Bad Matchmaking Thread

[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]

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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]

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seriously wtf, inflating ranks wont help the quality.


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so much feed and yamata rage quit

 

[f1delity666]

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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.

 

[SadeVEVO]

44627619 Stomp from start to finish

 

[Zen_Akechi]

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I waited 8 minutes for a game like this?
Also draft diff

 

[Zen_Akechi]

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Draft Diff, literally infinite CCs from the enemy team

 

[f1delity666]

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warden rage quit, cause of haze lane partner. So far only abysmal matches, top!


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10 matches 10 times garbage, at least its consitently abysmal.

 

[Zen_Akechi]

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rank changes doesnt mean anything I guess

 

[snipertf2lover]

Three of my teammates on Amber Hand disconnected.

 

[neomarestudio]

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Doorman only went for headshots from the start and never missed, as well as spamming the bell. With just two weapon items, he did enormous damage to the whole team. We couldn't do anything to him or even get close to him without the enemy team appearing.

 

[micahbenjamin13]

Alchemist vs Archon - most likely smurfs or cheats. One team was consistently forcefully disconnected and rejoined all the match, while opponents were not affected whatsoever.

Most of them have <25 matches played.

Match: 41968014

seeing this as well

 

[Erogami]

got boosted to phantom 2 but the game decided to put me in archon game, I check statlocker and some of these players are literally new player like what is this?

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[socratesquintana]

44642514: Billy just steamrolled our whole team. He was not even close to evenly or fairly matched with us. Even admitted that this was the same as his main account. Think he was a smerff.

 

[Zen_Akechi]

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Draft diff
team diff
wtf is this mmr?

Is the game really saying to just make a smurf?

 

[Zen_Akechi]

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