Bungie will be doing matchmaking seamlessly in the backgroun

by stabbim , Des Moines, IA, USA, Monday, February 18, 2013, 13:46 (4299 days ago) @ scarab

The new part is that it happens in the background though, and then someone just pops in. As opposed to you waiting at a menu that says "searching for players" and then not starting play until said players are found. It's a change in the UI, and the flow of how other players show up. I don't think any of that necessarily means that the actual matchmaking isn't still using good ol' TrueSkill.

I could be wrong, of course. Maybe the matchmaking algorithm is all Bungie - I don't know, and they probably aren't going to be confirming or denying any time soon. But the details of precisely who is performing which services wasn't really my point. What I was trying to say was the fact that Bungie has servers doing SOME things does not mean they're doing everything.