World Tour NEEDS skill based matchmaking

[Zaith]

Title. I was diamond 4 last season. I'm not the best player by any means. But I've played 20+ matches of world tour and haven't won a single time, contrasting last season where I would win every 3-5 games. It is SIGNIFICANTLY more challenging than ranked was last season.

[Honkey Kong]

Because terminal attack sucks and nobody is playing it, all the sweats are playing World Tour instead. It's effectively impossible to win in solo queue.

[HardEnzo]

It seems to me on the contrary it has become easier, also 4 diamond in the past. Now it's 4/5 to pick up the final.

[SymaQ]

I just won last game solo queued and I was diamond last season. I'm waiting for another match as I type.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

ive won every world tour tournament ive played so far, solo queue, but its like the other teams were bots. 2 games in 1 tournament we got engaged once and then never again for the rest of the match lol

[phut]

Gold 2. Haven't won a single WT match. Have won a few ranked TA. all solo Q. wild.

[@Onikrux]

people should be more keen on comming to randoms. main fall back I still find is players don't wanna mic up or even listen to those who do. & they still hardly use the Text Chat unless to say GG or GL.

[morsecode]

It's not SBMM alone but paired with psychologically-manipulative-addiction matchmaking.
Glossed over, lyingly, haloed as "engagement matchmaking", aka EOMM.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2073850/discussions/0/4328600722523657947/

https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~yzsun/papers/WWW17Chen_EOMM

This is part of the explanation why matchmaking was sh.iet S1 & S2 and now in S3 too.
And yes EOMM is active all the time, be it ranked or non-ranked.

Ranked silvers & gold players in the same lobby, first knockout round, as platinum 1 & diamonds, same as in casual game modes. Enough said.

[LUFFYSAMA]

coz most of the casuals are also playing it now so they dont care abt winning and original ranked players are also playing it so i think world rank is more crowded in comparision to original ranked

[Supernova]

I play with solo q and won few matches. But yea, it's crazy when you wanna win but your teammates pick 2 heavies with spears. Too many new players in matches. Why? Because they putted the button with quick matches to the right with color which doesn't brightfull like WT and TA

[mewingBOSS]

idk, I'm playing solo H with spear, won in 70% of my world tour matches (i mean top 1, not 1 round or something), was diamond 3 second season. Maybe u need some time to feel comfortable with this season

[Supernova]

Originally posted by y361ek36rus:

idk, I'm playing solo H with spear, won in 70% of my world tour matches (i mean top 1, not 1 round or something), was diamond 3 second season. Maybe u need some time to feel comfortable with this season

You don't have the Finals in your game Mr.Troll. It's unreal to have 70% of wins with the spear If you don't play with your team

[Supernova]

or it's just a random and you have good teammates

[Supernova]

Because I can imagine how you run hours for Heavy on Kyoto with spear and got bullets from Lights and Mediums

[[high] Icepick1337]

I haven't won a single WT yet as well. The closes I have gotten is last round. Then a team of all lights team wiped us in 2 seconds over and over. Nearly every game I have played there is 2 teams of only lights. and they always win. I normally roll with the CL-40 which was a good counter for the lights because it only needed 1 direct hit. After the patch nerfed it. It now requires 2 direct hits if the light is full health. So I have gone from being able to wipe a light team without reloading but have to have all three shots direct hit to now have to reload. This has gotten me kill so many times. Now compare that to most light close weapons they can kill two plays in under a second before reloading. The CL-40 I would need 2 to 3 seconds to do that. I have no hope. Thanks devs for catering for the lights again.

Going from cash out and power shift where it feel fun and balanced, some what, to world tour where it doesn't at all.

Originally posted by Zaith:

Title. I was diamond 4 last season. I'm not the best player by any means. But I've played 20+ matches of world tour and haven't won a single time, contrasting last season where I would win every 3-5 games. It is SIGNIFICANTLY more challenging than ranked was last season.

Having skill based match making would mean the dev would have to have a brain and that's not something these dev have unless its for 1 class only.

Originally posted by @onikrux:

people should be more keen on comming to randoms. main fall back I still find is players don't wanna mic up or even listen to those who do. & they still hardly use the Text Chat unless to say GG or GL.

I have noticed that as well or they don't know how to play the WT version of cash out. A lot of my team mates don't understand that if only 1 cash out is active at the 1 minute mark that the other cash out will disappear. I don't agree on that decision.

[Revolver Foxelot]

No one actually likes SBMM. Learn to play the game as intended.