MM RANTS!

Yes.

Opposite here. I've have a great run of wins over 2 days. Even when we lose I've been in the top two consistently. I'm beginning to wonder if Pix has suspended movement up or down in the league's. I wasn't that far from moving up to Silver when the update went sideways. Not being able to see the standings sucks.


Competition wise, it's been pretty even, although I'm seeing lots of bots and weapons I can't buy yet with WSP. That could be because I'm not a noob and know how to play... even with my hand in a splint. Sucks trying to drive a bot without the use of my thumb.

LOL. Takes all the fun out of it, I guess.

And i have plenty to rant about..lol if I knew how to put pics on here, I got stories..lol

At the moment I'm at 46% win, 420k avg damage, I'm still falling as they are matching me with 750k, 680k, 650k guys full tilt 12/12 while my team is 9/9 and one guy was 11/11's .. Even though greatly mismatched, it almost seems as though they are working on people mentally, "[We'll pound you down so you will need to spend to be competitive]"

It's garbage. Solo drop, 30 seconds in 1-2 people quit. 80% chance enemy team is a premade. Always outgunned.

GARBAGE! :/

this system is total crap i just got battle vs full clan and we lost they done 3mil damage and we done 1mil is this balanced ?? really 「whiskey tango foxtrot」 happen to the game???

My MM theory part 1

I would like to cover this whole theory about why so many people are writing in about when they win they are in the bottom three, when they lose they are in the top two spots.

For me most games I perform about the same each time, I quit changing around my hanger as I found a certain set up that I LIKE to use the most.[The word "LIKE"] - Not that these are my favorite bots, but because they work best for me.
Galahads are what I use the most and I have four all the same power. The other bot is a Fury but at times I switch over to a Carnage (these are set up for long range maps. If I see the team needs help or I run out of my Galahads, I'll bring out my long range to equalize the situation )
I don't switch maps and so I run on them all. Those following my post will see how I feel about switching maps and what it is doing to the game. I must say though, the Galahads seem to be the most versatile robot for pretty much any map.

My average damage right now is around 460k and my games run between 400k to 500k with spikes as high as 750k or low as 200k (mostly map related and how many death button or tridents might come across)

So the question is, if my averages are about the same, then why am i losing so much? Right now based on the rubber band effect, I am on my downward slide and my losses are now about 60-65%. The competition generally has higher averages, sometimes close to my average and many times the competition is 100-300k higher average damage than myself. [note: once I am at a point to where my losses had bottomed out, the competition is much easier and I will start to win once again. It also seems that everyone on the blue team is better than the red team as well. It's as if, the group I am in can't be competitive to some higher up group, but we are more powerful than a group just lower than us. Respectively, the group higher than us, is not competitive to a group higher than them, and the group just below us, is more powerful than the group below them.] This makes sense as so many people are experiencing the same phenomenon, and it doesn't much matter what level they are.

Theory part 2

So could it be that I am in a group with others that are in this downward slide together? It could very well be, as somehow matchmaking is teaming people together that have reached a imaginary threshold and are now grouped against superior teams. I need to verify this by looking over all the numbers, I think some losses are coincidence and some wins are coincidence, but overall there might be something to all of this.
I bet that once that imaginary threshold is met, the odds are definitely stacked against us and the competition can be quite a bit higher than our levels. I know for a fact, I am seeing in many of my losses AND wins that those on the red team have better bots and weapons and therefore averages, and those filling the top three spots on the blue team as well have better bots and weapons and therefore averages. Not all of the time, but a lot of the time.

Now that I can see other players league rank, brings a whole new level of frustration. I can see I'm being matched against people so much higher rank then me. Just got thrown into a battle with all 12/12s and I'm 8/9. Of course we lost and I scored terribly with all the maxed bots. Lost 15 league points... errrr!

Was against a bunch of diamond through master level and I'm gold II. So stupid.

I think this is because many players skip these maps which creates a vacuum you get sucked into if you don't skip.

To me the league system seems to be working much better. I am hoping my ranting days are over, actually started to use light and medium bots again.

I'm not sure I understand the point of the leagues when a Silver 3 7/7 hangars get matched against things like an Expert 3 12/12 hangars. League rankings apparently have no bearing on one's ability to win, only sheer damage output, and are not used in any manner to equalize matches. League ranking seems pointless having improved nothing within the gameplay and the MM still sucks 「bum-bum」.

Talk about a beatdown, I'm in Silver II and just got tossed into a battle against 3 Expert League players. Straight 12/12 hangers. Really, Pix?

We must have been in the same match. I barely broke 80k.