Few suggestions (?) - qm queue, moving some heroes to different category

General Discussion
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Hey,

So I recently decided to return to the game due to pandemic-related boredom. While it was always badly balanced, especially on qm, recently it became even “funnier”. I am matched with bronzes vs diamonds/masters or just like today, in a team with a player with 9 games in whole account’s lifetime (2 of them won btw). I am currently in plat, used to be in diamond on this acc some time ago, so it should seem like I SHOULD get people around my mmr (mostly plats with golds and diamond sometimes). Or at leat that the teams would have similar total MMR, but that is clearly not the case.

Only chance to win such games is when I play a hero who can make huge impact solo (either by deleting enemies or depushing multiple lanes, doing camps v. fast and so on). Unfortunately, most such games, I am playing heroes that I want to practice, not the ones I know perfectly :grimacing:

Other thing is improving queue, including:

  1. Deleting blackheart’s bay from qm OR giving players possibility to “ban” maps they dont want to play on, like in Starcraft 2 where you could choose 3 (?) maps you dont want to play. People troll there even more than on others and that map is absoloutely no fun to play even if I am winning. Just not enjoyable.

  2. Teamcomps of randomly matched players being made better. Nowadays you often end up with 0 waveclear or in a no healer game without any sustain or poke vs team with both. Maybe think about always matching healers and therefore making no heal games avalible only for premades of 5.

  3. Stop matching Stitches as a tank. He is not a tank, just a tanky solo laner who should be reworked into a bruiser - you cannot protect your teammates as Stitches (at least not vs enemies with brains) and people still get matched as tanks while playing him (or pick him on ranked as main tank lol). Kinda same thing is with Tyrael and Varian, most cases they SHOULDN’T be main tanks cause they wont protect their teammates.

  4. Reports for trolling actually giving something. People feed intentionally, sometimes just by walking into 1v5 fight and afking in middle of fight and they are still not punished in any way. Or walk around the map not fighting, not soaking, not doing camps, sometimes use one aa on a camp/enemy minion (or not) and they are not kicked for whole game.

  5. Dear Devs, please think about making a tutorial for new players that would explain basics of the game such as not fighting when there is more enemies than teammates, not fighting when enemy has talent advantage, using timings, kiting enemies and camps, saving spells and many more things. Noobs could perhaps improve a bit, instead of destroying their teammate’s experiance.

This game could easily have more players than lol or dota if devs only paid more attention to it and actually listened to grandmaster player feedback (I am not GM to clarify) when changing balance, instead of doing it “as they think it should be” while the balance team seems to be stuck in silver/low gold xD

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  1. it’s the same if you get towers of doom with zero clear and push power, or braxis without zerg clear, just generally maps with strong objectives or big map without heavy siege/camp heroes. map bans sound good but will make queue longer.
  2. Again, that way the queue will become very long, its called Quickmatch for a reason.
  3. Stitches is fine, play hook, he can carry with hook gorge especially late game to delete 1 enemy.
  4. QM reports do work, however things like aram in mid can’t really get banned since they are technically playing, and I believe they ban based on game stats(like for intentional dying) and game chat history. So if you aram mid entire game but didn’t really die, you probably can’t get banned for it.
  5. That’s not a tutorial, that would be a 100+ pages hots strat guide, the things you mentioned here happens in all ranks including master/GM. Everyone started as a noob, it’s up to the player if they want to improve. The thing is, most people DO understand strats and when to do what, they’re just too lazy to actually do it. So even if you sit them down and give a 5hr lecture about how to play hots, they still will not do it.

Actually, developers like MrX is master/GM, they do know the game, HOWEVR hots is now a very small team trying to deliver updates, and balancing is hard to do, because a A tier hero in master could be D tier in gold.