For a game that touts itself on such even winning rates and fair matchmaking I always seem to get in these never ending losing streaks. Most of these games aren’t even close to being evenly matched. It’s laughable. So I’m making this topic again. The matchmaking in this game is hot garbage.
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Yeah, it’s either the matchmaker is bad or the placement system is bad.
If we assume that the placement system is accurate, you should be winning approximately 50% of your matches, and you should be on par with everyone else in the match. Losing 10 games in a row should be a freak accident, not a common occurrence. So either the matchmaker is terrible or the placement system is. Or both.
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Flip a coin enough times and you will get the same result 10 times in a row.
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I played 4 games and 3 i got spawn camping.
So you agree that this game is giving people a 50/50%, Forced. Rather than doing it’s job of providing equally skilled teammates and enemies.
Probably because you arent in the rank you belong in. The system likely rated you too high, once you play enough games to have a history and get to where you belong, games should be even.
Actually, its you. Both teams have bad players. The only difference is that you happen to be on one of them, which is the reason you are losing.
Aaaaaaaactually, your attitude, tiredness, time of day, other things like that… all can definitely make differences in how you play. Sometimes you’ll be doing even BETTER than normal, but nobody ever goes on the forums (or even is likely to remember) the times you win 10 games in a row.
And especially if the OP is someone who goes onto the forums just to say they lost 10 games in a row like “look at how bad the matchmaking is”, they might even be subconciously self-sabotaging for something to be angry about / tilted out of their chair.
Might be a bad day, yo.
But yeah, a freak occurrence still can happen sometimes. But I don’t think of this as a freak occurrence; it’s a kinda normal occurrence.
the matchmaking in qp is really bad
its matching low diamond players vs GMs…
really really bad… but iam gonna take a break from this game so…
If people are playing with and against other players of the same skill level, a 50% winrate will happen on it’s own.
You don’t need to force a natural phenomenon.
If the game forced people into 50/50, then streamers wouldn’t be able to consistently do unranked to GM challenges, they’re Grand Masters because they play like Grand Masters. You’re X rank because you play like an X rank player, whether you like it or not.
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I also get days like that from time to time. A day where I will lose 10 matches in a row, and win 2. Usually after few days of normal matches.
I just kinda got used to it. But yeah, matchmaking is worse than ever now, tons of level <20 smurfs.
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Take a break and come back after a loss streak.
You’re gonna get tilted and play worse the more you force yourself to keep going.
And maybe if you already lost 6 games in a row don’t queue for the 7th hard-tilted because you’ll underperform and your MMR will be even lower.
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If I quit every time I lost multiple games in a row I’d never play Overwatch again.
Sure, maybe I’m not the best player but I’m leaving matches with multiple “good teammate” endorsements, I’m usually leading 3-4 golds, and I’m playing around my team mates trying to make it work. I’m not self sabotaging.
This isn’t a freak accident either. This is my common experience with Overwatch. I can turn on CoD and win a few games here and there easy and I am horrible at CoD.
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If you lost that many times in a row it is most likely a personal problem and not a match making problem. Not calling you bad but if you keep playing as you get increasingly tilted your performance will suffer which can contribute to increased losses.
It is why when I play comp I have a 2 loss in a row hard stop so I don’t tank just because I’m frustrated. Qp I will take more losses in a row but eventually switch to arcade for a more relaxed environment.
I hopped on for first time in a week and went 8-0 in comp today.
Just focus on your own gameplay and wins will come😁
Those are rookie numbers, I went 0-21 in quickplay a couple of months back. I couldn’t get a win for the life of me, but in comp I was doing just fine.
Don’t tell me to swap off Widow,
Coolbreeze
I mean, I’d accept that answer if Overwatch wasn’t the only game this has happened to me and so many others in.
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It’s not the mm fault if you keep losing btw.
You’d should know when it’s a bad day and take friiking breaks if you still keep losing.
I feel like there’s more what you’re not telling us about why you keep losing and such and like to flame mm just cause you’re mad/salty.
CoD isn’t really a team game.
If that’s your mindset, it’s because you’re playing 1v5v6 instead of 6v6.
Instead of whining, you could;
- Rewatch your games from the previous play session before you queue up for Competitive with an unbiased eye
- Attempt to learn new ways of positioning and team strats via Youtube, educational streamers, or asking questions on r/competitive or r/OverwatchUnivsersity
- Take a break from OW altogether, as it’s an intensively stressful game regardless
What you shouldn’t do is blame the matchmaker when you’re clearly the one at fault.
Man, just stop and take a breather after a few losses. You are likely getting tilted for some reason and it is making you play worse. I’d also like to know how your day was because if you had a crap day and are already in a bad mood you are likely to tilt much easier and result in crap games.
Like, when my overall mental health is pretty bad I tend to stay away from overwatch because it makes it worse or last longer. I end up playing badly and dying a lot and getting tilted easily and in really bad cases, extremely toxic, yet when I’m in good spirits I end up playing well, for my rank at least.