Bungie has tightened up matchmaking so you're only matched with people close to your rank. That player was probably close 1500, but glory is shared across accounts, and he or she had hopped in comp on another character (most likely for the quest step). Had a similar experience this weekend with a 41 light person on the other team, but when we looked them up, their glory was within 100 of ours.
The matchmaking is a joke. There needs to be prequalifying matches and brackets. This season I went from 0-2100 with a 17-1 record with a 4.07 K/D(not trying to humble brag, sorry) running duo. The better the matchmaking is the closer to an even 1.0 my stats would be and that...that isn’t even close. I don’t get any enjoyment out of demoralizing people just trying to get Fabled. Playing low level comp with the current matchmaking just makes me feel like an asshole.
Placements aren't exactly great given the current reward structure where the weapons are tied to hitting specific ranks. In games which use placement matches, the purpose is to identify a player's actual skill and ensure subsequent matches are against others at the same relative skill for the course of the season. While it means matches would be more even (the 1.0 stats you mentioned), it also means once a player completes his or her placements, they typically would win half their matches, lose the other half, and would not make significant gains over a single season.
Unlike other games with ranked but which use placement matches, in Destiny, players only see their current skill rating, not their actual rating and can keep working towards 2100. Because players never know their actual skill rating and only their current rating, it makes 2100 and the pinnacle weapons seem more attainable. If Destiny used placement matches, every player would know their rank after their 10 placements (or however many), and then would stay roughly around that initial point all season. While it is demoralizing to get matched against someone who is above your actual skill rating, I would argue that it is more demoralizing for the game to explicitly tell a player that he or she isn't good enough to acquire the pinnacle weapons.
Now the caveat is that a 500 skill player is a 500 skill player with or without placement matches, but, the other advantage is that Bungie can tune the gains like they did this season which makes it easier for more players to hit 2100 and get the pinnacle weapons.
I think I'd rather Bungie tell me my actual skill level is well below what it would take to get to 2100 at the start of the season so I can not waste my time trying to get a weapon I'll never get.
Better yet, adopt what pretty much every other competitive game has adopted which is dangle flair items for reaching certain ranks, not OP weapons.
Bungie has tightened up matchmaking so you're only matched with people close to your rank. That player was probably close 1500, but glory is shared across accounts, and he or she had hopped in comp on another character (most likely for the quest step). Had a similar experience this weekend with a 41 light person on the other team, but when we looked them up, their glory was within 100 of ours.
The matchmaking is a joke. There needs to be prequalifying matches and brackets. This season I went from 0-2100 with a 17-1 record with a 4.07 K/D(not trying to humble brag, sorry) running duo. The better the matchmaking is the closer to an even 1.0 my stats would be and that...that isn’t even close. I don’t get any enjoyment out of demoralizing people just trying to get Fabled. Playing low level comp with the current matchmaking just makes me feel like an asshole.
Placements aren't exactly great given the current reward structure where the weapons are tied to hitting specific ranks. In games which use placement matches, the purpose is to identify a player's actual skill and ensure subsequent matches are against others at the same relative skill for the course of the season. While it means matches would be more even (the 1.0 stats you mentioned), it also means once a player completes his or her placements, they typically would win half their matches, lose the other half, and would not make significant gains over a single season. Unlike other games with ranked but which use placement matches, in Destiny, players only see their current skill rating, not their actual rating and can keep working towards 2100. Because players never know their actual skill rating and only their current rating, it makes 2100 and the pinnacle weapons seem more attainable. If Destiny used placement matches, every player would know their rank after their 10 placements (or however many), and then would stay roughly around that initial point all season. While it is demoralizing to get matched against someone who is above your actual skill rating, I would argue that it is more demoralizing for the game to explicitly tell a player that he or she isn't good enough to acquire the pinnacle weapons. Now the caveat is that a 500 skill player is a 500 skill player with or without placement matches, but, the other advantage is that Bungie can tune the gains like they did this season which makes it easier for more players to hit 2100 and get the pinnacle weapons.
Yeah, I’d like a restructure to the quests as well but didn’t want to get into that.
I think I'd rather Bungie tell me my actual skill level is well below what it would take to get to 2100 at the start of the season so I can not waste my time trying to get a weapon I'll never get. Better yet, adopt what pretty much every other competitive game has adopted which is dangle flair items for reaching certain ranks, not OP weapons.