I am 3200 SR and I keep getting either 2900 games with low plat/high gold players or 3400 games with 3800 tank on my team with 5 min tank queues. What is going on?
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It’s not broken. It’s rigged. If you got normal old games, you’d win too easy. Instead, OW insists on sticking you with a bunch of idiot teammates to artificially extend your grinding time.
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It isn’t rigged. My question is why are there no diamond games when I am 3200 SR.
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Unfortunately anyone who claims it’s rigged on here is beyond convincing of otherwise. As for why? Idk honestly. Tank queues are just weird in general since there are so few of them.
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They use a hidden MMR to force even matches. So, it’s rigged. It’s not random games at your SR, which you’d expect from a competitive game.
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before season 23, i usually got fair games, ±100-150 sr off my sr, but now something happened that i either get a very high or low game
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I haven’t played much this season so I can’t really speak much to it but it could theoretically be something like a surge of people playing dps and maybe support at the ranks directly above and below you, leading to an increase in demand for tanks in those games.
It’s not not rigged, but it’s absolutely “rigged” to a 50/50 win rate so you play the game more. Too many cases for that to be false, franchise is an absolute hating troll who sits here and waits to comment his opinion on every topic. Every once in a while actually giving good feedback.
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You’re right about this, there are very few good tank players since the role isn’t fun after a short time due to the only fun characters being ball and Zarya (only because her auto needs a nerf, it’s mega strong, I go Zarya if my team is getting rolled/feeding), if they buffed DVA so pharmacy wouldn’t be so op, I think there would be a lot more people on tank. Time to wait I guess
I’ve said it once. I’ll say it a million times until you actually get it. It does not care at all about your individual win rate. All it cares about is that each team is balanced between itself so each match is fair assuming everyone is at the right rank. If you’re below a rank you belong at then you’ll win those games and climb, if you are where you belong then the games will be 50/50 as they should be. You could have a 90% win rate and all it will do is see how fair each individual game is.
Forgive me I forgot that it’s not right to actually keep up with the forums and be involved while not feeding into conspiracy theories and correcting misinformation. If someone spreads a “theory” that only shifts blame for their rank to an invisible bad man instead of their performance, or tries to say how it’s always the rest of their teams fault all without attempting to swap or even at least adapt how they’re playing that match to better deal with a matchup or with their team, then yeah they don’t deserve a pat on the back and a “yeah you’re completely right the system is against us.”
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Hmm. Might be why i hit like 68% win rate at the start of the season once, and then got horrid matches the entire rest of the season until i was… exactly 50%. I’m talking like 128-128-7. record. Uncanny how i ended up at exactly 50% when the entire 2nd half of my season was just full of non stop potato players. Harder games at a rank lower than i was beating with ease until the matchmaker decided an “even match” with me in it was to play with a bunch of toxic idiots.
No. It’s not trying to force me to 50% as a goal (maybe). But it IS rigging the matches with me in them to make it harder for me, because if it just handed me any old random players, i’d rank up too easy. Blizz wants me to grind, or to help losers have a half a chance at winning. Guess what, they’re throwing. Forget the idiotic MMR and forcing even matches. Turn it all off, and we’d see just how rigged it’s been this entire time.
Edit: By the way, right now for me an “even match” consists of me and my duo partner going up against 5 or 6 mans half the time (with random solos on our team). Or two plats on the other team while we have all golds. Hey, if we should be playing plats… shouldn’t we be in plat? Not in Overwatch, because MMR thinks that’s an even match. When millions of players were playing this game, it was disguised under the fact that you’d see all golds for the most part. Now, with less players, the rigging is MUCH more apparent because you can straight up see people ranked higher than you are your opponents to force an even match. How about let me rank up to meet them, instead of tossing them my way down here because otherwise it wouldn’t be “fair”.
This is why MMR is the worst idea of all time for Competitive play. You can NOT rig up the matches to be even. You should play random players, on random teams, at your SR. If you can beat them, great. You shouldn’t get harder games at the same rank just to be fair.
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Explain to all of us the formula since you know everything like your friend rhiii. We’re dying to know
I continue to see this on people’s profiles, seen it for 1k games, 2k games, always 50% (1-2%+/-), I have an account with the same issue and when I made new account and hit 3.2k quickly when other (this one) is goldstuck because I win 10 in a row, then it gives me these stupid teams that make the games unwinnable. Even when I waste my energy trying to hard carry. It’s a rigged team game
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The MM is broken, not rigged.
Usually I am referring to plat and below but IDK if it has filtered to Dia.
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You guys are the ones claiming it’s rigging it and knowing when someone on or against you is a smurf. Tell us how they’ve managed to predict human behavior so accurately.
If you’re at a 50% win rate you’re not winning enough games to actively climb. If you’re not winning enough games then your individual performance needs to increase…
How often do you play on your 3.2k account? I find it hard to believe you spend much time there or you’d be drastically out playing ANY of the competition in gold. Unless of course you’re blatantly admitting to smurfing which could be argued violates TOS. Beyond that, if you are smurfing, the MM tries to match you against players of similar skill based on performance breakdowns/10 mins…
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I’ve thought this for a long time. They need to get rid of their current bs system and let people play with those of their rank at random. Don’t try to make “fair matches”, the algorithm can’t do that because there’s a crap ton of random factors. If they feel like the rank gaps are too wide then shorten them down or add numbers to them like league for Diamond and below.
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All time low in the playerbase might be a factor, the system starts to spread out in order to ensure resonable queue times? Oh how far we strived away from better standards. OW 2 wont fix this issue hence being a pve game. We are doomed. Jokes, stopped the game since two seasons, and damn that was a good decision. Pvp wont magically be revamped and overall improved. And ppl grew very tired.
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I hit you up last night by the way 
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That’s why OW2 is PVE focused. It’s due to swinging people away from their crap PVP system, so the complaints go away. Matchmaking is complete and utter garbage right now and instead of starting over and revamping the matchmaking system they are further screwing things up. When they updated to role queue they should have killed the “fair match” based system and made it random.
Instead of proper balancing prior to OW2 release, we have buffs for OWL viewing purposed. Then instead of getting on the forum and defending themselves after all the Genji buffs, they hide in reddit and discord to mention slight nerfs. If it wasn’t for Covid giving people not much to do, I bet this would have been the games worst summer.
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