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The Medic Droid
The Phoenix Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.14 05:43:00 -
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Greetings!
This thread poses questions in regards to the matchmaker and it's mechanics. I'd like to say that I have a fair supply of courage, but when I see two full squads of Pro Hic Immortalis and Generals on the opposing team....I get a sinking feeling in my chest, switch to the cheap suits, and fight as best I can before my inevitable and horrible death. Meh, c'est la vie.
The questions are as follows:
1) Does the matchmaking system evenly divide teams based on total SP?
2) Does the matchmaking system show favoritism (or discrimination) based on squad formation prior to battle?
3) Does the matchmaking system vary by region (both for normal instant battles and for mercenary contracts)?
Personally, I haven't seen very much rhyme or reason to the matchmaker as it stands. I've been in battles against the reigning superpowers of Dust and crawled away whilst barely alive, and other times I've been pitted against new players who blow themselves up or drive their LAVs into a friendly tank. |
Logi Bro
Eyniletti Rangers
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.04.14 05:47:00 -
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I'm sure others will give you better information at another time, but from what I've experienced personally, I would guess it is completely and utterly random.
I've had games of nothing but blueberries on one side with four squads of various well-known corps on the other, I've had double stacked squads of the same corp on one team, I've seen games so balanced the game ended with 1-2 clone difference, I've seen just about every scenario and I can say it has no pattern that I can discern. |
Another Heavy SOB
TRUE TEA BAGGERS
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Posted - 2013.04.14 06:22:00 -
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Logi Bro wrote:I'm sure others will give you better information at another time, but from what I've experienced personally, I would guess it is completely and utterly random.
I've had games of nothing but blueberries on one side with four squads of various well-known corps on the other, I've had double stacked squads of the same corp on one team, I've seen games so balanced the game ended with 1-2 clone difference, I've seen just about every scenario and I can say it has no pattern that I can discern.
This^^ |
xAkantor
Expert Intervention
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.14 06:48:00 -
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Find me a find, catch me a catch! Wait what? |
Vrain Matari
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.04.14 07:32:00 -
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Last I saw from a dev source the matchmaker is currently running full time, but only in learning mode.
It's supposed to be reasonably sophisticated and for a few days it was turned on but peeps complained. The other complicating factor is our population atm is kinda low for the matchmaker to be able to give good results. Need more peeps playing.
I'm guessing that if we get a good influx of players when the new build his the matchmaker will go live. |
Garrett Blacknova
Codex Troopers
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Posted - 2013.04.14 08:04:00 -
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The Medic Droid wrote:Greetings!
This thread poses questions in regards to the matchmaker and it's mechanics. I'd like to say that I have a fair supply of courage, but when I see two full squads of Pro Hic Immortalis and Generals on the opposing team....I get a sinking feeling in my chest, switch to the cheap suits, and fight as best I can before my inevitable and horrible death. Meh, c'est la vie.
The questions are as follows:
1) Does the matchmaking system evenly divide teams based on total SP?
2) Does the matchmaking system show favoritism (or discrimination) based on squad formation prior to battle?
3) Does the matchmaking system vary by region (both for normal instant battles and for mercenary contracts)?
Personally, I haven't seen very much rhyme or reason to the matchmaker as it stands. I've been in battles against the reigning superpowers of Dust and crawled away whilst barely alive, and other times I've been pitted against new players who blow themselves up or drive their LAVs into a friendly tank.
1 and 2) Matchmaking divides the teams purely based on numbers at the time a player/squad joins.
When the teams are even, I'm not 100% sure, but when I've actually been watching, I can only ever remember new arrivals being assigned to the defender's team. Countering this is the fact that I've joined newly-formed games and been assigned to the attacker's team, so it may be a different rule when the game is first starting.
If one team starts off as a squad of 4, and the other team quickly gathers 5 non-squadded players, another 4-person squad joining the game will be assigned to the smaller team - even though they have a squad already. What a competent matchmaking system does is to assign the squads to opposite teams, then divide the randoms up - rearranging non-squadded players before the battle starts. This results in an even spread of squads vs. randoms, rather than risking stacked teams like we frequently see in the current system.
3. Yes. Sort of. The game does use ping/latency as part of the matchmaking. There are three DUST battle servers we know about (Asia, EU and NA) - maybe more. The game tries, preferentially, to put players on the server they're getting the best connection to. If there are no available games, it will try the next-best server, possibly throwing you in with players outside of your region.
In the case of squads, it DOESN'T seem to be specific to any individual in the squad - leader or not - I'm not sure, but I think it checks each player's latency to each server, then picks the one with the lowest average ping across the whole squad. |
DaleGribbles
Chatelain Rapid Response
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.07.12 02:56:00 -
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Be your own Judge. What game looks like more fun to you? Dust.........Or these other F2P games coming this year.........
Planetside 2 (19 GOTY Awards)
Coming to PS4 this year...
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