so everyone hears the horror stories of forced 50-50…how the matchmaker forces you to lose if you win…how the game is streaky…how the game is stompy…etc etc…emphasis on hears btw because people only ever claim and never show…
well my matchmaker is apparently broken - because it only ever seems to give me decent matches that can go either way…i cant seem to actually get large streaks…most matches are not stompy and last a decent amount of time
heres my last 99 matches
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5ewzcSrbeSI
match 50 is also at the top of 2nd 49…(2 streaks of more than 3 games, out of 99 matches)
it almost seems like perfectly normal matchmaking to me and that its doing a decent job 
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The matchmaking in this game sucks or maybe I somehow suck at it. Mahvel is a lot more enjoyable because while you occasionally get forced losses that you cannot do anything about, they are few and far between relative to every other game. That’s a huge improvement as far as I am concerned. Winners win. Losers win against bots. Seems fair.
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Can be a bit streaky. But that’s the nature of unranked, especially in a small region. Here is my last 50, fwiw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcno0D9MtDM
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What is that smell? Smells like damage control.
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its the biggest problem in qp , i literally get players playing like bots, i even doubt its bots.
who make sym tps for 10 mtr . they literally dont use turrets like people.
99 problems by Jay-Z.
Recently listened to a “remix” with him and Linkin Park, it’s interesting.
that was a rough start… 
ive had rough patches as well, but my point was that its not the norm, not to say it doesnt happen…ive posted bad streaks before, like this from the summer
https://i.imgur.com/GlgVavL.png
but stuff like what people always describe is very much the outliers…usually my matches are perfectly fine
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Haha, with the receipts. Love it.
My matches are mostly solid, too, but that’s because I always try to win. I mean actually win, not “I wanna win but I don’t wanna swap”.
I did enough competitive on Rivals this weekend to get the Moon Knight skin, which means I went all the way from bronze 3 to gold in a few hours. I did that because almost every match was a steamroll. I got MVP more than I didn’t. I think there was maybe 1 control match that went to the third point. On one game, we had a leaver before the second round of payload and still finished the map to win, because it was THAT one-sided.
I’ve seen zero evidence of a matchmaker in Rivals.
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An L take. The only reasonable explanation as to why I’m outdamaging each of my “DPS” players on support by factor of x1.5 while also having best heal score and top elims is that the game just wants to be unfair to me. It needs me to lose a game for whatever reason.
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ive said it before…too many claims…not enough evidence…despite the game making it pretty easy to showcase what people claim…
and you know me…ive never shied away from showing my mid tier gameplay, sharing replays, or even making long logs showcasing the things i claim My perfectly normal OQ experience Part 15
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What you talking about?
You got 23 games you lost xD
I mean, that’s perfectly fine. But most important is the overall look on the long
You can go to Stats, and see all matches from QuickPlay, and you should have about 50%.
But it doesn’t calculate those games you left
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Not to mention lots of MR players aren’t from OW (despite everyone claiming so). You have people who never played a hero shooter vs hero shooter veterans. But everyone starts in the bottom tier together…
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ah but you see the defeat ones? that’s when it was rigged.
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I do wonder if OW players would prefer if they play against bots, makes them feel better by stomping the game before going back to the regular grind.
I personally dont like it though, but I can see if others like it.
Yeah, it’s weird they don’t have placements. Or at least some kind of MMR.
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It’s the first season. Do you not remember the first season of competitive in Overwatch?
You start in bronze, there’s performance based SR, if you’re good, you’ll be getting around 50 - 60 SR per win, losing maybe 10 - 15 for a loss (if you even lose, anyone that was gm in OW is probably going to streak through 90% of the games until they get to diamond, and even then it’s mostly cake)
There is some sort of matchmaking, seems to try to match SR/MMR mostly. 
The bottom line though is 99% of the playerbase know maybe one hero, maybe two, and they’re not very good with any of them. Most of the people playing haven’t even touched comp - which you can see when someone makes it to another rank and it tells you how much higher you are than the rest of the playerbase.
Those aren’t bots. didn’t you know Overwatch is a drinking game?
For every match that is a steam roll. You have to drink a glass of Whiskey.
usually a person gets plastered by the 3rd match. 
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Yea marvel rivals is the same way and i remember most competitive online being the same. World of warcraft battlegrounds were usually stomps and yea sometimes faction server basis…
Just the way it is for online games and i do know when i play competitive games for overwatch i feel it places me where i belong which is gold most of the time 
I honestly don’t remember whether we had placements in season 1. I was level 74 (T500 started there), but I’m pretty sure I didn’t have to work up from level 1.
We did have placements in season 2 when the competitive system was overhauled. I placed plat and climbed from there. I was GM by season 3. They didn’t make me climb through bronze-gold, though, which was smart. Just seems silly for them not to use placements when we know they had their competitive system ready to go at launch.