When will they focus on matchmaking?!

I’m an mk4 shooter with 1500-1800 infamy at any given time. I NEVER get matched with other mk4 boats and am always fighting mk5 and mk6 boats! I start handicapped from the sound of the horn. Instead of adding new maps, etc., how about focusing on matchmaking. It seems to work just fine in deathmatches but not normal ones.

 

I would suggest to prevent the manipulation in death match that weapons not be allowed beyond what the boat could handle if upgraded along side boats upgrades. Meaning you shouldn’t be able to tier 5 weapons on an mk4 or below boat. Make it so they don’t fit. So should I simply drop infamy to below 1000 to get fair matchups?

 

I think infamy gain/loss would benefit from fluctuating based on stars. In other words, 3 stars on a victory would get you the optimal infamy gain, 0 stars on victory gets no infamy gain, 2 stars on a defeat gets minimal infamy loss, and 0 stars on a defeat gets maximum infamy loss. The goal of this system would be that your infamy would shoot up faster if you were too powerful (in terms of item and skill) and if your infamy got much higher than you could handle, your infamy would drop faster due to not doing as well in matches, or not increase so drastically when you win but hardly were able to help.

This wouldn't end the problem entirely, it'd definitely make floaters tank their infamy faster, so I think infamy floors would be necessary. They don't have to be very complicated either. As of now, the seal clubber penalty begins when your infamy drops 800 below your top infamy. How about simply disallowing infamy from dropping below that point? I can say with certainty that if I dropped to 2200 as opposed to my current top of 3000, I wouldn't mind in the least not being able to drop lower. This idea shouldn't hurt fair players in any way.

 

@TheAntiSnipe I think you sent your message twice, buddy lol

 

There is no way around this. You can’t expect to climb the infamy ladder AND never get matched against higher infamy players, how would that even work?

If you want to get to Nightmare League, then you’re going to have to fight your way up through all the mk5s, and the mk6s, and the mk7s that are standing in your way.

You can just repeatedly beat the same newb mk4s, and get +24 infamy each time. You’d end up at 4k infamy within a few days, without ever having to fight any ‘real’ 4k players. It would make infamy completely meaningless.

 

I think the main complaint is spending most of your time fighting people way stronger than you when you just wanna play. We need an unranked mode that's always open, unlike the events.

 

That's a lot of time

 

I like the idea of a non-team, unranked deathmatch mode that's always open for practice.

 

Sry, never.. we been asking for over a year.. still the same

 

Ship mk isn’t as important as you might think. It’s gear that really makes the difference.

For example, this is my mk3 Defender with some of my regular (mk6) gear loaded on it. I could easily one shot regular mk3s and mk4s in it, and would have double their hp (probably faster too). Would it really be fair to match it against other mk3s from Warrior League?

 

If you say so , Do I have to decrease my GEAR or my Infamy ( I am captain 27 GEAR 4638 mk4 , infamy 1434/1769 )to avoid another dangerous enemy within their tier 4 tier 5 epic weapon ??
I just had a losing streak as you can see . I lost about 14 battles consecutively. Any advices ?

 

I think part of the problem comes from gaining captain xp for your battles. People are getting to mk5 boats with lower level of crew training and it makes the grind to climb that much harder for those with weaker boats as they vs mk5 with a mk4 earlier than what we did before you earnt xp from battles.

 

I agree, i think it is good. It just comes with a downside for those lower infamy player's on the cusp of upgrading their boats.