Open Role Queue Placements BROKEN

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So just a little background, I’m a plat player. Barely peaking 2500, yes I’m horrible at this game, I just did my placement on the account and I haven’t balanced out, I’m still getting crazy high SR gains.

Anyway, now that you know my true rank, open role queue is completely broken. My first game ever was with plats. Which is expected because my SR in normal competitive is 2536. I lost my first game, got placed with really low golds the second. Okay I thought, I guess it’s where I belong. Then after that game I won. Got placed back with plats. My 3rd game as well. This time with high plats. My 4th game I started playing with diamonds.
This happened for 8 games. I went on a winning streak. Performing pretty well in my opinion, i was making plays.

On my 9th game I got placed with GM’s. And as expected I got rolled. There was no way I was going to beat GM’s.

On my very last placement I was with an awkward mix with very high diamond Elo, and some masters. I did pretty good, again making plays. Which I felt was the rank I belong in. So I was eager to see what rank I got. I got 3434, I was mind blown. Because obviously as a Plat player I would have never expected to get basically almost masters in this game.

And, yes. I get it, not everyone tries in these arcade competitive mode(s). But I still feel like I’m in a rank I completely do not belong in. I’m not complaining because I loved my experience with Diamonds/Masters. I had gold medals, huge ults. Overall I was going pretty well.

I just wanted to give a more insider on how these placements work. And my experience with this broken mode. If you guys are interested on the characters I played. Well I found out I was pretty good with Sigma. So 99% of my games were with Sigma. The last game I played was with Moira. Coming from a Genji, Mccree, Ashe main, I felt pretty proud of myself. And 95% of my matches I was on fire a lot, had gold objective kills, and gold damage and eliminations.

Before I keep dragging this on, I’d like to summarize that this game mode is completely busted, I somewhat don’t belong here imo. This was basically to point out how placements somewhat work. Your starting game is based off of your real rank(s) in normal competitive. Best of luck to all you guys in this game mode. I heard a lot of people throw luckily non of the games I played threw.

Best of luck to you guys! <3

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Can you share the replay code for your last placement game :smiley:

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I’ve never really messed around with Replay, I don’t even think I have those on to save. Unless I’m wrong, but last thing I remember is that I turned them off? Are they stored anyway somewhere? I’m not on my PC unfortunately right now. For sure check that tomorrow morning. :slight_smile:

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I think same thing is happening as it was in role q beta season. Soft reset, accounts do act as new account with their mmr starting where their rank is or was in past. Meaning first match is starting at for example 2600(instead of 2350) if you were plat and every win or loss is big jump. And you will gain a lot of bonus sr after placement as new accounts are getting.

Old placement system from open comp was a lot extreme than current role lock placement system because you had 10 games to place.

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On '19 anniversay there was comp team dead match. My SR on normal comp was about 1700. I really wanted to get some comp points so I decided to play DPS Moira. On first and second match I got placed with golds, then with platiniums (now now my normal comp sr is about 2200 so I still look at platinium players as super strong). Afterwards I got placed with diamonds (my brain was hyped as xQc’s twitch chat). Next match I got #TOP500 ANA in team, meanwhile I still grinded :rofl: MOIRA :rofl: . At last I got placed at 2750 sr. AMAZING

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Since 2-2-2 I have only queued tanks and support as i find it more fun to play the game than sit in a queue.

I am a high plat/ low diamond and flex at every opportunity I get to help the team. I got placed with Masters in open queue and noticed all my team were masters, it was so odd.

Everybody had a mic, everybody was helpful and followed a plan in about 9 games out of 10. I loved being able to change to a tank from support or even dps if we needed it.

I finished above 3500 and since echo is totally busted I haven’t played OW since and don’t think I will till OW2. I am gold border and the last few months have just felt like a grind, take two steps forward and then get an awful team and two steps back.

Now I know what life at the top is like, I can’t go back.

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Same dude, everyone is actually organized. I felt like I could actually do stuff. And not feel like I’ll die from no heals and no support from DPS. Overall I felt like it was how OW was supposed to be played.