Is Netease manipulating ranked?

[Kernist]

I noticed that 90% of the games are stomps, one side or the other, balanced game is a rarity. Considering you get a lot more points for winning than you lose for losing and existence of the loss shield it looks like ranks are obtained by grinding, not by being actually good.

That would match the fact gold is top few percent of the players. In other games, you get matched pretty much evenly with exceptions, and the more you win, the more you climb. Here it feels like outcome was decided before the match started. In pushing I had more 3-0 (or 1-0 if worse team defends first) games way more than all other possible scores combined.

If it proves true, I am uninstalling it soon. I just bought FF XVI and Metaphor, I don't need to spend my time on chinese knockoff of OW that manipulates qp with bots and competitive with rigged matchmaking.

[Dizel]

they manipulate on qm, so who knows, (+higher fps= faster character etc etc) after that nothing can suprise me

[UsuallyDope]

Originally posted by Kernist:

I am uninstalling it soon. I just bought FF XVI and Metaphor, I don't need to spend my time on chinese knockoff of OW that manipulates qp with bots and competitive with rigged matchmaking.

Go do it then. TF are you telling us for? This isnt an airport, no need to announce your departure.

[Atomic]

This game has no balanced games thanks to not having SBMM, the outcome is decided based on whether you queued with a premade squad or randomly if everyone queued solo and if the game randomly decided to put all good players in the same team because... that's also RNG, it's not rigged, it's just randomness.

As for getting bots in qp, afaik you only get a botted lobby if you're on a losing streak.

[Kernist]

Originally posted by Atomic:

This game has no balanced games thanks to not having SBMM, the outcome is decided based on whether you queued with a premade squad or randomly if everyone queued solo and if the game randomly decided to put all good players in the same team because... that's also RNG, it's not rigged, it's just randomness.

As for getting bots in qp, afaik you only get a botted lobby if you're on a losing streak.

Ok, but this game gives me 3-0 or 0-3 in a 1:1 pattern too consistently for me to believe it's just random.

[Alcina]

Originally posted by Kernist:

In other games, you get matched pretty much evenly with exceptions, and the more you win, the more you climb. Here it feels like outcome was decided before the match started.

Guessing you didn't come from OW2 then. They do exactly the same thing.

[RobAlca]

skill issue,if u cant rank up iis uor ability the problem

[Atomic]

Originally posted by Kernist:

Ok, but this game gives me 3-0 or 0-3 in a 1:1 pattern too consistently for me to believe it's just random.

Well tbf, it's a team game, you alone cannot decide whether you will win or lose consistently, even worse if you're solo queuing. What are the odds that you'll either get noobs insta locking dps or getting a well established team? 50-50, hence the 1:1 you're getting. I'm talking with reference to competitive, ranking system where people of similar rank will be matched with each other (bronze with bronze players etc).

With qp it is a different story because this game in a way it is rigged because if you lose I think 2 games, your 3rd game will be botted so I guess to ensure that everyone has at least 50% win rate so there is that too.

[Kernist]

Originally posted by Atomic:

Originally posted by Kernist:

Ok, but this game gives me 3-0 or 0-3 in a 1:1 pattern too consistently for me to believe it's just random.

Well tbf, it's a team game, you alone cannot decide whether you will win or lose consistently, even worse if you're solo queuing. What are the odds that you'll either get noobs insta locking dps or getting a well established team? 50-50, hence the 1:1 you're getting. I'm talking with reference to competitive, ranking system where people of similar rank will be matched with each other (bronze with bronze players etc).

With qp it is a different story because this game in a way it is rigged because if you lose I think 2 games, your 3rd game will be botted so I guess to ensure that everyone has at least 50% win rate so there is that too.

I mean it is always 1 win, 1 lose, 1 win, 1 lose and so on.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

I've yet to play a game utilizing a matchmaker that wasn't terrible. I've been playing games with them since Halo 2. Matchmakers can only do so much when it comes to making actual balanced matches.

[PropanePls]

Yes.

[Karnarax]

Seems like it - if you count your ranked games it will be 50-50 w/l. (which looks like matchmaking manipulation).

[isawaawasi5]

I'm fine with potato teammates if the enemy team are also root vegetables. The problem is my last 5 comp games have all had at least one person on the enemy team who either has Twitch in their name or their name is a player I recognise from YouTube.

I only started playing comp recently. Quickly got to Bronze 1, then got smacked back to Bronze 3 by a parade of people smurfing. I'm wondering if I'll ever get a winnable comp match again or will the game just always put me against Diamond or higher players who are using smurf accounts?

[Eutykhia]

Welcome to multiplayer competitive game

[Kernist]

Originally posted by Eutykhia:

Welcome to multiplayer competitive game

Why are people acting like this is normal? LoL, Dota2, Smite, OW, TF2, CS, none of these games had bs like here.

[zghaun]

Well because people think they are better than they actually are so