I’m really at a loss as to why most matches are one-sided stomps. For the longest time, people blamed it on the volatile nature of 5v5.
Well, from my experience 6v6 hasn’t improved anything.
So I ask again - what did you guys do to the match making? OW1 was never this bad.
It’s not fun. And if you guys can’t figure this out, I honestly don’t see how any new mode can be fun and rewarding.
I really feel like the matchmaking is tighter since OW1. I play in groups a lot with a mixed-rank group of friends, and it always felt in OW1 like me (very high rank) being in the group would wreck the match for them, because we’d all get matched against people of my level.
In OW2, it actually matches by role, so what happens now is that I have a counterpart on the other team in my role that’s my level, and my friends are also playing against people of their level in their role. That feels better to me. My plat tank buddy can actually tank with me in the lobby without having to go against a GM tank that’s going to roll him.
They said that the matchmaker is working as intended and hero design is what might be the reason. Which … i mean Anyone could tell you.
what do you expect this season has thad the lowest player count turnout yet the game is in bad shape…honestly todays matches was depressing
The same people who run to all corners of the map to 1v5 everything in 5v5, just repeat the process in 6v6. That’s my observation anyhow, as a solo-queue support player.
The team that has the most people sticking together, where at least one tank and one support and a dps are working together, wins. The matches are just horrendous blowouts though. Once one team stumbles it seems tough for them to reverse the tide.
The only sad upside (maybe), is that I see so many backfills, that it seems to knock out the challenges for games played pretty quickly.
It amazes me that so many people cannot understand that a team game requires you to at least be in the proximity of your teammates.
But at this point I’m convinced that the stomp problem is not specific to 5v5.
For all the adjustments they claim to have made to the match making, I’ve seen little improvement.
This 6v6 trial just further highlights the problem.
They did something to the match making. I don’t know what, but it was never like this in OW1.
I commiserate completely, and agree with all of that.
IMHO, these incoming F2P players approach the game in a different way (than OW1 players do…in my observation anyhow)…
…their own elims are the primary goal, and all other aspects of a match are less important.
I think they like the challenge of trying to 1 vs (everything), just to see if they can do it. So someone with 3 elims and 15 deaths doesn’t phase them in the least. Even if they go 0-15, they just think “I’ll figure it out.”
It’s the only reason I can come to, when I see team after team (mine or the enemy), with zero elims across the board, and double digit deaths, half way through a match, over and over and over again, day after day after day.
And whether I’m right or wrong in that assessment, I’m with you…it sure feels like they did something to matchmaking, because it feels waaaaaaay off…at least as a solo-queue support anyhow. I’ve never seen so many suicidal players in all my hours of play. It’s pretty disheartening.
I wish I were joking when I say I get a team with people my MMR-ish and then the enemy team is just a straight up scrim team stomping everyone.
I lost 10 games in a row yesterday. I went 1-5 today with the first 5 games being absolute stomps. The matchmaker feels AWFUL. Two days ago wasn’t too bad but I wonder if that’s because it was Friday daytime (I have off from work so less server junk.)
Still, I’ll take long queue times for quality matches.
Forced garbage maps like control, push, flashpoint = forced garbage game losses.
It’s just a casual mode. I’m playing Hazard in 6v6 with literally 20% winrate, but it’s still fun. At least I know for sure the game doesn’t force 50/50.
And yes, I know that I could win 80% of games playing Zarya instead, but I refuse to abuse.