Bad Matchmaking Thread

[Canowyrms]

45139840

Paradox, Billy, Seven, Haze were clearly all extremely new to the game. I called out Seven should get gun buff, no one knew what I was talking about. I get that people are going to be new to this game but like... maybe match new people with new people.

 

[asd87]

I left for about a month and came back. Not sure if it's because the game hates people but matchmaking was very bad this time round.

3/4 was our team sitting turtled in base while having our shell ripped off by a blunted spoon.

45146875

 

[Jnt1998Krt]

87K soul difference with 2 people on my team going 0-7 and 1 going 0-14. the other 2 teammates, had 10 and 8 deaths with 2 kills. in this entire game, i'm 7/4/2 and able to kill both their carries with relative ease. the game ended because i stopped 1v6ing. couldn't have had less fun if i tried.

45149626 - Match ID



Edit:

Just played a game that was an obvious stomp. they got 1 guardian and we had a 60K soul lead and I didn't die once and neither did our calico.

45153926 - Match ID
45469252 - Match ID
45429172 - Match ID
45389979 - Match ID
45691932 - Match ID - Everyone on my team had 1 kill, 0 kills, or one person had 3. I had 5 and the enemy team had 19 by one person. When were we supposed to have good matchmaking?
46071186 - Match ID - I had 0 deaths and we blew out the enemy team in 24 minutes with a 50K soul lead
46369627 - Match ID - My entire team did not belong in that game whatsoever. I have 13 kills against an enemy team with a few people who were ranked too low for sure. But everyone else on my team was very obviously out matched
46576774 - Match ID - My team is 1-6, 1-8, and 0-9 while i am 7-2 and then 2 enemy players are 12-1 and 16-0. if the games arent gonna have good matchmaking then can we at least get a forfeit option so i can stop wasting my time
46748582 - Match ID - just go ahead and watch the replay. There is no good matchmaking about this
46831730 - Match ID - One person on their team had 18 kills and everyone else had sub 5. Why are we calling this good matchmaking
46900015 - Match ID - I went 18-6-9 and no one else in the lobby came close. these games arent even fun
47028707 - Match ID - I'm not mad we lost. I'm mad that I consistently am able to run lobbies and have the most kills and farm and player damage in the lobby but yet i get matched with people all the time who are 0-14 and 1-8. At this point, the matchmaking makes this game not fun.
47232413 - Match ID - At this point, I don't think anyone actually reads these
47350896 - Match ID - This game is a joke. I need to uninstall until the game comes out officially at this point. There is no effort being put into matchmaking
47403192 - Match ID - Day 32 of asking for any effort to be put into matchmaking
47994999 - Match ID

I'm not adding more match IDs, I'm convinced no one is reading this thread and matchmaking is not being worked on

 

[P.LaStar]

45110933

 

[Emily Vasquez]

Our team ended up wiping the other one with ease within 30 minutes. I felt really bad for them. [ID: 45154458]

 

[chraso]

45158355
totally busted lobby or eternus vs initiates?

 

[will4zoo]

Can a dev PLEASE explain how this is a balanced match? First of all we have 1 support to their 2, they have a 'frontline' hero and we dont. On top of all of that these players are NOT phantom level. What the fuck man...

 

[arthemis.luna]

After playing a match in another computer, a bunch of matchs im getting matched with extremely new players or quiters in my team versus extreme experiencied players, i got paried 2-3 times with the same guy in the other team, the guy is extreme skilled and his team not as good as him, the game says im a "low rank"
45119528
45117161
45051673
45049591

 

[hellofoug]

45168148

Paige with nearly equal damage to Haze and more damage than Bebop. Awful match.

 

[ZirnRot]

45168189


yea nothin wrong with this!

 

[soybeanieboy234]

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

there's ZERO way that you're actually doing any fix on the matchmaking cause what the hell are these games. I got people INTENTIONALLY just running it down. I lost my previous game and I get paired with someone who literally plays like they don't even want to win the game. Whoever is in charge of fixing matchmaking, pick up the fucking slack cause I can guarantee a LOT of people are asking a fix on this shit storm.

