Matchmaking is not working in Mystery Heroes

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Convinced it’s not working since Halloween patch. Instant queues all the time means it’s pairing all people who queue together without discrimination.

Prior to this there was base level matchmaking.

Now every round is you either demolish, or get demolished. I’m an avid MH player, and since this week its been utter trash.

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I’ve never seen match making in mystery heroes. And I’ve played over 400 hours on mystery heroes. You never know what your going to get in in this game mode. You can get terrible teams/heroes sometimes. It’s just how mystery heroes goes.

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Opposite to my experience, and in addition, I usually wait ~2 minutes before being put in a game. They’ve said before there’s an internal matchmaking system for each game mode in Arcade.

Every game since patch has been an instant queue. It’s impossible that there’s that many people queuing MH at all times I’ve been on since Tuesday.

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What I don’t understand is why you can’t do endorsements in mystery heroes

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I don’t think i’ve ever waited 2 minutes on mystery heros. Usually it’s almost always brought me into a game really quickily.

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I do love the initial run-in with the enemy team where they have a strong team comp and your team has what seems like 3 Widows who can’t aim who seem to always respawn as Widow, a Lucio who is always on Speedboost, and a Sombra that just stays invis the whole round or hacks but doesn’t get a pick from it.
“They have 2 Orisas on the payload back to back and they made a sphere bubble around themselves with a Bastion in the middle. What do we have?”

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I played a MH game where they had a rein, two bastions, a brigitte and a torb. I wanted to die.

In terms of matchmaking, I can’t say how instant it is - but maybe some people are sick of Junkenstein, and they don’t want to play other modes? If I want to play some arcade but I don’t feel like Junkenstein, I’ll play mystery.

And I used to hate MH, so there’s that.

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Thank you! This drives me nuts. It’s my most played gamemode, I’m stuck on endorsement level 1. MH is probably one of the gamemodes where teammork is absolutely crucial. I SHOULD be able to endorse that Orisa who shielded like crazy and stayed alive the whole match and the Mercy who healed us all and also somehow stayed alive all match. These are true hero moments, people. Endorsements are sorely needed in MH.

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I’m commenting just on a noticeable difference since Tuesday, not always. I always play MH, and this week it just feels really different.

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MM is for sure turned off right now for MH. Enjoy instant queues, but group just plays around and still wins easy. Right now it will find matches based just on group size and nothing else.

I play only MH for the last 5+ months, the tougher games have been 6 randoms (or 1 or 2 duo groups) against a 6-stack. I hope they revert whatever they did fast.

If MH had endorsement it would be less toxic I think.

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Ya I’ve played with you before quite frequently, it’s usually very familiar faces I see every day. Completely different now.

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Matchmaking doesn’t work in general, in Overwatch. As you get better and better, the Matchmaker just rewards you with slightly slower (but still far too fast) queue times into MMR-averaged games with huge variance in skill.

  • For the t500s and gms, anything outside of Comp during peak hours is garbage
  • For the masters and diamonds, QP and Arcade are garbage except maybe during peak
  • For golds and plats, I’m guessing it starts getting garbage in more niche Arcade modes
  • And the below average players probably have the same issues as above in reverse (i.e. average Bronze probably can’t get a fair DM match in 10 queues)
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This is a separate issue. Just commenting on the changes as of patch day. Any small amount of balanced matchmaking seems to have disappeared.

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ever since the event started the matchmaking in arcade has been absolute garbage with matches being even more steamroll-ish than usual. It’s absolutely awful and is making me glad that we have a PvE event to get arcade wins.

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I came here to make a post about exactly this. MH was my favorite game mode until this most recent patch, but something changed and now almost every game is completely one sided.

I don’t know if it’s a change in matchmaking, but the RNG also feels a LOT more streaky, where almost all matches we end up with 2 or 3 of the same character on a team instead of just a lot of matches. I also have had more cases where I rotate between two characters.

Then there’s the issue where we have 12 people, but it gets stuck on “waiting for players”. Even had us reload from one waiting to another waiting where we had 12.

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I’m glad its not just me who sees this.

The mode has been completely unenjoyable since the patch because there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with matchmaking and its not being addressed.

This is in no way to say I’m ‘good’ or whatever, I don’t even play comp. But it’s been a series of consistent matches where I’m consistently putting out 30-40% of team’s damage output, and if I die, the entire team goes to poop. Or, it will be that we completely slaughter the other team. This hardly ever happened pre-patch.

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Is it supposed to work?

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If you could be bothered to read anything past the title, you may be able to contribute something even remotely useful to this thread.

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Damn sorry bud.
Also, your comment back was probably less useful than mine :wink:

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LOL hardly, I think the only thing not working is your brain.