Bad Matchmaking Thread

[hamburguesaqueso]

44541313
Almost the same situation as the other day, this time it was a Haze that ended with 66k souls in 26 minutes. It was almost unkillable at some point. Everyone was between 20-30k at the end, but Haze had more than double than everyone else.
Haze was on the same group with Dynamo and Mina, but only Haze had suspicious behavior and a private profile, possibly a very high rank smurf or a subtle cheater.
I don't understand why some people smurf or cheat on games, it just ruins the experience for everyone else.

 

[Zenithval]

44548410
3 smurfs with new steam accounts only owning deadlock

 

[Ace_Wisher]

Match ID 44551818 Blatant cheater on the sapphire flame team by the name of El Sospechoso was playing Billy if you watch the match id he doesn't even try to hide it he does it blatantly and openly.

 

[MetalPunk]

44551924
44554020
Duality
First match was a complete stomp, I could not do anything and the other team bulldozed
Second match wasn't as overwhelming but my team won handily no contest.

 

[weekendemo]

44566038

 

[Basketball]

Match ID: 44569456

Is this the best place to report cheaters? This person is obviously cheating on vindicta, with an obviously brand new steam account. Statlocker shows it being brand new with 27 wins and 2 losses. Also ban "LABUBU" for queuing with a cheater thanks.

 

[jamilsalah83]

44526918

This Infernus was leagues ahead of everyone else in the match terms of skill and output and was making plays that seemed unnatural (like shooting people off of ziplines with no prior vision). Maybe cheater maybe super pro player but either way doesn't make sense that he ends up in an Alchemist Lobby.

Best regards,

 

[Emily Vasquez]

Yep. Things seem to be going back to the way they used to. Everyone on the other team being absolutely beefed and us barely being able to do anything about it. The rot consumes

 

[Pickle-O]

44578509

just never a fair game ever. always losing with damn near close to 40-90k soul difference. Devs or god must really hate me , cant ever get a fcking decent game or a win. I dont mind losing due to close game but that is never the fuckign case.

 

[7851a9]

44585707

Huge rank disparity. Was basically a guaranteed loss.

 

[soybeanieboy234]

Use this thread to share matchids for games that you think the matchmaker did a bad job at. If you can explain what you felt was a problem in it that would be helpful as well.

Do not post matchids for games that were within the past 24 hours from this post. Games older than that are fine and games going forward are fine.

Thanks for the help

44587252be for fucking real with the matchmaking.

 

[Kierz]

These forums are a fake point of contact. They are derelict. The staff don't look at it anymore. It may as well be shut down.

Yoshi liked one of the posts in this thread on Tuesday bro, and regularly comments on bug posts etc.

 

[jacknoble486]

Hey Valve, making games is not for you in 2025. Throw the towel in and pass this off to a company that's released more than one new IP in the past ten years.

 

[SardineS]

Thank you Valve devs for addressing the matchmaking/rank issue!! I'll write more if there is anything.

Hey Valve, making games is not for you in 2025. Throw the towel in and pass this off to a company that's released more than one new IP in the past ten years.

WRONG. Deadlock, Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2 and Half-life: Alyx are goated.

We don't know what they're doing with initiate ranks but it's theorized new accounts start with a negative mmr to smooth out the new player experience. Plus there's the problem that all we see are the average ranks post game, so there could be bad matchmaking based on averaging mmr that doesnt have anything to do with ranks having "imperceptiple" skill levels but instead the problem is how the vastly different ranks are allowed to be put together. I know whenever I get new players on my team it's because someone queued with them in a party and the game finds a way to average the mmr that way.

I got promoted from Arcanist 5 to Oracle 2, whee!

 

[Olivine]

44608391
Initiate 1 to Seeker 2 after today's ranking update

 

[raulspam96]

Went from alchemist 1 to emissary 1 in one game.

 

[neomarestudio]

Once again, the team didn't know what to do. Haze hunted them down one by one. In team fights, they never used their ultimates. Haze would go all over the map farming, and no one did anything. No one could stand up to Haze. He was the only one who could damage her.

 

[Flappers]

44561845 - Opponents played far worse
44383867 - Opponents played far better, higher ranked players playing with lower ranked friend

 

[f1delity666]

44621907
seriously wtf, inflating ranks wont help the quality.


44624455

44626968
so much feed and yamata rage quit

 

[f1delity666]

44628555
blue manages to lose lane into base in less than 10minutes
Ascendant vs Eternus 6, brilliant.
Game before some from emissary, now somehow ascendant vs top10 player.

MM is even more fucked than before, and I thought thats not even possible.