Free Fire: opponent search system, matchmaking is changed

Changes arrive from the December 2020 update, players are expected to feel when connecting in a Ranked match

06 de December de 2020 FFMANIA

Hello survivors! Have you ever doubted how your opponents in Free Fire are chosen? Have you ever wondered how your Free Fire opponents are chosen? Do you know what Garena takes into consideration before choosing her victims? Well, even if you have no idea how it works, know that matchmaking will change!

We cannot start this article without explaining something fundamental in Free Fire, matchmaking ! In multiplayer games like Free Fire, matchmaking is the process of connecting players for online gaming sessions.

It is the algorithm used by the developers to select the players who will participate in a given match! This algorithm are codes inside the APK and that you have no control over, at that moment when you click and delay to connect a match, just counting the seconds, it's the matchmaking in action, doing the math and looking for a match suitable for you and your team!

How does the Free Fire opponent search system work?

You know that lucky streak you have, earning a lot of points in the ranks and suddenly everything seems to collapse? Well, this is the current matchmaking .

Currently, players are chosen according to their last wins.

Example: players who gave Booyah in the last 3 games, face players who also gave Booyah in the same number of games, regardless of rank .

Gold patent players often faced Diamante players, just because of their winning rate.

How the Free Fire matchmaking system will look after the December / 2020 update

From this Monday (07), players should feel great changes in Free Fire ranks. In other words, opponents will be chosen according to the rank they are in and no longer by their winning rate.

The new system should also solve the room bug problem when there are many points in the Master patent.

Therefore, this latest Free Fire update in 2020 will not only bring new items, but will also have a major adjustment in the search for opponents, the famous matchmaking.