This is like the 14th season for me playing placements with the same person together. We played the open queue in arcade too. We always ended up ~1000 SR.
Blizzard moved open queue right next to the role queue out from arcade. Since then I cannot group with her on my placements.
My first game in Season 23 Open Queue was in gold, yet I have never been anything else than bronze myself.
For the second game blizzard got it right and I was in bronze again. But still we could not play our placements in group (Unavailable due to your group’s skill rating range).
We were actually sitting right next to each other and we counted back from 3 and queued at the same time(like we did when we played duke3d on IPX network) and we ended up in the same game for the rest of the placements. (sometimes in the same team, sometimes against each other)
So the game wanted us in the same placement games but could not do it in group. Exact same thing happened to us in the current season. It is strange. We both ended up ~800-900 again. So I am pretty sure there is no skill difference. At least not 1000. After the placements we can always play together in a group.
Do you know to fix this issue ? What should we do different in the next season to be able to play the placements together.
If you see “Unavailable due to your group´s skill rating range” message it means that your MMR, hidden rank must be 1000 points from each other.
I would have to see both your profile in the game to tell you more and find possible explenation.
But if the MMR is different why are we getting the same opponent and end up in the same game when we queue at the same time?
ps: i added you as friend so you can check my profile ingame easier
Both get ranked then check
I checked your profile. I dont see a reason there. But since you said that you started first placement in gold, it migt be related to that. Your rank was probably reseted there.
If both of you are ranked in same place now, you should be able to do next placement together. Unless your friend is not higher than you.
The same thing is happening to plat player when trying to play with her gold friend. Only 400SR difference and also on openQ.
This seems like a bug.
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I’ve seen 2 or 3 other threads saying something like this… Perhaps it is a new bug?
Probably. Resetting bronze people rank to gold at the beginning of every season (last 2) must be frustrating for gold players. Most of the time I am at 3-4 endorsement levels, but after the first placement game I got so many reports, it falls back to 3. I have to play like 15-20 games to restore back to 4. Lets hope we raised blizzard’s awareness with the topics we created and they will fix the issue.
With this post? I doubt it. Try posting this issue on the Bug Report forum.
Not just this post. There are multiple topics created with the same issue by different people. I think they know about it. At least I hope so.