I'm looking into using PlayFab for my game. My game is a competitive game that each game is a 5v5 team match. Matchmaking will use an elo scoring system. I'm allowing players to queue up solo, or create teams of 2-5 players. Ideally, I would have a team of 5 match up with another team of 5 with similar skill levels. A team of 3/2 players would ideally have another team of 3/2 join them + 1-2 randoms, if within the same skill gap, defaulting to filling first available people if the wait time is too long. And, of course, always matchmaking players within a geographic region. Then, once a match is made, it load balances the teams onto an open game server.
Looking at the API and community posts it seems like PlayFab only supports really basic get an individual player connected to a geographic relevant gameserver and no more advanced operations above that. Would a cloud script be able to accomplish these goals? Or would I have to spin up a custom service (and load balance it myself) to accomplish this?
From outward appearances the Matchmaker API seems really limited even for a custom solution. It seems like if I were to go with PlayFab I'd essentially be using it for your authentication system, inventory tracking, and a key value store. I'm getting the feeling I'd have to write my own matchmaking & load balancing service and just call PlayFab from the server to auth the player and grab their elo ranking/etc.
