Bad Matchmaking Thread

41764708 - Apparently that was an Arcanist match but my whole felt like it was filled with new players who had no clue what they should do
41767934 - Same as above average team rank was Arcanist people didn't pushed objectives

I have in total 5 loses this day it is really frustrating. Matches get worse in Arcanist it looks like there a big pool of new players at this point I don't even care about the rank since the quality of these matches are horrible last year it was bit better
 
Before the patch with new heroes, when quite few people were playing, the quality of the matches was good. Only occasional smurfs, but mostly the games were very well balanced and the teams were even. It's was hard and intersting to play.
Now many players returned or just got into the game and it's a big mess again.

As a totally new player I started as Initiate 1 and crawled my way to Arcanist 6. I had 50-game calibration before I was given my rank (yes, Initiate 1). Now my teams are full of these Obscuruses that don't remember or don't know how to play.
I wish the returning players had to go through at least 5 or better 10-game recalibration separately, not in the same teams as players who didn't stop playing.
It would help to better determine their rank/skill level, because now it's a mishmash of players who are very new and those who lost their high ranks due to inactivity and now terrorize the lower ranks. All the snowballs again.

I hope when open beta arrives there will be 2 modes again - competitive and noncompetitive (obligatory for a certain number of games for returning players).
 
41835696: Total beginners in the same game as Eternus 6 players, bro is literally a streamer that was rank 1 2 AND 3 at one point. Having very high rank players paired with very low rank players doesn't make the match "medium rank" somehow. There should be a smaller mmr gap between players inside a match even if it costs longer queues for higher rank players.

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there was an ask 6 on the account, I won a game on a drifter, and I was downgraded to 3 asks. do you have any information? since when are victories not rewarded?
 
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Their Haze was misplaced or smurfing, it was a pretty unwinnable game and rather lop-sided.

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Another lop-sided match. Their infernus and Lash were extremely good while it felt like an uneven match for us, with no chance of winning.
 
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41835696: Total beginners in the same game as Eternus 6 players, bro is literally a streamer that was rank 1 2 AND 3 at one point. Having very high rank players paired with very low rank players doesn't make the match "medium rank" somehow. There should be a smaller mmr gap between players inside a match even if it costs longer queues for higher rank players.

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Well, Valve believes an average person has one breast and one testicle.
 
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grouped with new players always against more experienced players daily on east coast servers. no issues with west coast. ty
constant jitters unplayable game. 40-120ping with 20ms down and 80ms wtf
 
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They had multiple carries on their team while our team was struggling to even do the objectives. They steamrolled our base before we had their walkers. Not fun.

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The enemy team had a player claiming to be Eternus (seemed to be Phantom V), many of their team seemed to play on a very high level. BUT they also had 4 support, 2 DPS which was a very weird MM.
 
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I have no idea what you did to matchmaking but I've had like 10 games with team mates that are clearly extremely confused and don't know the basics while the enemy team have pretty good coordination.
Even more frustrating that I win lane almost every time, then proceed to get absolutely stomped by someone from a different lane who is now 4-0 in the first 8 minutes.
No clue whats happening in the background but having 10 games with a 40k+ difference must be statistically impossible. The lowest of the ones listed is a 35k diff, while the biggest is around 60k with totals between 150-280k. The worst one is a 22 min game with a 52k diff, meaning almost 50% advantage for the enemy.
You either lose immediately because they can simply walk into your base while you are completely useless, or they hold you hostage for another 10 minutes.

For some reason checking the "higher competitive integrity" made it even worse.

I get that you're pushing for "faster games" but getting stomped is just frustrating, while stomping is completely unsatisfactory. Was looking forward to playing more after my vacation, but I'll probably swap games again until you figure this out.

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At this point I'm just giving up and wait for the open beta. The match quality is so bad and at this point I'm just so annoyed that I need to always push other tower + walkers and die to even try to get an win in the end we get stomped I had maybe 3 really good matches where communication was there. These matches are always 24/7 farming jungle not looking at the map pining does help since these people don't even know the basics of this game and I'm just asking myself why on earth are they in these ranks. Once I reached Arcanist I thought this will be a bit better with the match quality nope it gets worse. I ragequit one game right now since I can't play this. Last year I had way better matches which where 50/50 win/loss but now it is just horrible. I really enjoy the game but not with these people in these ranks
 
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41881258 match code. There's two problems here I really wish they fixed
First off the victor was feeding very intentionally
Second thing Is the Smurf account needs to be settled.
They really need to add a full on surrender option that comes up on a report. Here's through your samples.
If someone is feeding and their skill level is that bad. You can report them, make them go down to the right skill level , And you have a vote of 5 To concede the match. The reason why I say 5 is the person who is reported will not get a vote
Second Is someone leaving at the last second of the match. If someone leaves the match at the exact time, They will get a harder penalty on them. They can only play in bot matches.
The last and final one is very simple. If someone leaves Under the 20 minute mark, The team who that player is on can vote to end the match and make it into no one wins no one loses
 
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I don't know what else i could've done. Also, how is one team Arcanist 2 and 3, but the individual ranks show larger rank gaps. It seems more that the game is prioritizing groups and setting up clear unbalanced teams. I waited less than 2 minutes to find this game. If we want people to keep testing the game, you'll want them to KEEP playing the game. Poor matchmaking=less time on the game. One team had a +34 wins and the other had a -20 wins, so we know matchmaking isn't by performance.
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HEY so why am I being matched with people who just installed the game? and why are they being matched with people who having been playing for more than 6 months?
 
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