Overwatch creates UNWINNABLE matches - So Bad

I cannot stress this enough and I hope at least one of your devs or teams is actually working on this.

Your game creates unwinnable games you can have 70 elims gold and still lose the game because of the algorithms utter nonsense team picks. I get given dps Moira 2-3 games in a row and lose 80 SR and then play game of my life and get back 30SR?

Can you take a look at how you create matches? The way you create them is utter crap and our playing experience is affected by your completely braindead matchmaking system. Go and check your LFG in NA at the moment, 30+ all Chinese name deranking groups farming.

Your total incompetence to make fair games is actually what has killed this game. It’s not your shoddy map design or the completely unfair advantage characters like Widow have on things like Junkertown but the creation of two teams that apparently have a 50/50 to win the match… well… ahem…

that is total and utter rubbish

I can’t compete with a team that goes Pharmercy and my healer won’t swap and continues to play Moira. I can’t do anything about that, when they leave VC and say ‘nah I’m playing Moira’. I’ve gone from projectile to hitscan to try and help my team… but you put them on my team.

If you don’t address matchmaking problems and the state of the teams you guys create, this game is going to be DOA. The teams you create need to be balanced and you need to punish players for actively trying to sabotage a team… not giving them a 10min ban. It makes me so angry that you have just let your game slide into utter nonsense everything is bad in Overwatch 1

Maps - Dull (if you let us select maps, we’d play 2 of them)
Balance - Bap imortality field escapes all ults? GJ with Moira!! Utter joke
Queues - Ridiculous wait times for matches
Matchmaking - one tricking or playing how ‘you’ want is ok. I’ll be battle mercy and not heal because Blizzard said I can play my way…GJ with that.

Everytime I queue in Overwatch I’m reminded with how badly your game has gone, how many players left because of your procrastination and your mountain of excuses as to why you don’t or haven’t fixed things. I won’t be accepting these excuses in Overwatch 2, you have had time to work on these things and they better improve or your massive new team will be going out of business.

I suggest ignoring your SR and just have fun playing.

Its not fun being queued into unwinnable games. I want an answer from a dev about what they are doing to solve this problem.

Probably nothing, they are hoping for a population boost with F2P will fix the problem for them.

If the game isn’t fun for you to play, doesn’t matter your SR, just play something fun

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I have the feeling that this is by design.

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What can they do?

Go to the magical “I guess none of your team are throwing, and none of the enemy team are smurfs we have detected yet” cupboard of “impossible things for the matchmaker to know about” and get you come games from it?

Basically, you can have what you want if you can solve a couple of things.

  • Terry has come home, has a few drinks and have fired up overwatch and wish to queue for a game. Please provide the method for the matchmaker to know this.

  • Bob’s little brother want to play Genji, Bob has queued the little tyke into a match. Please provide the code which lets the system know this has happened before the match starts. - bonus points for a method to know that Bob is about to play on his little brothers account, and that bronze ranked account is about to get a diamond player on it.

  • Alice has decided to troll the newbies, and is about to start throwing matches. What steps do the devs need to take to build a time machine to give the matchmaker the needed information.

  • Blair has a migraine, it has gone on for days, and trying to sleep it off has failed, in a moment of stupidity he has decided to queue, and is likely to be losing a lot of games. How is the system meant to work out the state of Blair so the matchmaker can know it.

  • Sarah has taken up using aim trainers for 12 hours a day for the last month, she is about to queue, and she isn’t going to be that silver widowmaker for long once she starts. Please give a system so the matchmaker knows this has happened, so her account can be moved to plat before she stomps her way up.

Basically, you ask for the impossible, and if you think about what the matchmaker has to work with, and what you are asking of it, you will know this.

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well when your balance philosophy is “how can we make holding m1 on a tank the best strat for dps” it generally becomes unfun

That was a lot of words to say: man I’m upset at one player on my team.

The solution, avoid as team mate.

You can’t change the fact they got placed with you, that’s your fault for queuing when you did at your rank. Get good and you’ll be placed with other types of throwers.

No it is the fact it has been happening for 4 years straight. This total avoidance of our game allows people to play in a way which sabotages the team and the team are forced to play out an unwinnable game.

give me a vote surrender

I don’t care but do not penalise my time and make me play with someone who doesn’t want to play the game. I’d rather vote surrender and end the game and it happens every single time that person plays, so they dont get to play the game than spend anymore time doing it.

The solution is, MAC ban accounts that are flagged for continued gameplay sabotage. When someone has to buy a new gpu because theirs is banned by a game developers software… then people will actually start trying to play properly.

Until that point, we will have gun only mercy, reddit lucio, pharah into double hitscan with no heals and a whole host of other incredibly poor decisions to lose matches.

Now that’s an interesting thread title. Go and make another thread and cut out 80% of the whining and you’ll maybe generate some actual discussion. I won’t necessarily agree with you but it will at least prompt a discussion.

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It truly is the most “fun” time when you get tanks that decide to either go hob/ball torture or one tries while the other goes hog or ball. Then they gloat about medals and flame the team while the rest of us suffer because the main tank actually trying doesn’t have support from the off tank.

Truly it’s the most epic feeling of “fun”

Facts are it could help creating a team that is not weighted with someone being a pharah specialist along with a Mercy main. When you get two tanks that only play Off tank but the other team get two Shield tanks.

They could easily look at many things, but they do nothing because that is what Blizzard are good at doing now. Zero