[QUOTE=Zenity;529594]How many games does it require to get a rank? Hopefully by next week all good players have an initial ranking, so new players coming in will not be matched up against them immediately. Of course this is only going to work if with open beta there will be enough players queueing for match making… here’s hoping.
Also, ranks don’t seem to be displayed? Maybe I just haven’t seen it yet, but if that’s so then please change this urgently. If you can’t guarantee balanced matches for now, it’s absolutely necessary that players can at least see what the expected result was. Otherwise this is going to be a torturous experience for new players.
I don’t think separate queues make a lot of sense right now, but at the very least the system should try its hardest to pre-seed teams based on a few common sense factors like premade vs solo, public rank, and level. My first MM game was solos vs. solos, but one side was stacked with topplayers… that could have been so easily avoided by mixing up the teams more sensibly.[/QUOTE]
10 Games for a rank and… from the looks of it, it wont matter. Linkz won 13 games got ranked gold 1, I’ve got 14 games played - 12 wins, gold 1. oen, twidi has 13(?) wins, gold 2… etc. While there are players with 4 out of 12 wins, also… at gold 1. And apparently the only way to achieve a higher rank is by winning versus players of the same or higher rank. How many wins are unknown as of yet, but I’d assume there’s still going to be quite… a few of those “stomps” until we get placed in higher tiers. Even so, once there, I’d assume the game would still pair us with your average player if there’s no other match to be found.
On a side note: twidi, mikza, adeto and I all intentionally solo queued a lot of games today, to avoid getting stacked teams. Anti can confirm that as he’s been put into the same lobby with us on more than one occasion, but honestly… it really doesn’t differ that much, I still ended up getting 80-90+ kills in those games (You were in one of those as well on my team, iirc? :P). If anything the level requirement should be raised or at the very least matchmaking should filter out matches if there’s too high of a level difference between the players.
I’d rather not get matched than having to be yelled and insulted just for ending up to be matched versus level 5-7s, merely for wanting to play the game with my friends.