Bad Matchmaking Thread

The game is becoming unbearable to play, it's no longer fun, and the devs don't care about matchmaking.

A silver player who was simply killing themselves the entire match, swearing in chat and even calling others bad.

Simply uninstalling the game is pointless; it's unplayable since nobody cares about matchmaking, and I only get brainless players on my team.1777757086982.png
 
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Being put in Ascendant 4 lobbies as an Eternus player feels extremely unfair and not only that, people never listening to comms and overextending once again. This is absolutely awful this mm.

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Another Ascendant 4 lobby. We won this, but it genuinely felt frustrating having to micromanage people when I know I don't belong in these lobbies.
 
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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
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Holy fucking shit how do I get put into the same rank with people going 0 and 13 aside from the kills I got my team only got 2 Kills. TWO FUCKING KILL. In the end it was almost a 70k soul diff. These people need to be banned for griefing or re ranked as there is no way in hell they are supposed to be in my games.
 
Deadlock is entirely about gambling. Play well, play poorly. IT DOESN'T matter. Half the people you get placed with are braindead that don't understand how to not feed. There is nothing you can do when the entire team is feeding. MM is a joke made up by the devs to pretend to be making a competitive game. They don't care. The characters, abilities, skills, and macro gameplay is very fun but they kill the game with matchmaking that ruins the entire point of playing the game. Why would I try to rank up into a higher skill lobby when I'm just going to get bad teammates that do not deserve a rank higher then initiate. Despite being in Ritualist where the bell curve should have the average player that understand the game.

They need to run a major rework on how people are placed. if someone is constantly going negative they need to be flagged as griefing.

With how the devs are running the game there is no reason to play on a main account where matches matter. I'm just going to make an alt account and play there until they fix this game. Can the devs say one thing about how they are going to fix matchmaking and improve this mess of an amazing game.
 
MatchID: 79871476
25 mins que for this shit stained balanced match

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Team Arcanist 5 vs Enemy Ritualist 6
Definitely not forced to lose matchmaking and the que time as well when it was 75k players was certainly indicative of it
I remember some dota 2 dev ruining my previous dota 2 account under this gmail same thing repeating again

4 players with objective damage below 1k
2 players with <50 objective damage new players in my team compared to 300 hrs in enemies surely balanced

2 new players
https://steamcommunity.com/id/soso441256

I guess I will have to be happy bullying some initiates happy smurfing
 
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MatchID: 79871476
25 mins que for this shit stained balanced match

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Team Arcanist 5 vs Enemy Ritualist 6
Definitely not forced to lose matchmaking and the que time as well when it was 75k players was certainly indicative of it
I remember some dota 2 dev ruining my previous dota 2 account under this gmail same thing repeating again

4 players with objective damage below 1k
2 players with <50 objective damage new players in my team compared to 300 hrs in enemies surely balanced

2 new players
https://steamcommunity.com/id/soso441256

I guess I will have to be happy bullying some initiates happy smurfing
They need to require time in games and wins before letting people joining anything above Arcanist. My team for my last played game I just left because not a single person was maintaining lanes, picking fights, or going jungle so the other team just had a free win. I don't care about being temp banned if my team is 20k souls behind because at that point there is just no point in playing. Whatever they did they just nuked match making and made the game even more unplayable.
 
They need to require time in games and wins before letting people joining anything above Arcanist. My team for my last played game I just left because not a single person was maintaining lanes, picking fights, or going jungle so the other team just had a free win. I don't care about being temp banned if my team is 20k souls behind because at that point there is just no point in playing. Whatever they did they just nuked match making and made the game even more unplayable.

These devs never learnt anything from Dota 2 even back in the old forum they straight up ignored systemic matchmaking, behaviour score and communication score threads right now dota 2 is even worse state than deadlock

No they need to require actual wins instead of time which can be bypassed through afk before letting players above middle tier rank

I have a account for every single rank and its the same problem every single time games are lost in high rank cuz there's always one team with the worst rank, stats, afk, bot, griefing, troll etc in lower rank its gets increasingly worse as there are 2 to 4 players always griefing, trolling, afk, new players more negativity

I will go own some Initiates to make it fair don't care this match was 100% targeted against me 25 mins que for 75k playerbase near peak
 
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Genuinely one of the absolute worst games the matchmaker has produced in the entire time I have had Deadlock in my library. Just not even remotely working. Vibe code this thing instead if you aren't already, maybe an LLM taking a random guess from scraps of code stolen from across the internet will create something functional and consistent by accident.
 
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3 of my matches that were some of the worst matchmaking I've ever seen. This shit was so atrocious that I would've rather been chemically castrated than have to play them. I'm not even a crazy high rank. I'm ritualist 4 but I'm getting qued with seekers and initiates, while my enemies may as well have been eternus. I doubt anyone will see this post but I need to contribute because valve needs to get their head out of their ass and fix the mmr unless they want to kill what is an otherwise great game.
 
Enforce your own rules and ban serial leavers or people who abuse coms and intentionally feed. that or be more harsh when people go 0/13, please its so clearly intentional and these people either deserve a lower rank to throw their fits in or a separate que for people who still yell racial slurs at the top of their lungs. these people are immature jackasses.
 
Match ID: 79927922
I mean, what the fuck. Unsure if anyone was queued with other players here as the comms were basically mute outside of myself trying to make calls. I am oracle 1, and rem said he was phantom. Seemingly, graves and wraith were brand new to gaming. I had one more kill than my entire team combined while having only 4 kills. Mind you the two games before this (79921600, 79913504) I played really well.
 
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Matchmaking just does whatever it wants to when I'm in a party. I'm pretty sure this Wraith was a smurf.

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Just one lopsided match after another leading up to it. I shouldn't be outdamaging my teammates with Paige like this.
 
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