Greetings from a pist off player!
On behalf of me and probably the rest of the community i would like to ask you about the matchmaking and leavingsystem. You see im getting really tired of me having to play with low ranked players while our enemy team is always full of atleast rep 150s and so on. This really pisses me off since i constantly have to deal with losing and getting absolutly rekt. all i ask for is that you implament some kind of system that matchmakes you with other players with the same rep, it's both unfair and really annoying that i have to deal with this in almost every single match i play. And im not overeacting on this, i litteraly get matched with players under rep 40 while we meet players who are atleast over rep 150.
And it's not only that i get to lose everysingle game because of this but what's also annoying is that players in my team keeps leaving the game wich results in me playing in a half full team. And you know what that means ''Instant defeat'' and this is also a think that bothers me, since this game is full of ppl who can't handle being killed and leaves the game after 1 death, wich usually accurs within the first 3 min of the game. I can honestly say that in 8/10 games atleast one of my teammates leaves, wich results in us being greatly weakened. I think that it would be a wonderful idéa to incresse the leaving penalty to atleast 20 min right from the getgo, and if they still keep leaving they should get a penalty wich incresses to 1 day - 3 days and then 1 week. by doing this ppl would not dare to leave as freely as they do now and they also do not get the chance to ruin the game for their teammates.
I know that this will not happen anytime soon but atleast think about it.
Thanks for these suggestions! Skill is definitely a factor in matchmaking, but it also considers regional closeness and time to create a match. The matchmaking system gradually relaxes these parameters as matchmaking time increases.
We know it sucks to have a teammate leave a match early, which is why there is a quit penalty. We could always consider tweaking the penalties to discourage leaving even further, but we don't want to punish people so much that they can't play after something random happens (like a power outage).