XDefiant govt producer Mark Rubin had a wonderfully executed joke locked and prepared for a participant who had all of their teammates go away a recreation, however the second of enjoyable additionally highlighted a troubling matchmaking difficulty that should get addressed.

An XDefiant participant posted a image on Twitter disenchanted that every one of their teammates left mid-match. Rubin joked that the consumer ought to have worn deodorant, which garnered laughs from group members and the participant themself. Nevertheless, the power to freely go away matches with out getting punished has ruined the expertise for others.

 XDefiant doesn’t use skill-based-matchmaking, which means gamers from all completely different ranges of talent and expertise can match up in opposition to one another. Total, suggestions has been optimistic, because it creates a novel expertise and doesn’t punish gamers for getting higher, and offers them more and more more durable competitors. Ubisoft argued, “Ability-based matchmaking means each informal recreation is repetitive—continuously repeating matches which can be simply as demanding and matched as ranked.”

In saying that, having no skill-based-matchmaking does include pitfalls. After a foyer is fashioned, groups are then divided based mostly on a wide range of components to make sure that each squads are as efficient as attainable. Nevertheless, there’ll at all times be the odd recreation or few the place one crew dominates one other due to a big hole in talent degree. In that case, it’s no unusual that gamers will go away the match out of pure frustration. Some FPS titles punish gamers for leaving early and can even quickly stop them from discovering a brand new match for a set period of time in the event that they go away too typically. However XDefiant has no such penalty, which creates issues.

Not solely does early match leaving harm the teammates left behind, it’s additionally unfair to gamers who get added right into a match late as a result of they’re put into an unwinnable state of affairs. On June 9, Rubin responded to the issues by confirming that the crew is trying to implement a system that rewards gamers who keep extra, which means gamers lose out on an additional reward in the event that they go away early. Whereas this isn’t the penalty some might have hoped for, it might no less than doubtlessly lower down on the utmost exodus of lobbies.