Bad Matchmaking Thread

[Domineeriv]

My case:

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This game 46780855 has been absolutely awful for everyone involved.

The vindicta and perhaps haze too are either cheating or very hard smurfing or both. If this is not the case, then this is very bad mm, I am not experienced with Calico and am still ranking at the high bracket for my core skill rating.

Let's avoid such games in the future

PS: I'm hoping I'm posting at the right place

Hi!!! I played with this Haze AND Paradox, Match ID 46771641 - I can confirm Haze's aim behavior is extremely suspicious and unusual as hell.

They are definitely cheating, or at least "toggling on and off" in my opinion. I spectated them a good bit during my game (I was Pagie) and they just seemed to know exactly where the enemy was and where they were coming from. Their movement, general game awareness, item countering and peeking behavior was also very odd for this level of lobby (only seen in lower lobbies). This combined with the odd aim behavior and odd decision making in general I'm inclined to believe you're correct they're cheating somehow.

I reported both them and Paradox yesterday when the game took place. They were going by the name "I'm Coming Baby" in my match, but seems now in hindsight they had changed their name to MyTaxi and I can confirm it's the same account you posted. They played Haze in my game too, they seem to be queuing with Paradox so I'm inclined to believe Paradox is also suspicious - at least they had equally odd and suspicious behavior in my game.

Please keep in mind the spectator tool is odd, so just look at that perfect headshot tracking from such an odd angle and movement.


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[ArteMooNik]

Hi!!! I played with this Haze AND Paradox, Match ID 46771641 - I can confirm Haze's aim behavior is extremely suspicious and unusual as hell.

They are definitely cheating, or at least "toggling on and off" in my opinion. I spectated them a good bit during my game (I was Pagie) and they just seemed to know exactly where the enemy was and where they were coming from. Their movement, general game awareness, item countering and peeking behavior was also very odd for this level of lobby (only seen in lower lobbies). This combined with the odd aim behavior and odd decision making in general I'm inclined to believe you're correct they're cheating somehow.

I reported both them and Paradox yesterday when the game took place. They were going by the name "I'm Coming Baby" in my match, but seems now in hindsight they had changed their name to MyTaxi and I can confirm it's the same account you posted. They played Haze in my game too, they seem to be queuing with Paradox so I'm inclined to believe Paradox is also suspicious - at least they had equally odd and suspicious behavior in my game.

Please keep in mind the spectator tool is odd, so just look at that perfect headshot tracking from such an odd angle and movement.


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Um. Only first and last shot is a headshot according to replay. Pretty normal Haze behavior. (i've done better))

 

[rumham]

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Cannot believe this is still as bad of an issue as it is. Smurf accounts and matchmaking need to be addressed SO badly. 446 pages and counting!

 

[cloudsucker]

Hey guys, first of all, thanks for your huge work! I really love what you’re doing.

Not long ago, I started meeting cheaters more often than usual. I really want to fight this problem as much as I can, but I couldn’t find any “Cheaters in Matchmaking” thread or something similar. I’d really appreciate it if you could create such a thread - or maybe even add some special spectator modes with moderators in-game and a more advanced report system.

This time, I want to report two cheaters from two matches:

1. Match ID: 46723317 - Haze is cheating. This guy seems to have some strange aimbot — he keeps shooting people in the head without even pointing his crosshair at them.
2. Match ID: 46344664 - Vindicta is cheating. Just a regular aimbot.

By the way, in the second game we tried to make the cheater’s life worse by using the Rescue Beam.
That’s why I’d like to suggest adding some options to make a cheater’s game harder:

• It’s necessary to have an option to kick a player.
• It might be a good idea to make teammate reports more valuable than enemy reports, since teammates can actually see how the player aims in-game.

And one more thing about my personal frustration…
I still don’t really understand how the match cancelling system works when someone leaves the match. I’ve already lost around 3 games this month just because one of my teammates quit. There is no really good comeback's options to keep fighting without 1-2 teammates and that's sad

When someone leaves, there’s a red message in the top-right corner saying that you can leave without ban but you’ll lose. Then the whole team leaves - but is it really fair to lose just because of one teammate?

 

[hellofoug]

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Holiday was talking in chat and standing in base except for the times they intentionally fed. Build a better system to ban trolls before launching this game please

 

[Jack Lemon]

Match ID: 46851443
Grey Talon afk with an autoclicker after 1 death. Had a pal with him

 

[nordentoft.christian]

Phantom IV both teams, but one team is a 6-stack, while the other team is not. There is no overcoming a team actually working together with a group of equal rank randoms.

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[Dragutin]

Match ID: 46859171

Matching Oracle vs unranked, <100h and <150 accounts. Absolute garbage of a match.

 

[Mateji]

The matchmaking got so bad. Every second game is a hot pile of garbage. Smurfs destroying lobbies or teammates playing for the first time.
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every single one of those games in the last few days had smurfs or super high level players that dominated the game. its so tiring.

 

[mr.fox001]

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Another report about how matchmaking failling to match player with hero that he doesnt have experience with

I just ruin game for my mates due huge lack of experience and i got also harashed by one player that reported me for griefing which isnt true

I would like to get direct response from dev that they acknowledge the problem

 

[MJaSchnee]

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we were a 6 stack with someone who has never played before
we felt completely outclassed by every individual on their team
their team had the some of the best characters in the game and our new player was playing mina

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this was immediately after the last game
much better but we were still easily outclassed
game ended with someone who had 35k+ souls while everyone else (including their team) was around 17k

 

[throwawaym8]

The matchmaking got so bad. Every second game is a hot pile of garbage. Smurfs destroying lobbies or teammates playing for the first time.
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every single one of those games in the last few days had smurfs or super high level players that dominated the game. its so tiring.

