Bad Matchmaking Thread

[omgitzface]

49388359 team spent more time dead than alive, they actually would have played better afk or as bots. Could not get a single guardian. They died 40 times in 10 minutes, game over by 15 minutes. A brain dead person could probably be better

 

[jporter917]

Keep getting matches without any frontline heroes on team. All support teams.

 

[Aer]

First, I want to apologize for not including a match ID as requested in the main body of the thread. Second, I want to say that matchmaking feels like I am only queuing up to lose with little to no way to turn the tide of battle, and if I am winning, it is because the enemy team is experiencing the former of what I just typed.

One side is consistently the "avalanche" or "landslide", and there is no in-between even if one split-pushes or grabs the urn while four to five of them are elsewhere. It just delays the inevitable—especially so with the lopsided team compositions that the matchmaker puts together.

It used to not be like this after the Six Heroes Update, and I assume before then as well, but I hope matchmaking will improve for us to feel the thrill of tense battles, close calls, and proper "tug o' wars" again where comeback mechanics are more impactful and not easily prevented by the enemy team.

At the moment, all we can hope for is that the enemy team makes repeated grievous mistakes.

 

[back_biter+deadlock]

49388981

 

[jporter917]

First, I want to apologize for not including a match ID as requested in the main body of the thread. Second, I want to say that matchmaking feels like I am only queuing up to lose with little to no way to turn the tide of battle, and if I am winning, it is because the enemy team is experiencing the former of what I just typed.

One side is consistently the "avalanche" or "landslide", and there is no in-between even if one split-pushes or grabs the urn while four to five of them are elsewhere. It just delays the inevitable—especially so with the lopsided team compositions that the matchmaker puts together.

It used to not be like this after the Six Heroes Update, and I assume before then as well, but I hope matchmaking will improve for us to feel the thrill of battle and proper "tug o' wars" again where comeback mechanics are more impactful and not easily prevented by the enemy team.

At the moment, all we can hope for is that the enemy team makes repeated grievous mistakes.

It won't change, this is basically how every valve game works. It has been like this for about two years and went off a cliff last September 2024 when they changed the MM skill curve. They won't do anything about smurfs or hackers. They won't actually work on the popular heroes because they are popular. We have at least 3 more weeks of this meta/patch until another one might be dropped. But it won't change anything about matching making. Team comp's alone aren't even right

 

[omgitzface]

49389543 i hope matchmaking caused people to rage quit, this is just bad

 

[jporter917]

49389543 i hope matchmaking caused people to rage quit, this is just bad

Until people just stop playing or whole team work together to boycott unbalanced matches then nothing will be done. Even then, nothing will probably be done. This is very typically of valve games. Pretty much what they are known for.

 

[Albin]

49390845

Mina and Doorman duo smurf, super sus aim, a lot of prefire but hard to confirm.
Mina - https://steamcommunity.com/id/ailonya/
Doorman - https://steamcommunity.com/id/cbIHok1/

 

[barlakopofai]

Another day, another reminding valve that win-based matchmaking is fucking stupid and heavily punishes characters who can't take towers, and then subsequently everyone they get matched with. This was for the ornament quest by the way, not a character I play ever.

 

[Alex Gredn]

I really wish there were a queue mode or a setting where I could opt in to wait a long time—say, 5, 10, 20, or even 30–40 minutes—for a match with minimal imbalance. I’d gladly wait if the system assembled fair and comparable teams: if I queue solo, then the enemy team should also consist of solo random players with no premade groups; if I’m in a party, then the opponents should either be a similar-sized party or at least have a comparable number of grouped players (for example, 2 in a party vs. 2 in a party, and the rest solo).


If you’d also use a setting like this—please show your support with a like!

 

[jporter917]

I really wish there were a queue mode or a setting where I could opt in to wait a long time—say, 5, 10, 20, or even 30–40 minutes—for a match with minimal imbalance. I’d gladly wait if the system assembled fair and comparable teams: if I queue solo, then the enemy team should also consist of solo random players with no premade groups; if I’m in a party, then the opponents should either be a similar-sized party or at least have a comparable number of grouped players (for example, 2 in a party vs. 2 in a party, and the rest solo).


If you’d also use a setting like this—please show your support with a like!

They can't do this. Then groups wouldn't get games they could stomp and have "fun" they would only play against other groups and that wouldn't be fun for them. They would just make smurf accounts anyways. Until they actually just ban all level 0-3 steam accounts less than 6 months old with no other game hours above 25 hours, a purchase of some sort, and block private accounts nothing will change.

 

[omgitzface]

49402096 braindead team or bots, can't tell, 40 deaths in 10 minutes

 

[omgitzface]

49400331 stuck with teammates who have never used a pc mouse before

 

[omgitzface]

Until people just stop playing or whole team work together to boycott unbalanced matches then nothing will be done. Even then, nothing will probably be done. This is very typically of valve games. Pretty much what they are known for.

my goal is to make the game as miserable for other players due to unbalanced matchmaking. Hoping they uninstall

 

[omgitzface]

49403757 - fully braindead team

 

[Alex Gredn]

They can't do this. Then groups wouldn't get games they could stomp and have "fun" they would only play against other groups and that wouldn't be fun for them. They would just make smurf accounts anyways. Until they actually just ban all level 0-3 steam accounts less than 6 months old with no other game hours above 25 hours, a purchase of some sort, and block private accounts nothing will change.

During peak hours, this is absolutely feasible. All I’m asking for is a chance to trade my time for a fair, properly balanced game.

 

[luckadletz]

49411058
Trying to play with a new player, and we're getting stomped by 60k souls, not even a chance. They could've won in 15-20 minutes, but they drew it out pretty badly.

 

[omgitzface]

49411503 bot game, hope they rage quit from the mm

 

[omgitzface]

49415043 bot team died 20 times in 10 minutes, actually worse than bots, couldnt even get guardians. Looks like it is the first time for many of them using a pc. waste of 30 minutes

 

[omgitzface]

49418117 got stuck with the same bots somehow, team unable to put out any damage and game is over in 20 minutes. Brain dead team did their very best to lose, actually worse than bots