It is every match with a HUGE skill difference now, stomps, upon stomps, upon stomps. Why can’t the developers explain why they can’t put EQUAL teams against each other? Any talk about “adjusting” the matchmaker has resulted in MORE STOMPS.
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Because this would mean they would have to take responsibility for said failure. They have never been great of owning up to the fact its always been flawed. As well as the smurfing issue which circumvents the matchmaker for period of time.
More smurfing = more money, as well give’s the declining steamer population the ability to use “unranked to GM” as a source of content.
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They have many many times. The tldr is it’s hard to predict human skill when it varies so much day to day.
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Non-Disclosure Agreements.
But like, its not difficult to read between the lines and realize the OW2 team is only well versed in making skins.
They don’t care about anything else.
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Its very easy to predict a GM player vs a Bronze player.
However, they still want the illusion that there are a ton of players. If they matched skill it would be a LONG wait for games. So, they open up the matchmaker so it has a larger pool of people to choose from, thereby making games quick, and keeping the illusion.
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Well that is a straight out lie. When you have 20+ stomps, it is more than just variability of player skill on a daily basis.
Because it isn’t matchmaking.
OW2 is designed to snowball. Whoever wins the first fight tends to keep momentum unless the other team learns how to take it back or the team with momentum doesnt take advantage of it.
You could put to PERFECTLY matched teams against each other and this would still be the case.
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Its called 50/50 win/lose ratio
Yeah no. I see silvers against masters and 21 to 0 while my team has 0 -13. That just does not happen with equally skilled teams.
Well, telling everyone that the game has been rigged all this time isn’t that simple (even though they kinda did at at least 2 occasions and the shill kept making excuses)
Odd. OW1 didnt have this problem (or it was significantly less of an issue).
Must be the fault of 5v5, so glad the devs said 5v5 is “working” after years of fumbling, trial and error, lol
“Okay, yeah I need to assemble 4 teams of equally skilled players from this pool of 20 players, all looking for the same thing”
“Okay, what do you need? I got 3 Silvers, 3 Golds, 3 Plats, 3 Diamonds, 3 Masters, 3 Bronze and 2 Grand Masters.”
“Well I need them all equally skilled so I need 10 players for one game of 2 teams.”
“Can’t give you that; so pick your poisons”
“Okay I’ll take a Master’s Tank”
“Don’t have a Master’s Tank, Master’s DPS, DPS, and Support”
“Okay, need a Diamond Tank”
“No Diamond Tanks, just 3 Diamond DPS”
“Okay give me a Plat Tank”
“Two Plats are Supports, one is DPS”
Getting the picture yet?
It probably is the fault of 5v5 in this case. I think the format itself lends a little more towards stomps. The new gamemodes, particularly clash, seem to have formats that are way more likely to cause snowballing in public games as well. Its very easy for teams to get desynced in clash and never really play together. People largely dont understand when to give up on a point to regroup.
I never understood why the general game-base of OW never talks about these being smurf accounts!
OW will never disclaim it since its free publicity for them. Streamers won’t question each other.
General public is so stupid that they can’t even understand the basic logic that if a GM level player is plying in a metal rank (even though they only played 10 games and then progressed to GM), it doesn’t change the fact that for those 10 games, they were a smurf!
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Stacking
No real matchmaking in qp
5v5 format
Free to play
Cheaters
Smurfs in comp
Some combo of these things is why match quality sucks. Blizz doesn’t say anything because they can’t really make it any better.
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Yes… That’s one of the reasons they have given before based on population it’s impossible to make tight matchs.
Sorry mate it’s a fact, no matchmaker cannot understand if your having a off day, drunk, tired,tilted until you actually play and express your skill.
Now my point might be wrong because there is another reason or something but that’s not your point your desperately calling a fact a lie and that’s because you seem to be very emotional and you know emotional people will experience more stomps.
When you’re stomping your happy and play. When you get a balanced game you tilt because it’s a hard game and it becomes a stomp. This is an effect that does happen and considering you emotional statement i would have ignore you opinion now.
Every SBMM has this problem. Now I can’t say if it’s worse in OW2 because the game feels different and I’d say it’s easy to feel an imbalance in 5v5 because of how it’s balanced and having one less player.
One fact does come to mine is that in OW1 you could climb with a negative winrate if you exploited performance based mmr. Which is a flaw that doesn’t exist anymore.
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I’ve seen this too. Want to know something interesting? In multi round modes I have watched the stompers become the stompies. Why? Because the first fight in each round gives advantage.
Now if you are playing quickplay you are going to see a disparity. That is expected. But once again, OW2 is designed to snowball. It happens regardless of high close the ranks are.
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So you’re saying that silver and master friends shouldn’t be able to play with each other in qp?
Just queue for comp if rank differences and loose matches scare you you’re not going to match wide range unless you’re queueing with a wide skill range yourself.
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Explain Venture, then.
I mean they mostly do, however most games will very because heroes are made to counter and stack with each other.
So if they have good matchups and you have bad matchups, and or they have good synergy and you have bad synergy.
that’s just how the game goes.
Also like most people overexagerate what a stomp is, I’ve seen people show me a video of an attacking team getting to third point junker town, then losing 3~5 team fights their coming down to the wire and claim the enemy team stomped them.
Something got screwy in the pipe line and stalled development of him and most likely his Egyptian themed setting/season. And are seemingly releasing in season 14 ish.