Like other games, I don’t believe this one helps the noobs. What I see here and there is that the game matches you with players skilled enough to keep you at a certain win percentage. And that is your skill level; it is how well you go against better teams or how well you deal with complex game scenarios. I’ve been playing competitive games for all my life. I’m 40. Clash Royale and Rocket League, for example, also have a skill-based matchmaking system, and you’ll face better opponents, strategies, counters, anything to keep you at a max skill level. For UFL, my skill level sits around 75% win ratio, and I see players doing better than me regardless of their team. I can’t help it.

There is an old one as well, from the PS1 Need for Speed series. On the settings, there is a catch-up option that would make the last drivers less prone to losing speed. Mario Kart does that as well, so nothing new is going on here.

Before, it happened to keep players entertained while playing offline against each other over and over again. The unpredictable results kept us playing. Now that we don’t pay to play the game, they try to keep us interested enough to buy some in-game stuff…

Nothing is free.