Bad Matchmaking Thread

[MandibleCalavera]

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

Matchid: 49426831

One of my multiple lobbies in the past week where I'm placed against people who have somewhat proficiency with the character they're playing (or their character is so easy and simplistic to pilot that there is no learning curve), whereas my team is full of first timers. Just admit, this event challenge was lazy and poorly thought out. You had to have known this was going to absolutely desecrate the already poor matchmaking quality this game had. Issues that could all be fixed if you used some common sense and add a drafting system, something that should have existed from launch.

 

[MandibleCalavera]

49425662

Games this bad should make you feel ashamed of yourselves, Valve. People who are clearly new against smurfs and aimbots. 7 to 64 in the kills. That's almost 10:1.

Deadlock devs might be some of the laziest, most incompetent dev team I've seen in quite some time. This is the shit I expect from NetEase, not Valve.

 

[Cardeiz]

MatchID: 49428240

Not a fan of harking on things like this but the game had 3 teammates feed for over 40 minutes. Their builds didn't make sense at all to the point where it was borderline throwing. Not sure if it's the holiday event or just players not performing well in general, but this came after a long slew of awful matchmaking where players left or similarly threw (I performed poorly in some of them to be fair here, but not for the majority). The Steam blackout was also a culprit in this.

Average rank for this match is almost 4 full divisions below mine: I'm currently high-Oracle/low-Phantom and the match was Ritualist 4. I played my top rated character as well, which was shortly top 500 in NA. In these situations even if you play flawlessly there is just nothing you can do. I had full trophy collector stacks by the 25 minute mark. Regardless, and whether it's the event or something else, this makes me not even want to touch the game.

In general - just to add a note here - I definitely feel like the current matchmaking punishes experimentation and that this event highlighted this issue. This is a shame given the game is still in development. I'm not a sucker for rank, but I definitely have noticed massive shifts in enjoyment as I play in lower MMRs. Climbing as a support player is rough.

Chained losses are punished more heavily than consecutive wins in my experience, with most of my matches placing me towards the upper middle, or higher, of the match's average rank. This would be alternative to being placed at the bottom of the average and having higher ranked teammates join, if that even matters. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Ragnaman]

Another day, another smurf with cheats

Steam Community :: prime 1000 rank

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[3052217443]

49430740
other team just gave up and afk'd in spawn. they blamed victor being unkillable as the reason why but in all honesty they all weren't very good.

 

[kikyo]

this is just one example but forced losses are the most gay shit I've ever seen and you for some reason force people to lose a lot.. I love this game but its impossible to enjoy it. you dont even check these posts I mean seriously 10.000 posts of bad matchmaking is crazy what the fuck are you guys smoking that you are too focused on snowballs and trees you retards.

 

[kentgiang1]

49431649


???? Wtf lower avg rank + all solo vs 5 stacks xD

 

[kkari]

Losing streak = going from oracle 3 to alchemist 6 games? All of these heroes had 1-2 up arrows aswell lmfao. 300 games played acc. All soloqueue.

 

[Bosko]

being put in arcanist teams as an archon on one of my best characters after a loss streak going for ornaments

 

[Plsfixmatchmaking]

49440710
HOLY SHIT YOU FUCKASS DEVS. This Fern was blatantly cheating with headshots and instant procs and your fuckass shitty anti cheat never worked once. How in the holy fuck are you this incompetent? @Yoshi Fuck you. The motherfucker was playing like ass and running in but because he was cheating like mad no one could deal with him. Go fuck yourself retards.

 

[snipertf2lover]

49440710
HOLY SHIT YOU FUCKASS DEVS. This Fern was blatantly cheating with headshots and instant procs and your fuckass shitty anti cheat never worked once. How in the holy fuck are you this incompetent? @Yoshi Fuck you. The motherfucker was playing like ass and running in but because he was cheating like mad no one could deal with him. Go fuck yourself retards.

Calm down. There's no need to insult Yoshi and the devs like that.

 

[kikyo]

Calm down. There's no need to insult Yoshi and the devs like that.

he is right they are very incompetent and I do understand the frustration because matches are utter garbage most of the time but nah lets add snowballs amirite

 

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 49444546
Man. I love wasting 40 minutes of my life on a game where it's clear they have a team consistent of strong heroes which are very meta / direct DPS, while our team has only off-meta heroes and supports where there's no chance in hell we'll be able to win it.

Especially when for some damn reason it's putting me in Oracle lobbies and the enemy team is multiple divisions higher.

This matchmaking is going to be the end of me...

 

[jporter917]

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.

I was being completely sarcastic.


In other news, I am totally in love with all the players who are coming to the forums to have valid cash outs on the state of the game. This game needs it and more importantly the braindead developers need it. There are too many discord and "super fans" in this community who keep blind ignoring all the issues with Deadlock. The hype train is being fucking ridden and there are far, far too many active players who keep blowing valve's gender regions.

8 years in development and still only "early alpha" bahaha. Greatest "gaming" company.

*EDIT* - I mean they can't even get someone to properly admin the forums. Like, christ.

 

[omgitzface]

49445615 braindead team has absolutely no idea how to play or what objectives are

 

[omgitzface]

49447380 team actually worse than bots, or are bots

 

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 49448618

Lovely that I'm being put in Archon lobbies now, where the enemy team are Oracle. It's beyond laughable at this point, how the hell did I go from Ascendant I where I am doing decent-ish in the matches to Archon? This feels so beyond upsetting because no matter what I do, it's a 50min game and it's still a loss. Winning lane hard? Well here is a big middle finger because you'll lose the game anyway.

 

[omgitzface]

49449223 stuck with tthe same bots, some of them don't even know how to select and use abilities

 

[Token81]

49454664

hahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahah what a pointless match. You devs are something special thats for sure.


49458346


Whats the point? So obvious they ultra stack the teams. 1 in 10 games is fun and who knows what the outcome is going to be, the other 9 out of 10 are obvious from the first 5 minutes lmfaooooo

"Lets put all these high rank players on one side, and then a bunch of new people on the other side" - Braindead shit.

 

[omgitzface]

49461378 bots went 0-30 in 10 minutes then left. Seems like after any win streak the game forces players that are actually worse than bots on you to force a loss.