You thought your BG matchmaking was bad…
Dankeace
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There are just more strong accounts in the competition so a higher chance that you'll run into them.
Again, I’m not saying they don’t happen, but if they were common and widespread I would have seen it across hundreds of matches across three separate accounts playing at three completely different progressions and roster strengths. Statistically speaking, such issues (not just a single random mismatch, but long strings of them) have to be affecting only a very small percentage of the competitors.
I think what the seeding bug did indirectly was cause players to *think* things were going to be harder this season, and decided to wait until later into the season to start their climb. This was a trend that was happening for several seasons now, and doing that causes lower tier players to linger in lower VT tiers deeper into the season.
This combined with the fact that some players who did not play at all in S18 but came back for the Deathless piece meant there was an influx of stronger players re-entering Bronze (because they would reset all the way to the bottom if they took off a couple seasons) and would be matching against anyone and everyone, unlike in previous seasons.
My guess is the latter is having a bigger impact on S19 than the former, but seeding is taking more of the blame.
The seeding issue has been less and less of a factor as the season's gone on, but people complaining about strong teams in Gold were certainly hit by it.
You all acting up like its very hard to win two matches to reach a new rank. Even if you lose 4 games in a row, it's enough to win 2.
Stop the blame or moaning, the System got a overhaul and the new two medal feature will help to progress.
Kabam has said that things will work themselves out soon, so we'll see. With almost everything in-game being progression-based, I'm still holding out hope they do a paragon+ BG and then everyone else or have a minimum requirement for deck PI.
You're getting easy matches because you're slow playing VT, and thus you are never catching up with the players your strength. If that's how you want to play, that's your prerogative. But don't complain about it, because this is entirely within your control.
The game doesn't look for weaker players you can beat, it doesn't look for stronger players you can't beat. You face whoever is there. If whoever is there is much weaker than you are, its because you are progressing much slower than your strength peers. Conversely, if you are promoting much faster than your strength peers, you will catch up to and then have to face much stronger players.
This is intentional.
That went for too long and now people feel as if something was taken away from them.
Apparently people think this will normalize, my opinion is that it won't, thet put 7* shards and titan shards, people and Kabam provided 10 victory shields (lol) which are being used to push higher than their means and next season they will be seeded higher than they should be.
It took me 149 matches to reach GC this season, compared to 118 last season; 26% more. However, I also reached GC in only 17 days, compared to 24 days last season. The implication is that it took more effort, but it was also much easier to reach GC this season than last season (easier, because having gotten there in fewer days implies that I was continuing to win at a reasonable percentage for longer stretches and thus encouraged to do more matches and promoting faster). I also reached D5 (the correct seeding spot for GC players) after 72 matches and 9 days, which is more than half my total effort to GC.
So much of the VT experience depends on how the other players behave, so it is difficult to extrapolate these numbers into S20. We'll need several seasons of the current system to really know.