this 5 wins and 15L system is awful and it needs to be changed so bad, i’ll win 5 games and lose 2 and STILL DERANK or i’ll just stay the same damn rank when i know i’m performing well, i’ve been deranked from diamond 2 times already because i’ll just get lacking teammates or the enemy team not even being diamond or having a smurf like my last game. Not to mention as well having to go against a tank like mauga and your team literally not knowing what to do when some tank is constantly life stealing. please change this game because holy hell the competitive side of it is AWFUL, i should be placed with players that are on the same MMR or skill level as me not someone who’s in gold and throws after getting diffed on bastion and having 0 game sense what so ever. fix. your. competitive. system. this is hell trying to climb like i used to easily do before
They added a little information text at the bottom to show if you are climbing or about to de-rank. It says the percentage of players you are better than at your rank.
If it says 0% you are the worst at that tier. On your next cycle if you lose more than you win you will drop a tier.
If it says 99% you are the best of that tier. On your next win cycle, you will go up a tier.
If you are DE-ranking after 5-2 then something is broken.
The only way this could happen is the old Matchmaker SR Gain/Loss is still applied.
I’ve gone on win streaks in OW1 and still lost SR due to 1 loss because the Matchmaker gave me a team that was supposed to win and we lost (THROWERS).
It really does feel awful. I went 10-3 today and not even close to ranking up. Before anyone claims I had a loss streak prior, I went 5-2 with no rank up the last session. What a horrible grind. Comp sucks.
Did you see your percentage change? Every Rank update that number should change.
Yeah, it went up, but not by much. I’ve had a bug one season where it wouldn’t change at all. It’s just been way too slow for me since they changed it.
a day after my post and it just gets worse and worse, i’m done trying to climb in this game and just playing in general. the amount of people with dumb ego’s and people trying to derank on purpose is insane, the state of this game is awful period.
The moment they announced the changes to ranked, it was obvious that season 8 would be a bit of a write-off.
But yes, don’t focus on climbing. Just play for fun. Try other modes. If they don’t scratch that itch, then a month playing other games, before seeing what season 9 brings.
The entire system is being reworked. With an MMR reset. This is a throw away season. Hopefully they actually get things right this time. Its only been about 8 years.
It’s a cosmetic overhaul with a soft reset, then some placements.
The systems aren’t being “reworked”.
Yes they are. Theyre implementing a few major things that will 100% change how a lot of games are played. Core matchmaking changes including wide and narrow matches making solo queue a much more balanced thing and forcing those in wide groups to only play other wide groups. This change alone is going to be huge.
Match making isn’t changing. The group restrictions are being loosened, but that’s not the match maker obviously.
Solo queue matches will be just as balanced as they are now.
Those in wide stacks will be matched against wide stacks, true. But stacks are matched against stacks now. So it’s not much of a change, just a refinement.
Well lets hope youre wrong. Cause if they arent reworking it the games dead. Its that simple. I think they know this and I feel like theye may have figured it out. But if they didnt well the games literally dead. They will lose what little streamer support they have and the game will be completely dead.
If anyone was curious or hasnt seen it. heres what the devs said about it at Blizcon www.youtube.com/watch?v=r07mhPY3ZnU&t=1083s
I am going literally off what they’ve said is happening.
The soft reset is a bit of a misdirect. If everyone gets the same reset, then your placements will be with and against the same set of players you play with and against now.
It’ll be interesting to see how it impacts things. But I suspect it’ll be mostly placebo. Getting feedback after every match will keep a few people happy, but what it’ll be displaying is what is happening now, we just don’t see it.
I don’t think they’ll be too concerned, the player base is relatively healthy. It its a bomb, I’m not sure it’ll be a huge drop. If it’s great, it probably won’t lead to a huge increase either.
But yeah, I hope I’m wrong. But nothing they’ve said that’s happening is big enough to have any true impact on matches.
This isnt Activision Blizzard anymore. All they were doing for the last few years is try to increase income on microtransactions. The game and its integrity came second. Now they can actually make the game again. Microsoft isnt looking at 1 or 2 IPs as their cash printing machine that they live or die by.
Trust me this is more than cosmetic. The rank redistribution, narrow/wide matches, an entire new rank, more information as to why a player is ranking up or down. Plus stuff we probably dont know about yet or backend changes well never see. But I can say almost 100% that this is much more than cosmetic or at least thats the plan.
I love your optimism, I’ll give you that. I’m usually a half glass full guy too,.
But the reality is, all these changes were being worked on months before the take over completed. Any Microsoft related changes aren’t likely to filter through untill the second half of 2024 at the earliest.
These things take a lot of time. Unless they wanted to asset strip. That would have been done pretty quickly, so at least they’ve not done that lol
Personally I think MS will be very hands off with overwatch and Blizzard in general.
It’s quite likely.
They’ve hinted at old IPs being given some life. I imagine that work will go to other studios, rather than expanding Blizzard dramatically.
Unless Call of Duty fails… Then there isn’t much need to remove their autonomy.
This is the best advice someone can give with the current state of this game. Stop trying to worry about a cosmetic Rank Icon. Play for fun and try to see what you’re doing is helping or hurting your team. Most players have turned comp into QP with the backfill bug so don’t stress about it.
Yep. And most players will find steady improvement when they stop stressing and over thinking it.
I quit comp several months ago, all qp