Unpopular opinion: The matchmaking is fine.

Are you saying the goal of Matchmaker(tm) is variety over fairness?

 

That's not at all a valid reason, posts like this don't help the devs. You can't say something is broken and not offer a fix. Your lack of a well-reasoned argument, while not invalidating your opinion, does not serve to help your argument, only hurt it.

 

Re-read the edit

 

I do think variety is an important virtue of the actual matchmaking system

 

Re read the edit, read the other post on the subject

But dont tell me matchmaking is fine

 

OK.. match making is great.. end of story

Im done

 

I love getting on to play, and then my first game no one seems to know how to play so I get upset and close the app for a few hours. This has nothing to do with their system but it’s really disappointing.

 

Ah, thank you for editing your response. All of what you have just mentioned is true, I have certainly experienced all of it.

Depending on your infamy/gear score/ship level your pairing with similarly ranked ships may vary (out of curiosity, what is you current infamy/gear score/ship level/captain level?).

I’ve been matched with 14k defenders too, I lost some with poor teamwork and I won some fantastic teamwork. Usually the matchmaking compares the health of the defender to its total DPS, and balances it with other players accordingly.

It is nearly impossible to regulate types of weapons in a match when the entire game is based around random chance. I’ve had lots on legendaries on my team, and I’ve faced off against plenty of legendaries. Yes it’s frustrating when you get sniped across the map by a gold sniper, but when games only last 3-5 minutes, the anger is quick and frankly menial. Keep in mind that if you play enough, then you might be that bastard with a gold sniper killing mk3s in a single hit.

I often play speeder, and until I got mk6, I was all about speed. Weaving in and out, breaking up the enemies, etc. I had about 2500 health do I often died fairly quickly, but I balanced that with a good play style which offered me protection, and I think I faired pretty well.

For the medic thing, yep. One hundred percent agree, I find that pretty stupid. I’d be willing to wait an extra 5-10 seconds if it meant each team could have a medic.

Matchmaking is not great by any degree, but saying it is totally broken is an overstatement. Until the next update, I think it’s fine for what it is.

 

Lol wrong thread?

 

Sorry if I was on your team for the last 2 days. I was playing really bad.

Ok, matchmaking is almost as good as possible above some infamy (I'd say 1000)

 

LVL 44
Infamy 2352
Shooter MK6
Gear score 8902
Shield 8690

 

Wanna fleet sometime?
My tag is #CGCSKJDX
P.S. I don't have good gear so I might get rekt a lot

 

Savage

 

OK, no idea what u talking about

 

What he's saying: Don't charge straight into the enemy without seeing if your team is following you and try to do a bunch of damage, because usually people who do that die immediately leaving the game as a 4v5, effectively causing a loss. So use more strategy and don't try to be "solo"

 

Ahhh.. ok.. i try different things

But, I really dont care that much anymore..

Been hovering between 2100 and 2400....

 

IMO if matchmaking sucks it's still fine because the unbalanced matchmaking thingy can Also favors YOUR TEAM Just pray that the RNGed teammates are good and unfriends are bad

Everyone including myself feels like theyre losing way more than winning even though it's pretty much 50/50 or even more wins than loses because our minds will forget the good things quickly and remember the bad things

 

Hm. Yes I definitely see your point. But facing gold weapons should be a standard at your level. However I can’t say the same for you facing mk3 ships, but I would assume that it’s people who are trying to complete guild quests for ships they don’t have upgraded. Also high health players would seem normal for someone of your caliber.

Well we’re at an impasse, I’ll try to do more digging in the forums for other people’s opinions, but from my own personal experience, the matchmaking is fine for what it is.

Cheers for the insight, happy gaming.