Talk:Matchmaking/@comment-31208012-20170202033053/@comment-31208012-20170208071233

Just a quick update, a week on and my matches have definently settled in. I've recovered about half of the average damage I had lost in the 1st week (started at 527k with the old MM & dropped all the way to 395k. Have since climbed some and been steady right around 450k for 20 battles or more). My win rate was around 65% when the new MM hit and I've now been down around 50 pretty consistently. Overall, it seems like the new MM is behaving as advertised. I am definently not the top player as often as I used to be. I like to think that means that I was pretty good relative to my bot/weapon levels—if that is the case then I'm no longer being rewarded for my skill, as I'm consistently being matched with comparable opponents: either equally skilled, more skilled with lower level bots/weapons, or less skilled but better equiped. Which is what's expected, as I understand it, from this kind of system. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I will say that I seem to have more "close" hard-fought matches … which is arguably more enjoyable. I haven't seen many maxed hangars in the last week at all, and when I have we've had comparable players on our side to balance them out.

I'm not sure if G78Aussie's experience last week was significantly worse than mine, but he clearly did not understand from the article that it would take time for other player's ratings to get set as well as his own, regardless of how many hours he played. Hopefully his experience has improved as mine has, now that a bit more time has passed. Perhaps he'll let us know. For myself, things seem to be working fine, and I like to think I'm a slightly better player for having been thrown in with the big dogs a few times. Certainly I learned a trick or two trying to dodge waves of high-level Orkan fire!