Role queue needs to fix SR ratings and MMR! This is my number one suggestion!

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I want to preface my post by saying that I absolutely adore Overwatch. This game is my life. I’ve been playing since November 2016 and I’ve never looked back! That being said, the quality of my games hasn’t felt good during the beta of Role Queue. It sounds so much like I’m whining and I realize this, but I truly believe that I’m being placed with weaker teammates and weaker enemy teams.

I’ve been GM dozens of seasons, and the seasons that I haven’t have been played in high Master. My maximum SR is 4231 so I’ve seen the highest highs of ranked ladder. Many players just say “get good” when I try to discuss my feelings about the game currently, but I honestly and truly feel like I’m outperforming my team and decimating the enemy team and I even see platinum players in my game, sometimes on my team and sometimes on the other team.

I’m saying this without ego because I want to know if the new Role Queue system has flaws or if I’m underperforming and this could be measured by a legitimate metric. It sounds like an exaggeration but many of my games I have all 3-4 gold medals on Sigma, and it’s nearly impossible to climb, and for me, it feels like I’m performing outrageously on my team.

I fully realize that this role queue season is in beta, so I just really want the matchmaking to be more accurate and have even games IF it is indeed related to matchmaking. I love role queue as I’m a tank player, but I feel like the matchmaking is so so so so far off from where it should be.

I would say I can pretty comfortably play in Master, and I’m currently at 3281. I’m guessing this happens on the enemy team as well, so who knows…

Here’s a game where I’m guessing my team is much stronger and we fully spawn camp the enemy, This is apparently a diamond game I honestly have many games like this and I STILL end up losing the game as I kill the enemy while my team is spawn camped from spawn like this as well.

Anyways thanks for reading…and yeah watch my video if you think this is just a whining video of a SR stuck player.

Please Blizzard, don’t let Role Queue ruin high level matchmaking… I beg of you. If that’s indeed the issue here…

Edit: I should clarify that these issues are accentuated the later in the night, especially around 2 AM+, which makes sense. I can live with that to a large degree since it’s off peak hours!

Edit2: I also believe you should only be able to queue for one role at a time, I think this would alleviate some of the issues of DPS players being forced into a secondary role! Commit to your role!~

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I do believe there is an issue. I am being placed well below where I have been previously.
I don’t think its whinning at all since I’ve grouped with people and solo queued to get where I was in SR the previous seasons.

One of my friends is a fantastic DPS high Plat. However his tanking is silver/gold and support is somewhere inbetween. He placed 2900 for DPS then 2700 for Tanking and 2750 for support. He knows he isn’t a plat tank so why has he been placed there in the first place.

I do feel the same that I am playing much better than the others on my team (I have off games as well where it’s not great, I’ll admit that) when I solo more. I originally created a second account to see where I would place on my own since my main I always placed as a group and I placed in Plat on the alt and gold/plat on my main.
But since role queue beta I’m placing almost silver well below where I finished last season or where I even fluctuated gold/plat boarder.

Blizzard you say your system works out where people should be very quickly but if you get placed in the lower brackets your at the mercy of your team mates for support. If there in the wrong brackets of SR it creates games that just aint worth playing because they can’t climb or they bring down other people because they can’t play the role in the SR you assigned them.

To wrap this up.
The soft MMR reset or stats they have been dividing up between the roles for the past couple of months wasn’t enough. Blizzard you might be taking into account the wrong stats for the different roles. It’s quite dishartning seeing people placed incorrectly.

I think when live seasons come back you need to either increase the number of placement matches or fix the stats your using to figure out SR.
Role queue is fantstic and is what the game needs but your throwing the games for people because your incorrectly calculating the wrong SR on placements.

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I think a lot of people underestimate the power of just gamesense. You don’t have to be a tank main to be at the same rank you are in your main roles.

If you’re a plat DPS, you’re most likely a plat tank and healer. The only possible times this may not be the case is Masters and GM. A GM healer will most likely not be a GM DPS, and that’s why most of those people end up in masters.

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You know it occurred to me as well that it might have been the placement games too. Maybe since the SR is split 3 times, maybe instead of 5 we actually need 15 games. Out of every game I played last night, I probably under performed maybe 2-3 and absolutely dominated and ended with all golds probably…like 12? I feel really confident that 15 games would balance people properly into their roles, but 45 games seems like it’d be exhausting as well.