PenderrinH
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I dont understand how someone can routinely drop 5+ KDA games and be considered alchemist 1
I dont understand how someone can routinely drop 5+ KDA games and be considered alchemist 1
Bad Matchmaking Thread
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Neil
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SA match making makes the game very unfun to play, many of my friends quit the game because of this
GoblinMan412
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Match 40428737, really awful hour long stalemate, that ended in haze just jumping in and ulting the patron after her entire team was dead. One team has both a vindicta and a grey talon, which was really annoying. Overall one of the worst matches I've played.
Ragnaman
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Waste of time for 11 people just because of a single damn cheater.
I dont know why I still bother.
WHEN WILL SOMETHING BE DONE ABOUT THIS CRAP?
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Waste of time for 11 people just because of a single damn cheater.
I dont know why I still bother.
WHEN WILL SOMETHING BE DONE ABOUT THIS CRAP?
Steam Community :: gj
krovjaren
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i mean... it seems to me that there should be some kind of reward for the efforts of the players, i should try to win so that other players ruin it for me? i don't mean to sound toxic or aggressive, i just find it really frustrating, i really appreciate this game and i appreciate yall, devs!
flint.wongkh
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Hey @Yoshi and dev team, these 2 guys were griefing the whole game. do us a favour and ban them thanks. the report button works right? they should get banned so i hope you guys do your job! Here's the clip. You can tell by them doing only 4k damage. Here's their username
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Rulostyle1313
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ID 40445437: Match full of smurfs against rookie players. It's incredible that the game punishes you with matches like this just for improving your rank. After a good winning streak, I always start getting placed in games that are impossible to carry, and to make it worse, I'm forced to play with my worst champion among the selected ones. I don't know if the report button for smurfs actually does anything, but I don't see the point in matching games like this. There shouldn't be such a huge gap between players, and smurfs should be detected faster to prevent new players like those on my team from facing them. Otherwise, the game is doomed to rot without a steady flow of people willing to learn it.
I also find it unbelievable how poorly heroes are distributed in some matches. The best heroes in the roster are all placed on one side, while on the other, you have new players trying out some of the weakest or most difficult characters. It's obvious they're going to get crushed. I love the game and I wouldn’t want to see it die. However, matches like these kill people’s interest in learning how to play, and that’s an opinion you can easily confirm by reading posts in this thread or checking the content being shared on platforms like Reddit or YouTube. Now that the hype and novelty of the heroes have passed, I really hope more time is invested into improving the matchmaking system, hero selection balance, and bans for players who ruin the experience for everyone else.
I also find it unbelievable how poorly heroes are distributed in some matches. The best heroes in the roster are all placed on one side, while on the other, you have new players trying out some of the weakest or most difficult characters. It's obvious they're going to get crushed. I love the game and I wouldn’t want to see it die. However, matches like these kill people’s interest in learning how to play, and that’s an opinion you can easily confirm by reading posts in this thread or checking the content being shared on platforms like Reddit or YouTube. Now that the hype and novelty of the heroes have passed, I really hope more time is invested into improving the matchmaking system, hero selection balance, and bans for players who ruin the experience for everyone else.
LANCEREVO1656
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oxygenesis
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suspicion of cheating or smurfing
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meisterclawwave
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meisterclawwave
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meisterclawwave
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Hey @Yoshi and dev team, these 2 guys were griefing the whole game. do us a favour and ban them thanks. the report button works right? they should get banned so i hope you guys do your job! Here's the clip. You can tell by them doing only 4k damage. Here's their username
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meisterclawwave
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jcthecomedygnome
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Overall match quality is godawful now - even if you play your heart out there's absolutely nothing stopping matchmaking from putting new or way lower rank players on your team, and most games are completely imbalanced stomps. I have spent 150 games climbing from Initiate to Alchemist (after formerly being Ritualist but rank decay is absurd and will tank you all the way to low Initiate if you take a break). Currently the only way to improve your match quality is to climb since ranked and casual are now merged and technically "every" game is ranked. Therefore, the BEST way to get back to your rank isn't to grind, or even one-trick your main; no, now the best way to not waste 100+ hours attempting to return to your former rank is to make a smurf and simply spend 20-30 games letting the system rank you properly again.
Yes, smurfing is bad because "high elo players shouldn't be stomping low elo lobbies", but what's the point in not doing it when you're ALREADY getting matched with new players constantly? If anything, smurfing actually results in less "imbalanced" games if your rank decayed hard enough.
Something seriously needs to change with both the elo decay system (a 2-week, non-seasonal irreversible decay that literally puts you at the bottom of the rankings is insane) and how matchmaking is currently throwing people of WILDLY different elos together. As of the current system, it's honestly arguable that Valve is unintentionally PROMOTING the creation of smurfs given how many matches are already being ruined by this and smurfing being the only way to fix this in a reasonable amount of time.
Yes, smurfing is bad because "high elo players shouldn't be stomping low elo lobbies", but what's the point in not doing it when you're ALREADY getting matched with new players constantly? If anything, smurfing actually results in less "imbalanced" games if your rank decayed hard enough.
Something seriously needs to change with both the elo decay system (a 2-week, non-seasonal irreversible decay that literally puts you at the bottom of the rankings is insane) and how matchmaking is currently throwing people of WILDLY different elos together. As of the current system, it's honestly arguable that Valve is unintentionally PROMOTING the creation of smurfs given how many matches are already being ruined by this and smurfing being the only way to fix this in a reasonable amount of time.
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