Recent content by jsilva

I think what Award has said, more so in his longer post, is important to at least seriously consider. From the perspective of my own experience, testing, and some record taking, I think it makes sense to say the matchmaker influences game outcomes to achieve an end result—that is, to have...

I actually had been keeping detailed records for about 300 games... But more importantly, please tell me you're able to see that your opinions on the matter are not more correct simply because you're referencing data from other systems? You have no idea if Elo is used in Splatoon but you speak...

Or, maybe your argument that Splatoon uses Elo is not actually based on objective and mathematical data ;) I've taken the matchmaking issue we've discussed before, where it creates repeatedly imbalanced teams, pretty seriously. And I have constantly reexamined my perspective on it. Have you...

That's a good perspective. Learning new weapons doesn't just affect one person. It bothers me when I'm playing a game and a charger/sniper has a terrible K/D and there's no good reason for it other than that they're bad at it, and so they contribute to my loss (or make me work harder for the...

That's really surprising! I wonder if he has certain positive abilities the game measures and it's incorrectly assessing him. On my accounts, particularly the second one, I wasn't splatting other players much. I'd deliberately avoid newbies and only splat if I had to. I figured at that point...

Ok :) I'm not usually watching the players with the kill cam. I usually spend the downtime assessing what's going on in the game with the map on the controller. I rarely watch the dude who splatted me for more than a moment, sometimes to see his/her kit.

I personally find it harder to tell the alts in A and higher games. I would only accuse someone of having an alt account if they're a miracle player for the rank they're in. Like that one sniper I've mentioned before—A rank but was insanely impressive. If someone is especially good I wouldn't...

On my two accounts I was being matched in level 35-50 lobbies by level 4 or 6, I can't exactly remember. I know I didn't play turf for long before seeing high level players. Though I didn't do it all in one session so maybe exiting the lobby might have made the difference. You probably need...

I think part of the issue here is that you haven't had the experiences we've had and haven't spent time observing what's going on. It's pretty obvious when you're playing on the weaker team—surely you can tell that yourself?! Now imagine experiencing that for 20 or more games in a row on more...

It is really surprising to watch this cute little boy playing :) He doesn't just go in head on and shoot, he really has good game sense and makes decisions really quickly, instinctively positioning himself strategically in anticipation of splatting opponents. I do help him somewhat with game...

With what Award and xXShadeXx are saying, it really sounds a lot like playstyle. And since I'm pretty confident Splatoon has a means to determine that (more or less) really quickly, it is certainly possible that it matches that way on purpose. Just to share something I experienced ranking up my...

Your experiences are interesting :) Perhaps you missed my post on Discord meant to taunt you a little bit (from a caring heart :) ), where I posted a photo of my 5-year old son's game where he did particularly well during his session, although he played really well the whole time. He ended up...

I agree, as you know, although I think the metrics used for determining player skill are more sophisticated than you feel they are. Given the irregularity that you experience, and me to a lesser extent, I wonder if the matchmaking is something new that Nintendo is working on and refining...

I think it might be a combination of favourable matchups and good players having bad days.

Well, my 5 year old is an A- and is good enough to be higher in rank but he lacks some focus. My 9 year old son has two accounts at S. So, I'd be vicariously offended if someone said younger kids are bad by default ;)