I know, I know. "Git gud", right? Some of you have been telling me that for weeks now, and here I am still getting schooled by the Vets even WORSE than before. I'm wondering how many of the Vets "got good" themselves when there were multiple servers with dozens of players, so they were able to learn the game years ago with other newbies. Try instead to imagine a person who has never played a FPS shooter before trying to learn the dodge-fest that is Hawken today, and then imagine 2500 MMR players and the "Smurfs" coming in to show us how its done. In this new player's humble opinion, the "learning curve" for this game is not a curve at all - we start at the bottom of a sheer cliff.
It's not always "get gud." I know plenty of players who have been playing for years and don't rise above 1500-1600.
Am I using "SRD", as you suggested, correctly with Scrimbot? When I get into a match I type SRD to Scrimbot and he will tell me the MMR range of all players on the two teams, correct?
I've been doing it every match or so and its been very interesting. First of all, I only click the TDM matches that are "3 stars" for me, or "2 stars" if 3 stars is not available. In a "3 star" match, I get an MMR range of like 1300-1800. I do "OK" in these matches, with my low MMR hovering around 1400. But its interesting how when someone new joins the match and I run the MMR again. If that range increases to, say, 2300 all of a sudden, does this mean the person who just joined has an MMR around 2300? So far the matches do seem to reflect this. In fact in one match I just flat out asked "Who's the one here with 2350 MMR?" (I of course had my suspicions when we're all at 100 or so points and he keeps getting over 500). And he/she said that it was them. But this person joined a low MMR game when there WERE high MMR matches going on (I know because I looked). Another player with a high MMR kept thrashing us all last night before admitting "I shouldn't be here", and then finally left (thankfully). Saturday a player with around 2500 MMR joined our low tier match, which I and others promptly left. Also last night a "team" of super-skilled Scout pilots thought it would be fun to come down to our level and club some seals for a while. Out of about 10 matches last night, I estimate that 3 of them were actually close. When I asked a "smurf" whose score was consistently scoring 400 points or more above the rest of us how long he's been playing the game. "Two days", he said, and I promptly left the forum.
I'm sorry, but I'm not buying the "no comparable matches thing" right now. That may be true after about 2-3 am, but this weekend from 9pm EST to 2am EST there were MULTIPLE TDM matches taking place. Players of this skill level are not just accidentally getting placed with us - they're deliberately doing so, and I'm getting closer and closer to not tolerating it anymore. And this is after my son and I feeding about $50 of our own money into supporting the game. I can confidently say that they will NEVER EVER get a very large player base unless they FIRST find a way to stop the Veterans from clubbing the weaker and newer players like myself.
My MMR hovers between 2150-2300. I pretty much only use the autoqueue function to find matches because if the only servers available with space are 1300-1800 MMR servers, it will not show up for me as available in the server browser. I cannot consciously, purposely pick to enter that server. However, the autoqueue will place me in that server if nothing else closer to my range is available. Understand if a server average is well below a player's MMR they cannot join it purposely, AFAIK. It's the autoqueue that places them in there, and at sometimes odd hours it can be difficult to find matches in the server browser to actively choose from. So if I'm dropping into a lower MMR server, is it my fault for having higher MMR, for the autoqueue to have placed me there? It doesn't matter the amount of active TDMs, it matters in the MMR average of those servers. If they are all in the 1500 average, and I'm 2200 MMR, what choice do I have? Don't play the game?
I buy the no comparable matches thing because very often there are not. I see it, I experienced it. It's a population issue.
This is an unfortunate side effect of a low player population, and this will only really change with an influx of players, both old and new, both low and high MMR, and the likelihood of that happening is highly likely if a content patch is pushed out. The best we can do, imo, is to stick it out and wait for the patch, see what changes occur.
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