Explain to me how this game gets put together? In the entire first round, not a single one of us got a kill. Nothing. 0 down the board. I hit tab, did the actual top right say it’s Silver 5 and Plat 1 range? Is that a real life thing?
I played tank. I missed a ton of hooks. Ok, then why am I plat 1 on one account, silver on another, and gold 3 on another?? I cannot “carry” after playing for hours for almost a decade.
What is this game?? I’ve never seen anything like it in 30+ years of online gaming.
Not enough Tank players, so Tanks get matched across really wide ELOs. Which then somewhat randomly causes wins and losses for people, which adds a lot of “noise” into the system.
Without watching it probably a combination of the map not matching hero choices, poor teamwork and misplays.
If you want to climb you need to not focus on individual games but instead put your effort into improving your own play. Yes, you will be stomped. Yes, you will be match with a team of potatoes. Yes, it’s enraging. Improve and assuming you deserve it and are getting more value that your counterparts on the other team you’ll gradually climb.
The irony is that despite tanks feeling less impactful than they used to, A noticably bad tank player relative to your opponent makes a game unwinable. Unless your team plays sojourn +tracer+kiriko and the enemy does not. Then, you’ve got a decent chance to win if equitable in skill
I would be happy to accept that except I’ve played when it was 2 tanks. I’ve also played before role lock and you were able to flex play.
A person should not have to play 2 ranks higher just to win a game. That’s a fundamental issue in the game. You should not have to hit every single cool down with perfect precision just to win a comp game. That’s a GLARING issue at a bigger problem.
In the nicest way until you accept that you need to be the best person in the lobby you will not climb. You need to be good enough to on average have a disproportionate impact on the games outcome.
This is the same reason I do not play fighting games. The game only wants you to play perfect to win and abuse any broken mechanics you can find.
I’m not saying I should be ranked 200 ranks higher,but you need to make a balanced game where everyone is equal footing. If I could land every single perfect cooldown, I wouldn’t be low elo.
OW’s MMR calculation is really bad. All the MM is doing is putting players together, but the MMR driving your ranking is really bad. It feels like EBMM with it’s streaks, but people will come out of the woodwork to say its not. As though corporations don’t constantly lie about their doings. It would have been nice if a whistleblower came out from the engineers that were let go. It’s cool though Rivals has it’s boot on OW’s neck with only the alpha. The full game plus blizzard’s already crappy balance, servers, and other changes will kill it.
It’s best not to not care about your current rank. There’s too many factors that can affect your outcome and it’s designed to be addictive (you gave big dopamine rush to enemy team that game)
Bro I don’t care about my “current rank” I care about a game where after the entire 1st round it’s 0 kills down the board, including me. How does it get to be this way? Just fill people in as quick as possible so the casino keeps people playing and hopefully sells skins??
i think they also lie about the rank range, i remember another person on the forums saying how his wife and his screen showed two different rank ranges in the same match
They’d need to hard nerf the Tank role losing at least 20% of the role by default, and then get 100% more Tank players. Just to break even with the matchmaking/queue quality they got now.
And you’re telling me, not only are they going to get 120% of what we got now, that they are going to get substantially more than that, like 200% more Tank players.
I mean, I just saw a silver player in my Master lobby, explain that one.
Not to mention they instalocked Mercy, and then would not get off the tank to heal or boost anyone else. Just a hard L and move on moment, because it’s just not worth getting upset over anymore.
I’m not defending the matchmaker but in that situation that is all you can really ask of a silver player. At least it’s better than if you had a silver tank. Maybe they forgot to put a silver on the enemy team to make it “fair”. That would still be incredibly stupid matchmaking of course, but better than nothing.
Also why would they do that? Were you in a “wide group”? Because if not that should no longer happen according to their last patch.
I have never experienced worse match making in any game I have ever played more than OW. There is not words to describe how bad it is. Every single time I play comp in this game it feels like I was intentionally placed on a bad team and intentionally matched against a good team. I’m not even joking. It really does feel that bad.