Are Boosters and Wagers Connected to Matchmaking?

[Jörf]

I believe they are. Everytime I activate a booster and recently activated my only Golden Eagles wager, every game I play is horrible. My teammates remain in spawn and force me to move forward to capture a point. The enemy team always fills with T29s or OP stuff like that which my tanks can't penetrate nor flank. My tanks seemed to consent to be penetrated by even the smallest shell, destroying them instantly.

Yet, I played a couple games before activating anything and it was all good. My team had more than two braincells, the enemy team had more variety and targets for me to kill, and my tanks actually survived hits.

After wasting my Golden Eagles wager, I have to find out the truth behind this. Is it all a coincidence, or does Gaijin want us to waste our wagers and boosters?

[Addman]

they want you to use premium instead, its also just bad-luck most of the time

[big Whoper]

No they aren't. I've completely finished 2 golden wagers before.

[AttackerCat]

No, boosters and wagers aren't rigged.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/8n68hb/are_boosters_rigged_results_from_a_50_sl_booster/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=user&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=frontpage

I ran a test with a 50% SL booster for 50 matches, and also completed 2 (of 3) GE wagers fully, a destroy 10 units wager, and a destroy 5 units wager all in those 50 games.

With an 82% winrate. So no, the odds aren't stacked against you and the matchmaker isn't altered against you in any way.

Not that it was even possible in the first place, as in order to code something like that anyone who activated a booster or wager would immediately see a difference, and MM would have to pick and arrange 30 or so other people solely around the one person with a booster/wager, which is not something that would or could happen.

[Eftwyrd]

apply occams razor, or hanlons razor, either works:

either

1) gaijin have spent time and money writing a highly sophisticated algorithm for profiling players abilities and playstyles and are putting together teams intended to win/lose which works well and doesnt impact matchmaking times significantly

2) performance anxiety is getting to you/ the regular ups and downs are more noticable when you are actually watching your performance/ you were just unlucky with dumb teamates

EDIT: and just for fun if they did write that algorithm it would be self defeating as its own work to undermine players/teams would work against its abilities to profile them