Pre-made versus pre-made matchmaking and game type selection coming with Summerset!

MurderMostFoul

Sounds like they've been listening.

brandonv516

Nice. About to tear up the solo scene.

VaranisArano

So if you want to play Deathmatch, you can play Deathmatch? Finally.

Qwazzy

Deathmatch every game. See you there!

ChunkyCat

Hold my beer.

brandonv516

Qwazz wrote: »

Deathmatch every game. See you there!

Thank goodness, now I know what to avoid. Your group is toxic.

LokoMatic

Awesome. DM 4 L. Finally

Drachenfier

Two things are going to happen with this: premade queues will be dead, because premade don't want to actually play against each other - which will lead to people complaining on the forums that they can't get matches so the change needs to be reverted so they can go back to farming pugs. Second, all of the guys that were running premade before will just queue sync outside of groups so they can attempt to continue to steam roll pugs.

This is exactly what happened when Rift separated the queues.

wheem_ESO

Drachenfier wrote: »

Two things are going to happen with this: premade queues will be dead, because premade don't want to actually play against each other - which will lead to people complaining on the forums that they can't get matches so the change needs to be reverted so they can go back to farming pugs. Second, all of the guys that were running premade before will just queue sync outside of groups so they can attempt to continue to steam roll pugs.

This is exactly what happened when Rift separated the queues.

Sync'd queueing is very unlikely to put all 4 players on the same team. Some time ago, when playing with @Thogard and some others in premade groups, I suggested that we all split up and solo queue at the same time, rather than stomping on random groups (or each other, when we had something like 5-6 people in the same discord server). While we still had unfair teams sometimes, especially if there was a dedicated healer queueing, I don't think we ever had any 4 of us end up together. It would be bound to happen eventually, assuming you played enough games, but should be quite rare.

However, it's possible that some of those players could make agreements with each other, and gang up on players outside of their "group," while avoiding fighting each other. Such behavior still wouldn't be as cowardly as getting all super tryhard 4-man vs randoms, though.

Vostorn

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Battleground match making now adds an additional multiplier to the value of players who are grouped. This value scales differently between 2, 3, and 4 player groups.
  • This change is intended to improve the quality of matches between players. Pre-formed groups will generally be pitted against pre-formed groups, and solo players will generally be pitted against other solo players.

To me, this doesn't mean that premades will always be facing premades but that premades will be considered stronger than solo.

So a premade with 4 crap players could play against good solo players.

SupremeRissole

I like how a group needs to be good at all types of BG's i would like it if there could still be a random queue that counts towards it's own "all-rounder" leaderboard. The all rounder style will probably die with specific queues because you could be in an all rounder group but come up against a really tanky relic/chaosball team and not stand a chance.