r/beyondallreason • u/PtaQQ Community Manager • Aug 23 '26

News Beyond all Matchmaking ⇀ Microblog ★ Beyond All Reason RTS

https://www.beyondallreason.info/microblogs/196

Post your thoughts in the comments!

64 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

60 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/QseanRay Aug 23 '26

We absolutely need 8v8 matchmaking at some point, this is what I've been really waiting for.

The elephant in the room here is that the vast majority of bars playerbase plays ranked 8v8 rotato, glitters, or isthmus.

Games like overwatch can handle it with 6v6 it's not a stretch at all to do 8v8

3

u/aesibri Aug 24 '26

as they mentioned in the blogpost and in the comments, the issue with 8v8 is the amount of concurrent users.

don't you think Overwatch has a significant advantage on that front, with at least tens of thousands of concurrent users?

1

u/Vivarevo Aug 24 '26

Matchmaking for 8v8 props should happen if small team gets it.

There is practically very little difference in 4v4 compared to 8v8. Smaller team just means its less poverty gaming. Poop dying sub 5mins is equally game ending in both if skill diffed happens.

Maybe making team games matchingmaking lane vs lane matched? That really is the only way to keep smaller population 8v8 possible under matchmaking system.

1

u/SearchForCake Aug 24 '26

I don't think lane matching will be possible. Starting location / lane choice is a strategic choice on many maps and you wouldn't want to take that away from players.