I do not disagree that the lack of a working matchmaker has been one of my biggest disappointments with DUST 514. However, we have been working on a very promising solution and all our internal testing seems to confirm that it works, and that it works well. We will probably deploy the code very soon, and then test it on the live server for an hour or two and monitor closely.

This is a real matchmaker, so with that, we will have veterans fighting veterans, and we kept the Teambuilder logic as it was already working admirably.

I don't deny it, this is "the thing" I wanted to get fixed the most since Open Beta.

That's so great to hear, 2 questions: will our alts be ranked the same as our main character? ex: if my main character is a level 9 and I start a new character will he/she also be a level 9? **** forgot the second question, it's still early here

Actually you really don't sound smart when you say it's like MAG or SOCOM; you have a cap somewhere and while you could redline an opponent there was an upper ceiling on how much they could really limit you. Here are the best examples:

• capped lvls vs. none in Dust thus why "protostomping exists"; you could pummel opponents or survive higher with better wpns, greater SP's and ISK
• less of a balanced system based on how long you were active (because you could never actually play a match for a year but if you logged in the passive SP and log-in bonus would still give you a head start on someone installing and playing today)
• more game modes because saying you have "Faction" and "Corporation" battles doesn't mean you get pub skirmish, faction skirmish and faction skirmish as they're all skirmish
• less wpn variety meant more controlled elements of the game leading to less issues of how games and equipment can unbalance the game
• MAG didn't have a huge advertising campaign, only SOCOM did and Dust had the websites covering them due to how CCP was tied to the project and they wanted to see how it would pan out
• limitless fits in Dust vs. limited builds in many of the other games and creating a fit for every map and situation does actually matter versus being forced to select a number of fits and not being certain which to take for whichever situation

Ppl loose interest in shooter games but that's the real problem with Dust, it never felt like they were out of Beta after a year and treated their fanbase like absolute sh*t. Many of those at zipper were forgiven to the extent that overall you payed a one-time fee and that was it really. Never any sense of "P2W", or "I put "X" amount of dollars into the game" or the "oh hey we're creating Legion and zero f--ks given if you disagree".

A game like Dust felt like it took too long to be polished with some feeling like they never saw their investment back and still "tweaking" fixes. It's not that it isn't a good game but they just simply mishandled Dust. even Destiny failing to live to its expectation still managed to find ways to keep ppl at least engaged in the game. Dust is just that bad ex you're not sure whether to get back together or simply hate forever.

You don't have real players to test on your test server. I don't know how your guys can be so convinced its working.

Dude I don't read post of some internet nerd who likes to battle over who is smarter. Please go outside and touch a boob you tub of lard.

Dude I don't read post of some internet nerd who likes to battle over who is smarter. Please go outside and touch a boob you tub of lard.

Just because a developer wants to see something changed does not mean he has the greenlight to make that change. Happens in the industry ALL the time.

OK so I'm a vet and I choose to wear standard gear in pubs, will I still have to go up against proto stompers?

You don't have real players to test on your test server. I don't know how your guys can be so convinced its working.

If I had the only competent squad currently in the system during, say, early morning, how is your system going to compensate for that? My definition of competent currently doesn't appear to match the matchmakers definition of competent, so I worry.

^^^^^^^^^^^

Matchmaking can't take into account what suit you are going to use. While it may be a good system, I feel predicting the future may be out of its grasp. So yes, if you wear standard gear in pubs, you will still go up against protostompers.

Theoretically it is testable. Just feed live data from TQ into the new matchmaker and instead of actually making the matches with the results just save them to file and review the data.

It's very easy to see how a match is going to end by looking at the board. Hopefully CCP has the same ability

I just can't help but wonder how little this would matter if we had team deploy in faction warfare and raids on PC districts.

You could keep team deploy on the back burner and try to figure out how to balance 16 solo players vs 6 people in a squad and 10 solo players until the end of time.

When it comes down to it you can have a perfect system, but what if half the people that deploy are trying out tanks for the first time, working on kill assist in vehicle mission, etc??

This doesn't even factor in the dudes with .1 KDRs trying to save up a billion ISK in STD gear without any intention of ever actually using the ISK to fight for anything.

I am thinking the blog would follow a verified TQ playtest, not before.

I can't help but be incredibly fearful of playing the same people over and over again

I can't help but be incredibly fearful of playing the same people over and over again

Do you just absorb the personalities of other CCP staff?
Because you are giving CCP Blowout a run for his troll crown.

As opposed to a serious answer to the "Golf Clap" post?

Thank god he has some personality as opposed to the expressionless devs I've seen.

Ccp literally shot themselves in the foot from the get go by not introducing meta locks or something similar. All my friends played for 3-4 days tops and gave up do to unbalanced matches. Majority of people game for fun/relieve stress, yet as a new player this is not the case.
People have been posting about it for years and nothing has been done yet they wonder why the game never reallt took off. If this mentality carries over to legion it will fail, the pc community is diffrent than console they wont throw nearly as much $ at a broken game when they can go to steam store and get 5 good games for less that $100.
Fire evert person that had anything to do with dust and hire people who take pride in their work.

I do not disagree that the lack of a working matchmaker has been one of my biggest disappointments with DUST 514. However, we have been working on a very promising solution and all our internal testing seems to confirm that it works, and that it works well. We will probably deploy the code very soon, and then test it on the live server for an hour or two and monitor closely.

This is a real matchmaker, so with that, we will have veterans fighting veterans, and we kept the Teambuilder logic as it was already working admirably.

I don't deny it, this is "the thing" I wanted to get fixed the most since Open Beta.

I do not disagree that the lack of a working matchmaker has been one of my biggest disappointments with DUST 514. However, we have been working on a very promising solution and all our internal testing seems to confirm that it works, and that it works well. We will probably deploy the code very soon, and then test it on the live server for an hour or two and monitor closely.

This is a real matchmaker, so with that, we will have veterans fighting veterans, and we kept the Teambuilder logic as it was already working admirably.

I don't deny it, this is "the thing" I wanted to get fixed the most since Open Beta.

I do not disagree that the lack of a working matchmaker has been one of my biggest disappointments with DUST 514. However, we have been working on a very promising solution and all our internal testing seems to confirm that it works, and that it works well. We will probably deploy the code very soon, and then test it on the live server for an hour or two and monitor closely.

This is a real matchmaker, so with that, we will have veterans fighting veterans, and we kept the Teambuilder logic as it was already working admirably.

I don't deny it, this is "the thing" I wanted to get fixed the most since Open Beta.

CCP really needs to consider releasing ahead of time the logic by which the match maker works because I feel like there is too many potential issues that would need to be addressed.

There's many ways you could do a match maker that would each have their own problems and issues. For instance:

1) Matching based purely on age of character. Issue: would put crapy players that are "old" vs good players that are "old"

2) Matching based on skill points. Issue: Same as above, skill points does not mean skill at the game. Nor does it mean same gear level used as some ppl have pointed out already. Some vets run proto some vets run basic.

3) Matching based on gear used. This I feel would be most fair although how would you prevent ppl from switching suits mid battle from basic to proto.

I think the easiest and most fair way to balance ques is to just create 3 diffrent ques. Search as basic, adv, or proto que. Once inside you can only use that type of gear or less. This would also mean you don't need to code any special match making just give us 3 diffrent que's and let ppl decide what they want to play.

No, last year's FF pretty much ejected most of the player base. Matchmaking isn't the problem bro. You can't have 6 apples in a basket and complain it has no variety bro.