Pixonic is fooking (with) us ...

But you gotta hope that random has some clue as to what they're doing. It's less than a 50/50 shot from what I've seen. Even with clan mates, you need to squad up with other players close to your level, or else everybody gets screwed (except for the reds). Every once in awhile I get teamed up with somebody who has my back and I have theirs, and the game is a total blast when that happens. But it's very difficult, especially now with the event challenges going on, where pretty much everybody is out for themselves.

As for the OP, I can't imagine the devs would actually go out of their way to make the game extra frustrating for certain players, but damn it sure does feel that way some times. Last night, for example, around 7:45 PM I was on a string of really good games -- not winning them all, but very competitive in defeat. Then 8:00 PM hits, and bonus silver for three wins, and I instantly start getting destroyed and losing for about 5 games straight. And that seems to happen a lot, so it's easy to see how people might think it's intentional.

Just a co-incidence. I had win streak of like 10 wins in 12 battles from the start of 2nd series of win quests. 1st win quest series was like 50 games for 15 wins. Currently on 3rd series, this seems about balanced, both wins and losses so steady progress towards the Treb.

Or, if it is not co-incidence, then it's still more complex than "win quests mean loss series".

I agree, sometimes it seems like there out to get you!

But then I remember...

pirateb0t, I don't understand the problem you have with the MM. You are doing really well so the game gives you harder opponents... you do poorly and it gives you easier opponents. 

Is that a problem? Do you want to seal club?

The game works to average everyone's win rate to 50%, just like most other modern E-Sports (SC2, League, DOTA 2, Counter Strike), not only because it is fair, but also because people who lose a lot would just leave the game. Thus, if you are a better than average pilot, you're going to beat most people with similar level weapons, so you'll face people with higher level bots and weapons (although you'll also see people who are better pilots than you with lower level bots and weapons!)

Imagine that a player at the top starts to struggle or doesn't have Robots that are good for the current meta. Instead of just losing all his games, he gets bumped down until he is winning at a 50% clip. That might mean facing bots that are lower level. But it doesn't matter, the point is that everyone has an equal chance when they play the game.

No one deserves a zero percent winrate, those champion players included. And it also means you too.  I don't care what robots or weapons you are running or what level they are, it doesn't matter. There are people in Legend League without Level 12 robots and weapons.  If you are a skilled pilot you're going to be running against people with better robots and weapons because inevitably the match making rating = player skill + robot and weapons.

As I said, imagine that a player in champions league is struggling... do they deserve a zero percent win rate indefinitely? What if their hanger is just bad for the current meta? If they continue to lose they will get booted down anyway. There are people in Legend League without Level 12 robots and weapons.  It really doesn't matter, you can overcome it.

And there are people well below Legend League with level 12 robots and weapons. I saw a guy who was in Diamond 1 yesterday with a maxed hanger. So no matter where you are on the ladder, from Bronze to Champion, you very well could face someone who outguns you. And you are facing them because the game believes you can autopilot them based on your past performance. Inevitably, Matchmaking rating (MMR) = player skill + robot and weapons.  So the game places people in games together based on MMR.

A 50% winrate for everyone is the very definition of fair. 

If you decided to tank and didn't end up in LQ, then you wouldn't be facing opponents who are equal to you if you are a good pilot, so you'd be seal clubbing. Everyone who was so fond of the old MM system is because it benefited them. What they forget is all of the people who left the game (and thus don't frequent this forum) because it didn't benefit them. If you aren't a great pilot you should still be able to enjoy using a Lancelot without losing every game. No one should suffer with a ridiculously low win rate to benefit someone who wants a 80-90% win rate.

But this new system benefits you too. You don't see people who are terrible pilots with a great hanger ruining games because they aren't good at the top tiers.

But wait, using your example the infants wouldn't have a 50% winrate, right?  So you've misapplied my logic.  Try again until you come up with an example where everyone gets ~50%, because the current system isn't just a pyramid scheme of seal clubbing as you suggest (like the old one was), but somehow you are left out of it. That is not the case.

Everyone deserves the 50% winrate, because everyone deserves a fair game. Everyone means everyone.  If you have a better than 50% chance of winning, it isn't a fair game.  MMR systems, basically the same as this one, are used in League of Legends, SC2, DOTA, Counterstrike, Chess and countless other games.  They are not complicated.  What confuses people is that people regarding War Robots is that people face opponents with higher level robots and weapons, not realizing their opponents need that advantage in order for the game to be fair.

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