PvP matchmaking seems to have dramatically improved? (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Saturday, October 14, 2017, 11:34 (2397 days ago)

And just over the course of this week. This is purely anecdotal, but on Tuesday night, Iron Banner was a disgrace. Matchmaking took (literally) 10 minutes per match (I'm on PS4, so xboners ymmv). Once I got into the match, it was against full streamer teams (TeftyTeft is pretty good, it turns out) or their equivalent. And eventually matchmaking just borked out entirely and told there were 8/8 players matched, one of my fireteam buddies had 3/8, and the third member of our team showed a bizarre 0/8. At which point we just force quit since it sat that way for a very long time.

Weds night the actual matchmaking still took a very long time but the resulting games were less lopsided, but were still almost always blowouts in one direction or the other. Perhaps there is a background ranking algorithm for IB that is separate from normal PvP, or it was reset for this past week? Unknown. Regardless, matchmaking appeared to be normalizing.

Fast forward to last night.

Matchmaking was smooth and relatively quick. The games were very, very, VERY good games. Lots of back and forth, we knew what we did when we made mistakes, and we were against teams who were about as organized and competent as we were without feeling overly sweaty. Our team play definitely improved, but the quality of our opponents was much more "on our level" than in previous days where we either wrecked or got wrecked (usually the latter).

Has anyone else noticed that the matchmaking seems very much improved over the course of this week? Just me? The last two nights of PvP have been really fun and competitive for me :)