jade pewter
First of all, making a casual ish game ranked only is a ticking time bomb and bad for the games long term player count and health from my experience, I have no idea why there isn’t a casual SBMM-less mode, or even a mode selector standalone in a fully released game in 2025, even basic features like text chat or mute/-all aren’t implemented… I’m baffled.
But I digress.
Add player MMR for matchmaking, not only rank dependent but also MMR so you’ll be paired with and against players with an actually comparable skill level to you.
Also add preliminary placement matches for all players at the start of every season, helps everybody, the lowly bobs who are in silver but are getting curb stomped by some gigachad way better than them who’s just slogging his way through the lower ranks, and it helps the aforementioned gigachad by letting him outright skip the lower ranks if he played well in his placement matches.
On a side note would be nice if the game had dynamic matchmaking, first narrow scope (same rank only), then widened (+1/-1) or (+2/-2), probably wishful thinking for this one since the game doesn’t have a large enough player base to allow this to function properly.
lament wraith