If it's just you... (Destiny)

by BeardFade , Portland, OR, Friday, March 04, 2016, 01:32 (3411 days ago) @ narcogen

I'm obviously aware that all people got the same patch but that doesn't mean that the patch affects all players the same. Let's look at this logically.

One of the points being brought up is that skill based match making has been reduced. This Week At Bungie today in fact said no where is skill favored over low latency. This means that all people are facing a slightly modified pool of players. If we imagine the skill level of Destiny players on a bell curve, prior to the change the bottom quarter would have mostly played with the bottom quarter just as the top quarter would have mostly played with the top quarter. By removing skill based match making, you flatten the curve (since it is irrelevant). This means that the top players are mathematically guaranteed to be playing more matches against weaker opponents than they were before. This also means that the bottom quarter are mathematically guaranteed to run into more players of a skill level higher than theres. Based on my stats, I'd guess that I am in the 50-75% range of the bell curve, and now rather than being the top of the middle 50%, I'm more likely to have a top quarter player in my game than before.

One of the other points is the damage referee. I am playing over Wifi and occasionally my signal isn't great. I hadn't considered the effect this was having on my game. I played a few games on my wife's Xbox One today (connected with an ethernet cable), on Clash (which doesn't have the new matchmaking) and at least had a few good games, though I played a small sample size with 2 horrible Gunsmith test guns, so it's not a fair comparison.