iamryankelly
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I was going to post the most recent travesty in here, but honestly, why? This thread is just an anger sponge to distract players, the devs don't look in here.
Bad Matchmaking Thread
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dankgoogly
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Warden was AFK farming for the entire game, enemy team kept pausing and reconnecting, our own wraith abandoned after the 3rd pause.
They also had a total of 4 AoE ultimates, as well as Yamato.
Warden was AFK farming for the entire game, enemy team kept pausing and reconnecting, our own wraith abandoned after the 3rd pause.
They also had a total of 4 AoE ultimates, as well as Yamato.
ravyniaries
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Grey talon and Vindicta (me) were both having trouble staying connected to server. Making the game unplayable for GT and I for most of the match. Probably queued us into the wrong region or the server itself was bad as I had just completed a game with no issue at all.
Grey talon and Vindicta (me) were both having trouble staying connected to server. Making the game unplayable for GT and I for most of the match. Probably queued us into the wrong region or the server itself was bad as I had just completed a game with no issue at all.
i_am_lawliet_l
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Literally every single person on my team fed. I'm so fucking tired of the dogshit quality of games. Fix your shit already. It's been WEEKS.
Match ID: 31213903
Why am I literally the only single person on my entire team that's positive. I was literally dominating early game, but every single fuckin lane feeds per usual.
Match ID: 31213903
Why am I literally the only single person on my entire team that's positive. I was literally dominating early game, but every single fuckin lane feeds per usual.
S100kil1s
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dEVS HAVE HOLLIDAYS NOW
offsetcyan
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The initial matchmaking change that made matchmaking unstable completely ruined the game. It is not fun to an unplayable degree, because almost every game is a complete stomp is one direction. The lack of balance plus the lack of quality matchmaking is killing Deadlock's community before it has even released.
Smurf Yamato
Match ID: 31222457
19 games played rocking a 15 KDA on multiple characters with minimal games and chat abuse in game to top it off
To be honest in our groups Arcanist lobbies the only matches I’ve felt were lopsided and “not fun” have had clear smurfs. The frequency has sky rocketed the last week where 1 in 4 now seem to have a smurf
Match ID: 31222457
19 games played rocking a 15 KDA on multiple characters with minimal games and chat abuse in game to top it off
To be honest in our groups Arcanist lobbies the only matches I’ve felt were lopsided and “not fun” have had clear smurfs. The frequency has sky rocketed the last week where 1 in 4 now seem to have a smurf
Black Sheep
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After playing again from 3 months break (didnt had time to play at all), i already stopped after 1 day (5 matches) of playing.
I tried my best to prepare before this matches with watching guides, bot games and replays of higher players but after these 5 matches i already known the gab between me and opponents is just so huge, it would take me another 100 loses or games just to end up in my right ranking or be "good" enough to face these opponents without failing these games.
I understand that the adding new MM takes time to kick in and takes time to put the players in the right rankings, but if you are inexperienced and try to get into this games, you get a bad experience, a very bad one. Lets ignore the fun for your team mates here and not even to mention how less practice you get from these games. (Maybe add at least a normal que separated from ranked for the practice part again)
But with that all in mind i dropped it and maybe forever since i see the direction of the game is similar to league, with a very aggressive Gameplay without comebacks.
EDIT: Just forget to add one of the matches - ID: 31222504
I tried my best to prepare before this matches with watching guides, bot games and replays of higher players but after these 5 matches i already known the gab between me and opponents is just so huge, it would take me another 100 loses or games just to end up in my right ranking or be "good" enough to face these opponents without failing these games.
I understand that the adding new MM takes time to kick in and takes time to put the players in the right rankings, but if you are inexperienced and try to get into this games, you get a bad experience, a very bad one. Lets ignore the fun for your team mates here and not even to mention how less practice you get from these games. (Maybe add at least a normal que separated from ranked for the practice part again)
But with that all in mind i dropped it and maybe forever since i see the direction of the game is similar to league, with a very aggressive Gameplay without comebacks.
EDIT: Just forget to add one of the matches - ID: 31222504
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Emily Vasquez
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Y'all really need to do something about the smurfs in this game. Every so often I'll end up against matches with someone on either our team or the other who is hard carrying. My last game was one that had two leavers, one of them only joined to get a Christmas skin, and their warden on the other team was a clear as fuck smurf. I checked their account and it was p much a brand new one. Imagine smurfing in a closed beta lmao. Fuck anyone who smurfs. Valve deal with them the same way you would as cheaters, because that's all they're doing: Playing at lower levels just for cheap wins [ID: 31223724]
poss
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I went through all of the posts in this thread for December, analysing data from all screenshots to identify trends.