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45155363

 

[Pickle-O]

45176534

Constant bad matchups against smurfs, Echeons even admitted to it and has a 10 day ban. Like its not hard to hardware ban someone. JFC devs. but its fine. Currently at a 36% winrate overall with the constant shit matchmaking

 

[snipertf2lover]

While I agree that matchmaking can be improved, I don't think that acting with hostility is a good way to provide feedback. A good way to provide feedback is being kind and polite, not blaming your teammates and/or insulting the devs, let alone Valve itself.

A week ago, on 10 October 2025, I, an Obscurus player, was paired with two Arcanist VI players, several Initiate Is, and a bunch of fellow Obscurus players. Predictably, a lot of players disconnected (myself included), the match lasted less than 30 minutes, and we lost. The game considered both teams Seeker III for some reason. You can see for yourself how inconsistent matchmaking is right now:

Statlocker - Deadlock Stats Tracker & Match Analytics

Track your Deadlock matches, analyze performance, and improve. Real-time stats, hero tier lists, build guides, and rank tracking.

statlocker.gg

This is coming from someone who plays TF2. As a level 29 player in casual, I've been paired with low and high level players, and I don't mind winning and losing anyway, so.

 

[Enoki]

MatchID 45179632
Entire team got curbstomped: 7 to 45 kills
Although it could be that the hero matchup encouraged this more than anything, this was team DPS vs team CC

 

[big_dee_anne]

Played along with my wife who fell from alchemist to seeker within 2 matches.
Started to get my well poisoned also cause I was trying to play with her while she fell down the stairs 15 ranks.
Constant quitters, rage baiters, biggots and griefers I haven't seen for almost a year.

How it started:
44962116
44965248 (got a guy harassing a kid on my team the whole game)
45044219 (as the one following)
45047616 (as the one following)
45117161 (those above along with this extremely unbalanced matches)
45128993 (instant match not counted for unknown reasons)
45180211 (last match I had before opening the report, Sinclair player was unusually a crybaby texting all the time since drop on lane on how "we lost")

I'm not used to such behavior and while my wife fell 15 ranks down the stairs I started to steeply, within 5 matches fall from Arcanist VI to Alchemist III.
From a panel of 8/8, 7/9, 9/7 Win/Loss to a 4/8 its a really staking difference, specially with the behavior I started to face on the game.

Will wait for a fix on this, its a really strange change on behavior and quality of the matches.

 

[big_dee_anne]

While I agree that matchmaking can be improved, I don't think that acting with hostility is a good way to provide feedback. A good way to provide feedback is being kind and polite, not blaming your teammates and/or insulting the devs, let alone Valve itself.

A week ago, on 10 October 2025, I, an Obscurus player, was paired with two Arcanist VI players, several Initiate Is, and a bunch of fellow Obscurus players. Predictably, a lot of players disconnected (myself included), the match lasted less than 30 minutes, and we lost. The game considered both teams Seeker III for some reason. You can see for yourself how inconsistent matchmaking is right now:

Statlocker - Deadlock Stats Tracker & Match Analytics

Track your Deadlock matches, analyze performance, and improve. Real-time stats, hero tier lists, build guides, and rank tracking.

statlocker.gg

This is coming from someone who plays TF2. As a level 29 player in casual, I've been paired with low and high level players, and I don't mind winning and losing anyway, so.

Talking with anger about anything will never help.
Statlocker was acutally pretty usefull since I know see that I'm usually ranked Arcanist (II ~ IV) but after the August Update I got put into Seeker (II~I) somehow and now calibration is a bit eefy.

Its a beta. We report, wait, play other games while the devs improve this one we like to much.

 

[f1delity666]

45190271

 

[f1delity666]

45192832
0-15 calico , just purely amazing what kind of mates I get.

 

[Zen_Azusa]

45193190
It was pretty one sided even to where my teammates started to think something was wrong
not sure if it's because of character balance or just matchmaking or just rank inflation ish

 

[Etch]

I have gone from one match with a literal bot to now a game with a cheater. Please help it make sense. Also here is the match of the cheater. It the Mirage. Please ban this cunt and his hardware to boot. Match Id 45195590