Ever since launch, I’ve been getting nothing but max level players when playing my maxed out Zealot, regardless of difficulty (and I bounce between all of them). When playing tier 1/2 missions, the game will generally put me in a bot match, and it will slowly fill with level 30s throughout the mission. I know there are other level 30’s playing lower difficulty levels, but surely they aren’t the only people playing? In the matches where I only get bots, surely I’m not the only person in the world playing these missions? Generally speaking in lower diffs, I always end up waiting the full timer in the Mourningstar before it just puts me an empty lobby. This changes when I start playing my lower leveled characters.
Is there some kind of level/gear score based matchmaking? If there is, it might be too strict. I get it for heresy and damnation missions, but malice and under are too easy to warrant this kind of matchmaking. Like, I enjoy that my malice missions are full of gigachads who know exactly what they’re doing, but I kinda miss the variety of levels.