I finally played some normal games after weeks of street brawl, and the games have been nothing short of extreme misery. Teams are incredibly unbalanced, games are basically over at the 20 minute mark, but go on to be 45+ minute slogs.
Best example: 61904374
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Our 4/14 Apollo only had 58 games played!!! And our 5/15 rem only had 330. I rarely ever see deaths this high in Ascendant lobbies, but I'm not even sure those exist anymore. Every lobby I'm in has people who very clearly should not be playing in Ascendant. Our Rem spent the entire game getting caught out like they've never played a MOBA before.
Or, worse yet, I'm getting smurfs games where they just dominate the entire lobby.
Match ID: 61878660
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The Vindicta here has <200 games, Drifter with <150!! 40k soul difference by the end, extremely unfun game.
No idea what they're doing behind the scenes, but its not working. I'm going back to street brawl until they un-fuck this mess.