Bad Matchmaking Thread
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I was placed into Oracle VI despite not playing for a year (rank didn't even exist back then and I only put in 15 hours). Every match since has been a horrific stomp because my team is playing 4v5. To be honest, I will not be playing Deadlock anymore until this is resolved, because I am just ruining other people's experience by playing. I hope this is fixed before full release, thanks.
TheMrKaramel18
Member
31.01.2026 - matchmaking still shit
jkonttilaa2
New member
Infernus AIMBOT 100%
53863921
Not the first game countering aimbotter.
53863921
Not the first game countering aimbotter.
Djaggernaut
New member
53872396
Two fresh accounts: Abrams and Seven
Hackers or smurfs
Two fresh accounts: Abrams and Seven
Hackers or smurfs
Domineeriv
Active member
Heya! I was the REM this match, on match ID 53878896
I 100% can confirm this, I was spectating them while attached to them and they had 100% some type of aimbot/spinbot going on. Reported them via in-game as well, but very unfortunate to get them in this high of a lobby.
View attachment Deadlock - 2026-01-31 7-45-37 PM.mp4
Match id: 53840928
I don't want to blame the loss, but pay attention to Graves, Mo&Krill and infernus. And then on Haze.
In general, it seems to me that because of the high KDA, they give you weaker players in the team. If that's really how it works, then it's a pretty big hindrance to support players... Of course, you can also win on support with weak allies, but it's more difficult than playing on "carry" characters with weak allies.
Below is the photo and the ID of the game that was before the one shown in 1 photo:
This game was also strange, with significantly weaker opponents.
Match id: 53823429
This is just my subjective opinion, I may be wrong, but most likely the selection really did not work correctly in these games.
upd: Although the second match is more like an average match
I don't want to blame the loss, but pay attention to Graves, Mo&Krill and infernus. And then on Haze.
In general, it seems to me that because of the high KDA, they give you weaker players in the team. If that's really how it works, then it's a pretty big hindrance to support players... Of course, you can also win on support with weak allies, but it's more difficult than playing on "carry" characters with weak allies.
Below is the photo and the ID of the game that was before the one shown in 1 photo:
This game was also strange, with significantly weaker opponents.
Match id: 53823429
This is just my subjective opinion, I may be wrong, but most likely the selection really did not work correctly in these games.
upd: Although the second match is more like an average match
loreanxavier
New member
53885489 Match ID
THIS IS RIDICILOUS. These guys are NOT PLAYING the game.
All the enemy is dead, they stare at the base. THEY DO NOTHING AT ALL. I myself was the only one pushing to the shrine. This is literally so bad. Griefing at its max.
THIS IS RIDICILOUS. These guys are NOT PLAYING the game.
All the enemy is dead, they stare at the base. THEY DO NOTHING AT ALL. I myself was the only one pushing to the shrine. This is literally so bad. Griefing at its max.
OdinVertbotenTV
Member
Match: 53906773
RU Level 1 Steam account rage hacking. FUN STUFF.
Russian account playing on NA East servers and rage hacking on Talon. How can the anti-cheat not detect when ALMOST HALF of a player's damage is headshot crits?
RU Level 1 Steam account rage hacking. FUN STUFF.
Russian account playing on NA East servers and rage hacking on Talon. How can the anti-cheat not detect when ALMOST HALF of a player's damage is headshot crits?
ToastUnderABox
New member
Match id: 53923938
Our Seven was prolly an initiate or no rank playing in Archon 3 game, bro is genuinely clueless. Just sad tbh
Our Seven was prolly an initiate or no rank playing in Archon 3 game, bro is genuinely clueless. Just sad tbh
dewitt
New member
wow I'd like to play Deadlock my favourite game!!
first game: 53912110
cis fresh account haze blatantly smurfing and admitting to this in chat. such a great experience!
second game: 53926559
our lash feeds 4 kills and leaves the game, everyone DCs as enemy team trashtalks us!
wow I'm having such a great time! i love tanking my main hero winrate!!
given that dota 2 and CS exist for 10+ years at this point and there's been enough time to address the CORE element of any multiplayer game, the matchmaker, i'm not optimistic about this. i wish these games could be retroactively de-scored so that players who already wasted 20-40m of their time could at least get rating OR their hero WR% back
but alas. i've already said the line that makes all this irrelevant. "it's my favourite game". deadlock already is better than 90% games on the market, and you *will* crawl back to get dumpstered by cis smurf again and you *will* like it.
