Prowess

[в поисках алиментов]

Ranked was silently changed to match based on Tekken prowess.
I saw that on reddit, checked in my replays and its true, no players <100k or 200k> only my prowess 160+- i meet in ranked. Can someone confirm that?

[EX Fighter]

Yes, everyone and their ma know about this change as of now, and yes, it's complete garbage.
People should shout out at Harada/Murray on Twitter until this is reverted, at last.

[в поисках алиментов]

oh...that's disappointing

[Necropants]

Yeah it's a annoying, if they need to be #tekken8report on twitter it's about this.

[BeastKingSmash]

this is a good change, now regardless of character and rank you will be matched with players of same skill level ( prowers) ... basically no more smurfing , no more beating up on noobs with your secondary characters to boost your ego

this was made to counter smurfing, to prevent new players from constantly getting matched with veterans and constantly getting demolished

i imagine this is one of the reasons the playerbase has tanked so much , people new to tekken got tired of getting stomped and quit... namco has realized whats been happening and has taken action

[O-Qua Tangin Wann]

I've started seeing a lot of high prowess players in Quick Match recently. Coincidence? I think not.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by this reminds me of a joke:

this is a good change, now regardless of character and rank you will be matched with players of same skill level ( prowers) ... basically no more smurfing , no more beating up on noobs with your secondary characters to boost your ego

this was made to counter smurfing, to prevent new players from constantly getting matched with veterans and constantly getting demolished

i imagine this is one of the reasons the playerbase has tanked so much , people new to tekken got tired of getting stomped and quit... namco has realized whats been happening and has taken action

Makes sense and I agree, for the most part. It's hurting the waiting queue, though.

But I guess that's the price that you pay for wanting to play as different characters against real players in the only mode that is, at least theoretically, fair by default.

[Kug3lf4ng]

bs change matchmaking takes way too long and pairs you with a ♥♥♥♥ ton of smurfs and other kind of garbage

[Sirlion]

Originally posted by this reminds me of a joke:

this is a good change, now regardless of character and rank you will be matched with players of same skill level ( prowers) ... basically no more smurfing , no more beating up on noobs with your secondary characters to boost your ego

this was made to counter smurfing, to prevent new players from constantly getting matched with veterans and constantly getting demolished

i imagine this is one of the reasons the playerbase has tanked so much , people new to tekken got tired of getting stomped and quit... namco has realized whats been happening and has taken action

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. This is a horrible change. One is not suddenly a god with every other character if they just go up in rank a little to try out a new strategy. Yet prowess goes up a lot. Smurfing is NOT fixed, people can either intentionally derank, make a new account, or, more stupidly, the DLC characters all start at Beginner rank. With this change our secondary \ tertiary \ whatever character of the day not only has to wait 5+ minutes in a queue since the playerbase is too small to accomodate this change, but 80\20 chance one gets matched with a player waaay up their league, making it a useless beatdown (smurfing??)
How about NOT facing 5 devil jin Tekken Gods in a row and the SAME 5 all day for all week? How about having actual fun?

[MysteriousRJC]

This change is absolute garbage. I’m not ranked very high, only at warrior, because I had to take a break because my PC died. So when I got it up and running, which was about a week ago, I started trying to get back into ranked matches. I’ve literally tried logging in, five separate days in a row, in Canada, on Eastern standard time, with every single combination of ranked matching parameters and I’ve only achieved one match in literally three hours of sitting there waiting for somebody to match with me. That includes playing on a weekend, Saturday Where I would assume there’s people online because people aren’t working. I shouldn’t have this much trouble finding somebody to play against. This is absolute garbage. I’m so frustrated. It’s unreal.

[Backburner]

I have 113 000 prowess, and I fight against Bushin, Kishin, and Battle Ruler. How stupid is that?

[ElnoSVK]

Originally posted by this reminds me of a joke:

this is a good change, now regardless of character and rank you will be matched with players of same skill level ( prowers) ... basically no more smurfing , no more beating up on noobs with your secondary characters to boost your ego

this was made to counter smurfing, to prevent new players from constantly getting matched with veterans and constantly getting demolished

i imagine this is one of the reasons the playerbase has tanked so much , people new to tekken got tired of getting stomped and quit... namco has realized whats been happening and has taken action

Playerbase is shrinking, but not because of that. Tekken is a VERY difficult game and majority of players, who got stomped, simply dont want to learn. Im low rank and barely know anything beside basics (orange, reaching for red) and even if im playing against red, in 90% they are using some "cheesy" tactic and nothing else and If i manage to counter it, they quit...

[Slave of Bills]

man up

[MapleEsq]

Originally posted by MysteriousRJC:

This change is absolute garbage. I’m not ranked very high, only at warrior, because I had to take a break because my PC died. So when I got it up and running, which was about a week ago, I started trying to get back into ranked matches. I’ve literally tried logging in, five separate days in a row, in Canada, on Eastern standard time, with every single combination of ranked matching parameters and I’ve only achieved one match in literally three hours of sitting there waiting for somebody to match with me. That includes playing on a weekend, Saturday Where I would assume there’s people online because people aren’t working. I shouldn’t have this much trouble finding somebody to play against. This is absolute garbage. I’m so frustrated. It’s unreal.

I'm in Dominator and I just got three matches in a row. Took like 2 minutes for the first match, but everyone after that I instantly saw the "found opponent" message. Also atlantic/eastern canada, playing after work between 5-10pm depending on the day, and some weekends.

If I'm playing at like, 10-1am, it gets kinda bad, and I'll get repeat opponents, but that's to be expected, especially joining a fighting game months after it coming out.

Not trying to be a ♥♥♥♥ but the only way that's possible is if you disconnected a LOT and got tossed into the naughty/unsportsmanlike queue, and kept doing it.

[MisterEdd]

Originally posted by EX Fighter:

Yes, everyone and their ma know about this change as of now, and yes, it's complete garbage.
People should shout out at Harada/Murray on Twitter until this is reverted, at last.

Honestly it's pretty fair. I am generally getting matched with players of my skill level which is you know the entire point. What they actually need to fix is the fact that however they calculate the prowess is increased when using secondary characters. I don't want to get matched with people who way outrank me because I played another character other than my main. I really only play quickmatch now with them so it doesn't go up.

[ElnoSVK]

Originally posted by MisterEdd:

Originally posted by EX Fighter:

Yes, everyone and their ma know about this change as of now, and yes, it's complete garbage.
People should shout out at Harada/Murray on Twitter until this is reverted, at last.

Honestly it's pretty fair. I am generally getting matched with players of my skill level which is you know the entire point. What they actually need to fix is the fact that however they calculate the prowess is increased when using secondary characters. I don't want to get matched with people who way outrank me because I played another character other than my main. I really only play quickmatch now with them so it doesn't go up.

But thats the point of prowess...