The level of matchmaking during weekends has become a serious concern. Matches often turn into chaotic and unbalanced experiences, with extremely noticeable skill gaps between players within the same lobby.
Competitive mode is supposed to provide a fair and balanced environment where players can enjoy high-quality matches. Even when losing, players should feel that the game was competitive, engaging, and decided by teamwork and performance — because we all understand that winning every match is not realistic.
Unfortunately, the current weekend matchmaking experience fails to meet those expectations. Instead of balanced competition, many games feel one-sided and frustrating, which significantly impacts player motivation and the overall competitive integrity of the game.
I hope the development team can review matchmaking behavior during peak weekend hours and consider adjustments that ensure a more consistent and fair competitive experience for everyone.
It’s been unreal this season and I’m pretty close to putting a fork it . The matchmaking is already horrendous at balancing teams.
I think everyone can agree that tank is the most important role yet they make match these silver-plat lobbies with one tank being high plat and the other being silver.I’m sure it can’t be to hard to at least match the roles to the proper rank.
Then you have groups vs solos which is another issue on its own. What ever happened to find a team ? Mix in a massive heap of Smurfs and a heavy dose of cheats and you have the most bs matchmaking in all of gaming.
ive played a lot less this season, I quit after a few losses stack up and my winrate is is well below 50%
Last season I had a 65% winrate so why the sudden drop?
The matchmaking has been garbage since OW2 became a thing and it is only getting worse. The devs really need to do something about it, the longer they ignore the issue the worse it is gonna get
About to uninstall for the 3rd time in 10 years. Each time I came back hoping it will be better. After a month or so I’m at my wits end again. Smurfs, trolls, clueless people. Solo queue should be labeled a mental health risk with the world heath organization.
Find yourself a group of competent silver players and it will be easy to grind rank. After you hit so high, the solo queue matchmaking won’t be nearly as bad. But Silver is ELO hell.
Took me like 170 matches to grind out and now it’s super easy in comparison. But I’m not gonna lie, it was pretty stressful to my mental suffering through what I did. Lol
Honestly, I just want some transparency, you see hundreds of complaints about all this stuff every single week and not once have they have they addressed it. I don’t run a huge and successful corporation so I probably don’t know what I’m talking about but catering to the groups of players who group up on weekends to bully lower ranks on there ult accounts can’t be a good business model. If I was a new player not only would I quit playing but I’d never spend a dime and probably warn others to stay away from the game.
I’ve won two games i thaught lost. 50 kills and twice the amount of the other DPS damage was needed. Yeah fair games. I had to use brute force. Last game ennemies went full spam and turrets and i had DF on my back all the final round.
You can do that only with few heroes. a part of the roster is unplayable to climb.
Somehow, the MM is working, you never see a DPS with 60 kills or some players with more than 12-13 deaths. It keeps you in that range. It’s a large range so you can have stomps, bit it has limits. If you stay in the upper range, you may climb.
In the latest Spilo interview, they did acknowledge the fact that a lot of players got placed into the wrong ranks. The large influx of new players placing higher than they should have is why the matchmaking is so bad.
They acknowledged it a little bit, but they definitely could have went into more detail than they did and explained why things are the way they are.
I think only a small percentage of the player base actually understand this. Climbing rank helps to alleviate these issues, but still don’t make it non existent.
Stupid it has to be that way, but climbing out of ELO Hell makes things easier going forward.
Hitting Gold has me in a Winning Trend for the last 3 days over about ~30 Games. I only lose once in a while now so 30-40% of a Rank per win is pretty crazy.
You will be doing the most just to win a game and progress. I’m just happy that I’m over the bump in the road. Climbing rank is super easy now.
Idk how it is on PC, but for console; Gold is super laid back easy sailing. I literally play less and climb faster than I ever did in Silver.
I’m Silver 1 Tank about to Zarya my way to Gold real quick lol. I’m level 5 Zarya and it was the easiest wins I ever had in my life. Just find the DPS who loves to shoot your bubble and use him as a battery then delete him and then his team hahahaha it’s funny.
It’s because last season they inflated everyone’s rank. Plat low dia skill players with decent mechanics in masters gm. Masters players getting champ or gm for the first time based off cheaters getting banned and getting free SR. You go look at unlocked profiles. Everyone is 5-10 ranks higher than ever before, and top 500s are in diamond lobbies. MM is a circus at this point
Mercy, LW and Rein in my team vs Hanzo, Phrah, Sombra and Domina in ennemy team. It was really close, we could win but too much to do. Two healbots and a shield fanatic Rein when you have to flank Domina…
I’ve been seeing a lot of speculation on matchmaking being more messed up if your playing on OG accounts from the original Overwatch. I was low diamond back in the day but when I made the mistake of being sucked back in two years ago It placed me in bronze.
That was the first red flag…. my fiance placed almost a whole rank higher than me and this is the first FPS game shes ever enjoyed. I was placed in bronze! I’ve climbed back plat but its really hard. I think my MMR is higher than my rank so I’m getting mixed in with all the over achiever’s and cheaters and its not much fun. I miss the intense matches that come down to the final second.
I tried to make a fresh account to test out the old account theory but even after winning 9 of my 10 placements It put me in silver. Now I’m on a 11 game win streak while getting reported every other match simply cause I can land a headshot, again…. not very fun.
i’ll add my part , i’ve climbed to dps plat without too many trouble , in plat i was winning maybe 3-4 games and loose 2-3 , but since this weekend , on 3 days , 12 games , i didn’t won any single game .
So i don’t know what is going on right now but i’ts absolutly bad , and it started this weekend. it feel the game tell me “ hehe good job man your’re plat …. Oh wait no no no you’re silver my bad “