Bad Matchmaking Thread

It looks like the game tried to make a fair MM, but the smurf ruined it. Take a look on Drifter
 

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In this case the matchmaking was purely comp diff. One team had a full set of characters who ALL had a form or multiple forms of hard CC vs a team with absolutely no CC. Incredibly unbalanced. 66786211
 
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Why the hell am I Emissary/Ritualist when I'm still new and learning the game?

I am ruining games for my teammates because I am still new and trying heroes/builds for the first time. The experience levels my teammates expect of me is extremely high and the individual skill levels of people in these ranks is completely random with no consistency whatsoever. There is no shot this is the intended effect of the skill rating system because it may as well not exist at all.

Anytime I happen to win because a smurf on my team stomps I get a huge boost in rating, but I don't go down in rating anywhere near as fast when I frequently lose. I keep climbing even though I'm terrible. Losing matches barely loses any rating but wins are massive jumps. WHY??

PLEASE fix the system so we can play against people of similar skill and experience!
 
66759553
66796417

Why the hell am I Emissary/Ritualist when I'm still new and learning the game?

I am ruining games for my teammates because I am still new and trying heroes/builds for the first time. The experience levels my teammates expect of me is extremely high and the individual skill levels of people in these ranks is completely random with no consistency whatsoever. There is no shot this is the intended effect of the skill rating system because it may as well not exist at all.

Anytime I happen to win because a smurf on my team stomps I get a huge boost in rating, but I don't go down in rating anywhere near as fast when I frequently lose. I keep climbing even though I'm terrible. Losing matches barely loses any rating but wins are massive jumps. WHY??

PLEASE fix the system so we can play against people of similar skill and experience!
THIS! back around the time OGNB dropped I was Seeker rank. fast forward to now, and while I am better than I was before, the constant rank changes bumped me all the way to Ritualist. Now especially with matchmaking where I can get an Oracle Abrams soloing our entire team, it’s really hard to commit up to an hour of my time to a single match where I’m likely to end up feeling miserable at the end of it.
 
66837360 - Bad ping, uneven teams, extreme skill gaps, unusual game time for rank. Epitome of bad match. Recent update has severely washed match quality again.

Updates on removing this thread? Page 608 and 2 years of all of 4 updates which have all been unrelated to how MMR is scored or how the MM works; still seems to be a spit in players face to not have any changes or public discussion about this topic.
 
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This is some of the most abysmal character MM I have seen so far following the recent patch.


Our team had no chance in hell solely by way of the game not having an actual draft system in place.
It is absurd this sort of character MM is even allowed.
 
66837360 - Bad ping, uneven teams, extreme skill gaps, unusual game time for rank. Epitome of bad match. Recent update has severely washed match quality again.

Updates on removing this thread? Page 608 and 2 years of all of 4 updates which have all been unrelated to how MMR is scored or how the MM works; still seems to be a spit in players face to not have any changes or public discussion about this topic.
I genuinely don't believe they'll be able to fix anything and atp they probably think everything is fine since the community has always made excuses for the matchmaking in this game. "oh it's not released" "it's invite only so they're not focusing on that" (when the game was basically on the cusp of doing a bowel movement before its death) "Not that many people are playing it so they can't improve it" and now we're on "too many people play so it's hard to improve it".
 
i just checked and it's been 24 - 1 games postive KD whats wrong @Yoshi ? u gonna take me out of the punishment server or not? it's only been like this since I started criticizing valve. seems like a class action lawsuit to me. would love to see those logs
 
This game is so frustrating i just wanna derank cause EVERY single game is a curb stomp from one team at this point there is never fair fights due to the matchmaker being the worst in any game games are ALWAYS one sided either my team is 100k ahead and enemy team are incompetent or its my team i havent had a fair game since the big patch
 
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Unfair gaming matchmaking, such as systems designed to manipulate player win rates, push in-game purchases, or create unbalanced matches, is increasingly coming under scrutiny in Australia, primarily through the lens of
Australian Consumer Law (ACL). While no specific law explicitly defines "unfair matchmaking" in video games, multiple legal avenues may apply to such practices.
 
i just checked and it's been 24 - 1 games postive KD whats wrong @Yoshi ? u gonna take me out of the punishment server or not? it's only been like this since I started criticizing valve. seems like a class action lawsuit to me. would love to see those logs

AI Overview



Unfair gaming matchmaking, such as systems designed to manipulate player win rates, push in-game purchases, or create unbalanced matches, is increasingly coming under scrutiny in Australia, primarily through the lens of
Australian Consumer Law (ACL). While no specific law explicitly defines "unfair matchmaking" in video games, multiple legal avenues may apply to such practices.
 
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Three players accounting for a combined 9-37 K/D in under 19 minutes. This is far beyond "having a bad game" when the MM is placing Ritualist players into Ascendant lobbies.

The MM in this game is downright embarrassing and the dev team should be ashamed.
 
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