Skillbased Matchmaking

Here you go. Classic example of just how utterly broken this game and its matchmaker are. How on earth are teams THIS unevenly matched? The game was over in the first couple of minutes. This game has become an absolute joke.

Seriously Gaijin. How can you look at results like this and say “Yep. That’s the best we can do. Nothing to fix here.”

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Dont forget that it would make the vehicles you face even more basic.

Meta vehicles will be even more common.

Cant wait for the “top meta lineups to climb the ranks” videos

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Yeah, something broke with Leviathans, and I’m getting constant match after match where the enemy team is surrounding both our spawn within five minutes. Many of those matches, I’m seeing 8 lvl 90+ on the red team, with no one on the blue team more than lvl 40, and this is at tier II.

Something’s up, and Gaijin needs to take a look at it.

Smurfing / seal clubbing is always a huge issue in these games man.

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You can’t blame the noobs for your lost.

I can blame the lack of skill-based matchmaking, though.

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What are you on about ? xD
I don’t play at BRs where seal clubbing is prominant

You don’t unlock new nation tech tree?

I’'ve got 8 out of the 10 nations at top tier, as well as I’ve got every tree at least to rank 5, so no. I don’t sit at lower BRs: I generally tend to avoid them as much as I can as I dislike them.
I’ve played the majority of lower BR’s vehicles on other games like WoT or AW so it’s pointless fo rme

No.
Learn to play, earn good vehicles for the battlerating, learn the maps and do what the top players of the enemy team did, watch the replays if necessary.

Having a Skill-based Matchmaker will only frustrate the playerbase even further than it already (and permanently) is, and won’t solve the skill gap between you and the enemy top 1 player at all if it’s a smurf account. Sealclubbing at low brs will always exist, and the only remedy to it is to be good enough to overcome sealclubbers’ knowledge.

“Learn to play!!!”

Yeah, and how do you do that?

By playing, yes?

And how can you play, if you’re spawn-locked in at least half the matches you play, as well as the rest of your team?

What is there to learn?

“You will suffer and get nowhere except by the grace of the snail, so don’t even try”?

Which is what SBBMM fixes - you’re just mad because it would mean you won’t be able to farm newbs for easy kills, and instead have to pick on someone your own size.

If having to play to your level bracket frustrates the player base, good, be frustrated.

Not at all. I’m politely saying it to you: Get good!
Besides, War Thunder balancing system through BRs makes the introduction of SBMM an statistical challenge, near impossible to apply except for some determined brackets filled with vehicles for most of nations.

I’m thinking of 10.3/10.7 bracket, 5.7/6.0, 3.3/3.7… but that’s it, the rest of brackets have so much spread, many nations straightup lacking vehicles for some BRs or having serious balance issues, making it impossible to apply such system.

And as a personal note, I don’t want to sweat every game because I’m slightly above the average of the lobotomized playerbase, and just because you don’t want to learn how to play, thank you very much.

You of all people should know better than to look at my logged hours and suggest I’m not trying to learn how to play.

Then accept the fact you should still try to get better before complaining and asking for a ranked/skill-based matchmaker.

We’ve all been there and I’m not being antagonistic because I enjoy watching people get rinsed on lower tiers.

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This is where you failed. You think the system is broken or nonexistent but reality is its working as intended. These people do not care whatsoever about your fun. They do not care about fair. They are putting you in the worst possible situation to push you into pay to win tanks and aircraft.
Even if you do pay to win guess what? They will just uptier you yet again. Track your matches and you will see the pattern. X number of losses then you will get the X number of wins. Never greater then 50%. Normally for my matches its 7 losses to 1 win. Uptiered to +2 or more. I am running tier 7, get matched with tier 9+ nonstop. Went to 8 and its then matched to 10+.
That is it. You either pay to win or get crapped on nonstop. This is why people need to stop playing. Hit them in the pocket to where it has to be fixed because until this happens, nothing will change.

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They are more interested in pushing Pro Soviet propaganda, stealth nerfing vehicles, and gimping matches to get you to buy more stuff rather than running a game company. Yes of course they would make more money if it were not for their agenda and their greed, ironically: They just simply don’t care about fun.

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This

I always wonder how they would even have your “skill level” measured.

Lile every game with SBMM has every character fighting everyone. How would that work when we have 6 different game modes and each of those are split into basically 12+ different mms

I would imagine through SR1 groups, or a similar metric.

FR, especially in shooters you can measure skill way better then in vehicle combat. Does my “skill” go down when i spade a new thing or start a new tech tree?

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