Am I the only one that likes the new QM rules?

I like most of the changes. The wait time does get a little annoying trying to play a role with high que. Though it does mean I could que* into other roles faster.

It’d be cooler if I didn’t land in multiple games as a 4 healer team. I understand the rules need to be bent at times to get in games, but…really? Ana, Alex, Lili and Stukov do not make a good team. Our one dps of Kerrigan couldn’t hold up, especially against Nazeebo, Lucio, Fenix, Muradin, and Azmo.

All it does is turtle the match, our healing will never sustain against an actual comp. Can we get a rule implemented to the “extended search” to limit a team to no more than 3 supports? Other than that the queues have been better and I don’t mind waiting a couple of minutes for a more competent match. We will see how this goes with their structure update though.

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I was liking it but I notice teams are not getting good comps what’s the point if both teams are not treated equally?
My group had a normal comp vs a team with 2 healers and a butcher as their only front line…wut?

I think the new QM is a mixed bag… Its worth waiting a tinsy bit longer to have a tank/support in group… but then what happens is it “expands parameters” still takes 10 mins and finds a group with a warrior and one without.

This pretty cool, you are lucky :slight_smile:
I personally don’t like the support role and i wouldn’t like to tanking either, but i don’t have problem with this at all, because i don’t use the pvp part of this game. I said what i read on this forum.
Who mentioned he/she regular player, is mostly against this, because it’s a wake up or some kind of similar stuff this game to them.
Hardcore players have a lot of time, so they can wait…

Maybe others have mentioned this, but it would be great to give us a slider to adjust the mm parameters. If you just want to play quickly and don’t care who you get matched with you could go all the way to one end, and if you want the best match possible and are willing to wait as long as it takes you would put it to the other extreme. That way we indicate to the matchmaker what is more important to us: time or quality.
Also, people need to remember that only some of the players are online at a given time, and of those only some are queued for qm at that moment. So there is a limited pool from which to pick players. Sometimes there is just not very good matchups available at that exact moment.

I suppose my one gripe about it is that the “Expanding Quick Match Search” thing seems to happen way too soon. I even queued with Ana recently, who had a bonus xp flag, and it immediately expanded the search. Dafuq was that?

All I’ve gotten is double tank every match. Except for one where I had no tank and no healer. While the other team had both.

I’m loving it too, I just wish people would stop throwing a fit about having to wait 3 minutes in a queue.

These changes are markedly better than what we had before, and matchmaking feels so much more fair now.

Of course, there are still lopsided games from time to time, but it’s not nearly anything like it was.

Love the new version of QM…I play mostly support or spec (sad to see this going out the window) and when there’s a tank, it makes my job a lot easier. I don’t mind the queue times either, I can alt+tab just fine and do other things on my non-potato computer :smiley:

When it works as intended, I like it more. I’m fine with waiting 5-10 minutes for a game. I’ll just minimize and watch youtube while I wait.

But what I don’t like is having to sit in the game watching for “Expanding QM Search” so I can leave the queue and resign up for over 10 minute waits.

Delete “Expanding QM Search” and I’ll be happy. Just make a new game mode if there’s that many people complaining about the wait time.

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Depends which type of “Ranged Assassin” I’m playing.

When I play a Mage, I like new QM matchmaking.
When I play a Ranger, I hate it even more than I used to.

Rangers, Mages, and several former Specialists are now all considered “Ranged Assassins.” For some reason, MMing seems to keep throwing all the Rangers in the match on one team and all the Mages on the other. Since Mages naturally synergize better with other Mages and than Rangers do with other Rangers, this gives the Mage-heavy team a huge advantage.

This is basically the Assassins vs. Specialists issue all over again.

Personally, if it were up to me, I’d take MMing back to before Alan Dabiri ruined it. That was back when wait times were only 30 seconds to 2 minutes and you could usually expect to enjoy your game whether you won or lost. You still had that “Wild West” feel (like 5v5 Assassins) the devs were talking about wanting to keep, but these outright stomps were the exception, not the norm.

It is better, but now Blizzard is kowtowing to the players who were whinging about wanting their fast queues back.

The matchmaker expands after 30 seconds now. =/