my skill rank just doubled after this update
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raulspam96
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Went from alchemist 1 to emissary 1 In one game.
ArteMooNik
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Its new rank badges update. Anounced in discord, now implemented. The base mmr is still the same, only visuals. 
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teddyras
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uh, the quality of player went up tremendously. like the game before this I had a bebop grief and stop playing over his 1 death in lane while a 7 was healing riting in shop at below half, to the next two archon matches suddenly everyone was trying, no bad mouthing, people were giving each other tips and shit, like I'm confused.
it's clearly not just people have been rebalanced, like the skill level is there, the toxic level went down a shitload. this feels like a bug. I would expect some people in there to be in my situation and thrown the fuck off, but like I'm confused. I don't feel super out of my depth, but like it's fucking jarring having to change up all my strategies on the fly cause things that worked on dipshits in green do not work on people in purple.
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It's entirely your perception that the quality of player went up one game to the next, because the MMR did not change at all. Maybe people are locking in more because they seen their rank update, and people can be toxic or helpful in low, mid and high MMR - it doesn't really mean anything.
It's very clearly not a bug, as per the discord post from yoshi above
keremmaygunn
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same for me i was seeker 2 earlier and arcanist star now
teddyras
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it's not my perception. people ignored me on mo&krill and went for the backliners. in the shit tier, people would attack me and get blown up by the hazes and minas. now in purple: the guy I ult dies, the rest dont pay attention to me unless the dps heroes are dead. teams were taking cover in lane instead of just kinda running at each other, people were positioning well, like it was night and day not just play wise, but attitude wise.
also reading the post, they based this on percentiles, so I was secretly goated and actually stuck in a lower tier. you made up the same mmr thing, the discord post does not mention that at all. my stats on my heroes were at a level of archon player apparently according to valve, so like, cool I guess.
Perplexed
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It feels like they undecayed the accounts of people who took a break. I only played on game but my team was super locked in and actually knew what was going on which I haven't experienced in a single game since I came back to deadlock 4 months ago and was dropped all the way down to Alchemist
People are clearly missing the idea of this update. You were not shoved into a skill level you weren't at before.
The issue was that your hidden MMR that's being used for matchmaking was not the same as the rank you saw on your profile or after games. There was clearly a large disjoint to the point where people were in ranks significantly lower than what the matchmaking was suggesting them to be in.
You've always been in the rank you are now, skillwise, you just didn't know it until now.
If it were true that you're now being matched against better players more appropriate to your skill level (it isn't, and you've misinterpreted the discord post), you should be happy. You should be happy either way. Your MMR is still the same number, say 1000.
You and the 1000 rated players who were in Alc 3, which let's say encapsulated a fixed MMR range of 900 -1100, are now sorted based on percentiles rather than being held back in the fixed MMR ranges that were set by Valve before the influx of players with the 6 heroes patch. All of your badges have been updated as a result to show that you're Archon 5 - that your 1000 MMR represents the top whatever% of players on the curve.
You're playing against the same caliber of players. Most of the players who were Archon 5 have likely been shoved up in accordance with the above. As Yoshi says in the discord post, your skill rating wasn't adjusted - the badges' distributions were simply rebalanced.
No matter what way you slice it, it's not a bug, it's a deliberate update and fix to a system that was put in place temporarily and broke under the sheer volume of new players.