Here are the main issues identified across the screenshots. While there were many other issues raised unrelated to balance, like cheaters and toxic behaviour, when people said the matchmaking was bad, this is what they pointed to as evidence
Overwhelmingly the main issue was one player gaining far more kills than everyone else, and thereby becoming untouchable. There were quite of a lot of instances where this was contained to just one lane, with a single feeder, but more often the problem spread across lanes and resulted in multiple players feeding that one player.
Less commonly others would join in on the stomping to create multiple stompers, but never was it shown that an entire team was stomping, or even that the majority of one team was stomping. There were also 28 matches reported as feeling unbalanced, but the scoreboard showed quite a close game. In some of these the outcome appeared to be determined by feeders, though without any stompers.
To classify as a stomper in this analysis, a player had to have at least 10 more kills than the average on the enemy team.
To be a feeder, a player had to have a negative K/D and at least ten deaths, or 0 kills and 8 or more deaths
Here are the characters that were the most often fed. So when people were upset about a player killing their whole team, this is the character they were getting stomped by
and here are the characters that were most often feeding them. So when people complained their team mates were dying too much, this is who their team mates were playing
Of course this doesn't account for how often characters are picked. Haze has a nearly 100% pick rate so is near the top of both lists. We can account for this somewhat by comparing the times they were a problem for being too fed as a percentage of total times they were a problem in these games
So this might be interpreted as saying when vindicta, yamato, shiv and haze are the characters most associated in this thread with unfairly higher skill players. At the other end, Seven, Viscous, Mcginnis and infernus are the most often associated with unfarily low skill team mates.
Finally, there is one other very clear trend in the screenshots. People who come to this thread to post screenshots of their matches, overwhelmingly have their rank turned on, by a nearly 5:1 ratio
I don't know how prevalent this option is in the general player community, but the 'default bias' in UI design would suggest any non-default option should be rarely selected.
Actually the correlation would be even stronger if you included people who mentioned rank in their posts not just their screenshots. Concerns about ranks being impacted by these perceived match imbalance issues are extremely common in these comments.
This could mean that people who turn on their rank are more likely to care about the outcome of their matches or post in this thread.
Controversially It could also mean that regularly seeing your rank makes you less happy with your matches
Here are the main issues identified across the screenshots. While there were many other issues raised unrelated to balance, like cheaters and toxic behaviour, when people said the matchmaking was bad, this is what they pointed to as evidence
Overwhelmingly the main issue was one player gaining far more kills than everyone else, and thereby becoming untouchable. There were quite of a lot of instances where this was contained to just one lane, with a single feeder, but more often the problem spread across lanes and resulted in multiple players feeding that one player.
Less commonly others would join in on the stomping to create multiple stompers, but never was it shown that an entire team was stomping, or even that the majority of one team was stomping. There were also 28 matches reported as feeling unbalanced, but the scoreboard showed quite a close game. In some of these the outcome appeared to be determined by feeders, though without any stompers.
To classify as a stomper in this analysis, a player had to have at least 10 more kills than the average on the enemy team.
To be a feeder, a player had to have a negative K/D and at least ten deaths, or 0 kills and 8 or more deaths
Here are the characters that were the most often fed. So when people were upset about a player killing their whole team, this is the character they were getting stomped by
and here are the characters that were most often feeding them. So when people complained their team mates were dying too much, this is who their team mates were playing
Of course this doesn't account for how often characters are picked. Haze has a nearly 100% pick rate so is near the top of both lists. We can account for this somewhat by comparing the times they were a problem for being too fed as a percentage of total times they were a problem in these games
So this might be interpreted as saying when vindicta, yamato, shiv and haze are the characters most associated in this thread with unfairly higher skill players. At the other end, Seven, Viscous, Mcginnis and infernus are the most often associated with unfarily low skill team mates.
Finally, there is one other very clear trend in the screenshots. People who come to this thread to post screenshots of their matches, overwhelmingly have their rank turned on, by a nearly 5:1 ratio
I don't know how prevalent this option is in the general player community, but the 'default bias' in UI design would suggest any non-default option should be rarely selected.
Actually the correlation would be even stronger if you included people who mentioned rank in their posts not just their screenshots. Concerns about ranks being impacted by these perceived match imbalance issues are extremely common in these comments.
This could mean that people who turn on their rank are more likely to care about the outcome of their matches or post in this thread.
Controversially It could also mean that regularly seeing your rank makes you less happy with your matches
S100kil1s
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