Respawn to Address Titanfall Matchmaking Issues

If you have been like us, we are sure you’ve played a game or two of Titanfall and seen some mismatches in teams, which reflects some matchmaking issues.  I know that for me, personally, when having an off night, or just in a room with people who aren’t that good (hey, I am about average or so), playing against a team that consistently beats you can be frustrating.

Well, the Titanfall official site has a recent note this evening addressing this.  Respawn has taken some time to analyze data on the servers and seems to have a solution or two for match making issues.  Here is some OFFICIAL information from their post:

1. Searching for teammates and opponents will now sometimes take more time to look for players that are a good skill level match, rather than purely prioritizing speed over quality. This will give us more time to build better teams and create closer games that are worth staying in for a longer period of time.

2. Rather than playing against the same opponents over and over, the game will periodically split the teams apart and search for new opponents for each team. This means if one team is dominating, we will update the skill for all of the players and then find each team a better suited match for the next round. Did you lose to a really great team? We’ll make them disappear and replace them with a new opposing team – and they will have no idea that you just got your butts kicked. This should end some of the frustration with playing for extended periods when you’re having an off night.

We’re making these changes available immediately in a new “Improved Matchmaking (Beta)” playlist that you can try right now under “Play Classic MP”. We may expand this into the other playlists after we watch the behavior and tweak things so that we’re happy with it.

For one I am happy to see that the game will change teams up when you’ve lost a few too many matches in one room.  I really hope that this allows for teams similiar to the ones that we are on enters the room for some close matches.  In the end I think we can all sit and hope that what they have seen, and what they are doing, fixes some of the issues in matchmaking.  See you online pilot.

Source: Titanfall Official Site