(there is a video link above) So over the course of about a month I took about 400 clips of matchmaking at its finest. by finest i mean when i solo que i get put up against squads of 4 or more, more frequently than lobbies of other solo players. Now some may no think this is a problem (the ones teaming up) but others (solo qued people) would 100% agree with me on this. here are some issues i have seen and some possible resolutions because you cant complain without giving a viable solution. (btw most of the issues are in IB and comp playlist to include gambit). all this i believe will help with player experience in crucible to be better. I feel bungie hasn't taken this matter seriously enough to actually fix.
- adjust matchmaking where squads play squads and more favorable for solo players to play against one another
-Bungie has the practice of when you que into a comp playlist whether its crucible or gambit the lobby isnt viewable as it fills up. You can only see the lobby after you have launched from the waiting screen. Now this is a problem because we complain about how people leave matches early in comp playlist to include gambit and its because they cant leave earlier than until we launch into the game. So as a fix for this allow us to view the lobby as it fills so we can leave if we want to continue allowing matchmaking to fill those slots before we leave for the game. this will lower the amount of games where people leave and it becomes a 2v4 or even a 1v4 situation in a game.
-now im not a great player but more times than none i have found myself in comp play with people on my team who are of not my skill level and people on the other team are past all of our skill levels and we get pummeled. maybe adjust the skill based matchmaking to make the teams more even.
-put squads vs squads for ALL crucible and gambit playlists. nothing is more fun than being teamed against a 4 stack in comp or gambit or a 5 stack plus in quick play for us solo que people. teams of two in quick play is fine but when we get multiple small teams in quick play more times than none all those small teams are actually put on the same team vs solo players in essence making a full squad on the opposing team.
-Stop launching us into a match in progress where we port in on the losing team losing by ALOT. maybe adjust the mercy rule on matches where its a full team vs a team of like 4 or 3. also i think the mercy rules need to be adjusted it seems sometimes that its not working the way it should like if we are at 100 and the other team is at like 50 mercy doesn't come into play when the team with 100 only needs 50 more to win.
-on the map Solitude the spawning points on the map when you begin the game need to be adjusted. Capture point A is too close to the team that ports in on that side or capture point C is too far from the team that ports in on that side. flag A is started to be captured before flag C team gets halfway to their point. and before the time the team can reach flag C, flag A is already captured and that team is moving to flag B. or you can just take that map out of the control playlist its not good AT ALL.
those are my chief complaints and ALL of those can be seen in my video. Now my video is quite lengthy at 20 minutes(also has captions to explain whats going on in most of the clips) but it i could have made a 3 hour video with all the clips i had but didn't use. and that is an issue since my clips came from about a 1 month period. but please comment and up vote and watch the video id like feedback whether you like how it is now or want it to change would like to get this post looked at by someone from Bungie. for game types where winning matters most there HAS to be more balance in it
Edit: or just make a solo only playlist that is separate from everything else. like you click on solo que and then it brings up the exact menu we have now when we click on crucible and you can only enter if you are solo. this way it in case if you are afraid of increased matchmaking times this might help it?
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2 RepliesEdited by CannyJack: 11/26/2018 5:45:46 PMDoes anyone know what goes into Gambit matchmaking, if anything? Is your Infamy rank factored in? Your overall Gambit stats? I usually don't end up on the same side as pairs or 3-stacks, but I don't know if that's luck, or if the numbers balanced better if I was on the other side, or if I'm ending up with them about 20% of the time as one would expect if it was random. (Note: I'm not trying to puff my ego here or anything - I don't think they put me opposite stacks because I'm so amazing or whatever)