(WARNING REDDIT RANT)
Here's my experience from open que which is just terrible.
I've only played 2 sixes games. And they've both been unbalanced games due to this elo system. 2 players who are both advanced players (Cadet and nazara) both have 0 elo so they just get thrown in as what I presume as newcomer players. My next on my list here, why is there a guy banned from ETF2L in these pugs I'm okay with EU players on scout but come on rgl I feel like that should've been the first think you've done. The first pug wasn't too bad balance wise but ended in a 5-1. Second one was a 5-2. I also think the HL queue should have a different elo count than the sixes queue. You can say it does but I find that cap cause my demo elo is the same for both sixes and HL.
What is up with this elo. Not to pretty much repeat what Juustin said above but before I added up I had the same elo as i do now and why is my Demoman elo, a class which I have the most experience on in competitive, my lowest elo. I have friends who don't play this game anymore have higher elo than me.
plumI'm not entirely sure how the Elo is implemented here, but it seems like some initial guess is based on some past results. Ideally people play a couple pugs (kinda how you play placement games) so that their Elo is closer to their true skill. Again I'm not entirely sure about the details of implementation (Elo is not designed for team games. I have many problems with this), but I wouldn't claim the matchmaking system doesn't balance teams well based on 3 games.
I 100% agree with this. Elo in team games are bad. Its good for the competition, bragging rights and captain queue it just doesn't work for a automated system or at least this one. And I understand there's a captain queue and that Open queue is more for the newer players who don't know people, I think where this system is now there should be a human factor and have people captain so they can do the picks manually or something because this system just doesn't work at all. And we haven't had enough people at the higher level interested in trying this cause it just isn't advertised enough. 0 posts at all to test things. I've seen more HL pugs run on this website than
And another thing that is VERY IMPORTANT there needs to be a way were you set the players last div they played and give them starter elo because it just makes the game unbalanced from the start. Who cares if they main demo or soldier just give them like 1800 based on their score (lets say thats advanced) and then take it away if they win or lose after 3 games. And another side note if eventually this beta is over and they do release in the year 2035 you should wipe the elos or something if mine is just this fucked from the unbalanced games I might just run it back with an alt there should be a cap in place for the last div you played. I thank you for your time to whoever this may reach on the RGL pug team and godspeed.
Honest review:
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