Bad Matchmaking Thread

[Ragnaman]

LMFAO

the next game i played

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what the actual hell is this lmfao.. how is this fun for them

clear example of how smurfs ruin this game, if even a single of those uninitiated ranks is a smurf, its over, game can be thrown in the bin, everyone can go afk while the fat kid with invincibility shield can shoot his infinite bullets of instant death until he gets bored. Sandbox smells of pee and cat shit.

Smurfing == cheating,
In some cases its even worse than that because cheaters will play at higher ranks and possibly against other cheaters, and sometimes cheaters can be punished hard by skilled players.
Meanwhile even a non cheating smurf will RUIN the game for 11 other players.

EVERY
SINGLE
DAY
majority of my games has a smurf in them. I cant remember a day of just having some won or lost games of deadlock, no, its always some duo with a throwaway smurf in a party wreaking havoc on the matchmaker. Fucking wardens with 10 games total (if one can believe tracklock) going 20/0 like a train with no brakes. In case it wasnt clear, thats not fun and I play games to have fun.

I hope you are doing some data magic valve, I hope the "mains" of those who consistently party up with banned/smurfed accounts also get a ban.

 

[stemipro]

7? most of my teammates have played like 2 and are already in ascendant

I'm 1500hours in and maximum I reached is Emissary which didn't lasted for long when latest patch arrived because I kept having teammates that were playing the game for the first time. I'm stuck in low elo forever. Ranking up is a BIG FAT JOKE.

 

[Marque]

Match 50790715

Adam Ritualist III, what should I do against this guy? @Yoshi , what do you think I should do? And why are there so many incompetent players on my team?

 

[broskihiggins]

50799252

seems like this all the time. a couple people on the team do well and the rest have 10+ deaths or just basically dont exist all game. Or they seem so new that they build 4 items. This shouldnt ever happen in ascendant IV.

 

[Napman]

oracle 3 queue team has no idea how to counterbuild and play off momentum and just overall unawareness 50802808

 

[Albin]

50807439

duo smurfers. Enjoyable matchmaking, fair and balanced.
Mina and seven.

After further investigation I can confirm seven is cheating.

Mina has 3 game on account seven about 150 ish

Mina https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199735700710

Seven https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199695269913

 

[f1delity666]

50810701
50812570

 

[Back Surpriser]

Not an individual match but I have been stomping my games with around a 75ish winrate (60 games, I think, are enough of a sample size). The ranks are a division above mine but I do not rank up consistently and when I lose I generally de-rank. This results in:
- Me ruining peoples matches.
- Unsatisfiying matches
- Me not playing against players of my own skill level and not seeing it.
I cannot believe I am saying this but in this regard League is better.
They skyrocket the smurfs to where they should be and when the account is inevitably sold to some shmuck they put it in losers queue and leave it to die.
This solves smurfs lingering in lower ranks for long and helps regular players get in their respective ranks faster.
Also the Ritualist rank is currently a cesspool of players of differing skill levels, turning the matchmaking into basically russian roulette of which team can get more skilled players.

Edit: My skill rating says I am Archon 1

 

[Token81]

I'm 1500hours in and maximum I reached is Emissary which didn't lasted for long when latest patch arrived because I kept having teammates that were playing the game for the first time. I'm stuck in low elo forever. Ranking up is a BIG FAT JOKE.

Im at the same hours, once you break 1k hours it becomes insanely obvious that YOU have ZERO impact on the outcome of the game. I also got to the top of emissary, then it just forces you to lose infinitely, lets you win one or two, then more forced losses.

Its insanely obvious that the wins/losses are forced. Look at the player tracking stats as well, you can see very clearly the only "algorithm" they have in place, is to force people as close to 50/50 win/loss as possible.

The developers really do not care at all, the game is basically completely worthless at this point, just tons of smurfs. I used to get 1 or 2 out of 5 games that were anyones guess, now i get like literally 1 in 100 games where it feels balanced.

Absolute garbage.

 

[stemipro]

Im at the same hours, once you break 1k hours it becomes insanely obvious that YOU have ZERO impact on the outcome of the game. I also got to the top of emissary, then it just forces you to lose infinitely, lets you win one or two, then more forced losses.

Its insanely obvious that the wins/losses are forced. Look at the player tracking stats as well, you can see very clearly the only "algorithm" they have in place, is to force people as close to 50/50 win/loss as possible.

The developers really do not care at all, the game is basically completely worthless at this point, just tons of smurfs. I used to get 1 or 2 out of 5 games that were anyones guess, now i get like literally 1 in 100 games where it feels balanced.

