Anyone else on a losing streak right now?

[Detective Jonathan]

Was anyone else able to climb the ranks during the weekday? And then all of sudden found themselves being matched with either teammates that don't know what they're doing...or highly coordinated teams on the weekends?

At this point every single match today felt like a complete dumpster fire, there's no way I can be the only one.

[Toni 'Bō' Jones]

Weekend can be a hit or miss teammates wise so maybe take some break and get back on Monday.

[Terotrous]

Didn't play today, but I went 8-3 on Friday.

Anyway, just a reminder, for every team that loses, there has to be a team that wins, so if you're losing a lot on the weekends, some people must be winning a lot.

[BiggieJohn]

All myths. I did bronze 3 to plat 3 in a week and a half over a stretch of 50 games with a duo partner. We played evenings, nights, and midnight all days of the week. We maintained a 60%+ win rate across it all. You either win or you don't. We had one streak of 4 losses. Rest of the experience was win 2 lose 1. win 4 lose 1. etc Our longest win streak was like 6.

[Necropants]

you had a partner thats more than enough to scew the algorithm in your favour.

[kaisha]

just had this happen last night with my duo. actually insane, up until now we only had a max of 2-3 loses before we start winning, but we managed to lose 7 in a row. it can be a skill issue of course, but most of our teammates either DC'd or kept lagging, which I can't blame them but it still sucks this was in comp out of all places.

[Get Out]

No, actually I just raked up to Diamond today. I rank up every 1-2 days so far in a solo queue.

[AAAkaneAAA]

Yes, totally. There's a massive difference between the weekend and the week. I'm a solo player support and havent and intend to never spend a penny on the game. A different kind of side of the matchmaker is exposed in the weekends, and a similar thing happens in overwatch. I essentially get put in losing games with weird team mates that dont communicate and will randomly suicide or just not do anything. Then suddenly in the week a switch flips and theyre all competent again. I reckon the matchmaker changes tack in the weekend to lure in new players by giving wins. Logically the standard of players shouldnt change but it becomes almost chaotically inconsistent. The matchmaking has an agenda and it shows itself really awkwardly in weekend when it needs to attract new players or players who dont play much fast in order to convert them into paying players. It really becomes obvious when its trying to work its agenda quickly with people who are just going to try the game out. It does this at the expense of others.

Other things I've noticed is that you get weird swings in those loss games where the players on your team suddenly play like they're not bothered to win any more, or the enemy team is weirdly turbo charged at a point in the game which is totally inconsistent with the way they had been playing.

Probably people in stacks and those who pay money into the game dont have the same experience, as stacking is essentially rigging the game in your favour/getting more control over outcome and paying is going to be rewarded not punished by a manipulated system.

Originally posted by Detective Jonathan:

Was anyone else able to climb the ranks during the weekday? And then all of sudden found themselves being matched with either teammates that don't know what they're doing...or highly coordinated teams on the weekends?

At this point every single match today felt like a complete dumpster fire, there's no way I can be the only one.

[Detective Jonathan]

Originally posted by AAAkaneAAA:

Yes, totally. There's a massive difference between the weekend and the week. I'm a solo player support and havent and intend to never spend a penny on the game. A different kind of side of the matchmaker is exposed in the weekends, and a similar thing happens in overwatch. I essentially get put in losing games with weird team mates that dont communicate and will randomly suicide or just not do anything. Then suddenly in the week a switch flips and theyre all competent again. I reckon the matchmaker changes tack in the weekend to lure in new players by giving wins. Logically the standard of players shouldnt change but it becomes almost chaotically inconsistent. The matchmaking has an agenda and it shows itself really awkwardly in weekend when it needs to attract new players or players who dont play much fast in order to convert them into paying players. It really becomes obvious when its trying to work its agenda quickly with people who are just going to try the game out. It does this at the expense of others.

Other things I've noticed is that you get weird swings in those loss games where the players on your team suddenly play like they're not bothered to win any more, or the enemy team is weirdly turbo charged at a point in the game which is totally inconsistent with the way they had been playing.

Probably people in stacks and those who pay money into the game dont have the same experience, as stacking is essentially rigging the game in your favour/getting more control over outcome and paying is going to be rewarded not punished by a manipulated system.

