Specializations are broken

#61

I think, a good start would be, to enable people giving their team mates as well as their opponents “stars”, whereby much stars mean “made fun to play with” and no stars mean “do not want to play with/against this one again”. The matchmaking should respect to some extent - just to some extent, as you should encounter new players from time to time.

Another idea would be to primarily put together people with the same skill level, which either can be determined roughly by experience points or by how much predator damage they make in the average or by how often they win/loose or or or…

It should not be to hard to develop a simple algorithm doing well…

But on the other hand, it should not be too hard to program settings data structures, which do not crash constantly either…

So, do not put too much hope in our ideas:)

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#62

Agreed and very well said.

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#63

Absolutely. It would be the beginning of massive cheating…

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#64

they stack up, all of them. is ridiculous.

for potatoes that cant aim and maybe put 2 bullets in you is fine. when you have ppl who are good putting 10 shots in 3 seconds with 130% plus damage each… well yeah… you cant even run away.

specializations weren’t here months ago. you call yourself “godtier”… fucking prove it.

I know I will. Back to basic training. You don’t get better by having it easy, only thing easy mode will make you is sloppy.

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#65

When did I call myself god tier?

#66

You’re right there I play a bunch of potatoes slicing and dicing, next thing you know I get a good team and they f*** my face because I’ve been sloppy slicing potatoes.

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#67

i would say match players who constantly lose(either faction) toghether and match players who constantly win, together.

but the player base is so small, that would probably skyrocket pred queue times to unplayable times.

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#68

This is why I said “just to some extent” or let’s call it “preferential” - if no fitting team mate or opponent is available, it is quite acceptable to have one rookie in a pro team or alike. It even might be fun to have to care for said rookie:)

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#69

Absolutely it don’t have to be perfect it just needs to work most the time.

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#70

@Bonator

Here’s the trick…

I like to think Illfonic has skill based match making on the back burner.
I also have seen enough to know that until now…skill based matchmaking has been impossible due to the active playerbase.

I like to think this is going to change and it’sj ust a timing thing. The fact is illfonic literally threw the product in our laps and said “Here you deal with balancing” (not once at launch, but twice with private match settings) is the reason they haven’t done it. They fucked up and realized that, they tried to fix it on the sneak…and again fucked up. Eventually though, this game is evolving to the point they have to do that. So they’ll probably introduce a new level cap, start with a three tier skill base matchmaking…and go from there.

I like to also think this is coming soon…but I’m often wrong so…I’ll just remind all of you that we all learned how to parry on our own and that took some of is 3 months or more. Fortnite crossover was December/January…they’ll learn

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#71

I would like to think you’re right.

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#72

I would also like to think you are right… But to be honest, I do not believe, that such things are possible anymore - Illfonic is a company, they are driven by business men in the end.

Improving is nice but does not necessarily come with earning more money :)

Let us hope for the very best… Hope dies last :)

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#73

If it’s any consolation…the two main sources of income for a business model like this are attraction and retention.

After a year you’re attraction numbers are going to be dependent on your retention numbers. This is a slow burn success if it ever will be successful. Based on similar genres (online multi-player) with “bigger” IPs (Star Wars is far more recognized than predator, yes I’m looking at you SW Squadrons). This still has a good chance.

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#74

Again,I really hope you’re right, I love our faith.
Unfortunately you have the s*** in one hand faith in the other analogy… But I really hope you’re right.

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#75

I agree with you, it’s just the question, whether said business men agree with you too…

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#76

Buddys, I am off for work now - I have to go out saving the world a little now :) CU

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#77

They seem to be saying that it’s a"BIG" update coming soon and that we will really be able to see what they’ve been working on… Which the last map they made was excavation, and as a hybrid player that’s very anti-pred… Makes me wonder if they’re going to go in the direction of continuing to build around ft…

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#78

Sorry for all the drama commas lol

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#79

You’re right but it’s also a matter of perspective. Our left hands have a pile of shit. Illfonic’s have a pile of money, but Playstation gets a cut, epic gets a cut, employees get a cut…time your done giving out the cuts both hands look the same.
So they gotta keep us here…and we tell them how.

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#80

I’ve said it a million times

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