Step 4 out of their 5 step list has to be removed entirely. It's exactly the reason why this matchmaking is broken.
The game should try SBMM, no problem with that...but Connection should be top tier no matter what. The ONLY factor that has to be corrupted in order to find a match is Skill.
This would solve so many problems...not all, but many.
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It's literally impossible with how small the player pool is right now. Have you seen the matchmaking times recently?
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The playerbase isn't the problem. If I'm in a fireteam with one or two bad players the matching times are way faster, the enemies are worse but the connections improve a lot and everything feels like it should be. If the game would decide to put me in those matches instead of furiously trying to find players of the same skill, everything would be just fine. When SBMM doesn't work out, the game should expand to less Skill as long as Connection isn't corrupted.
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Edited by JBO: 11/23/2016 9:35:56 AMThe playersbase has definitely dropped sharply. It doesnt matter if I MM solo, with my really good friends, or my really bad friends. It takes forever and there is a couple people from like fiji lagging their asses off on both teams. I can see the decline even with my friends list. A month ago there were 2 full pages when you looked at the friends roster in game. Now I'm shocked to see 4-5 people and never a full page.
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And SBMM separates the playerbase even more. I'm not against SBMM in general...but it just doesn't work in a game with P2P and an awful Netcode.