Is everyone just that good or is matchmaking not balanced?

[matilda]

I just started playing today, although I come from a background that understands moba's concepts, along with seeing some videos about this game, I was not expecting to get my ass handed to me the way it did.

Every single game I get one shot and loose by 60k soul diff, everyone is just so much better than me that it's discouraging me, do any new players play this at all? Was I just unlucky?

[Crowhunter]

Player count has tanked, and the number of cheaters is outrageous. Finding balanced matches is pretty impossible at this point.

[Butra]

There are also clear balanc eissues regarding the heroes. When some heroes have a 80% pickrate and others 20%, it should be an indication. But for some reason Valve is not balancing the game (for quite a long time now). It is pure dog****. Also it seems to love to put all the heroes with an avg pickrate of 80% into one team and then the other team all the heroes with an avg pickrate of 30%

[Ragnaman]

matchmaker is busted,
eternus players play on smurf accounts,
cheaters do exist,

In short, its not just you, you can improve, but the journey right now is like eating rusty nails.

[matilda]

Originally posted by Ragnaman:

matchmaker is busted,
eternus players play on smurf accounts,
cheaters do exist,

In short, its not just you, you can improve, but the journey right now is like eating rusty nails.

Thank you all for clarifying! I do hope I can get better, I'm just spamming abrams so I don't need to think on mechanics so much.

[SaBiBi]

Honestly game is in a ♥♥♥♥ state right now like people have said. It feels like they just have not balanced the game enough and just keep throwing ideas into it. I get that it is a play test but come on I feel like there could be a better way to go about this.

[ᵀᴴᴱ Uʟₜiᴹₐᵀᴱ ᴰᴱᴳᴱᴺᴱᴿᴬᵀᴱ]

matchmaking ignore too much the aiming from players imo

[Marmarmar34]

Play vs bots

[ApocalypseMeow]

Even the bots are too much lmao. Im trying to learn the game but these bots are rushing me and dealing twice as much damage as me.

[GατΠιсЭ]

Originally posted by Marmarmar34:

Play vs bots

Bots vs Play

[Kalibrovshik]

Originally posted by ApocalypseMeow:

Even the bots are too much lmao. Im trying to learn the game but these bots are rushing me and dealing twice as much damage as me.

Usually it means you have to get better. Bots are weak to the point where you can teamwipe them solo when midgame

[LETS FARM & NEVER PLAY OBJECTIVE]

Originally posted by Fuxleep:

Player count has tanked, and the number of cheaters is outrageous. Finding balanced matches is pretty impossible at this point.

This

[JPKortez]

It is not balanced and nowadays the game is also full of cheaters. Just check the youtube vidoes about aimbots and stuff and then check some replays. Yes, there are also good gamers like there are in other games but there is also a great amount of cheaters. You can also check the tracklogg with the player's name and find out that some "sick good" player has actually played like 20 matches :D then you can use some variation of the players name and find out that the same guy has like 10 accounts. So that he can cheat. Good job Valve. It was a promising game but it's time to move to games with developers that care more about the player community.

[Kikka21]

Other's have brought up lot's of good points, the playerbase tanking has ruined the pool of players and now we'll only have dedicated sweats playing the game.

But the main problem at this game's very core is it being a MOBA, if you get unlucky with matchmaking, you're stuck having a crap game for 40 minutes. No amount of changes will fix the flaws of this genre.

This happens in other MOBA's, I've heard horror stories of two hour+ Dota games. Once you get a ♥♥♥♥ game, there's very little you can do because you're not only competing vs the enemy, you have to face things like throwing teammates, rage quiters, and teammates who don't give call outs or communicate.
You can't fix this with more patches, it's a symptom of the genre. 350 hours in myself and I think I'm done.

[my butt is erect]

Do people have meaningful proof there are cheaters?

I haven't played in a few months but played constantly for a couple months. I come from a background of fps obsession my whole life, and a lesser but decent moba background. Basically I'm trying to say I'm at least good at aiming, but probably not a god at it. With that in mind, I was still regularly surprised with how impossible it seemed that so many opponents gunned me down so fast and seemingly never missing. I was very suspicious aimbot was common, it felt very wrong that with me being at very least pretty good at aiming, that I would be blasted to death in 1v1s so badly.

I have never been so conspiratorial about my opponents' skill in a game. It got very annoying and weird. But the best I came across for "proof" was suspicious damage graphs where they go up basically in a straight line, implying never missing. But this probably isn't the most accurate way to investigate.

[Palo Wagner]

I see a lot of people with nearly perfect aim, is quite weird