What’s Important In Matchmaking?

Games Other Halo
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For those who don’t follow Sketch on Twitter, he’s conducting another one of his informal surveys that you might find interesting and consider answering:

> Which criteria is most important to you when playing online matchmaking?This is not intended to inform work or priorities, really just curious what fellow gamers value most (in any game really).
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> • Fastest match
> • Skillful/Balanced match
> • Lowest latency match
> • Specific map/mode

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I will say balanced match at first choice. Then it comes map and mode.
I have played tons of unbalanced matches during these pre update months, and I don’t want to come back.

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Looks like that’s another way of saying the population is bad so which one is more important to you because you can’t have all three in a low populated game.

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I’d say that there’s an order to this that makes sense.

To me it’s:

  • Balanced Match - Fastest Match - Lowest Latency - Map/ModeIf I was to pick though, I’d rather the most balanced I can get.
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Looks like quality carries the day, which is in line with my own preference. Out of 1,333 votes:

> - 54% Skillful/balanced match - 24% Lowest latency match - 12% Fastest match - 10% Specific map/mode

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Glad to see balanced match in the lead (as of now). Steamrolling is only fun for so long and getting steamrolled isn’t very enjoyable.

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Balanced matches gets my vote. We shouldn’t be playing against people 3 levels above our own rank. I know it’s probably because of the low population crisis but it’s not fun at all. :cry:

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> Balanced matches gets my vote. We shouldn’t be playing against people 3 levels above our own rank. I know it’s probably because of the low population crisis but it’s not fun at all. :cry:

Playing against people 5 ranks above you is little fun too :sleepy:
Plat 1 against diamonds is too harsh

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> > Balanced matches gets my vote. We shouldn’t be playing against people 3 levels above our own rank. I know it’s probably because of the low population crisis but it’s not fun at all. :cry:
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> Playing against people 5 ranks above you is little fun too :sleepy:
> Plat 1 against diamonds is too harsh

I only play WZ. I’m Gold 2 and get smashed almost every game by Champ, Onyx, Diamond… lol. Since TS2 it’s not been much fun to play. Hopefully the matchmaking part of the system gets fixed to match TS2.

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Ranking up for winning not being punished for getting a bling thumbless player on your team when you lose good hit and damage reconition when a player leaves a loddy while stop the que so we dont spend 15 min to get the unable to match and wait another 15 min to find a game

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  • Skillful/Balanced match - Fastest Match - Specific map/mode - Lowest Latency match