A Smurf Ruined My Fun

[RawwkinGrimmie64]

Tonight I had the most fun I have ever played in a match. Friendly teammates, great comms, jokes, laughter, and morale boosters all around. We ended up winning a Convergence match by less than 1.5 meters.

I go check the stat sheet after the game, and what do I see? A player on our team went 37-15-2 with 33 Final Hits! Sure enough, their career is 4.7 hours total, 2.2 hours in Competitive, with a 1-0 Competitive record as Iron Man and Psylocke, who they used in our match. Their Competitive match history is 13-0 with 11 MVPs and no less than +45 elo per match.

A.K.A. Our team got hard carried by a Smurf and barely won the game.

I am so sick and tired of this. Either players get mad that they get "hard stuck" in a rank and Smurf to stomp over players of a lesser rank than them, or they use low elo Comp like it's a practice match simulator and throw otherwise fair matches by going 1-6 as characters they never played before. This is INSULTING to everyone else that has to put up with it and have their elo thrown out of whack.

NetEase needs to put a stop to Smurf accounts ASAP!!!

[Tiziel]

Maybe a phone number verification. Im agree there is a lot of smurfing.

[Asur18]

100% agree, this is a huge problem especially in low elo, where smurfs stomp players at lower skill level and be like "I am better than you people", no you aren't, they too washed to play high elo and just want to ruin other people's fun.

The ban system needs to be monitored when you report a smurf by a human rather than it being a bot. And don't get me started on content creators who make smurfs.

[Asur18]

Originally posted by Tiziel:

Maybe a phone number verification. Im agree there is a lot of smurfing.

It will reduce it, but won't stop it. People can just use other numbers, I feel like a smurf only queue or ban from competitive will work better.

[Tiziel]

Originally posted by Asur18:

Originally posted by Tiziel:

Maybe a phone number verification. Im agree there is a lot of smurfing.

It will reduce it, but won't stop it. People can just use other numbers, I feel like a smurf only queue or ban from competitive will work better.

I agree, every hero shooter i have played had smurf, like ow or paladins.

[Basarab Laiota]

i don't see anything wrong with making a new account. it's not something i would do but if people get satisfaction from stomping noobs then they should be allowed to do that

[Arch]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

i don't see anything wrong with making a new account. it's not something i would do but if people get satisfaction from stomping noobs then they should be allowed to do that

The problem is that the game's matchmaking system is specifically built in a way that is supposed to match players up against other players of THEIR skill level.

I think a lot of people forget that RANKED is not supposed to be a roguelite run where you try to reach Eternity as fast as possible and then make a new account to try for a better time; it's about being put in a league where you can actually be CHALLENGED by other players of your skill level. If that isn't fun for you, why play ranked at all? QP has no skill-based matchmaking, you're free to stomp as many noobs as you want there.

The second problem comes in when you consider that it is ruining the experience for other players who WANT to be matched up against players of a similar skill level. Imagine you've just hit level 10, and want to climb into the lowest levels in ranked to try and throw your minimal knowledge at the wall.
Only to your dismay, the enemy team is comprised of 3 smurfs who have all reached GM or Eternity on another tag, and three ACTUAL bronze players.
What is supposed to be a free for all between inexperienced players trying to get a feel for how the competitive atmosphere works, has turned into a one sided relentless genocide.

Your takeaway from this experience will likely be "This game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks, how am I supposed to do anything when THIS is what Bronze is like???"

Whether or not you agree that this IS a problem is not what I'm here to tell you.
I'm telling you that this is WHY people THINK it is a problem.

[Pirate Beard]

They should make you fill out a job application before you can create a new account. That should stop the smurfing