At Destiny, Bungie provides detailed information about player matchmaking in the Crucible. A bug was fixed yesterday.
In the “This Week at Bungie,” the focus is on fairness in the Crucible. In recent days, the discussion about player matchmaking has flared up again – an emotional topic, as DeeJ recently emphasized multiple times on Twitter.
Therefore, this week’s letter to the community will be used to lay out the matchmaking criteria. The last time Bungie adjusted the player search settings was in August. Since then, they have been working according to these criteria:
- A stable connection with other players.
- The time spent in orbit between matches should be minimized.
- Matches between worthy opponents – skill criteria.
In this order. This is intended to ensure quick and fair matches in the Crucible. The principle is: the more players are active in PvP, the more balanced the matchmaking can be. However, connection quality always remains the deciding factor.
How player matchmaking works
Bungie also outlines the steps of how a suitable match is found for you. These are, however, greatly simplified, as complex engineering is involved. We quote:
- First, we identify the available players with a good connection to you.
- Among them, we select those whose skill rating is similar to yours.
- If we can’t find any players, we expand the skill variance.
- And if THAT doesn’t work either, we broaden the search based on connection quality.
- Once enough players have been selected, we group them into equally skilled teams.
By the way: Your skills do not matter in the matchmaking for the Trials of Osiris. You will be matched with players who have a good connection and a similar scorecard.
For more information on player matchmaking, visit the Bungie page.
Furthermore, DeeJ reports that a bug was identified and fixed yesterday. Apparently, the skill rating was incorrectly calculated in variants of the Control mode (such as Rumble, Inferno, Iron Banner).
What does the future hold?
The letter ends with a look into the future: Next week is Thanksgiving, but nothing special is expected here. “Blog fodder for all the readers.”
The week after, Bungie will head to Anaheim, California. However, it is still a secret what they will be doing there. The PlayStation Experience will take place in Anaheim on December 3rd and 4th. The English-speaking site vg247 speculates that there could be announcements about Destiny 2.
It seems more likely that Bungie will share information about the SRL, the Sparrow Racing League, which is set to start in December and be bigger than last year. DeeJ’s last sentence can also be interpreted as a hint: “We’ll cross that finish line soon.”
What do you think is coming our way in two weeks?
