Bad Matchmaking Thread

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 41276313
Enemy team had multiple people who seemed to know what they were doing while the people on my own team seemed absolutely clueless and struggling with everything. No comms, seemed extremely disorganized and often times when I was spectating seemed like enemy team had superior movement, aim and everything while own team played on a very lower level.

Match ID 41280199
Even with the option on that I prefer it more competitively where people would use their mics, absolutely NOBODY but me used their mic and again, we had our team under-preforming severely with our DPS being steamrolled and the enemy team having extremely strong players. Not to mention around the 24min mark our Billy decided to go AFK, when the game was still winnable mind you, in spawn to only run up against a wall. This game makes me feel like I want to cry sometimes, matchmaking has been absolutely HORRID as of late.

Match ID 41284526
Once again, same bloody story. Enemy team just steamrolling and there's not a single chance to even come back from this. Own team severely underperforming, especially mcginnes, while everyone on the enemy team are strong.

Match ID 41288547
A stomp for us, a devastating loss for the enemy team. Again, rather unfair MM.

 

[Token81]

41226432

I wouldn’t complain about balance yet - characters, items, even matches... whatever.
But since this thread exists, and this matchmaking feels so wrong...

Left team is just a bunch of solos, even with a total newbie (like 15 games).
Right team had a TRIO and players with 100+ games.
If that’s supposed to be “matchmaking” then it’s broken as hell,. Maybe fix it?

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It has been getting worse over the last 3-4 months, its obvious at this point the devs are incompetent.

 

[Draggonguy]

41294724
Fuck your matchmaker

 

[tryars]

Holliday with aim. match 41292556

 

[jacknoble486]

41298849
This is a low priority match. I got stuck in low priority because I smashed and broke my monitor during a previous bad match. Two of the players on the enemy team deliberately paused the match and temporarily broke the game at the last ten seconds in order to waste our time. Both were reported for griefing. I also heavily suspect they were cheating.

Here are their steam profile links:

Steam Community :: ⋆｡°✩SBRPrincess♡❀

steamcommunity.com

Steam Community :: STOL3N

I serve the Golden Order. That I might put this crooked land to rights Following only the guidance of the great Elden Ring. Those Who Live in Death fall outside the principles of the Golden Order

steamcommunity.com

 

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 41301360
The Haze had over 50% of their teams kills. Either smurfing, or severely misplaced by the MM.

 

[Tired of Stun]

@Yoshi , if you are going to allow people who queue ascendant games to get into archon and below, at least be transparent about it. https://statlocker.gg/profile/115226075/matches 41302818 But anyways, congrats for allowing bad MMR to continue even with a higher player count.

 

[sur]

This is completely unserious Valve, how can we have a collective 54 deaths vs 15 and this be equal matchmaking?

41190452

41318422 47 deaths vs 17

Viscous chain running it down...

 

[Sacrah]

Hello there,

I think there is an issue with smurf detection. I'm a new player with less than 60 hours played, but I am not smurfing.


I was in Alchemist II lobbies, and I was invited to play with some friends that are more new to the game than me (they were initiates).

In that session we won 8 games and lost 4. Immediately after that session, I played another but instead playing alone. To my surprise I was placed in a Ritualist II lobby. I checked my rating and it was Ritualist V. My current score after that session is 12 losses and 5 wins, 1 of them because the enemy team had a disconnected player. In very few of these games have I been able to perform against these player that are significantly more experienced and skilled than me.

Picture 1: last game before playing with my initiate friends (playing alone)


Picture 2: first game after playing with my initiate friends (playing alone)


I would post the match ids of all the games, but I think it's better to post my profile in tracklock the match history can be seen easier:

https://tracklock.gg/players/149056131

PD: I really love the game, but this experience is very frustrating for me to play. If I have to play 16 games like this, I would rather wait for a patch to fix this issue. I would appreciate a skill rating reset for my account or other solution, but I understand that is very unlikely.

Thank you.

 

[a10m]

Stop putting me against full stacks. This game was 5 stacked opponents, and it’s not the first time—it happens too often. If I solo queue, I should only face solos or at most duos. Playing against full stacks is completely unwinnable. Fix your matchmaker.

41329630

 

[PaveMentman]

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Me (Haze) being pretty much the only one pushing / shoving lanes and preventing backdoors 99% of the times while rest of the team is kill-chasing as a deathball on the other side of the map and failing at it being instantly wiped out far too many times.

Numerous times under-levelled kill-chasers simply refused to kill troopers to begin with by rushing past them and then repeatedly feeding themselves to the full-health opponents;
you can guess who these were due to them having almost twenty (20) deaths.

Match ID: 41331989
https://statlocker.gg/match/41331989/summary
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[Akshka]

Just fucking add draft already, there's a reason why its a thing in all mobas

 

[FuckMyLife]

41345820

yup, shitty ass matchmaking again. solo que players with 1 or 2 new players with full on emissary and above 5 stack on the other team. The devs really dont care about the surge of players again on top of OP as fuck new heroes while stacking all the cc in favor of the other team.

 

[shellstforest]

Match ID: 41355631

Two oracles, a phantom, and an archon against 4 ritualists and an emissary and archon. This match was atrocious.

Also got matched against them AGAIN the very next game and got stomped again.

 

[Cheesedragon117]

Just fucking add draft already, there's a reason why its a thing in all mobas

There's a reason why it's not a thing in this one: Because Deadlock is better than other MOBAs.

 

[smonk]

You guys seriously need to do something about the matchmaking in OCE, the game is borderline unplayable purely because of matchmaking. Almost every single one of these games is from my last 16 games played and have a smurf account in them bringing the enemy teams "average rank" further down than it should be.

 

[flint.wongkh]

@Yoshi i found a cheater, and 2 racists in the same game for you. I HOPE YOU TAKE ACTION OKAY?? @Yoshi
the ivy and shiv said racists chant towards chinese. do something, i reported them for toxic behaviour, that report button better work.

This clip, i was invi, healing rited. i purposely went next to the wall far away from the creeps and stood still just to see if that infernus was aimbotting. To my not surprise, infernus with his last bullet shot at me while invi btw. you can see a 4 pop out. Clearly hacking i replayed it twice for you. bro didn't die once btw.
View attachment Deadlock 2025.09.07 - 16.55.28.01.mp4

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199721510448/ - infernus(1 year old acc with 1 friend. what an easy way to smurf hack)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199720944147/ -ivy
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Crosby12334/ -shiv
@Yoshi i want you to take this seriously okay?

 

[Token81]

41391516

100% confident the devs are actually retarded at this point. If you win a few games and have a positive score, the match maker apparently puts you on a team of ULTRA feeders and stacks try hards on the other team, then does this for 15-20 games in a row making it absolutely impossible to win.

Its absolutely a forced losing streak, nothing anyone can do about it, i play positive nearly every match.

 

[luke.iswim]

There's a reason why it's not a thing in this one: Because Deadlock is better than other MOBAs.

Ah yes because randomly queuing into a 4 support or assassin comp while the enemy team has an actual comp is fine.

 

[Draggonguy]

41406894

Fuck your teamstacking matchmaker. just an obvious team stack with 60k ahead. No business making this bullshit. Again fuck your matchmaker