Does anybody else noticed a disgusting amount of uptiers lately?
And when I say disgusting I mean it. I played like 25+ battles today and everytime, EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! I got an uptier, ussually full +1.0, sometimes +0.7. This is borderline mathematically impossible!
After hours of suffering I was so angry that I made a decision that I am going to just immediately leave the battle if it was a full uptier. And then the game hit me with a triple combo, 9.3, 10.3, and 5.7 all three of my lineups got a full uptier, and that was the final straw, so I got here to rant.
Did they mess up the match maker? Is this some event grinding “Gaijin special gift” to make us suffer? Did I anger the gods? Am I losing my mind and just tripping? Am I the only one who got cursed?
I had my first downtier in a very long time the other night, was a pleasant surprise. Now, the aircraft I was in was still totally outclassed even in a full downtier, but it was a nice surprise non-the-less. My experience is ground is not much different. No matter what, its always full uptiers
You’re not wrong, lately the uptiers seem brutal no matter what BR I play. 7.0 = 8.0, 9.0 = 10.0 etc. I will say that the only way to have some peace and quiet is to wind up with a “botfly” special task, then you will be struggling to get into uptier situations… and yes, I think this is deliberately done by gaijin, and its a pretty crappy thing to do to your player base in my opinion. There should be a way to control the level of uptier you are willing to play. I’d propose the following along with corresponding penalties for the adjustments:
Players that choose to play up to 1.0 higher should receive a %15 bump in rp and SL
The default “uptier” should be reduced to .7 higher increment unless the option described above (#1 is selected)
The player should be able to choose to play at up to only .3br higher but incur a 25% rp & SL penalty
Not only would this improve player moral and keep the matchmaker working quickly, this would also artificially help with BR compression. If people think there is some merit to this idea, I’ll put together a more formal proposal in suggestions.
playing F5Cs today and the amount of constant uptier to 11.0, 11.3 is very consistent with j7d and PL-5s and sometimes mig23 with r24r how am i supposed to fight against that?
Based on my 13 years of experience, the matchmaker strives to keep your win ratio at 50% so if you’re doing well, you’re going to be constantly uptiered.
I have been playing 13 years and I play all BRs in all nations and this couldn’t further from the truth. There is no randomness to matchmaking, and the “law of large numbers” proves that Gaijin’s matchmaking logic uses shady algorithms.
Just curious…you aware that the law you mention would say win ratios would be 50% for everyone just by RNG…
Matchmaking seems RNG to me, and i get my fair share of bad matches…the main reason i have to believe it is i see no reason WHY Giajin should care to annoy someone with deliberate bad matchmaking…when RNG is easier and works…
EVERY MATCH has players at top, middle and bottom tier…if “everyone” is bottom BR, where are the top tier players…none of them can find a forum???
I would love to provide evidence but Gaijin has stated long ago that their matchmaking logic contains trade secrets so the algorithms will never be made public. Until then, the metrics of my experience in 20,000 matches says that there are things in the matchmaking that aren’t RNG.