Bad Matchmaking Thread

[Token81]

49971209 braindead bots, most spend 90% of the game shooting at the floor. Looks like game forces losses after wins, so nothing you can do but grief others.

Ive been saying that for months. Once you have over 500, and especially over 1000 games, it becomes blatantly obvious the match maker forces wins and losses, by putting you on a team of absolute brain dead bots, while stacking the other team with high level try hards. Once it forces you to lose 3-4 times in a row, then it will put you in a lobby where it expects you to carry the entire team, if you fail, then it feeds you a win. I have watched this pattern multiple times. I will lose 4-5 games in a row, then feed as hard as i can on the next game. I have gone 0-45 by feeding intentionally hard, and we still win, because it stacks the teams that bad to ensure a win.

Most pathetic thing i have ever seen in gaming. Ive seen horrible stuff (im old), but nothing with this much incompetence.

 

[Santiagoal01]

Match Id: 49976551

The bebop, mina, and dynamo need to be booted from the playtest permanently, a comms ban isnt enough for people like them, valve.

 

[Yeckler]

WHY IS EVERY GAME FILLED WITH ONE DUDE WHO GOES 0-12 IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES.

 

[omgitzface]

49979989 stuck with actual bots, almost comical how bad they were, most looked like they havent touched a pc game before

 

[omgitzface]

49984488 as you win, you get stuck with worse and worse bots. These bots might have never seen a keyboard before, couldnt even get guardians

 

[omgitzface]

49986022 yup, stuck with the same braindead bots still, they get worse and worse, couldnt even take guardians

 

[Greenfinite]

49983746



Currently in Arcanist 1, had a few games in the past 5 hours with people more intense than you'd expect at that rank. I was Emissary 2, one month ago then dropped a few rank after a long period on inactivity and this game right there surprised me :

Me and my friend playing Bepop were facing a Holliday / Wraith who seemed first time player.
We dominated them and got confused for a whole 5 min with my friend farming kills ... until Holliday quitted the game and I had to ask everyone ranks.

It was later confirmed by the Wraith player that the game was just downloaded. And despite me, previously being Emissary a month ago, the lane was as unbalanced as it could be.

 

[omgitzface]

49987426 stuck with more braindead bots, best move is to just feed so the game ends fast until they put you with someone thats not catatonic

 

[huskerknight1]

49989358



11-2 Talon, 9-1 Holliday, 10-2 Shiv, 13-3 Lash, and a fed-as-fuck 42k souls Wraith. Entire team (including me) went negative and my Abrams decided to abandon lane (when guardian was still alive) to fight mid with zero communication about it. Ivy proceeded to be an annoying contrarian and argue with me the entire game until I called them a porn addict (not even joking) and Haze made a passive aggressive comment right before instantly disconnecting at the end of the game.
I've played only 4 games since I got back from visiting family for the holidays and every game has been like this.

 

[Sun1111]

phantom 5 and an oracle 1 in a ritualist lobby?

Match ID 50000445

 

[cool_slowbro]

50004852

Constantly getting one sided stomp games like above. I feel like my closest games are upper phantom (my closest game of the day was also the highest of the day, ascendant). The lower the ranks go, the worse the experience.

I can honestly say my matchmaking has been horrid these last few weeks. It also feels like you simply can't really rank up playing utility/support if your lobby is too low of a rank, whether that's due to the December rebalancing or not I don't know. My winrate was pretty consistent for a while and suddenly plummeted, as can be seen on statlocker.

Obligatory yes, I also make mistakes and need to git gud, skill issue, etc.

 

[damonj17]

Am I being joshed? Am I being pranked?

Match ID: 50005534

 

[cool_slowbro]

Match ID: 50005726

lol

 

[Breeder of Mina Ha]

My team mates were apparently a 5 stack and did this bad. Where are they playing from? The back of the short bus? Are they all deaf, blind, and quadriplegic? Gotta be.

Bunch of monkeys that don't wanna put their Mina in either of those side lanes for easy love bites and would rather just go and lose lane before 10 mins while I'm backpacking paradox in lane and we eventually get 4 stacked on to lose mid lane.

My favorite part of this game is you know by 5 mins in like that how blatantly incompetent your team is and that it's a loss. Not to mention the horrible macro and just overall retardation they continue to demonstrate throughout the match.

I am genuinely starting to be at a loss for words with this matchmaking and that these are somehow human beings that are on my team.

 

[Breeder of Mina Ha]

Generational backpack of 5 handless apes that almost throw a 40k lead and turn what should've been a less than 25 min game into a 35 min game. Why are these my team mates? I see the same monkeys again and again. I'm lucky every game with this Revenant guy isn't a load screen loss.

 

[asd87]

@Yoshi @Valve I did come back for a new years resolution to try this again. I can confirm the matchmaking is still shit and needs to be fixed. Surrender vote would be nice but I guess I can watch a 20 minute stomp get drawn out by the opposing winning team to 50 minutes so far. Fun games slow claps around devs.

 

[matimaster07]

happy new years everyone ! here's to hoping we get better matchmaking this year !

 

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 50017505
Nobody used mic, and after me and Sinclair lost lane Sinclair started throwing the game. Bought magic carpet, flew on top of rooftops to die only, refused to play game or was feeding. Unbelievably miserable way to start 2026. I wish for harsher punishments for people like this, we don't need them in Deadlock in 2026.

 

[Token81]

I dont have a match id because someone on our team intentionally dc'd just to free us from the match maker bullshit prison.

12 mins in 2 kills to 38 kills, they had everything down we had nothing down.

Match maker put all super high ranking players on one team.

Devs have no idea what they are doing, super obvious.

 

[jporter917]

I dont have a match id because someone on our team intentionally dc'd just to free us from the match maker bullshit prison.

12 mins in 2 kills to 38 kills, they had everything down we had nothing down.

Match maker put all super high ranking players on one team.

Devs have no idea what they are doing, super obvious.

They literally have no idea what they are doing anymore. Deadlock was way better when it had 4 lanes and a center dome. Everything after August of 2024 has really turned the game into a simple shooter. It isn't even a MOBA anymore to be honest.