[2020] No balance on casual

Originally Posted by JuMeloC
i know casual its not a priority, nor a focus to the developers, and i get it.
but i suck and i would like to enjoy playing with people that also suck, without the pressure of ranked.
i've been playing against a lot of plats, and its not enjoyable..
once again, i suck, im probably a gold at max, i just want to relax and go against people at my lvl
please focus a lil bit on casual balancing

Hi JuMeloC, welcome to the R6 forums!

Quick Match (Casual) has a separate form of MMR that isn't affected by Ranked in any way. The Plat players you encountered more than likely have a Quick Match MMR close to yours.

In addition, would you be willing to discuss why you feel casual isn't a priority or focus for the dev team?

Originally Posted by No_ID-PT
Quick match has MMR?

Yes, Quick Match has it's own invisible MMR system.

Originally Posted by croken717
Every time this is brought up, the standard answer is "the MMR for Quick Match is different than Ranked". Frankly, that same broken-record answer is an insult to my intelligence, and everybody who brings up threads like this on a routine basis. What every player knows, is that the Quick Match MMR is BROKEN. Maybe it doesn't reset at the beginning of a season like Ranked does. Maybe there are straight-up bugs. Regardless, it is FREAKING BROKEN. Why does nobody investigate?!? These threads come up SOOOO often, from so many different people all saying the same thing. Yet, Ubisoft sticks it's head in the sand and pretends that the problem doesn't exist.....and that us out here just don't understand how MMR works. You're right, we don't...but you don't either, and that's the problem. Quick Match is consistently lopsided. Somebody needs to take this seriously and investigate why.

On the subject of MMR, while you're at it, please investigate why in Ranked on PS4, you insist on taking my entire squad that are ALL in the EUS datacenter with pings ranging from 9-24, and matching us against entire teams of people from Guatamala (we ain't neighbors), with pings 150-200. I'm in the Eastern US; you can't find us ANYBODY else to play with, and have to reach out to Guatamala to fill our game?

The reason why it is brought up is to remind players who may not know that Ranked is not taken into account for matchmaking, because people are bringing up the Ranked MMR of players. We want to eliminate the idea that Ranked takes part in Quick Match mming.
We are fully aware of players reporting they feel some matches have unablanced matchmaking, and continue to make note of new threads reporting this instance. We also appreciate suggestions from the community on how to improve the experience overall.
Regarding the datacenter question, are you making sure you are still on EUS while you are in the match? It is possible it is an issue with the other team not being redirected to the proper datacenter, which would require those players to contact support. How often are you encountering issues like this? It should be rare.

Originally Posted by croken717
Thank you for taking the time to reply. It is appreciated.

Regarding the datacenter issue, we encounter it fairly regularly; perhaps 1 out of 3 or 4 matches.

Interesting! I'd suggest checking in to make sure everyone is still connected to the same datacenter, and it may be worth reaching out to Ubisoft Support as well.