Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t want to destroy these games but here I will tell you my ranking experience after 30hrs so far.
As a beginner you aren’t allowed to play ranked until you got at least 50 wins in quick play. There it already starts. I like to play the game against enemies which are on my level but in quick play you will face every rank in the game. So you need a lot of luck to get these 50 wins and it wasn’t a nice experience. So a beginner starts a new game having a not-so-nice experience. Great! I can understand that Blizzard wants me to have some experience before I join the ranked system but this is not how it should be handled.
Let’s continue. Luckily somehow I managed to get my first 50 wins in quick play. Happy to finally play ranked modus as an unranked player I got matched with a lot of players having rank gold, platin and diamond. How I know that? I got blamed for playing bad in their games. So I asked them “what rank is this”. And everyone agreed I don’t belong in here. So this is how I managed to destroy 20 games before I got ranked Bronze 5. Why 20 games? Cause you either need 7 wins or 20 losses to get a new rank. In my case, 20 losses got hit first.
I don’t complain about getting ranked as Bronze 5. I already managed to get up easily to bronze 2 and will continue to climb cause I have a shooter background.
I just wanted to let Blizzard know how bad this experience was so far. Whoever thought this is a great way to get beginners ranked should be fired. Either you guys think a little bit more about my experience and how it could have been better handled or just let me start at Bronze 5.
Do the math. Almost every beginner in Overwatch 2 will destroy 20 games. That’s a lot. And that’s probably the reason why so many people complain about bad matchmaking.
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MMR in this game is flat out horrible. New players start out with at gold 3 (avg rank). Which ruins the game for the golds/plats and the new players who are getting into ranked
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I don’t like how the initial placements are like this. Also, 7 wins should be 5 and 20 losses should be 10.
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The initial placement shouldn’t be handled like this at all. I don’t have a better suggestion but Blizzard should be clever enough to get it done better. Just turn on your brain for 20 minutes.
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The second sentence was meant for in general, not initial placements.
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Just bring back SR. This new system of 7/20 is a joke
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Any chance we can get a developer into this thread?
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Absolutely not. They never interact with their community. Post it on Reddit and you’ll have a better chance.
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nonse!!! “you just need to gitgud” and some other stuff that the blizzard shill employee of the month is gonna post as a responde in this post
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Damn thats bad. They need to understand how bad this experience is as a beginner and many people will quit before they get good in this game.
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Its the same internal ranking system as before (atleast for begineers)
Only real change they made is they heavily relaxed the matchmaker to allow masters and plats to be on the same team
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Yeah I don’t really get what happened. Even now in season 2 half of my games have masters+ players in them. Regardless of whether the ability to climb is based on personal performance, it just doesn’t feel FUN whatsoever. I don’t mind there being a stat variation in who you VS but come on, Masters vs Golds is not a challenge, it’s a one-sided stomping.
They have already acknowledged the experience is miserable for new players. It only took them 3 months…
The sad thing is that even if they manage to improve newcomers’ experience any time soon the damage is already done because many of them have already uninstalled most likely.
How many of those 30 million players they claimed to have after launch are still actively playing?
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Nah, you didn’t destroy anything. It’s not your fault you’re put in those games.
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Yes, the matchmaking needs to be fixed, I’m fed up with the losing streak in ranked on support role, my real elo is high diamond on OW1 and S1 of OW2 (almost master) and with the decai i go down to gold 1 on S2 and with this matchmaking, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to go back to where I was, game after game, my team is silver / gold and the enemy team well balanced with masters, diamonds and the lowest a platinum, this needs to be fixed NOW
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I thought new players are already placed in bronze 5 now. It was in their post about how matchmaking works
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lol i told some of this sheit is gonna be posted brah
just copy SC2 matchmaking and add rank decay once you hit D1
so the ones who want to be at the top need to fight for it and not just rush there and then quit for the season
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Honestly, they should probably add a players MMR in real time to player profiles, and get rid of the 7 win 20 loss thing. The profiles are already hidden behind a block system from non friends, so its not like “everyone” would see it, and it would eliminate questions about where people are ranked. Under the current system, the label “bronze, silver, gold etc…” is just a fake “skin” masking a true number, because the way they are using your MMR, and the way they want you to “climb back to your rank” season after season, makes it a fake skin. The way it works now, is you have diamond players labeled as silver, playing with diamond also labeled as silver, so the games feel much worse for the ranking and drive people insane.
Case in point, less people would complain about “rank” if they simplified the MMR and showed you your score, and you knew if you won a game, up say 5 points, if you lose a game, then say down 5 points etc… super simple. Then Blizzard can concentrate thier time, money and energy fixing matchmaking so people of similar rank, are qued together (which they are supposedly attempting to fix).
To further this point, at the end of a season, either start everyone back at bronze 5 (bad idea and a long climb back up), or only minimally degrade each MMR to round it to the 100s in the category they are in (end of season your 1750, then new season your 1700) etc… Master and Grand Master dont want to be placed with silvers or golds, and silver and golds dont want to see themself as bronze. everyone wants to stick in or around their level grouping, even if there is still a little bit of a climb or progression.
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Don’t worry about it OP, this game always was pile of trash for beginners. As you can’t even have someone pick same hero to show you the ropes.
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