Fix ranked matches

[Runfos]

It's sad to be trying to move up to diamond rank and having to play with silver and gold noobs almost every game.
If it continues like this, the competitive will die.

[Raansu]

I think most people are simply not playing ranked. Add in the huge drop off in players and the matchmaking for ranked is likely never going to work. Just simply not enough people playing ranked.

[vmfkdirn2009]

yes

[Runfos]

Originally posted by Raansu:

I think most people are simply not playing ranked. Add in the huge drop off in players and the matchmaking for ranked is likely never going to work. Just simply not enough people playing ranked.

Yes, but I'd rather wait 10 or 20 minutes for a fair and balanced match than have to be frustrated by always playing with noobs.

[lIl Ball]

agree

[Raansu]

Originally posted by Runfos:

Originally posted by Raansu:

I think most people are simply not playing ranked. Add in the huge drop off in players and the matchmaking for ranked is likely never going to work. Just simply not enough people playing ranked.

Yes, but I'd rather wait 10 or 20 minutes for a fair and balanced match than have to be frustrated by always playing with noobs.

You'll likely find yourself in the minority on that one. Any long than 2 or 3 minutes and the average player likely will give up on ranked and go queue for unranked where they get a game in 30 seconds.

It's an impossible balancing act for the devs honestly.

[Voodoo_S3]

What if your 'skill-rating' is different to your rank, seems kinda odd that in the patch notes they'd use the term 'skill-rating' rather than rank. I suspect there's a hidden skill-rating that matchmaking is based on rather than basing MM solely on rank. Of course I could be wrong, but ranked MM really doesn't seem like it's actually based on rank, I mean it can't be that difficult to make MM system simply based on rank can it, you'd just place all players of same rank in the same MM pool and do this for every rank.

I got to plat (all soloq) and basically gave up at that point due to the matchmaking essentially punishing me with bad team mates.

"Updated matchmaking configuration in Tournament and Ranked Tournament modes, to help ensure closer matches by skill-rating"

[PILLZ]

I'm bronze and I like being matched with diamond and gold tiers bros

[Dromp]

I play around 8 hrs a week and i am gold 1 so i cant complain, sometimes is a slow crawl.

On the upper tier i got matched with up to 3 ranks, gold to plat as for lower ranks i got match as low as bronze 3 (so that makes it around 10-15 ranks difference i think) and it is always an elastic shot effect, you win you get boosted you loose you get sent downward.

Usually you can notice it in the gameplay of your teamates, like bronze players rushing in the last 10 seconds to cash-in even if they are qualified or lights running on the other side of the map ignoring any team pings/voice, silver that forgets to stay alive and hide when its the last player, gold people forget going to high ground most of the times or when to engage, when i get to plat i will know more to write about lol...

Overall in a 3 team comp there is alot of carry potential, if you are better you will go up in rank, and starting with gold people are more team focused.

A big issue of loosing games is that everyone is getting caught up in the chaos instead of chilling a bit and look around before engaging.

[xgiovio]

Same problem, i’m platinum and this evening i lost 10 matches in a row. Matchmaking made mainly with bronze teammates. What a joke. I was downgraded from platinum 2.5 to 3.5

[Ton_Tonn]

Originally posted by Runfos:

It's sad to be trying to move up to diamond rank and having to play with silver and gold noobs almost every game.
If it continues like this, the competitive will die.

I'm not sure if this is the case, but I think sbmm also is part of it, bc, I didn't play ranked at all for ages, then started playing a few weeks ago and I just kept getting put up against high ranked teams as a bronze. It sucked from the other side too, felt like i was letting down my team as a solo. very grim, idk what they'll do to fix it but i think making matches based of their rank instead of sbmm would help.

[smokratez]

Originally posted by Raansu:

Originally posted by Runfos:

Yes, but I'd rather wait 10 or 20 minutes for a fair and balanced match than have to be frustrated by always playing with noobs.

It's an impossible balancing act for the devs honestly.

no, when they didn't make it so premades get to beat up on solos when they still had 200,000 players, they wouldn't be down to 15.000 now

[Raansu]

Originally posted by smokratez:

Originally posted by Raansu:

It's an impossible balancing act for the devs honestly.

no, when they didn't make it so premades get to beat up on solos when they still had 200,000 players, they wouldn't be down to 15.000 now

I do agree that premades should never be allowed to play against solo teams, but that's also an unrealistic ask in a mode that has 8 teams to start. Premade queues would be unreasonably long.

[Breath]

True "solo competitive" is horrible right now, It really needs actually skill based match making and fast. Right now if you are 3 person and good at game you can win most of your games because other team can be random 3 bronze-silver players without coms. At top players on ladder is there bc of they spam games not bc they are the best players. they just abuse the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ match making and spam the games to get there, And in mid leagues like gold if you wanna play solo ranked you are gifted with bronze light teammates. Fix this ♥♥♥♥

[smokratez]

Originally posted by Raansu:

Originally posted by smokratez:

no, when they didn't make it so premades get to beat up on solos when they still had 200,000 players, they wouldn't be down to 15.000 now

I do agree that premades should never be allowed to play against solo teams, but that's also an unrealistic ask in a mode that has 8 teams to start. Premade queues would be unreasonably long.

yeah, but if you did it when you still had 200,000 players...

[Raansu]

Originally posted by smokratez:

Originally posted by Raansu:

I do agree that premades should never be allowed to play against solo teams, but that's also an unrealistic ask in a mode that has 8 teams to start. Premade queues would be unreasonably long.

yeah, but if you did it when you still had 200,000 players...

It would still be unreasonably long. Most people play games solo.