Originally Posted by
Kristis133
Aaaand if to be honest I have zero clue how this thing works. I have almost 4000 hours combined in League of Legends and Overwatch that runs elo system, but this thing just feels way worse. (Then again, my knowledge is limited regarding this, so I'm sorry if these are two completely different things)
I queued up for my first match as Global rank 625. Got matched up against #25.
I was like, okay, that's pretty cool, some sort of placement system so I wouldn't have to start from the bottom, I get to play against the best until it decides where I actually belong and then starts pairing me up with players of my rank. I was pretty happy about the idea of winning a couple of matches in a row and perhaps even chasing Top 5.
The problem you're describing is just due to the lack of players. You 2 were probably the only people using matchmaking at that time. And if it's a choice between getting matched up with people of very different elos or just not finding any matches at all, I'd prefer the first one.
For a matchmaking system to work properly you need a large userbase. It will never feel anything like LoL or Overwatch until there are a lot more users.
Rekt the guy 3-0, went up from 625 to 620.
So basically you get paired up against someone who made it really high already and get zero award for it. Fair enough for me, if I'd put time and effort I could climb easily, but for a player that's not as familiar with the game, jumping into ranked games and getting paired up against people who are top 30 already is just an absolute non sense. You will most likely lose and even if you manage to win somehow, you pretty much get zero reward for it rank wise.
The elo algorithm is exactly the same as any other elo based ranking system. The ranks themselves can take a while to catch up though. Pay more attention to your elo rather than the rank itself.
But still, the elo differences between #600 and #25 aren't actually that big anyway, so you wouldn't get as significant a reward for it as you'd probably think. Again, this is due to fairly low activity and a small user base.
Anyways, although matchmaking can never work that well without many players, I don't think we'd ever be able to gain such a large userbase without a proper matchmaking system for ranked games. So for now it's not perfect, but will hopefully help Toribash grow in the future
Also hi Kristis