Absolute garbage.

Yeah. And if you make a new account with 0 games in Deadlock you'll be put straight into Archon, win 3 matches and you go straight into Oracle.

 

[67Deadlock67]

its the same shit as it was 5 months ago where 80% of the players were in ritualist, but now with even more pathetic smurfs in every game.

Figure this shit out already it's been 2 years and almost every game is dogshit and completely unfun regardless of what side of the win or loss you're on.

 

[Back Surpriser]

Im at the same hours, once you break 1k hours it becomes insanely obvious that YOU have ZERO impact on the outcome of the game. I also got to the top of emissary, then it just forces you to lose infinitely, lets you win one or two, then more forced losses.

Its insanely obvious that the wins/losses are forced. Look at the player tracking stats as well, you can see very clearly the only "algorithm" they have in place, is to force people as close to 50/50 win/loss as possible.

The developers really do not care at all, the game is basically completely worthless at this point, just tons of smurfs. I used to get 1 or 2 out of 5 games that were anyones guess, now i get like literally 1 in 100 games where it feels balanced.

Absolute garbage.

I disagree. I was stuck in Ritualist for a while until I found a character I could determine fights with. Then games turned into stompfests which I have a post about above. However I spent about 60 games between Ritualist and Archon with a currently %76 percent winrate which should NOT happen. People should be put in their respective ranks as soon as possible to lower the percentage of one-sided matches.
Keep in mind that most people here had their souls ripped from their body because of cheaters/smurfs and do not represent the larger playerbase.
PS: Cheaters are generally of lower intellect (have bad positioning, overextention or low map presence) so you can shut them down by avoiding them most of the match, farming and/or with curse if the game goes long enough.

 

[gerbertlarper]

50696018

Please get this warden out of the queues just watch lane phase he is blatantly aim botting, but he loses every game because after lane he doesn't understand what to do. Worst player I have ever seen.

 

[True_Q]

Match ID: 50828559



Warden, Billy, and Pocket were a trio and possibly smurfing, Bebop is in Arcanist. 72k soul lead with 40 more kills than the us, almost double total damage. Warden and Billy both died once. Me and the other people on my team were not prepared to play against a team like this at all.

2nd time as Wraith and I'd rather have longer queue times than go up against that. I just want matches that are equal to my skill level, I really don't like that it seems as though the game will pull in one or two vastly superior players to raise a low team up. I also don't think a trio should go into a game with other solos.

 

[mlcdbrry]

50830504 and this game isn't even over with lmfao

 

[omgitzface]

50839550 team of actual bots, no way humans could be this useless. They actually stopped pushing when we had all 6 dead...they pretty much ran in circles for 50 minutes straight, wasting my time. game actually made me retarded

 

[nothingplease]

Played a Phantom V average lobby yesterday with a Haze that had to read on Vyper Lethal Venom ability to know what it did after I asked him why he went close to Vyper with ~20-25% HP and died. But you know, third highest tier out of 11 and you don't even know abilities seems fair.

 

[kikyo]

pack it up this game is cooked

 

[jporter917]

pack it up this game is cooked

At this rate, 100% YUP.

They'll launch the game, with the current matchmaking system, and paster it all over stream and gaming siting. Pay to have a bunch of articles written about it. The player count will skyrocket to over 200-250k+, this will "balance" matchmaking for about 3-5 weeks.

Once the novelty wears off and all the "trying a new thing/common" players stop playing it will quickly become completely hell. About another 3-4 weeks. Everyone still playing will start to complain more and more. By the start of month 3, maybe 4, the player base will start to die rapidly and within 6 months we will be right back to this exact moment of matchmaking.

Where every match has 1-4 smurfs and team stacks (plus actual cheaters, because this issue will never actually get solved)

Within 12 months of launch everyone is forget about this game (but die-hards) unless there is some sort of huge update which stream will paster all over the main page and gaming sites to try to generate returning and new players.

Then it will be like 40-60k player base with barely 15-25k active players a week, with random content updates pushing it to maybe 80-100k for a week or two. And each fall off from content updates will lower the active players by 3-5k until there is only a community of sweats, smurfs and cheaters.

Cheers. You've built a literally dead game, and a majority of your player base understands this.

 

[Ragnaman]

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This game is literally turning me into a paranoid schizoid, I see smurfs and cheaters everywhere, I will need mental help.
Games are so un-enjoyable I've started to only play PvE and ignore the PvP aspect, i just bumrush objectives and itemise for speed/escape, fuck cheaters and smurfs in ass so damn much, I wont give them a single second of attention.