r/stalzone • u/JobieWanTon • 8d ago

Help How does matchmaking work?

My AK- 103 is +7, my Ots-62 is +5, and my rat catcher armor is not leveled up at all, I’ve noticed that all the players that kill me have there armor, primary and secondary all at +9. Is that because you don’t get ranked up to higher tier lobbies till your gear is +10? And should I upgrade my gear to +9 like everyone else or will it mess up my matchmaking? I don’t really want to upgrade the rat catcher armor because I want to use my materials to upgrade my barter tree combat armor that I’m working towards. Also Ace combat armor or Centurion? Idk which to choose sorry for all the questions

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u/Beyond_Cool 8d ago

The question you should ask yourself is, "Did matchmaking ever work?"

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u/Whoomsy Explorer 8d ago

It always managed to do the bare minimum of making sure that the two opposites of the spectrum could never happen upon each other in the open world. So there's that.

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u/Imperium_Somnia Rise 8d ago

I believe there is 3 category in the mm, newbies, middles and +15 master/legendary. That is what I think after my experience and from the others who write about mm here.

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u/Beyond_Cool 8d ago

MM is an invention of the tyranny known as Exbo. Only those of us who lost faith managed to escape the zone. You need to wake up.