our Rosters, so we earned the right to slaughter them.".
You can't have the argument both ways. Either Roster counts or it doesn't. I just think the contradiction needs to be pointed out. I want what's best for everyone. Not one or the other. Not perfect, but as reasonable as is possible. Anarchy starting out is not reasonable.
Smaller accounts are stripping bigger accounts rewards due to Prestige matchmaking.
It’s not their fault and I’m not accusing them for getting the “easy” rewards.
It’s the matchmaking’s fault and as a result Kabam’s fault, for allowing it happen for nearly a month already.
Seeing my alt small Cavalier account getting ranked rewards with ease, while my main big Paragon account having hard time at gold3, feels and it is, stripping off.
No matter how you twist it, that shouldn’t be happening.
Where is my personal “skill plateaus” according to you?
Is it at G3 or at Gladiator Circuit?
There is no specific plateaus as it is, because the smaller account gives an obvious advantage, while the opposite should happen, as happens in every other area of the game.
Bigger account should give an advantage, not a disadvantage.
To incentivise people to play or pay to progress.
To keep the game and as a result, this business running.
I’ve got news for you.
Whether you like or not matchmaking will change, because the game is primarily a business over anything else.
Sooner or later it will happen.
Mark my words 😉
G1 now ,fought a lot of stacked paragon accounts ,i got some wins but its hard .
It's something you just can't understand because your so far from it and your speaking on something you can't relate to. You don't fight the best or even that strong of accounts because that's where your at.
I have no problem with fighting top accounts and top players, but having to win against them so many times in a row every single fight starting in bronze 3 just to make it out of the veg inning bracket is ridiculous.
All previous deasons I got into GC in first week and finished high in GC. This time, I just barely got out of victory track yesterday while UC and Cav have been there for weeks.
I went 20-2 from Diamond 2 to GC and faces a number of 12-13k accounts that has zero medals.
Matchmaking is AWFUL for everyone eventually.