I lost 15 games including 2 disconnections (on support) due to connection yesterday.
Only went from gold 3 → gold 5 (Thought my MMR was done for).
Logged on little bit later after my bans were over , went on a huge streak , and went from Gold 5 → Gold 3 → Gold 1.
Got stuck at Gold 1 for 2 updates and ranked up to Plat 4.
That was all within 24 hours, if you cant climb its probably because you’re losing too many games or you’re just at the rank you belong I’m sorry.
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I agree with AUDIO. In OW1 was elo hell but now i dont see this yet
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Disagree. If someone is losing too many games to rank up but they belong at a higher rank there is obviously other factors at play. ie. matchmaking. I just went into a game where we got slaughtered and people were asking about ranks. Our tank was Silver 4 and theirs was plat 4 - so much for matchmaking to role. There were other mismatches too but no need to go any further. Matchmaking is broken. Period. I’ve seen what I described above time and time again. You prob got lucky and had a string of balanced matchmaking and/or your team was the op side.
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Reed more about ranks. Ranks will become clearer from Season 4
Read it all. Thanks.
this is true too a very small degree.
in theory a person should be ranked up to their “proper” rank quickly but with current matchmaking this takes forever in some cases.
its not that the person that belongs higher wont get to the proper rank, its that they need to play enough matches to beat the rng.
you have to play more matches. for someone that plays very little they probably will never reach the proper rank. but those that grind it will get to it eventually.
if someone tilts easily they’ll derank. if someone refuses to play the best hero to carry, they’ll derank.
its harder to climb but its not impossible.
That’s YOUR problem, you’re checking ranks ,reading chat in game ,and just generally coping your way through the game.
When I set up my account I turned off all text and voice comms.
(Nothing productive gets said in VC or text chat in metal ranks anyway.)
(Think of the dumbest people you know IRL, and just imagine how many of those same types of people are playing OW2. )
I don’t check ranks because I already know there will be disparities (common sense)
Until you maximize the things you can control like your (skill and attitude), while minimizing the things you can’t like (your teammates, the matchmaker or toxicity.)
You will be perpetually stuck.
Saying you can’t climb because the matchmaking is broken ,while there are 100’s of thousands of other people who are climbing?
That’s like saying you can’t get a job because NO ONE is hiring.
when the simple fact is either you lack motivation, skill , or mental stability it requires to climb out of the lowest ranks in the game.
Most people (like myself) have never been high ranked or particularly skillful in any other game, but want that to be the case with OW2, and that’s just not how it works.
YOU HAVE TO GRIND ,IF YOU DONT ENJOY THE GRIND OR THE GAME IS BAD DONT PLAY IT. SIMPLE.
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I can’t do it this season. I was Silver 1 on support last season. it keeps kicking me back to bronze 4. Game is trash.
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I just won 5 games lost 2 and my rank went down 1…
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every season they say the next season will be better, we promise
every season is not better, possibly worse
the players have lost confidence and rightly so
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I used to have the same thought process.
A Rank Update does not mean a guaranteed Rank Up.
If it’s discouraging that you deranked ,and you can’t take it anymore by all means give up.
Me personally? I would queue up again, and win another 5-15 until I got my proper rank/goal.
It took me 101 games from unranked to Plat 4 with a 46/55 W/L so keep in mind I’m not even winning a majority of my games.
Bro. you went off on some rant. Did I once say I was stuck? that I can’t climb? Nope. I said matchmaking is broken and gave an example. Due to this, many people are having a hard time ranking up and I know this from, yes, communicating! Your comment about nothing productive getting said in metal ranks VC is straight up false and is either very elitist of you if you are higher than metal ranks or just your experience because you don’t incite any productive conversation.
So you think that me peeping profiles is coping now? LOL ok, I’m not even going to touch this comment because it is ridiculous.
Lastly, your comment about 1000’s of people climbing. Look, it’s not impossible to climb. With the law of averages, if you belong in a better rank you will eventually get there. The point is bro, and I think this has gone way over your head, is that it’s taking far too many matches to get there. That’s fine for people like me who have played 200 matches already this season, but that’s not how it should be for others. I won’t post anymore in this thread because you and I will clearly not see eye to eye, but I felt your comment deserved a response to that others reading get a better understanding of the real issues at hand.
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Feels like it’s impossible though.
The feeling of progression is pretty much nonexistent with this system.
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You’re totally right, until you lose this mentality and learn to say “GG go next” we won’t be able to come to an understanding.
100+ games and it still keeps me in bronze 4. I’ve also maintained over 50% wins this whole time. I quit. I was Silver 1 las season. Something is wrong.
Yeah, there is no sense of progression. I already got the golden weapons for my mains. It wants me in bronze 4 for whatever reason. I play with morons and feel like a smurf. I’m sick of hard carrying with Lucio with no results. They’ve given me no reason to play the game.
Another paid post by blizzard
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Dude you just reported the loser queue / win queue.
I can 100% confirm you didn’t really earn that winstreak just like the loss streak. Matches are predetermined in 80% of the games. It’s the 20% that are not rigged that make you climb.
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I’ve always played Role Queue. I switched to Open Queue, where the matchmaker wasn’t quite sure what to do with me, and I shot straight up the ranks to Plat 1. Was about 20 games over .500
Since then?
Nothing but horrible games with toxic players, leavers, throwers. And low and behold… I’m now just 7 games over .500 and this WILL continue until I’m exactly 50%. Exactly 50%, I guarantee it.
It has nothing to do with “I can’t hang” and everything to do with the switch being flipped and the matchmaker expecting me to carry every single game. Even the role queue games at lower ranks are harder now, JUST because my overall win rate was high.
This should be criminal. Your win rate should have NOTHING to do with the matchmaker.
This game is rigged, fake, and looking to force people to 50% if it can, no matter the cost.
If they kept on giving me halfway decent teammates, I would have continued on climbing. The games to get to Plat 1 were not that hard. Now I can’t win a game no matter what, and that’s 100% thanks to the matchmaker.
And there are Top 500’s saying the same. Look up Greed. Who can dominate Top 500 on his main account, but is in some sort of loser’s queue where the teammates are SO bad that he can’t even win a Master’s game. To him, Masters should be a joke, btw.
The matchmaker is doing exactly what Blizz wants. They WANT people to feel screwed over, so they keep coming back and chasing that FAKE RANK Blizz shows them.
There should be a class-action lawsuit against Blizz for trying to claim this is a competitive game.
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And you think in the span of 24 hours, you went from almost silver to plat? Or did the game just put you in unwinnable games and then punished you for losing them?
What is OP smoking.
Copy paste information from the countless other posts echoing the same white knight blah blah.
Yes climbing is possible. But so is fallling…the issue is mmr and how it affects the climbing in a way that is unenjoyable.
I look at ranks to get information about the players. Higher rank players can be relied on for certain tasks and lower, the opposite.
This information is a useful tool in the middle of a fight.