Or why am I getting legitimately new people on my team/the enemy team the past week? Had a Genji tell me earlier he’s only had the game for a few days.
They’re either stomped or stomp equally as new enemies. Meanwhile I’m just kind of there between all the rank 5s to 10s.
QP by the way.
There are a LOT of smurfs right now. And i mean i have like 2-4 each game. And there are a lot rusty folks coming back and a good deal of new players. MMR is all out of whack.
Ps: if you smurf youre a pathetic coward. Full stop.
i don’t think they have made any changes to the match maker since the quality of players has stayed the same for me (excluding those new players) but yeah i’ve noticed that there’s been a massive influx of new players over the past week or so and honestly i don’t know why…
It’s sad. One example:
I just walked on the point as Orisa while the enemy team was all over the place, not even near me. I capped, went to point B, pew pew. Match over. Hardly 3 minutes. Spent a minute just watching what the heckers everyone was doing. Bless the Lucio for healing my team who was still near spawn A.
Blizzard solution to the long queue times. Now level 7 players get matched with and against level 1500+.
Jesus. Ive seen 3 cards but never 2. Thats abysmal. Are you just coming back?
Nope. I play almost daily.
O_O and those low levels were actual noobs? Not just smurfs who thought they were better than they were so they bought a new account?
Actual brand new people. The entire team. The Winston was the highest level there. The only reason why there is that much healing is because some on my team were new as well and had a run in with a Bastion. But generally, I just walked past and capped the points. lol
40s Objective time. 
This is only one instance. Most of my games the past week is similar to this. Of course other times they’re clearly smurfs.
In quickplay I’ve noticed a lot of low levels as well. Some are smurfs but some are legitimately so bad it’s obvious they’re new to the game.
Hot damn. Ive had a few times where my low levels werent smurfs but nothing to that degree. Regardless, and this is the argument against smurfs too, you know that noob aint having fun either. Theyre gonna leave if they dont get better matches.
QP goes really wide in match making. So odds are there is another ‘you’ on the other team the rest doesn’t mater in the eyes of the match maker. It’s just seeing a team average.
I also suspect a whole lot of new accounts are not really 100% new players, even if they try to say that in game. They are either people from average SR rolling the dice again or high SR players making a new alt.
Right? I feel like I’m either getting matched with/against level 1000 GM Widows or legit level 7 bronze players.
Its putting the quality of my matches, in the toilet.
it’s been absolute clown shoes since they introduced 2/2/2.
i had one game against a GM then the next game i had a silver on my team. pathetic.
They opened up the matchmaker around the same time they implemented 222 to keep the times down.
I suggest playing comp for higher quality and longer games.
Mm isnt broken in qp. It’s always been like this.
Also your rank nor levels doesnt friiking matter in there. Ya’ll should know that by now.
And if it’s just qp, why do you care so much about other players or what levels they’re?
Trust me, when it’s a new player, it is 100% a new player. It’s easy to tell the difference between a smurf (and pretending to do bad) and someone who just got the game. A few days ago there was an enemy Bastion who had no idea what he was doing, and never went into turret mode. Had him on my team next fight, as Junkrat, and was constantly dead because he only knew how to fire grenades right in front of my shield.
It matters for new people who have the most miserable experience.
It’s the price you pay for freedom of QP. Some games are not even at all, what are you going to do.
It really doesnt.
Those new players can be smurfs too you know.
Im just saying, qp’s been like this like forever. And rank shouldnt matter there regardless if you were new player or not.
I’ve been here long enough to know that, and know the difference between smurf and new person.