| ▲ | s1artibartfast 2 hours ago |
| Doesn't match making and self-selection solve this problem? Ideally, it should allow non-competitive players of similar performance level to play against each other. |
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| ▲ | estearum an hour ago | parent [-] |
| Not really, because there are players at every level who watch Youtube. So at every level of skill, those players who are up to date on the latest "meta" will win. Not enough to beat the meta players at the next level up, but enough to beat the non-meta players at their own level. |
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| ▲ | ffsm8 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The bigger issue is that these springengine games don't really have large communities. And they're usually team battles... So yeah, you're not getting 8-16 people with similar elo rating within reasonable timeframes | |
| ▲ | im3w1l 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | In the equilibrium those playing the meta poorly will be matched with players who use suboptimal strategies with good execution. | | |
| ▲ | estearum 11 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yes, correct. Which think about what that feels like: getting semi-consistently beaten by worse players who just all "happen to have" the exact same loadout and exact same strategies and exact same everything. That's exactly what I'm describing. It's incredibly boring. |
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