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Appreciate the post! We're only going to get better with the help of everyone playing and sharing their love and hate towards the game :D
Appreciate the post! We're only going to get better with the help of everyone playing and sharing their love and hate towards the game :D
since u out here answering questions and responding i wanted to ask: is losers/winners queue an actual thing in valorant? it's a popular theory in other riot games that riot likes to put you on win streaks or loss streaks instead of W/L/W/L/W for some weird psychological effect to keep u hooked, is this true for valorant?
This isn't the case for Valorant. I, personally, won't push to add anything like that and I only have minor changes I want to investigate for our MMR system currently. Now we are digging through data, as well as how the new Ranked Rating system is working, to plan changes for the future!
In shooters it's not uncommon for a player to have a really good game, and instantly have a bad game in their next one.
ahh yes. Me.
Same :(
Hi EvrMoar, thank you for your responses!
I have a question, when the matchmaking places you in a game where the majority of players have significantly lower MMR than yours (let's say, you are an Immortal and you have a team full of D2's), does it necessarily mean that the syst believes that you should have a lower rank than you have at the moment? Or it can place you in these situations just so it can find matches more easily, reducing the queue time for you and other players?
Thank you for all the great work you guys been doing!
You're best metric of if your rank is at your MMR is if you are gaining around the same amount of Ranked Rating per win as a loss. That means your Rank has converged with your MMR and you are at your rank you currently belong at.
That being said, some players are climbing up, some players are being pushed down, so everyone is on their own Ranked journey. So because you have a lower rank player in your game doesn't mean you are going down, it could mean they are on their way up.
I hope that helps, and thank you for the kind words!
I get what you're saying, but this change that you did to the ranking system created a new era of smurfs. It's a smurf village in low elo. I am hardstuck silver on my main, but plat 2 on my alternate account. The system is not working as intended.
Bring forth the downvotes!
We didn't change the match making system. You are getting the exact same matches as you would have last episode/act. In fact we didn't even touch players MMR.
So the only explanation, if you really feel like there are more smurfs, is not the match makers fault but realistically that more smurfs are being made. We are still refining how we find out who is smurfing in data, but right now it's actually a very small % of the playerbase.
I'll definitely get some flak for saying this, but I think there is a perception players are smurfing more then it's actually occurring. In shooters it's not uncommon for a player to have a really good game, and instantly have a bad game in their next one. Just because a player may have a lower rank, and do well, doesn't mean they are smurf. They could just be having a good game, or are in your match because they are actually climbing up rank. Players are on their own journey all the time, so players will climb up in rank. Everyone will ...
Read moreI don’t think any players would be mad if you made players with the skill level of TenZ an immortal or diamond rank off the bat. What makes no sense is why TenZ, or a similar calibre player would ever be allocated a plat 3 rank in the first place when you blatantly know they’re not going to be as low as plat 3.
Can’t wrap my head around why you’d start players in plat and give them -10 losses and +45 wins instead of just placing them in diamond straight away?
Because players stop playing the game, and new players rise up. The top players are constantly shifting, even monthly. You need to soft reset to to clear out high ranks where a player may have stagnated at their rank, and may not really be engaging with Valorant or even a top player to begin with.
Creating a restriction where "You only have to play 1 game a week" or docking Rank can only get you so far. At the end of the day a player could coast, for multiple seasons, at the top rank without much effort if we didn't soft reset.
The other issue is cheaters. If we let people climb too fast, you could get an account onto the leaderboard. We need a few games to actually determine if you're cheating or not. We are good at detecting cheats but sometimes it takes some games.
Also if we let TenZ get the 1 spot, right off the bat, the leaderboard would literally be 10 people, and all of their alt-accounts, sitting in the top 250. Radiant would be full of alt-accounts...
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