Bad Matchmaking Thread

[Domineeriv]

My case:

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This game 46780855 has been absolutely awful for everyone involved.

The vindicta and perhaps haze too are either cheating or very hard smurfing or both. If this is not the case, then this is very bad mm, I am not experienced with Calico and am still ranking at the high bracket for my core skill rating.

Let's avoid such games in the future

PS: I'm hoping I'm posting at the right place

Hi!!! I played with this Haze AND Paradox, Match ID 46771641 - I can confirm Haze's aim behavior is extremely suspicious and unusual as hell.

They are definitely cheating, or at least "toggling on and off" in my opinion. I spectated them a good bit during my game (I was Pagie) and they just seemed to know exactly where the enemy was and where they were coming from. Their movement, general game awareness, item countering and peeking behavior was also very odd for this level of lobby (only seen in lower lobbies). This combined with the odd aim behavior and odd decision making in general I'm inclined to believe you're correct they're cheating somehow.

I reported both them and Paradox yesterday when the game took place. They were going by the name "I'm Coming Baby" in my match, but seems now in hindsight they had changed their name to MyTaxi and I can confirm it's the same account you posted. They played Haze in my game too, they seem to be queuing with Paradox so I'm inclined to believe Paradox is also suspicious - at least they had equally odd and suspicious behavior in my game.

Please keep in mind the spectator tool is odd, so just look at that perfect headshot tracking from such an odd angle and movement.


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[ArteMooNik]

Hi!!! I played with this Haze AND Paradox, Match ID 46771641 - I can confirm Haze's aim behavior is extremely suspicious and unusual as hell.

They are definitely cheating, or at least "toggling on and off" in my opinion. I spectated them a good bit during my game (I was Pagie) and they just seemed to know exactly where the enemy was and where they were coming from. Their movement, general game awareness, item countering and peeking behavior was also very odd for this level of lobby (only seen in lower lobbies). This combined with the odd aim behavior and odd decision making in general I'm inclined to believe you're correct they're cheating somehow.

I reported both them and Paradox yesterday when the game took place. They were going by the name "I'm Coming Baby" in my match, but seems now in hindsight they had changed their name to MyTaxi and I can confirm it's the same account you posted. They played Haze in my game too, they seem to be queuing with Paradox so I'm inclined to believe Paradox is also suspicious - at least they had equally odd and suspicious behavior in my game.

Please keep in mind the spectator tool is odd, so just look at that perfect headshot tracking from such an odd angle and movement.


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Um. Only first and last shot is a headshot according to replay. Pretty normal Haze behavior. (i've done better))

 

[rumham]

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Cannot believe this is still as bad of an issue as it is. Smurf accounts and matchmaking need to be addressed SO badly. 446 pages and counting!

 

[cloudsucker]

Hey guys, first of all, thanks for your huge work! I really love what you’re doing.

Not long ago, I started meeting cheaters more often than usual. I really want to fight this problem as much as I can, but I couldn’t find any “Cheaters in Matchmaking” thread or something similar. I’d really appreciate it if you could create such a thread - or maybe even add some special spectator modes with moderators in-game and a more advanced report system.

This time, I want to report two cheaters from two matches:

1. Match ID: 46723317 - Haze is cheating. This guy seems to have some strange aimbot — he keeps shooting people in the head without even pointing his crosshair at them.
2. Match ID: 46344664 - Vindicta is cheating. Just a regular aimbot.

By the way, in the second game we tried to make the cheater’s life worse by using the Rescue Beam.
That’s why I’d like to suggest adding some options to make a cheater’s game harder:

• It’s necessary to have an option to kick a player.
• It might be a good idea to make teammate reports more valuable than enemy reports, since teammates can actually see how the player aims in-game.

And one more thing about my personal frustration…
I still don’t really understand how the match cancelling system works when someone leaves the match. I’ve already lost around 3 games this month just because one of my teammates quit. There is no really good comeback's options to keep fighting without 1-2 teammates and that's sad

When someone leaves, there’s a red message in the top-right corner saying that you can leave without ban but you’ll lose. Then the whole team leaves - but is it really fair to lose just because of one teammate?

 

[hellofoug]

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Holiday was talking in chat and standing in base except for the times they intentionally fed. Build a better system to ban trolls before launching this game please

 

[Jack Lemon]

Match ID: 46851443
Grey Talon afk with an autoclicker after 1 death. Had a pal with him