Sort of? (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 17:38 (3241 days ago) @ Beorn

Isn't that pretty much what they changed it to in the last update to Trials?

Like Morpheus said, it's sort of win-based. Ideally, a team with 5 wins should be playing another team with 5 wins. What's unclear is if number of losses are also used as part of the matching algorithm. We've played lots of Trials matches where we have zero losses and if we win, the other team finishes their card (meaning they were showing two losses at the beginning of the match).

That said, I suggest that if you've attained the Lighthouse for the week, you should be pegged at the 9-win tier until the reset, no matter what the card is showing. :)

My understanding is that it gives wins a "preference" when matchmaking but it doesn't guarantee it, so if the game has trouble matching a 5 win team with another 5 win team, it will expand to 4 and 6 win teams when searching. I feel like a big part of why it has to expand the search is that relatively few teams will get to 5 wins without a loss compared to the number who get 4 or fewer wins and then lose a round. The result is lots and lots of teams resetting and the game over-stacks at the bottom tier. The only real way to prevent that is to eliminate the need for being flawless, which would then mean players would keep going no matter how many losses they had (until their third registered loss). I think this would be a good move on Bungie's part because it would reduce the frustration caused by a single game with a glitchy connection, or a cheating team, etc..

As to cordoning off the lighthouse, it really has to do with how Bungie views the reward. If they want everyone to be able to get it, then by all means cordon lighthousers off to "victors only" combat, thereby steadily draining skill from the pool of available opponents for wanna be lighthousers. Eventually every team but 1 will theoretically make it (and that poor 1 remaining team, after having played and lost 9 games in a row against the same team, will not be able to find a match at all). But I don't think that's Bungie's intention with the lighthouse. I think they want players to have to beat the best no matter what.