My friends and I are tired of getting curb stomped 29:1 because of a level 4 smurf, it is ruining all fun of this game and yes, smurfing is to an issue in Competitive games as well.
If you figure out whats fun about playing a 6v6 game with your friends to loose horribly to 3 level 4-16-23 dominating the game that ended up having 3000+ comp rating on their mains, you should tell me.
This has to stop, I don’t care if you want to play a new character, that’s what training is for, by smurfing you are breaking the balance system in place and just ruining every OUNCE of fun this game held.
I didn’t participate in closed beta (forgot account sadly) nor help improve the game for it turn into rubbish by a few noobs that simply put ‘cant get gud’ in their own ranks.
It is a cancerous plague on this game and it needs to stop, now.
There is quite a lot of heat built up here, so take that with a grain or bucket(whatever you prefer) of salt, and thus ends my rant; fix it.
Respectfully, Jeff is full of hot air. Matchmaking ATM is completely all over the place. Its very obviously a symptom of the constant $12 bundles and free weekends we’re being deluged with to pad revenues. Smurfs aren’t a problem, they are a money-making feature that is actively encouraged. You’ll see low-level characters that alternate between dominating rounds and then never hitting a shot in the next game. Lets them hover in their chosen bracket. A smurf can very easily look like they are trying while deliberately missing (once saw a Widow smurf shooting neat little triangles around a Trapped, immobile target’s head, while she had been consistently getting Halt-assisted headshots all round the previous game) and there’s no way it would look like anything other than an off game to anyone investigating a throwing report. The system is non-functional.
I’ve reported multible people for competive game throwing, and they don’t get banned. Because a R56 besting their entire team by 300% isnt smurfing, or throwing.