Originally posted by Detective Jonathan:

Was anyone else able to climb the ranks during the weekday? And then all of sudden found themselves being matched with either teammates that don't know what they're doing...or highly coordinated teams on the weekends?

At this point every single match today felt like a complete dumpster fire, there's no way I can be the only one.

That's very interesting actually and it makes a whole lot more sense, i literally didn't have to worry about any incompetent teammates during the week while playing. And then all of a sudden when Saturday hit, I had to deal with shouting, toxicity and just incompetent players all around.

[AAAkaneAAA]

Yeah I reckon its the pressure the matchmaker is under to make people who are just casually trying out the game (which is likely to happen most in weekend) to get an artificially 'good time'. We obviously know from steam numbers that the weekend is a critical point for any game as the numbers are much higher than on your average week day. The matchmaker has to work really fast and in a concentrated way to convert them into paying players as much as possible. The whole integrity (or lack of) of the system flips to this aim and so it feels totally different to regular players who can be sacrificed, as the matchmaker takes them for granted that they will come back. Same thing happens in overwatch, btw. Its like playing a different game. Just more scummy trash from a scummy company.

Originally posted by Detective Jonathan:

Originally posted by AAAkaneAAA:

Yes, totally. There's a massive difference between the weekend and the week. I'm a solo player support and havent and intend to never spend a penny on the game. A different kind of side of the matchmaker is exposed in the weekends, and a similar thing happens in overwatch. I essentially get put in losing games with weird team mates that dont communicate and will randomly suicide or just not do anything. Then suddenly in the week a switch flips and theyre all competent again. I reckon the matchmaker changes tack in the weekend to lure in new players by giving wins. Logically the standard of players shouldnt change but it becomes almost chaotically inconsistent. The matchmaking has an agenda and it shows itself really awkwardly in weekend when it needs to attract new players or players who dont play much fast in order to convert them into paying players. It really becomes obvious when its trying to work its agenda quickly with people who are just going to try the game out. It does this at the expense of others.

Other things I've noticed is that you get weird swings in those loss games where the players on your team suddenly play like they're not bothered to win any more, or the enemy team is weirdly turbo charged at a point in the game which is totally inconsistent with the way they had been playing.

Probably people in stacks and those who pay money into the game dont have the same experience, as stacking is essentially rigging the game in your favour/getting more control over outcome and paying is going to be rewarded not punished by a manipulated system.

That's very interesting actually and it makes a whole lot more sense, i literally didn't have to worry about any incompetent teammates during the week while playing. And then all of a sudden when Saturday hit, I had to deal with shouting, toxicity and just incompetent players all around.

[OMEGA]

Originally posted by Detective Jonathan:

Was anyone else able to climb the ranks during the weekday? And then all of sudden found themselves being matched with either teammates that don't know what they're doing...or highly coordinated teams on the weekends?

At this point every single match today felt like a complete dumpster fire, there's no way I can be the only one.

The kids are online on the weekends in full force

[Steve]

Originally posted by Detective Jonathan:

Was anyone else able to climb the ranks during the weekday? And then all of sudden found themselves being matched with either teammates that don't know what they're doing...or highly coordinated teams on the weekends?

At this point every single match today felt like a complete dumpster fire, there's no way I can be the only one.

It's almost as if the people with jobs and lives are home on the weekends playing...

[AAAkaneAAA]

That wouldnt change the quality of the matches, Steve old boy..... Now come on, you can do better than that....

Originally posted by Steve:

Originally posted by Detective Jonathan:

Was anyone else able to climb the ranks during the weekday? And then all of sudden found themselves being matched with either teammates that don't know what they're doing...or highly coordinated teams on the weekends?

At this point every single match today felt like a complete dumpster fire, there's no way I can be the only one.

It's almost as if the people with jobs and lives are home on the weekends playing...

[pwnograffik]

[Fun detected!] Hold these 4 losses.

[Detective Jonathan]

Originally posted by pwnograffik:

[Fun detected!] Hold these 4 losses.

This actually got a chuckle out of me because I told someone else that the devs are probably programming my 20 game loss streak as we speak. Next day ended up losing.

[Smellycat]

dont soloque ranked in the weekend all u get is matchups with premades