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Probably the best matchmaker in the industry, true skill 2, actually looks at players stats using machine learning. It can do fascinating things like understanding a players rank in like 1-2 games - it can look at how that player is performing against an opponent and because of all the machine learning stats it has predicted where that opponent should be(aka this player is performing like a diamond player would perform against a bronze player).

I think it would be interesting to see if you can feed stats that are not PvP stats, but like you said more individual movement/gameplay stats with no impact on other players. Also no problem! I probably wall of text way too often, and I love talking about these things. It's nice to work at a studio that enables me to actually have these discussions(some places I've worked don't like these kinds of interactions).

My advice is to make mods, or download unreal and start doing some tutorials! Most designers need engine experience and have an idea of how to implement game features. If you don't/can't get a degree I would go the QA route and try to get into an entry level position(be warned QA can be a pretty rough experience and I'm not a huge fan of how they are treated in the industry as a whole).

I would then look at universities that offer Computer Science or Game Dev degrees. Personally, I'm not a fan of Full Sail, but they've gotten better since I entered the industry(I actually really like digipen; I would probably avoid smaller no-name private colleges). Honestly if you are driven, actually apply yourself to learn a game engine, you can make it; it just takes a lot of work, possibly some failures, but that's all part of the journey and learning!

If you are more art driven obviously you can look for 3D art style degrees, but I'm super unfamiliar with that space.

AWWWW YEA LOOK AT THAT MATCH FAIRNESS BABY LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

It's pointed out in this thread but 5 stacks play against 5 stacks and it will always try to find the fairest match it can for these groups. Because we allow all ranks to queue together in 5 stacks that means your matchmaking can get kinda wild in terms of ranked spread in these matches.

(I have to say, before I get the comments that people have issues with the matchmaker, we are always trying to improve it and get better. We really want people to feel like they can play ranked with their friends, and 5 stacks having no ranked restrictions is such an awesome space to do it. Our data shows our 5 stack matchmaking is extremely accurate, and that's awesome! I love to see people queueing together at different ranks, playing with their friends; one of the biggest reasons people smurf is just to play with friends. Again this is not an excuse or invalidating anyone's feedback/issues with matchmaking. I love this c...

The community learning about MMR makes me so proud /wipesawaytear

In theory you could argue this, but unfortunately, there aren't really separate pools. I mean silver is big, I think it's like 20+% of the player base, so even being one rank up or down in silver can create a vastly different experience to the skill levels of those your are playing against.

I think the other thing to think about is that MMR is just a ladder, and you are just playing against players that are close to you on that ladder. So there aren't really "pools of players" just players that are around you on the ladder. The only thing you need to do to climb is to beat players and climb up the ladder and push them down. We just have some fancy math to move you faster up and down the ladder if you clearly are performing far off from your current position.

There is an inherent flaw in matchmakers when they are applied to team games; this is why MMR systems when applied to teams actually bring your rank to the average of the team and not your individual MMR. This i...

Oh and in terms of match making manipulation being in-effective, I think my point about that being a match making paradox is the best example of why you can't manipulate matchmaking in that way.

In order to be able to "manipluate" match making we need to know a players actual skill. I need to say "You are better or worse then X/Y/Z player" so that when I want to manipulate your match or experience I know what skill level you are to do so. So first I have to find your actual skill, then I can manipulate it. Well the problem is that once I find out your skill, it's going to change; and not only that I need to do this for every single player. The moment we start manipulating your matches, we suddenly reduce or remove our ability to find any players actual skill level. This creates a paradox where we can't manipulate your games because by manipulating games we can't actually know any players actual skill - thus making it impossible to manipulate games. Hopefully that makes sens...

I just wonder if it would be able to be kept a secret LOL. I think people give too much credit to a lot of companies who's backgrounds or degrees are not at all based in psychology. I mean, I came from one of the other biggest games in the world before Riot and I didn't even really have access to stats to make design decisions(and this is for simple things like weapon balance). Lots of game studios are not as complex or organized as some players realize, but games can often get away with being an extremely creative process and learning from what games are finding success.

So my first point is keeping it secret would be near impossible. It may not seem like it, but every day tons of people on the dev team are raising issues with things they don't like about the game. There are plenty of people, especially in the game industry, who feel burned by their employers or their voices are not being heard. With how many people work at Riot, or any of the major game studios, all it wo...

Are you counting kill banner at all or just firing?

I didn’t! I went back to my beloved Ruination 😂

This is probably a bug. I'll bring it up this week

I talk about losers queue here!

https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/tvb772/this_problem_is_now_getting_soo_common_dude/i393gp7/

It's crazy going on a 15-game lose streak, sorry you ran into that. I can't ever prove losers queue does not exist, but I think my biggest argument(which I cover in the link above), is that lose streaks would not be beneficial to keep people in the game. If anything, the correct answer would be to catch players that were on a lose streak and put them into an easy match.(which...