Bad Matchmaking Thread

[Rulostyle1313]

Another match with matchmaking issues and an unfair distribution of heroes. It’s incredibly frustrating to go up against team compositions stacked with top-tier characters whose ultimates can single-handedly win fights—especially when they get fed due to unbalanced lane matchups.

These games suffer from a double failure. First, premade groups coordinate to pick the strongest heroes. Second, the matchmaking system places them against players who neither build nor play in a way that can counter them. At that point, it only takes a couple of buttons for them to wipe an entire teamfight.

To make matters worse, even if you try to pick a hero to avoid certain matchups, you still end up facing them anyway. Every single game I played today, Seven completely dominated.

The game clearly has serious issues with both matchmaking and balance. If a proper hero selection system with bans isn’t implemented in the final version, it’s hard to see this succeeding. Hopefully, that change is coming.

It’s extremely frustrating to lose because of these factors. The game still has the exact same issues it had two months ago, which is why I stopped playing in the first place.


I genuinely love the game, but right now it feels overwhelmingly unbalanced in almost every aspect.

ID: 73471095

 

[rebca]

matchid: 73478842
queued with a party with a variety of skill levels. matched us as arcanist 6 vs ritualist 2. stompy game

 

[LoreKnight]

73485436 Oracle 4 team vs Phantom 3 team
I'm Phantom 6 so that means i'm artificially inflating the Oracle 4 team's overall rating anyway :///

 

[himeholy]

73505040 Dont even have anything to say to this, it should be impossible for non-sentient organisms to be able to play a game, let alone BE IN ORACLE

 

[DrMilkshakeMD]

73515986

Just obviously mismatched games like this where there is a wide skill gap and people who seem to be much lower in rank where they barely understand basic game mechanics. Not in this game specifically, but I have had others like where someone is asking basic questions about macro mechanics and what different items do and these are supposed to be near Emissary games. Also have regularly been high on the scoreboard, trying to be a good teammate and just having a huge losing streak no matter what I do

 

[Footahn]

73523257

 

[BRADLOCK]

73537450

I was WAY ahead of my entire team in terms of skill level. My lanepartner played like he is completely new to the game and the rest of my team was insanely bad as well, while the enemy team absolutely steamrolled us. I was the only one who went positive the entire game. Felt unwinnable from the start.

73564475

It's literally unbearable to play this game at the moment. This game's matchmaking is just horrendous, putting all these obviously new players into lobbies they clearly don't belong in. The Rem and McGinnis in this game have been feeding since the start of the game. The Billy should be in Initiate lobbies and not in Oracle lobbies at all. Just an awful awful experience.

73571074

The Celeste in my game threw the entire game from the start. Clearly shouldn't be in my lobby.

 

[evilpartygirl]

I have a lot of games to report here, I usually write them down if they were horrible and then bulk report. Most of these games have been really bad and I honestly believe its due to my teammates who I think have been boosted. They lack any knowledge of real game mechanincs and its unfair my rank goes down due to them esentially throwing my games.

70024309 mina + apollo threw

70398266 celeste threw apollo threw

72079266 whole team feeding

72089477 whole team fed

72098704 team fed they didn't really know what they were doing, running around clueless and taking random fights i don't think my teammates deserve to be in this rank honestly

72109547 emis 1 my team kept feeding unsure if anyone bought any bullet/spirit res

72143129

72152103

72625281 yellow lane (haze & seven)

72920103

73473994 billy + giest threw

73487198 same duo from the above game threw again

73529993 none of my teammates bought actives to counter....

73537689 haze fed the enemy team then left the game

 

[jackslibido]

73554470

12k difference at 8 min, 30k difference at 15 minutes. What even is that?

 

[GoodGreeny]

73424753
73551641
73556341

@Yoshi good mm, ty
try hard

 

[jackslibido]

73554470

24min game, clearly the teams weren't close to matched.

 

[mr.fox001]

73559174 - Paradox is smurfing

 

[Henry_99]

73562079

How about you fucking nerf Wraith already?! She is such a failed design and should be executed

 

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 73567800
2 reasons this match was miserable.

1: Comp difference; Enemy team having multiple strong heroes with synergy (Billy, Lash, Venator) and generally just were steamrolling us the entire time.
2: Drifter, Haze and Infernus were NOT performing well at all. I played with this drifter before aswell and he had an extemely bad mental where he was almost throwing the game because he was like "omg let them end" even if he had won the lane. He, again, had the same mentality here.

 

[Jjef]

73561317

I'm in Aus and keep getting put into SEA/singapore lobbies on unplayable ping. This has been happening for well over 6 months, I'd much rather wait for an extra 10 minutes+ than get a low-quality high-ping game.

Please for the love of god fix this.

 

[ucme123456]

73568983
I had more damage than four of my teammates combined. I was 4th in the lobby for net worth (souls), and 1st in total damage. Do you guys realize how incredibly demoralizing matches like this are? An experience this tilting makes me not want to touch the game for days. Are you seriously telling me these players are in the same MMR bracket as me?

I know you guys are probably cooking up some big updates right now, but frankly, you need to fix this abysmal matchmaking system ASAP. It blows my mind that a competitive game with around 100,000 concurrent players can somehow manage to have both massively long queue times AND wildly unbalanced matches.

Figuring out a player's skill level in this game really just comes down to Souls Per Minute (SPM) and damage output. If you just take those core metrics and add some weighted value for healing and the damage generated through CC/team utility, you'd pretty much have all you need to accurately gauge a player's actual skill.

 

[k2!]

@Yoshi HOW IS THIS FUN???? I HAD LITERALLY NO CHANCE TO WIN THE GAME. 0.

Match Id: 73569851

Pls, explain.

How can anyone stand a chance when not 1, not 2, 3 people are either afk or feeding the enemy team. And because I use my report feature every single game because of the dogshit matchmaking, MY FKN REPORT FEATURE IS BANNED FOR 1 week. WHY THE FUCK?

You want people to report bad behavior like this fkn venator feeding non stop since the game started, but you also ban them for reporting. Makes no fkn sense!???

Like I said before, this game will die before it's even released, not because of design or gameplay, but because of the god-awful matchmaking algorithm that's put in place.

I'm 100% sure even the free version of any AI tool can code a better matchmaking system.

 

[mr.fox001]

73572890 - Dogshit
Thanks for 6th losing streak

 

[henriquedefreitasserra]

73574969

 

[oneofthemanydavids]

73578744

Brand new players against some of the most obvious smurfs and cheaters I have ever seen.

Great job, guys. Truly.