MMR matchmaking is broken

[Metalpunk]

I am a little over 50 games in. From the start to the middle, the matchmaking seemed somewhat fair. I was in games where there was push and pull. My team invaded their base, their team invaded ours. It was close and fun, each teams skill and the game were relatively close. There would be the fairly common team carry by a single player but they were manageable.

But as time when on into the games I have played the past week, it has fallen apart. For instance, today I played 4 games in a row, each time one team completely blew the other out of the water. 60k+ souls spread, only one team getting the urn and rejuv, losing team constantly getting wiped. Where is the fun in this? I've been on both sides of this. My team getting creamed. Being on the team doing the creaming. This pattern is happening practically every game now.

Sure there are balancing issues and whatnot, but I think the MMR pairing should be tweaked because average/bad players are getting pitted against pro players far too often. This results in shorter games and skunking which isn't fun. If this continues I'm gonna drop the game until full release and hope it's more balanced then.

UPDATE 10/22/24

This past week I have noticed a lot of my games have had teams that were quite even. Some came down to a team just not being competent. I don't know if this is a result of actually balancing changes behind the scenes, ranked being open often. But as of now I have not had much of the issue described above.

UPDATE 12/1/24

The MMR teeters back and forth. One day I get balanced games, the next day I get horrible one-sided matches that end in less than 30 min with a 70k soul spread. If this keeps up I am dropping this game. It is no fun at all to be on either side of a horribly mismatched game.

[SharkPlush]

my guess is you're not as good as you think you are. Either your individual skill is a huge asset and you wreck or you don't really help as much as you think you do and your team gets creamed.

But its always either the game or somebody else's fault. Unless you want to prove me wrong, post screenshots of your failures (the game has recorded them) and share with us what you could have done differently; there's usually something unless it was a close game.

[no mb1]

kinda what happens in mobas when people start figuring the game out, cod, apex, league of legends, r6 seige, halo, smite, ect.. pick a game it happens in every single one, there is not really a place for casual players in pvp games, the skill gap will always pop its head in, and there are not enough casual players/new players logging in around the clock for these casual lobbies to just exist whenever 10 casuals finally decide 7 PM is a good time to login.

[Sham!]

Originally posted by Mozam Legends:

there is not really a place for casual players in pvp games

i understand the point you are making but i disagree

the real issue is how pvp games have been designed in the last decade, most of them try to be esports first and then maybe they try to be fun
it should be the opposite, fun first with the potential for competitive players to express their skill at higher levels

if the game crumbles the second the matchmaker doesnt dish out good matches the game has the core problem of not being fun