14 DAY TRIAL // Respawn Entertainment has confirmed some more details about the upcoming matchmaking improvements that will be made to Titanfall, its online first-person shooter, and how the new Improved Matchmaking Beta will help it fine-tune the whole system.
Titanfall is a competitive multiplayer-only first-person shooter in which two teams fight it out across many different maps and several various modes. As players perform in-game actions, they not only develop a better game sense but also improve their gear, loadouts, and their collection of burn cards.
Unfortunately, ever since the game's release, the matchmaking system hasn't exactly been the best at creating encounters with similarly matched opponents, as you could easily get a team with players of levels 1 through 10 that faced off against another team with levels in the 30s or 40s.
Respawn noticed this problem and introduced last week the Improved Matchmaking Beta system that uses more parameters to ensure a better online experience.
Over on the official blog, Respawn has confirmed just how the old matchmaking system worked and what improvements are in the beta and will eventually appear for the game.
Currently, the system places a bigger emphasis on the speed, meaning players have a great connection between them and the server will be placed in a match, while their skill and rank don't factor in all that much.
The new improved matchmaking, however, will focus on the aforementioned skill and rank, instead of connection speed. As such, expect to wait a bit longer before entering a game lobby, but you will get opponents and teammates of similar value.
In order to keep things exciting, the new system also rotates and splits teams so that new players are added into the mix, especially when one group is dominating the other.
"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," Respawn said.
Ultimately, according to Respawn, the new matchmaking should make playing Titanfall a much more fun experience and one where players will have a good time with similarly skilled opponents.
Unfortunately, Respawn doesn't have an estimate for the full-fledged release of the improved matchmaking system for the whole game, so you can just access it in the game's beta option for now.