Bad Matchmaking Thread

I WAS COMM BANNED for harassing a self-admitted eternus 4 smurf in an arcanist game, but HE CONTINUES TO PLAY WITH NO PUNISHMENT. This game and its moderation is a complete joke.

There's thousands of smurfs exactly like this playing every day. Valve doesn't moderate their games. They do not care.

Last time i see a lot of players with VAC and other bans in steam, they got hidden profile or 40+ hours in game, and what you think? yep, they are playing with aimbot, even dont hide it. Why anti-cheat dont work?
Why for example devs cant pay 5-10 dollars to buy a cheat and look into his code to find what the problem and ban this cheaters? Where is frog button that i saw like half year ago? its like game dont have anti-cheat at all. And its not skill issue or smurf, it 100% cheater, because who can for 1 sec make 50 stacks haze passive? or shiv auto aiming knifes?

Valve does not care. They don't punish cheaters or smurfs. You either accept that most matches will have a smurf or cheater, or you stop playing.
 
After the mini patch, the MM has significantly worsened. This is the first match I've played with this update, and I found a super angry, over-the-top Haze and a Shiv who finished the match with a score of 40-9, while his teammates, who were definitely premade, all went down.

I reported the Shiv, but I already know you won't do anything.
PS. I invite you to read all the logs.

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Steam profile of shiv cheater
1 game only with friend for boosting :)
 

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Haze started being toxic and abusive towards me because they figured out I wasn't a man, decided to go afk-farm the entire game, didn't help when I was being killed in front of them even if they had cooldowns on their dagger and what not. Not only that but the game was just an untter, miserable stomp where our team had less than 10 kills and enemy team closer to 40. These types of games shouldn't even exist. :(
 
Last time i see a lot of players with VAC and other bans in steam, they got hidden profile or 40+ hours in game, and what you think? yep, they are playing with aimbot, even dont hide it. Why anti-cheat dont work?
Why for example devs cant pay 5-10 dollars to buy a cheat and look into his code to find what the problem and ban this cheaters? Where is frog button that i saw like half year ago? its like game dont have anti-cheat at all. And its not skill issue or smurf, it 100% cheater, because who can for 1 sec make 50 stacks haze passive? or shiv auto aiming knifes?
Unfortunately, you do not want cheaters to be aware that their tools are even detectable. You want to probe the den of cheaters not burn it. Cheaters can spoof or buy alts in minutes. Either you develop AI that detects cheater patterns or you dont even start.
 
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they dont even hide it any more

"i have this alt for counterstrike" lame ass bullshit smurfspeak, probably profile is shared on a round-robin basis across steam profile buyers/sellers, ffs.

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^ VALVE THIS SHIT IS RUINING YOUR ACTUALLY GOOD GAME ^
 
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Another cheater on Haze. Aimbot on head.
22% of crit damage on seekers rank - wow, just wow, Yoshi, can you believe it?
When you fix your stupid anti-cheat?
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My Wraith said she only has 3 hours in the game, while the Vindicta with 700 hours played terribly, 18 deaths in 26 minutes. I outperformed my team in every metric without putting in much effort, not because I did a lot, but because they did nothing. The enemy team played at my level, which I cannot say about my team.
 
first game back, still ongoing and look at paige, throwing down mid. thank you @Yoshi. 0/11 paige going down mid first 8 mins. what a fun game
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Edit: post game results and he went 0/23 just straight fighting enemies not caring about a single thing and he laughed at everyone saying he will keep doing this. this is asscendant lobby how the fuck do i find an idiot like Tom1769183940345.png
 
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Please tell me how the actual F you havn't nerfed Victor yet? He's literally unkillable and can run at you with 0 risk. He's more than 2% higher win rate than all other champs and he's by far the least fun hero to play against. Oh and it's even worse in lower ranks. There is one build and it wins almost 60% of the time.

Build stuns? Doesn't matter because he can't die!
Build resist? Well doesn't matter because he's not gonna die and out dps you!
Build curse? He literally doesn't care because when he revives he's gonna kill you!
Build move speed? Doesn't matter! His ability still makes him faster than you!
Oh, and he can build both warp stone AND Etheral shift!
Don't forget healing tempo thou! just to make sure he can't die ever!

For the love of god, if you're not planning on actually fixing matchmaking, do something about the balancing.

I can guarantee that if you had a ban system in place, Victor would be 100% perma banned every single game
 
First cheater in this patch, the improved anti cheat not working.
Vindicta aim and wallhacking.

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They didn't actually do anything with cheating. They just threw that at the end of the update splash page to fill space and make it look like "they did something". Seriously doubt they did anything at all with smurfs and cheating. They are banking on a huge flood of players when the game becomes open that it will be more spread out hoping no one will notice it anymore. @Yoshi
 
1769211732681.pngOh boy! I can't wait to try out the new update.


Ah, here are your teammates, sir. Seriously this is a half Phantom/half Ascendant lobby and this is the quality of MM I'm getting when people are playing the game again?

TWENTY-SEVEN deaths and TWO kills between two people and SUB 1k obj damage over 38 minutes.

Giving the team a kick vote option to replace with bots would be better at this point.
 
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Please tell me how the actual F you havn't nerfed Victor yet? He's literally unkillable and can run at you with 0 risk. He's more than 2% higher win rate than all other champs and he's by far the least fun hero to play against. Oh and it's even worse in lower ranks. There is one build and it wins almost 60% of the time.

Build stuns? Doesn't matter because he can't die!
Build resist? Well doesn't matter because he's not gonna die and out dps you!
Build curse? He literally doesn't care because when he revives he's gonna kill you!
Build move speed? Doesn't matter! His ability still makes him faster than you!
Oh, and he can build both warp stone AND Etheral shift!
Don't forget healing tempo thou! just to make sure he can't die ever!

For the love of god, if you're not planning on actually fixing matchmaking, do something about the balancing.

I can guarantee that if you had a ban system in place, Victor would be 100% perma banned every single game
The character needs to have diminishing returns when using Infuser. Victor being allowed to use Infuser is on the same level of piss poor balancing as allowing Drifter to use Lightning Scroll (he can't).
 
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