How does unranked mode (quick play) work?

[Dmitry]

Does this mode really match players by skill (That's what it says in the description)
or is it purely random matchmaking?

Sometimes 50% of the games involve beginner players and the remaining 50% are professional players playing for the other team.

[WhiteKnight]

Nope it rarely or never matches u with player of your skill. Ever since i've played OW from 2016 i played against T500 and below.

In OW2 it's worst since they put you and against new players, cross-play players and everything and gives u a match. Since queuing faster is top priority for Blizzard than giving u quality matches which might give us longer queues.

[Dmitry]

Originally posted by WhiteKnight:

Nope it rarely or never matches u with player of your skill. Ever since i've played OW from 2016 i played against T500 and below.

In OW2 it's worst since they put you and against new players, cross-play players and everything and gives u a match. Since queuing faster is top priority for Blizzard than giving u quality matches which might give us longer queues.

thank you very much for the answer!

[Ichmag 🔑🌙]

theres definitely MMR, its just very loose

[CLUTCH]

It is also worse in OW2 since the players are boosted WAY ahead of what they should be. Diamond 1 and 3 who should be in gold 3-5.

It is unranked so it doesn't really matter. Honestly, ranked isn't much better. Just be ready to lose some SR in ranked.

[THAT Guy]

Originally posted by WhiteKnight:

Nope it rarely or never matches u with player of your skill.

It's not designed to..

In ow1 the matchmaking systems primarily function was to maintain a playerbase wide 50% win rate average. (The win rate of the entire playerbase when averaged out to around 50%)

In ow2 they kept this but also implemented mininum and maximum win rate thresholds alongside it. 40% min 60% max.

The thresholds are what make it so bad and negitively impact the playerbase which results in it getting perpetually worse with time..

It's impossible for a matchmaking system to make matches consisting of players who have compareable skill levels, and maintain win rate thresholds..

In simple terms, the matchmaking system is a marketing tool..

This isn't unique to overwatch, in fact numerous games have used variations of it, and not one that has, lives more than a few years, because it always causes the playerbase to decay..

Here's a short list of a few games I can personally confirm use variations of this type of matchmaking, overwatch2, TF2, Gundam evolution, splitgate..



There is a mildly silver lining to all of this, that being it's a fundamentally flawed system, that can easily be manipulated and exploited.