All the games i have played today have been horribly one sided .

Hope this helps

Aren't they most of the time anyway?

What kind of tweaks? As in making matchmaking better? Gear, SP, WP specific?

The game should give a 'rank' to each of your saved fittings based on the combined total of meta levels for all the parts to it. Starter and militia fits wouldn't be counted as everyone can use them.

It then adds up each of the rank scores from all your fittings to get an average. Then 50% is added to that average to counteract deliberate 'weighting' of the average. (Having a dozen low meta fits to lower the average of the two high meta fits you actually use).

This rank is measured against players and you can be matched into matches where the average rank is say, 10 (as an example) to either side of you.

For squads the average of the squad is determined and 30% added to the squad average (so lower ranked players in a squad aren't at too much of a disadvantage)

This system would also allow players to control their matchmaking to a certain degree. Finding the high level matches too hard or costly? Create lower meta suits to lower your rank and play against worst ranked players BUT you have same level of gear as they do, meaning your trainee skills will be an advantage but they won't stomped by better equipped opponents.

Just my thinking out loud. Feel free to rip apart my maths Nullabor.

How about you design a "no squads" matchmaking. Only players who are solo can join. Top corp squads get to play with top corp squads. If it's a mediocre squad vs a good squad well that's their problem. Last of Us does this and it works pretty well. Also extending the academy time will make it less hard for new players when facing people with proto gear.

I've noticed one of the deciding factors in the games I play is how many people decide to go sniper. If it is 3+ my team nearly always loses. Then you add any afkers to that and we are doomed.

Just a quick note, we are tweaking some instant battle settings today in order to gather new data for our prototyping work.

There are just too many variables to consider to create a match making system that will create fair matches on a consistent basis. What needs to happen is multiple lobbies based on gear used or SP levels. I would welcome the challenge of proto only pub matches but there are proto bears who would get butthurt over the potential KDR hit those matches would entail.

I understand the way the conversation in this thread is going but it doesn't really say what they are prototyping.

Not to sound all "doom and gloom" but this matchmaking update is too late.

This should have been implemented when DUST had 9000+ people, which was a week or 2 after the official release. Now DUST has 3-4k people...maybe less, and matchmaking becomes important?

The horse is out of the barn already.

Nice, really helps improve the game right?
If all your going to post is crap like this, why do you bother & if it turns into a SyN "Well PS4 is coming and this game sucks" speel, dont bother replying.

They are always one sided.

That would be nice to know because as is, playing by yourself in DUST is like playing the old World War II games where the A.I. is just for show and don't do anything until you singlehandedly take on and defeat the entire army.

Quite often I agree with your posts Lance, but considering what Nullabor requested, your first post was not constructive to this thread at all and wasn't really needed