For the past 2-3 seasons or so way too many times I’ve got matched either with or against people who were obviously way too good to be in gold/plat. I’m talking like, Widowmakers that push my whole team back to spawn, or my whole team dying the whole game and a smurf player just single-handedly carrying us to victory regardless.
Like I’m sorry but that’s just ridiculous and not how this game should be played. If I can’t play this game fairly, I don’t want to play at all. I could understand if smurf/boosters just work their way to a higher ELO and it was rare, but it’s way too prevalent.
If your good enough to rank up you beat them, plain and simple. I hate when players cry about smurfs when they are literally losing because they are bad. People arent just good when they play, it takes time.
They literally say they’re smurf accounts in chat. I’ve also had people tell us they’re boosting someone in chat and link us to their boosting website. I reported them, but I doubt it did much.
I’m sorry but you can’t just call them a smurf because they are just “way too good to be in your rank”. There needs to be something like a level 20 account Tracer taking out your whole back-line with Dafran-level of aim. If they are just better, then they aren’t smurfing
I reported a dude a few days ago who was obviously aimbotting. Our Genji (Diamond) literally flipped at the corner and was shot in the head. This Torb 1 shot the tanks too. He was walking around spamming and his aim would snap onto people, it was ridiculous. He 360 spun shot and killed me too. His teammates (think they were his friends) were saying graphic violent content and talking about r-ing people’s mothers and stuff. Fortunately, the Torb was banned, but the others were not. Their hamster was also using a tracking bot.
To figure out a genuine smurf from a good player can be hard, but turn on the kill cam and watch their movement, their aim and tracking and the way they’re interacting with people they’re destroying. There’s a huge difference between a gold widow that’s having an off great game and a widow that’s a genuine smurf (also see account level, if they’ve got a higher border they’re not smurfing).
If Blizzard take action you get a pop-up when you log in (usually around 24-48 hours after) that says thank you for reporting, etc. If it’s a serious offense like botting then you also get an email.
Exactly. I don’t just accuse people of smurfing unless it’s really obvious like you described. I generally try to give people the benefit of the doubt and try to blame myself first, but if it’s ridiculously obvious and it happens frequently it starts to become annoying.
The fact that it’s that obvious and frequent means it’s a problem.
Saying that, lately I’ve noticed a high number of suspicious accounts. There was a silver torb yesterday that was in a platinum match (not happy about that) he was on the enemy team, but he was running up and down holding left click and just 1-shotting people. His PF was curving round walls and killing people it wasn’t actually aimed at. I watched his killcam a few times and there was something very wrong given he was under level 100.
Usually if you get the same people again 1-2x more in a night of play then you can see for sure they’re not smurfs. I remember a widow that was destroying half my team and they were screaming aimbot and smurf and I played against her 2 games later and she was nothing.
Litteraly any game:
Smurfing? Ok…
OW: THEY ARE SMURFING!
Btw boosting is a thing only because it has offers and plat to diamond is the most boosted ranks, not only at ow btw, valorant is the same, dota’s 3k elo same, csgo middle ranks also. So it is more like player base issue not game’s
Just got a match where some unranked team mates told me they were throwing on purpose, definitely think they were wintrading or tanking their ELO on purpose to boost people.
This is definitely becoming less rare and getting actual normal games of Overwatch is getting harder to come by. I don’t know if I can keep playing this game if Blizzard isn’t going to do anything about people boosting accounts for other people.
They need to measure these games more by dmg per 10 instead of sr.yes golds should be fighting golds but the players in lobby should all be similar skill level as well