New Matchmaking?

I don‘t know what Rovio has changed about the matchmaking in the last update, but it can‘t be a good fix. I have never complaint about matchmaking, was fine the way it is, now the new update says:

• Updated matchmaking algorithm for more balanced teams in terms of ships

On my screenshot it kinda looks like infamy is ignore by choosing the teams.
On the allied side we have 23.551 infamy together, on the unfriends team they have 25.084 infamy together. So the gap between 2 teams is 1533 infamy which is huge in my opinion.

 

Would be cool if devs could give out some info on how the new matchmaking works

 

If they changed it too much, it is potentially catastrophic...
@ Rovio - please clarify exactly how it works now

 

Fleeting counts both players’ infamy as the top infamy player on the fleet. So you would be 4917 and Tum is 4782. Still the gap would be around ~1k but I think fleeting just messes it up in general.

 

Matchmaking is exactly the same.

 

Nope. I think it's more fair. Infamy is not all. You guys got 2 mk7.
And infamy is easy to manipulate.
Nice job devs.

 

Well it's definitely not any better, that's for sure.
This is what most of my matchups have looked like tonight.

 

Just now played a match my team 3 speeders 2 fixers enemy team 3 fixers 1 shooter 1 speeder
I spent whole match camping vs immortal team.

 

Yeah they definitely screwed something up. I’ve had a couple matches like that too. I thought it was just a random fluke on the first one

 

If they're taking gear into account now... I wonder how they are balancing ship mk level vs. weapon levels?
Being left in the dark is so frustrating... at least before, when it was just about infamy, it was something you could look at and understand.
Now, seeing screenshots like that...
- was it just that the pair waited a long time, and no one in their range was on, so they eventually had to be paired with someone a bit outside their range?
- is ship mk level being considered too strongly now?
- etc....?

 

I love this matchmaking, finally managed to get past my highest as i am no longer placed with so many mk5s

 

I believe MM is now based upon ship level and not infamy. I'm not sure how this will affect the gameplay/meta because I haven't been able to log on, but I'm sure it's better than the infamy kind. Besides, hi, and I love your videos

 

me too! I'm normaly stuck at 450ish infamy, be now i'm at 600.

 

Yes, this will "feel good" for high skill players, as they will win more than they lose now that gear is more equalized...
But, it will consequently "feel bad" for low skill players, as they will lose more than they win now that gear is more equalized...
IMO, it's a bad business decision to ever make a game "feel bad" for low skill players. Low skill players still pay lots of money, and EVERYONE is low skill when they first join... Let's not drive them away!

 

Infamy only means how lucky you were with the old matchmaking bcuz infamy dont give you extra slots , HP,higher ship.....etc
But in that match both team had 2 mk7 and 3 mk6 so both team had the same power
for me its fair enough

 

technically i am low skill ( 1100 infamy ) but yes i get ur point,however, i finally feel being free to play is finally becoming worth it and although there were nerfs i was not good enough to even get that much damage boost from frozen items so much has not changed. The only bad thing is i cant chain my big Bertha and swift torp with frost.

 

That sucks. but 1100 isn't bad when you're at 1500 what ship level do you use, and what's your setup? Just curious.

 

mk4 speeder ; well here is a screen shot i took two weeks ago. the big changes are a level 10 epic swift torp instead of blast cannon. My frost launcher is level 20 rare now and i use a level 10 rare bandage instead of the uncommon turbo. I only shifted to speeder a while ago around 4 weeks ago

 

You should find a way to use that Epic-10 Standard Shield. I know speed is great, but your turbo's aren't high enough yet to be worth losing out on all those HP.... just my opinion...