In Destiny , players are mocking the recent statements from Bungie about matchmaking in PvP.
On Thursday night our time there was the last “This week at bungie”, where they let people peek behind the scenes – well, at least that’s what they say. This time, Community Manager DeeJ gave Crucible experts a voice. They brought up the sensitive topic of “matchmaking” in PvP. Contrary to usual, they remained anonymous. They probably knew exactly what kind of backlash they would face when commenting on the number one hot topic .
Five steps to the perfect Crucible match – Bungie’s matchmaking rules
According to the “Matchmaking Quality Overlord Team” (quote from DeeJ) at Destiny, the connection quality of the Guardians takes top priority when forming teams that will battle it out in the Crucible.
First, they determine the pool of players with whom “you” have a good connection,
then they check the skill level.
If they cannot find suitable players, they increase the variance in skill level
and only if that doesn’t work, they also consider players that lead to a poor connection quality.
Once all of this is done, they assign players to evenly matched teams.
All in all: Connection quality is always the most important, enjoying top priority in matchmaking, that’s on their radar.
No one believes them
Sounds plausible – but many Guardians don’t believe the promises and are now mocking it heavily.
One Twitter user recognized the problem. A matchmaking that considers connection quality is a myth. For more information, one only needs to bury their head in the sand and look for the error code “Ostrich”. So they accuse Bungie of burying their head in the sand, ignoring the problems, and waiting it out.
Another Guardian illustrates matchmaking with a nice graphic, in which he retraces Bungie’s individual steps. But why does he end up with a lagger and a bunch of noobs in a match against five African Destiny pros with dark red connection quality? Hm!
This is what the “Mein MMO” community says on the topic
Even in our community, there is not much agreement with Bungie:
“Someone must have had a clown for breakfast,” says Starkiller AH.
Groovy666 thinks it’s “total nonsense” that skill-based matchmaking does not have high priority.
Gooseman23 believes that since the ELO system comes from chess and requires logic, Bungie can’t handle it.
And dh thinks all of this is a lie, that matchmaking is messed up. One can only do nothing about it since everyone is already busy with Destiny 2.
Somehow there has been a worm in the works for months
There are also serious contributions on the topic. They point out that Bungie evidently did not know for a while what they were doing. Because while Derek Caroll, the man behind the Trials of Osiris, insisted that Bungie had not changed anything in matchmaking, his boss Lars Bakken already admitted that they are now focusing less on connection quality and more on matching skill.
The weeks that followed were marked by terrible lags in the Crucible. Since then, this has been a constant topic, although there have been severe lags in Destiny’s PvP before.
One way to solve the problem of poor connection quality, some believe, including the absolute top players of Destiny, would be dedicated servers:
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