Title. WAY too wide of swings between the teams. I don’t even know what the point of this game-mode is. You’re better off building a comp system which is premade-only and requires players to form their own teams, create some in-game tools for it.
This game is not good at ALL at matching up individual players onto teams. OW1 never felt this mismatched, there were problems… but not like this. I don’t know what’s going on but we need an acknowledgement and I think the devs may as well treat it like an emergency and just disable comp - create some incentive to actually fix it within a solid timeline, nobody’s rank means anything right now… I actually noticed getting WORSE tanks the higher I climbed last season (in terms of how they would position), but this season it’s total chaos.
PS - Here is one of the main problems with allowing matches where you are the carry (e.g. you get placed with a bunch of much lower ranked players, and are expected to carry against a team that is generally better than your allies) - it almost always starts off strong, then the enemy team figures out who the carry is, and tunnel visions them all game, if you play defensively enough to prevent that, it is almost certain that your lesser-skilled / aware teammates will charge around corners and die in LoS of you or the objective.
Creating an incentive to focus enemies based on their hero picks is fine and part of the game, creating an incentive to focus enemies based on their importance in carrying the team and general skill-level, once it has been exposed during the initial fight or two, is not fun, or good for the game.
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That’s how my support games have been going the last couple days I was almost back into plat then lost about 23 games with 3 wins in there and now I’m all the way down to low gold 4 some of the worst matches ever and idk how the game can see that kinda loss consistency and match u against extremely try hard teams it just feels like anytime I make progress I am punished and sentenced to play with the most horrendous teams this game can find. In fact I just had a game where the enemy had a masters player and my dps were both gold so that match was fun
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They can just bring those tools back from OW1, the same as a lot of other systems which are slowly returning. Come to think of it, let’s just bring back OW1, it was the better game.
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I totally get what you are saying because it’s the same thing happening to me. My suggestions were disable cross platform with Nintendo Switch (if that’s maybe part of the problem), allow matchmaking but make it a requirement for team members to endorse and the highest 2 endorsed players on the team don’t lose any ranking if they lose the match and if they win then those endorsed players rank up faster but the rest of the team rank up as regular.
If players leave a match and it’s highly likely because the opposing team is winning then the losing team should be able to vote to have the other player banned for 72 hours or something like that. Obviously if someone randomly disconnects at the beginning of the match when your own team is winning would be super obvious that they didn’t rage quit or throw etc.
Those are some of my suggestions and I pray the developers read these forums. I play this game with my husbands and we all agree this game is dying because of these issues and although the devs are trying to fix them, it’s just not really working yet sadly.
Ive never seen so many games where one team has 0 kills for an entire game, this is in all ranks too.
Its a combination of things the devs refuse to fix.
Matchmaking is broken. I get 17% win strike and 18% loss penalty… And I had win strike to Gold 2 and down to Gold 4 with 3-4 times faster… I am done with Overwatch for now. They managed to break the last game I played. Only D2R left with some nostalgia. Greedvision/Greedzard/Microbux can have all the skins I acquired. Lost cause to try and play this sheet show.
Certain times of day are very bad to play comp. Im thinking. You’re gonna lose rank.
Its tuff to time…do comp during west coast prime time?
Early/Mid day east coast is garbage
Lol there’s no competitive xplay with switch, or consoles. That is only for quick-play, I think you might even have the option to opt out of xplay matchmaking in QP in the settings but I don’t remember, competitive they definitely don’t mix PC with console though. They talked about it in patch notes awhile back.
Endorsements are subjective, I get a couple of them every match I feel like even if I didn’t get to play much because the team fights were just garbage, I wouldn’t want them relying on that. Duo queues could game that and stuff too, not fair.
100% agree that leavers should absorb majority if not all of the burden for the losing team, but only from their VISIBLE ranking, not their MMR. You don’t get to pubstomp easier matches just because you’re a leaver, you just have to grind more to get it back while fighting the same skill level teams.
I’d prefer it if they just put me on a team with like-minded individuals, but that’s hard to test for. I’ve suggested they transform or use the hero mastery system to determine what players’ strengths are and use that. The only way, if the math is fair, that I end up with people with zero positional awareness as consistently as I do in my games - is that they got there by paid carry (probably unlikely, I’ve never been past high diamond, almost masters a few times) - OR and more likely, their mechanics are better than mine (more headshots, better accuracy) at the cost of their awareness being terrible (my mechanics aren’t amazing, except my Lucio tech and ability to use it generally in a good match without costing my teach much if anything - unlike FRAUD Lucio mains lol).
For ME, grouping me with people who know how to position, even if it costs us mechanical skill - would solve the majority of my problems… for other players, I can’t say. It’s possible that reworking the game modes could help in some way, but it still feels like the system has major problems with it’s matchmaking, and I can’t see how game design changes can fix that.
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