Matchmaking - constantly against higher lvl opponent. Why?

Jump back to quoted post18 Mar 2017, 23:50 PMVaz

The ideal situation is to play against people of higher rank. You will not climb the ladder otherwise. The player at #1 should not even play, as there is nothing to gain.

Jump back to quoted post19 Mar 2017, 14:36 PMferwiner

This isn't really true. The player at #1 still can gain elo to run away from the second player. He is going to get less for win than he loses for loose, so it's a little uphill, but if he plays mostly against worse players, especially at the hours where there is less players playing, he can get enormous elo. The example could be paul's stats before his ban.

Jump back to quoted post19 Mar 2017, 14:36 PMferwiner

This isn't really true. The player at #1 still can gain elo to run away from the second player. He is going to get less for win than he loses for loose, so it's a little uphill, but if he plays mostly against worse players, especially at the hours where there is less players playing, he can get enormous elo. The example could be paul's stats before his ban.

Jump back to quoted post18 Mar 2017, 18:42 PMblvckdream

Last match was against PanzerGrenadierAngreifen who is currently 3rd in Wehrmacht while I am 600 in USF.

Thanks...I don´t even want to play 1on1 anymore because of this.

Match was found after searching for about 10 seconds. So very short searching time too.

I don´t know what to say about this...

Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2017, 01:34 AMSeismicSquall

How do you see your opponents rank?

Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2017, 07:35 AMSiphon X.

You can try out CELO. As far as I know it will only show ranks, though, not level which is a bit more indicative of relative skill difference.

And of course you can check out the ranks/levels in detail after the game by checking your recent match history.

Jump back to quoted post21 Mar 2017, 13:06 PMSeismicSquall

Thanks. Where do I go to see match history?

Jump back to quoted post21 Mar 2017, 13:56 PMSiphon X.

Here!

Likewise in-game, when you are in the automatch lobby, click on "statistics", on the, err, ok, the other tab, the one that doesn't show the leaderboards. And then on "Recent Matches". However, more often than not the in-game thing doesn't work for some reason. At least I find myself often staring at a black window...