Gear Matchmaking

[MythosGames | Basti]

I join a normal solo round with completely green weapon equipment and green pants.

You can still see the gear of the other players in the lobby.
I noticed that 6 out of 9 people whose inventory I checked all had full purple and some even had legendary items.

Personally, I don't see any gear matchmaking when you're thrown into a lobby with people who have full set bonuses in Epic and are running around with just around 1.200 - 1,300 HP, while you yourself only have ~650 HP and only 1/3 of the DMG of the other participants.

Are there any plans to get something like this under control?

[Lakeland]

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[Sinistrum]

It feels worse since the game "released" other playtests were kinda fine, dunno what changed

[Darkken1379]

I definitely notice a lack of match making. As a level 1 solo I played against solo players in full blue gear. Not sure if there just aren't enough players or just lack of any matchmaking. It will turn off a lot of new players if they don't do something.

[Balloon_Knott]

I would like to know this as well. What are the gear brackets for match making? 0-6, 7-12, 13-20, 21+???? Does anyone know if a dev has ever mentioned this?

[JETFADIL]

Well, easy delete from my side, I think this game has no idea what it wants to do.

[maichinshinar]

Ive found i can get away with 1 or 2 green rings and maybe boots or gloves during aussie hours, and have 1 out of 10 odd matches be wildly mismatched, but at primetime east coast US, god forbid i wear 1 green ring with a lvl 2 champ, now theres teleporting full purples everywhere.

[カルト_くん]

If you was playing classic, I'm pretty sure there is no gear matchmacking. But loot is super boosted here, so you have to go at least full blue otherwise just try to avoid other ppl.

If you was playing casual, then you most likely saw ppl with crafted purple items which are significanly weaker most of the time then a proper "purple" gear. And craftable legendaries like crown, sword or neckless are honestly are joke items most of the time.

In casual if you are full green, at max you will incounter ppl with few blues most of the time.

[MaikElPipas]

yeah......

Originally posted by カルト_くん:

If you was playing classic, I'm pretty sure there is no gear matchmacking. But loot is super boosted here, so you have to go at least full blue otherwise just try to avoid other ppl.

If you was playing casual, then you most likely saw ppl with crafted purple items which are significanly weaker most of the time then a proper "purple" gear. And craftable legendaries like crown, sword or neckless are honestly are joke items most of the time.

In casual if you are full green, at max you will incounter ppl with few blues most of the time.

The thing with classic is that you can´t "avoid" people till the circule gets tiny enough for extraction.

You will be forced to fight full blasted op top tier gear minmaxing junkies 99/100 of times if you reach to the final circle.

classics totally need a gear based mm.

[Tal]

Originally posted by MythosGames | Basti:

I join a normal solo round with completely green weapon equipment and green pants.

You can still see the gear of the other players in the lobby.
I noticed that 6 out of 9 people whose inventory I checked all had full purple and some even had legendary items.

Personally, I don't see any gear matchmaking when you're thrown into a lobby with people who have full set bonuses in Epic and are running around with just around 1.200 - 1,300 HP, while you yourself only have ~650 HP and only 1/3 of the DMG of the other participants.

Are there any plans to get something like this under control?

Its seemed like the urgency to get people in matches as quickly as possible has overridden the balance so people so in with remotely similar gear.

[Legend]

Originally posted by Balloon_Knott:

I would like to know this as well. What are the gear brackets for match making? 0-6, 7-12, 13-20, 21+???? Does anyone know if a dev has ever mentioned this?

Yeah, I'm not sure if there are any brackets, or at least any that are strictly enforced. I just got in a solo lobby where I knew right away I had a bunch of sweats in there with me. I went in with a gear score of 2 and extracted pretty early because I just knew there were some geared guys running around farming the other players. Sure enough, when I spectated the remaining players, they were all gear score 20+ running set gear and no gray or white gear whatsoever. They would have easily wrecked me.

Before that lobby, it *seemed* like I was getting in lobbies with similarly geared players, based on the people I fought and spectated. I like to go in with just a green weapon and see what I can come out with. Not really interested in fighting sweats who are decked out and have a huge gear advantage over me.

I'm guessing that the matchmaking attempts to use gear brackets, but will disregard them in order to speed up matchmaking time. The problem with that is that it is likely pulling in lower gear score players to fill up the slower filling high gear score lobbies. That's just a bad experience for the newer and under-geared players.

This game will probably suffer from the same problem every other extraction game has, where sweat-lords will mercilessly farm the rest of the player base (if allowed to) until they are the only ones left playing. Hopefully, they implement some measures to prevent that and keep things from getting too unbalanced.

[[PC]Roco45]

Yea it's one of the glaring issues with the game. Classic mode is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with how it's currently implemented.

[Crowdad]

There should be an upper gear cap for the lower difficulty dungeons, like 9 or something. It's meant to be for people just starting out so it's gross when higher gears stomp everyone.

[InsightKnight]

Originally posted by JETFADIL:

Well, easy delete from my side, I think this game has no idea what it wants to do.

This.