valve games are inevitable.
they don't have to fix matchmaking -- you're not going anywhere else anyway.
first game: 53912110
cis fresh account haze blatantly smurfing and admitting to this in chat. such a great experience!
second game: 53926559
our lash feeds 4 kills and leaves the game, everyone DCs as enemy team trashtalks us!
wow I'm having such a great time! i love tanking my main hero winrate!!
given that dota 2 and CS exist for 10+ years at this point and there's been enough time to address the CORE element of any multiplayer game, the matchmaker, i'm not optimistic about this. i wish these games could be retroactively de-scored so that players who already wasted 20-40m of their time could at least get rating OR their hero WR% back
but alas. i've already said the line that makes all this irrelevant. "it's my favourite game". deadlock already is better than 90% games on the market, and you *will* crawl back to get dumpstered by cis smurf again and you *will* like it.
valve games are inevitable.
they don't have to fix matchmaking -- you're not going anywhere else anyway.
oneofthemanydavids
Member
53939464
Clearly inexperienced players against people abusing exploits and obviously smurfing. We killed a single guardian the entire game.
Absolutely classic, Valve.
Clearly inexperienced players against people abusing exploits and obviously smurfing. We killed a single guardian the entire game.
Absolutely classic, Valve.
jmaleck2001
New member
Why is there no surrender button in the game?
This game, unfortunately, is a snowbally mess (even by MOBA standards), since items are so powerful that even relatively small differences in souls lead to power spikes so big that the game becomes one-sided, with little to no catch-up mechanics to try to reign this in. Hero design and counter item design don't help either; when expensive items are necessary to deal with certain heroes, this leads to the already losing team being in an even worse situation: they are forced into certain items that only let them survive, while at the same time being behind on souls, thus by the time they build the item the enemy is so far ahead that there is nothing anyone can do.
So I ask again, why is there no surrender option?
If this is the balancing philosophy, that's fine, but please add a surrender option; it's the second time someone I've tried to introduce to the game has quit because they are forced to remain and play awful matches that are complete stomps with zero chances of turning them around. Pair that with the fact that they can't even play the heroes they want half the time because of this weird pick system, where you aren't allowed to repeat heroes with the enemy team, and it just ends up in an incredibly frustrating experience for new players.
This game, unfortunately, is a snowbally mess (even by MOBA standards), since items are so powerful that even relatively small differences in souls lead to power spikes so big that the game becomes one-sided, with little to no catch-up mechanics to try to reign this in. Hero design and counter item design don't help either; when expensive items are necessary to deal with certain heroes, this leads to the already losing team being in an even worse situation: they are forced into certain items that only let them survive, while at the same time being behind on souls, thus by the time they build the item the enemy is so far ahead that there is nothing anyone can do.
So I ask again, why is there no surrender option?
If this is the balancing philosophy, that's fine, but please add a surrender option; it's the second time someone I've tried to introduce to the game has quit because they are forced to remain and play awful matches that are complete stomps with zero chances of turning them around. Pair that with the fact that they can't even play the heroes they want half the time because of this weird pick system, where you aren't allowed to repeat heroes with the enemy team, and it just ends up in an incredibly frustrating experience for new players.
astupidface12
Member
53980313
Medium players + wraith hacker VS experienced players (ME and TEAM)
We won against hacker, but boii AUTO-PARRY, AUTO-CASTING, AUTO-UNSTOPPABLE ITEM AGAINST CURSE DETECTION. (with aimbot, trigger and map hacking etc...)
PLEASE destroy cheaters in this game
Medium players + wraith hacker VS experienced players (ME and TEAM)
We won against hacker, but boii AUTO-PARRY, AUTO-CASTING, AUTO-UNSTOPPABLE ITEM AGAINST CURSE DETECTION. (with aimbot, trigger and map hacking etc...)
PLEASE destroy cheaters in this game
lag
Member
MatchID: 53996702
Our team is like 4-5 Spirit Glass Cannons. Only person who can maybe frontline is Warden. These players are also way too awful to peel or coordinate so we just get ran over. And somehow the enemy team seems like all competent players and I have brand new players. Nobody is doing anything on the map, everyone is playing extremely passive.
Does this game suffer from the same thing as Dota and just riddled with smurfs? Or is the matchmaking / balancing so awful it makes the game a complete stomp.
Look at their team. Some of the best heroes in the game. A great spread of different type of heroes. All of them knew how to play their hero well everyone on my team like brand new[
