u/Dismal-Escape-6733

The confirmation came from this bug post made by another player:
The Division 2 Bug Reporter

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I will not beat a dead horse and state why the current arrangement is logically paradoxical and is causing the ecosystem dysfunction.

If the dev team "Will Not Fix" this giant problem plaguing the only mode us hardcore players want to play, I simply have no other words. The matchmaking is now completely broken and filled with terrible player interactions due to this token issue.

I have ran out of my last bit of patience with this confirmation, I hope we will see each other at another time.

An array of mechanics of the escalation game mode is currently contributing to its downward death spiral.

Problems:

1. Extremely unfair cost for the leader. The leader is the only individual putting tokens on the line to start a run and earns less than his teammates if the run finishes successfully.

This is causing no one wanting to be the leader. If no one wants to be leader, runs cannot start.

2. Matchmaking is based on tier, not mission. With the introduction of the targeted loot for escalation, players' goal changed from matchmaking for a certain tier to a certain mission.

This is causing people to quit if they matchmade into a group doing a different mission. Since there are 5 missions on rotation, 80% of the matchmade players will quit on average.

3. Innate unpredictability. Server instability, client instability, teammates with sub-optimal build.

With problem 1 and 2, there are already very few matchmade runs. Problem 3 will reduce this number even further when those runs do start.

4. No backfill, no social. You cannot leave or remove another teammate and you cannot matchmake to fill the spot of a teammate that did leave. Driving down the chance of a successful run further due to external factors.

We are now at a point of complete system dysfunction; I have yet to successfully start a matchmade run since the update last week. A band-aid solution must be deployed asap to triage what is left.