Ninja hits out at speculation of Fortnite\u2019s alleged skill-based matchmaking Ninja, Twitch \/ Epic GamesPopular Twitch streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins is fairly skeptical of Fortnite\u2019s possible switch to skill-based matchmaking, as told during a live stream following the game\u2019s Season 8 update. Ninja speculated that Fortnite hasn\u2019t actually introduced the change, instead arguing that players have improved across the board since the game\u2019s release in 2017. \u201cI\u2019m telling you, man, everyone\u2019s just really good now,\u201d Ninja said of the issue. \u201c[TimTheTatMan] truly does believe that they added skill-based matchmaking, but I\u2019m just not sure, yet.\u201d The streamer went on to claim that wait times for lobbies and queues would be much longer, were the change actually implemented, and noted that solos are becoming a popular haven for competitive play over squads and duos. \u201cI don\u2019t think they did,\u201d he continued. \u201cSolos are sweatier, man. Duos and squads are the casual thing to do.\u201d Speculation arose as to a possible skill-based matchmaking system after Fortnite\u2019s third v7.10 update went live in January, with players like Counter Logic Gaming\u2019s \u2018Wish\u2019 claiming that every solo he played was a scrim lobby. However, no mention of such a matchmaking system was found in the update\u2019s patch notes \u2013 nor in the Season 8 update files. There’s been a hidden matchmaking update in the latest patch. Every solo i play today has been a scrim lobby. I remember one company that did this with their game and killed it. You guys ready for the same? @FortniteGame :clown_face: \u2014 CLG Wish (@WishYaLuckk) January 9, 2019 Fortnite\u2019s playerbase has historically been widely divided on the subject, with some pros feeling the change would \u201ckill\u201d the game (a la Bungie\u2019s \u2018Destiny\u2019 debacle), while others argue that it would improve upon their experience exponentially. Concern has since arisen of streamers quitting Fortnite due to its sudden rise in difficulty \u2013 although the release of battle royale Apex Legends could have something to do with such claims, as the two are often pitted against one another in popularity contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja hits out at speculation of Fortnite\u2019s alleged skill-based matchmaking Ninja, Twitch \/ Epic GamesPopular Twitch streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins is fairly skeptical of Fortnite\u2019s possible switch to skill-based matchmaking, as told during a live stream following the game\u2019s Season 8 update. Ninja speculated that Fortnite hasn\u2019t actually introduced the change, instead arguing that players […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}