Something is wrong with QP, Not Fun at all, it's a problem

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Feel drained, and dumb.

Been focusing on my Tank game, but I don’t think I won much lately.

(Don’t even know who to main anymore.) (Being countered too hard I think.)

And swear 1/4 of my teammates were medium bots.

Seriously confused over some the plays. (Honestly feels like people are just throwing the game casually.)

But also too bot like at times.

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It has a problem with high rank players playing in it combined with the flawed matchmaking system. Competitive exists for a reason.

Need to “warm up”? Practice a hero you don’t play often? Can’t queue with your friends together in comp?

The solution: play co-op.

Contrary to popular belief, you do not need to ruin the fun for casual/low rank players so you can get your empty victories.

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These game honestly sucks.

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yep, i feel the exact same way

i used to play qp ALL DAY

now i play 2-3 games and i just feel depressed?

Something changed since season 3. I have been playing a LONG TIME and never felt this

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I agree, it’s been draining with this recent patch

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I am pretty convinced blizzard uses bots in qp to fill games. I can’t understand how many 1v5 solo ults I’ve witnessed where the bot runs from spawn right to battle and then presses q instantly. no way that is a normal person as it happens so often in my games and it never happened this much in ow1

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Fully agree with your post.

Skilled players and teamsters ruin it for Random Q casuals and it has caused the game to become depleated of all joy and happiness that was once about Casual fun and enjoyable gameplay.

The match maker sees two things it appears those that can’t aim anywhere, and those that do okay at the game. The ones that do “okay” are quickly thrown into “brick wall” matches and all it is, is relentless beatings and thrashings all night, until a person has to shut off the game and quit. And thats after surfing through 20 matches and trying to avoid the rabid sweat lobbies that this game is littered with.

Today, I get more matches that are sweat and foam factories that are punching out fire bricks that pave the very streets of blizzard world, that are so hot to stand on. That a person gets 2-shot ko’d from spawn against sweaty 5-stackers that want their salty empty victory and are rewarded nothing other than satisfaction of thrashing someone 10 times below their skill level.

Blizzard wonders why folks won’t buy their stuff. Maybe first lower the price and second, solve the skill gap in match making.

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Wow, I’m not the only one then.

Normally there’s some QP games where both sides are just having a good time. No matter if you win or lose, it’s at least a little fun.

But recently, every single QP game feels like comp. Enemy teams are clearly communicating in force, positioned in all of the meta positions, DPS rarely miss a shot. I have to sweat every damn game to even get an inch. And sure, I mess up a lot too, I’m not denying that. But when I watch my supports run in front of my shield as Rein and get insta dropped by the enemy Widow or Cassidy, watch as my DPS pump bullets into the tank getting double pocketed instead of the supports standing still and doing so, it’s not fun. It’s not fun at all.

The matchmaker has absolutely gotten worse.

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Yea it has many reasons…

  • coins rewards for winning
  • matchmaking
  • ppl who play ranked normally dont touch it because its horrible
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I don’t have this experience.

I play mostly QP these days, solo queue. I just pick a character that’s fun and go ham on people because who cares, and I win 90% of my matches. It’s very rare for me to run into a full team of sweats in QP.

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My theory is that QP is filled with those millions of new players Blizz loves to brag about. They are probably very casual players that either don’t play comp, or are all so low low low bronze so we never see them. On top of QP having no real matchmaker.

I guess this is why comp shockingly feels so much more balanced than QP.

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Blizzard admitted that the matchmaking was bugged being too lenient with the skill differences. Imagine that same broken matchmaking squared - that’s QP this season. I had a QP game with a Bronze and a top 500 in the same game. That don’t make no sense.

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Battlepass likely encourage someone to make bot system for PC.

This is nothing new with Blizz, even Hearthstone has a “must have” card counter mod.

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Doomfist is not a tank never will be it’s the biggest scam blizzard has done on it’s playerbase ask for dps doom.

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Honestly Devs need to address this,

Since we already reworking Roadhog.

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Nothing has been fun for more then a week since Launch…

Blizzard is really trying to figure it out with a f2p game lol.

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I don’t know, beta was pretty Memorable

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Because it was short bursts of “new” after years of droughts. Bad was dismissed as “it’s only beta”. When the hype settled down, flaws become more apparent.

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There are lots of problems with OW and QP in general that reduces the fun:

  1. Too many leavers: You never feel like playing in a team when people constantly join and leave
  2. Hero swapping: While it is a mechanic of OW to counter comps or strategies it just leads to the same heroes showing up in evry match. If you would have to choose your hero before the match and then the matchmaker would place you in a match and you would not be able to switch heroes, then you would see way more diversity beause if everyone picks JR for example, their queue time would increase while an Echo would find a match must faster. Same thing QP in HotS works - you pick a hero BEFORE the match and the matchmaker puts you into a match where every just has only one of each heroes.
  3. The game itself does not have any hero customization ability/talent wise. Paladins is a good example how to add another layer of hero customization so everyone can play their favorite hero slightly differently or adapt to the match by choosing another talent.
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leavers are a big issue, but since last patch at least backfilling seems to be working more aggressively - earlier it could take several minutes to get a backfill, and sometimes you didnt get any for a whole game.

but for this week the matches quality in qp has been quite terrible, maybe it is due to the matchmaking bug that aaron tweeted, or the event making a mess, but yeah - its been possibly some of the worst games i’ve seen in the last 3 months.

the moment i duoed, the games instantly were better. but solo queue has been super rough.

also i ran into one 5 stack 5 times in a row and i think everyone else was solo queue.
nothing wrong with that, i can take sweaty games but the teams were really not even lol.