@maudlin27 said in How exactly do we expect low rated players to play the game?:
5 options from that screenshot:
1 - Join the All welcome setons game (although given my own experience joining a setons game when I first started custom games after gaining a base level of skill at 1v1 it's not something I would recommend)
2 - Host their own all welcome game
3 - Join matchmaker queues
4 - Play the campaign or a custom game against the AI (intended as a temporary solution if there arent any players in matchmaker and they just want to play some FAF, and they may find other players joining them if they host a lobby)
5 - Post on FAF discord to see if someone will play them in a 1v1 custom game
Speaking only for myself as I used to host all welcome lobbies when I'd play custom games (which wasn't that often admittedly), I've switched to the team matchmaker which is a sort of all welcome lobby
1 - The setons game never started iirc.
2 - Sure, they're going to be waiting a long time and probably be discouraged if that's how their experience is day after day.
3 - Matchmaker, as I said before, is totally dead in US TZ.
4 and 5 are viable, although playing against AI isn't really the same thing and won't help their rating either.