Bad Matchmaking Thread

I gotta say after starting to play in Ascendant lobbies the quality has taken a big turn for the worse. Not only are the games more often stomps, really bad stomps and lots of players are very toxic. Was more fun in Archon tbh. I'm also surprised to see how many people have 500 games or less and way too many have less than 50% WR overall. Second highest ranking in the game and you don't even need 50% WR...?

This is what sweats do to games. They figure out how to stomp, create dozens of accounts, and do nothing else all day every day. If you don't ban smurfing this is what you get. It's been an increasing problem in League of Legends and is now ruining Deadlock as well. Sad to see, really. MOBAs can be a lot of fun but they're being obliterated by sweats with nothing better to do with their time.
 
valve, your system is a joke and whatever you're stubbornly doing isn't working. i give up on this thread too, im quite confident nothing will fix this until there's enough players to drown out smurfing/hacking. if MM isn't getting sorted in alpha then what hope do we have in beta/closer to release?

Valve does not care. None of their games have moderation, good anticheat, or smurf punishment. They literally do not care.

Valve is one of the most profitable companies to ever exist, if they cared about these things they would've done something in the past 20+ years.
 
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
Cheater on with blatant aimbot and esp
matchid: 50693970
cheater: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199687756551/ (haze)
please report him, he already has a game ban why he even allowed to play?
 
Valve does not care. None of their games have moderation, good anticheat, or smurf punishment. They literally do not care.

Valve is one of the most profitable companies to ever exist, if they cared about these things they would've done something in the past 20+ years.
As much as I love valve this is facts
 
For the past 4 month I had maybe 10% balanced games. The overwhelming majority is totally unbalanced. My team always seems to play like someone 2 or 3 ranks lower than the enemy team, at all ranks.
 

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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

A reply in the hopes that you actually see this. I do want this game to succeed but at this rate it isn't going to.

Stop expecting us to play test a game that has become unplayable. Your matchmaking is broken and your game is overrun by smurfs.

As far as anybody can tell matchmaking is being completely ignored. This game is dying before it's even been released due to the impossibility of actually getting decent games.

This wasn't a problem initially. Why is it a problem now? Why isn't it being dealt with? Look at this thread and this forum. People have been complaining about matchmaking for a year.
 
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
YOSHIIIII RELEASE THE UPDATE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I believe there may be an issue or inconsistency with the ranking system. In the attachment, you can see my recent matches. I have 14 wins in my last 16 games, but I have not yet ranked up from Ascendant 6 to Eternus 1. I understand that ranking up at this level should be challenging; however, my recent win rate is close to 90%.
Additionally, in most of these matches I am the top player in terms of player damage, objective damage, and net worth, which I believe should also be taken into account.
You can find more detailed statistics at the following link: https://tracklock.gg/players/352873308/matches.
I would appreciate clarification on how ranking progression works in this situation.

EDIT: According to deadlocktracker.gg, my current Elo is 2104. For comparison, the average Elo for Ascendant 6 is listed as 1855, while Eternus 5 starts at around 2080 Elo. This suggests that my current rank may not be updating correctly and that the issue could be related to rank display rather than actual progression. A similar situation occurred a few weeks ago, when ranks required an update.
This is assuming that the Elo data shown on deadlocktracker.gg is accurate.
 

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