You're best off just not playing Deadlock. I've given up after having so many smurf lobbies.

 

[Zen_Akechi]

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[asd87]

3 to 4 games in a row all 40k difference and a stomp each time. 5 hours wasted of my life. Whoever is looking into fixing matchmaking instead of making a placebo thread should get a medal!

Update: I am the guy who abandons now because not having a surrender option in a game is poor quality dev work.

 

[Snackors]

Phantom IV both teams, but one team is a 6-stack, while the other team is not. There is no overcoming a team actually working together with a group of equal rank randoms.

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bro they dont care, they set up this cancer fucking toxic mm to promote duoing stacking. in every fucking game i am against a duo lane. fuck these devs, i hope someone can make another game like this and tank this game. these devs deserve the worst. piece of shits, i wouldn't even knew if i havent checked my opponents previous games.

Update: I just fucking abandon as well, fuck you!

 

[kylebmguy]

Nah. What the actual fuck @Yoshi How hard is it to actually give people real fucking team mates?! Why is that The enemy team Always seems to have a full fucking team of people that know what they are doing???? Mean while i get a fucking team that DOESNT BELONG IN MY FUCKING GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU PEOPLE AND THIS FUCKING MATCH MAKING BULLSHIT! I AM FUCKING SICK OF ALWAYS BEING THE FUCKING BEST ONE ON MY TEAM! IM FUCKING SICK OF BEING THE ONLY FUCKING PERSON PUSHING OR DEFENDING OBJECTIVES IM FUCKING SICK OF BEING THE ONLY FUCKING PERSON DOING ANYTHING FOR THE FUCKING TEAM LIKE DO YOU PEOPLE FUCKING CARE?!??!? STOP FUCKING WASTING OUR TIME! IM SO FUCKING SICK OF THESE DUMB FUCKS BEING OUT OUT OF THEIR RANK! IM SO FUCKING SICK OF BEING HELD BACK AND LOSING RANK BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO FUCKING MATCH MAKE! I DO NOT FUCKING DESERVE TO HAVE FUCKING IDIOTS ON MY TEAM ITS FUCKING PATHETIC HOLY FUCK IM STARTING TO FUCKING HATE YOU LOSERS!

 

[kylebmguy]

Nah. What the actual fuck @Yoshi How hard is it to actually give people real fucking team mates?! Why is that The enemy team Always seems to have a full fucking team of people that know what they are doing???? Mean while i get a fucking team that DOESNT BELONG IN MY FUCKING GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU PEOPLE AND THIS FUCKING MATCH MAKING BULLSHIT! I AM FUCKING SICK OF ALWAYS BEING THE FUCKING BEST ONE ON MY TEAM! IM FUCKING SICK OF BEING THE ONLY FUCKING PERSON PUSHING OR DEFENDING OBJECTIVES IM FUCKING SICK OF BEING THE ONLY FUCKING PERSON DOING ANYTHING FOR THE FUCKING TEAM LIKE DO YOU PEOPLE FUCKING CARE?!??!? STOP FUCKING WASTING OUR TIME! IM SO FUCKING SICK OF THESE DUMB FUCKS BEING OUT OUT OF THEIR RANK! IM SO FUCKING SICK OF BEING HELD BACK AND LOSING RANK BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO FUCKING MATCH MAKE! I DO NOT FUCKING DESERVE TO HAVE FUCKING IDIOTS ON MY TEAM ITS FUCKING PATHETIC HOLY FUCK IM STARTING TO FUCKING HATE YOU LOSERS!
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Like how FUCKING hard is it, To see that there are too many people OUT SIDE OF THEIR RANKS?! How hard is it to see that People are getting the worst fucking matches because you people dont put people in their actual fucking rank. You have seeker players in oracle and you have eternus players in oracle. But The seeker players get fucking boosted and the eternus players gets fucked with only getting those seeker players so no matter how hard that player trys guess what cant carry because the team the person is against is full of competent people, Oracle average, My team? Seeker seeker initiate archanist. Its fucking bullshit. People complain and complain AND FUCKING COMPLAIN but NOTHING IF EVER DONE ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE MATCH MAKING AND GAME BALANCE SHOULD BE THE #1 PRIORITY IF YOU PEOPLE HAVE THIS GAME LIVE, YOU PEOPLE CANNOT GET GOOD FEED BACK FROM THE STATE THIS GAME IS IN RIGHT NOW YOU CANNOT! match making should be on par with the actual development of the game. You people are going to lose sight and this games just going to go down hill further and fucking further.

And you know whats the 1 thing people are asking for? FAIR FUCKING MATCH MAKING! See the screen shot? Everyone except the yamato should be DEMOTED 3-4 FULL RANKS. GET THOSE PEOPLE THE FUCK OUT OF THIS RANK! The people in my rank are doing nothing but fucking holding me back. I dont want to play this game with a bunch of people that arnt on my fucking level. Its NOT FUCKING FUN.

And you know what? If i get bad team mates THATS FINE THAN HOW FUCKING ABOUT GIVE THE ENEMY TEAM THE SAME FUCKING TREATMENT!

 

[neomarestudio]

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simply at a disadvantage from the start impossible to win.

 

[kirbychwan]

No particular match to mention because it's been pretty much all of them this week.

Came back because I was excited to see the new characters and every match is absolutely stomped on by a pair of smurfs or cheaters. It's sad because it feels so good to *play* and yet the matchmaking is just... intolerable, right now.

 

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 46910874, 46912476, 46913786, 46917128

Quite literally having the same teammates multiple times on my team who are underperforming by a great margin, not listening to any comms, not engaging in the chat, not pinging, just running in to die one by one the entire time. In the last one, Wraith had less damage than me which shouldn't even be possible. I have no idea which Valve God I possed off again but this is becoming insanely tedious.