Skillbased Matchmaking

[Kievskiy_Minipig]

@AlvisWisla

Name a singular SBMM released 20 years ago with a playerbase, and ideally non-toxic.
No one can because the average successful SBMM lifespan is 3 years.

Idk about 20 years ones (gaming was less available for average person and all we had back then was doom 3, hl 2, unreal tournament 2004 and cs source) but there are cs:go, dota 2, league of legends - they all are more than 10 years old, have sbmm and huge playerbase (war thunder isnt even close to first 2).

@AlvisWisla

and ideally non-toxic

Im wondering what toxicity has to do with sbmm, toxicity is a problem for vast array of games with online interactions, including war thunder. Even games that dont have any competitive part like dont starve together still suffer from toxicity.

[RunaDacino]

Don’t forget Age of Empires 2 through its many iterations/upgrades!

[Negativewaves]

My impression is that the more uptiered I get, the worse my opponents (and teammates) are. The more downteired I get, the better the opponents (and teammates) are. I usually lose uptiers but get a lot of kills/caps, win downtiers but don’t get many kills/caps.

[ObiWan_KoH]

It doesn’t matter. You’ll find your teammates are mostly trolls upstairs. So useless you might as well be alone on the team.