My record is 9 in a row.
Is it because defense is terrible in QP and people leave more often?
Or is there some conspiracy to make me want to quit this game?
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Doesn’t make sense to me, most people I know love defense. You must have just been lucky (or unlucky in your case? if you don’t like defense).
I’m pretty sure at this point that your starting role (attack or defense) is part of the matchmaker trying to “balance” the match.
I’ll do two in a row. The third one I leave and just do something else for a bit. Defense is just terrible in OW.
6 but may be more, I only kept track of 100 matches.
If it’s a 50/50 chance, getting defence 9 times in a row is a 1 in 512 chance, which is pretty impressive though with 1000s of played games its bound to happen at some point
When will we learn to understand that RNG is RNG? Random means random, not alternating.
It could give you defense 112 times in a row. It’s not likely but still entirely possible.
You are just unlucky. Maybe stop walking under ladders and breaking mirrors in your spare time?
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i’ve asked myself this many times.
To give more context to the story:
I have said for a long time that the game seems to enjoy putting me on defense.
One of my friends I play with said many of the same things you all have said. Mainly, it’s just RNG.
But last night we were doing QP as a duo when we no joke got 9 defense games in a row.
After about 4 games we literally kept playing just to see how long the streak would go.
Only Blizzard knows exactly how the match maker works, but I think there’s something beyond just RNG.
I wanted to see if others had similar experiences.
10 I think in QP/arcade.
Some months ago I had a win/lose ratio of 4:40 or so.
I also had the opposite some time ago
Defense is fine, I don’t know why people dislike it, infect I think defending on 2cp maps gives you an advantage.
I wish to have defenses only in qp or qpc, thus I get 100% win rate. It is so ez to play when someone has to go at you, and you can do whatever you want around their engagement or just sit there and chill.
No idea, but I lowkey wanna support any conspiracy theories around map matchmaking considering how much Paris/HLC I keep seeing in fresh games without backfills compared to any other map. It’s as if it tries to balance out maps you haven’t played as much as others or something weird like that by giving them simply higher chance of appearing in your matches. This however would be awful for the game overall
What I’ve definitely noticed is that the game usually tries to balance the better team on defense since defense always has much lower chance of winning the game as maps where you defend are built so that both teams would attack/defend multiple times. This being a thing would make a lot of sense since it’s definitely something the system should consider when scaling the estimated chances of winning games
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For me it is usually 2/3 of the time I get defense. even if I leave a quickplay match, it keeps putting me in Defense.
I do not like Defense just for the fact that attack is better for me. So I think the system trolls a person based upon their win rate and tries to force them into one match or the other.