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[Haniel_]

My friend played for the first time last night, and I barely play due to the current balance and matchmaking.

My highest level was 0:12 when we started.

We got paired against level 2 prestige repeatedly, no matter the mode, and he openly admits how bad he is right now. (Can't even grab and stab as PK, which is his main.)



This matchmaking is absolute garbage. Seriously, it is completely trash. I get that eventually it needs to look wider, but I played League. I am used to five minute queues where I am matched against players at my level, not ten second queues where I will either get new players or people who hardcore played since day one. I would gladly take longer queues for better pairing.

I find that queuing as a group tends to bump up your MMR and give you harder individual matchups (since I suppose they expect better teamwork with a premade group). Seems a little overtuned to me, might be what you're running into.

Completely agree that there should be an option to lock in "Strict/Extended" matchmaking, but even if there isn't you can just keep restarting the search and hope for the best?

[Miadous]

I don't have a single reputation yet and I am consistently matched against 100+ gear score 4-man parties, even when I leave and requeue when it moves away from "strict" player skill. They're revenging after blocking 2 attacks then taking out half my health with 1 zone attack. It's not fun for me, and I assume it's only fun for them the first few times they do it.

That's another thing with high level gear. They get revenge almost instantly when you start fighting them. I was against a Lawbringer around 100 gear and he said he wasn't using a revenge build and didn't know how he was getting revenge that fast. Revenge in a 1v1 should never happen, no matter the gear.

[DeaIman]

I would like some official word on this as well, there was this one thread about the matchmaking - but it left out important detail like what exactly determines a player's skill and if prestige/gear score is calculated for at all.

Their level I can get over, it doesn't necessarily have to reflect their skill, but usually it means they will have a bigger overall knowledge of the game(map layouts, how to fight other characters etc). But that's not very reliable to base the matches on, what is reliable however is the gear score as gear score definitely will win matches.

In all honesty, I'd rather they just take out the gear stats entirely from the game or make them a bit more basic such as maybe sacrifice attack damage for faster movement and/or attack speed, more health but reduced sprint speed and the like. That way it would allow for you to tweak your character a bit more towards your preferred playstyle - without giving you an objective massive advantage.


At the very least, revenge modifiers should be removed from the game - they're by far the most broken aspect of the game.

[Miadous]

This is actually becoming the norm now that more people that mostly play one character are reaching the better gear. We almost won, the ease that high level gear gets to revenge was the reason the high levels won. If they block you 2 or 3 times, it's revenge time! Then they can 2 or 3 shot you.
http://i.imgur.com/06lwlyL.png

[Sakkaros]

The matchmaking is garbage. Ruins the game. Sorry, but I didn't spend $60 to get pissed off every time I log in. I'll be investing my money elsewhere in the future. NEVER buying an Ubisoft game again. Too many disappointments for years from them.

[Miadous]

Seen the players online at an all time low in the 30k range today. This probably has a lot to do with it.

http://i.imgur.com/jF3xn5C.png

[Terras_Kasi]

But hold on the "experts" on these forums tell us gear score has no meaning, and they "constantly" beat people of this level, so if your skillful enough, you should just be able to beat them............what you have presented here in the above pic is absolutely true. You will get smashed by this team no matter what you do GEAR SCORE MATTERS, and is ruining this game, just like everyone else has stated. It is such a shame, as i love this game to death, but stuff like this, ill quit out till i can find someone my level, or go fight bots, which is boring.

[The_Iron_Panda]

I matched against all golds before, they were all mates.

My opponent blocked enough of my attacks to activate Revenge and then 1 hits me with a heavy when I was down. I was also at 3/4 health.Fun.

[Terras_Kasi]

Yep,same here, this 1 hit crap is such BS, i played a level 80 the other night, got him down to 1 health bar, i was full health, hit revenge, landed on my ***, then 1 hit me on the ground when i couldn't defend on full health. what absolute CRAP

[The_Iron_Panda]

Yep,same here, this 1 hit crap is such BS, i played a level 80 the other night, got him down to 1 health bar, i was full health, hit revenge, landed on my ***, then 1 hit me on the ground when i couldn't defend on full health. what absolute CRAP

I just leave when I'm up against more than 2 golds.