taking forced 50/50 to a new level I see blizz. shameless, first its randomly booting people from matches despite no internet connectivity issues, now its just giving them losses smh
good chance its a weird visual bug though, but honestly wouldn’t put it past them. Would explain why you can go 5-5 and drop like a rock
I saw people have ranks for role queue like they’ve done placements, but they haven’t done any matches on that role. I think something is really messed up.
You keep your rank from last season if you got a rank update once in the previous season. It only disappears when you don’t get a rank update on that role for an entire season.
yep. rigging matches directly sometimes isn’t enough to ensure maximum misery. artificial losses which never occurred, artificially accredited, to invoke maximum misery.
I think this is a bug, I have a vague memory of reading someone from blizzard confirming it. I’ll see if i find it.
ie its a visual bug, your ranking should be correct.
Everything they’ve done with ranked in OW2 is aimed at retaining fast queues and it sacrifices match quality and skill based matchmaking to do so. I have proof in screenshots that random low rank players were boosted in seasons 3 and 4. This was done to retain fast queues in the less populated higher ranks. Since they’ve completely failed to retain new players, I suspect they’re trying to subtly undo the damage here. People who are de ranking for winning or getting phantom losses, I’d be really curious to see their rank progression throughout overwatch 2 and see if they were boosted in seasons 3 or 4. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a bug.
I am fine with this. I feel like people forget that in OW1 the match quality was not top either. People in the same rank would absolutely not represent a similar skill. I am ok with faster Q times, but I am sure there are better ways to do it. Harder ways, but better.
I definitely got credit for the loss when it happened to me at least if the math of ranking up and down had logic to it or was well developed. Which it isnt.
I definitely have not forgot but OW1 wasn’t just a static game so which overwatch we talking about? Because pre season 10 overwatch actually had pretty good matchmaking. Matchmaking got significantly worse with role lock where I would consider it bad, barely acceptable for a competitive game but nonetheless, acceptable.
OW2 made matchmaking two or three times as bad. It’s unacceptable for a competitive game, so much that I don’t even consider the competitive system real anymore and many top 500 players agree with me.