I have been playing since 2015/2016, and I feel so frustrated with what’s been happening in ranked play for so long.
The first time I played ranked, I was new and didn’t know what I was doing. My friends, who were also new, invited me to play, and I ended up in Bronze. From that time until now, Overwatch has consistently locked my rank in Bronze. Even when I win 7 games or all of them, they still place me in Bronze because it seems like my rank is locked.
With the arrival of Overwatch 2, I was finally able to climb to Silver as a support player, despite the horrendous matchmaking. It feels so unfair that after working hard to climb by maining support, Overwatch 2, after a 10-game winning streak, puts me in matches with ridiculous tanks and DPS players. For example, I’ve had DPS who, in a whole comp, dealt only 1k damage, or a D.Va who only mitigated 500 damage. Not even with 22k healing could I save those games.
Now, they’ve added this name tag event where you have to win to earn points, and suddenly, I’m getting the worst teams—sometimes with AFK players who only dealt 300 damage. I feel like this is some kind of punishment for my winning streaks. As a Silver support player with 15-25k healing per game, I’m being dragged back down to Bronze again because of this persistent unfairness in the game.
Please fix this, Blizzard.
PS: Getting smurfing accounts banned from ur game would also help, because besides having to heal a tank that doesn’t know how a shield works, I also have to deal with 3 or more smurfs on the enemy team .
Just to add. This isn’t match making. This is just players having a bad/ineffectual game. Happens to us all.
As for smurfs. Yes, they’re annoying when they pop up (although it seems unlikely that you’ll be playing them as often as you claim). But, they’ll not be the reason your climb stalls.
FRICKEN FIX YOUR GOD DAMN GAME!" I am tired of reporting morons with 5 IQ for being allowed playing video games without a legal guardian. 15 games played today. Started in silver 2. I am still i silver 2. If those odds is what you give us. Then your game can burn in hell just like world of warcraft. You ruined that too
For some reason, the matchmaker does match me with leavers/throwers in my games, even racists. I am surprised that the match does not pause while the user fixes whatever the problem is their end to keep the match fair. Trying to play a competitive when you’re a man or two down is not competitive, it is not fun.
It matches you with random players who have a similar MMR.
The fact that they then make choices to be racist, or leave, or get unlucky and get disconnected is totally separate. That’s the players choice in most cases.
The Overwatch match maker can’t predict human behaviour.
It matched me with randoms - some of whom left/threw/were racist.
No doubt there is data out there showing that they have done these things previously.
Game can’t ban them, or do anything on their behaviour, until they acted in such a way.
If they’ve been reported, but that data isn’t kept for long.
If they’ve been baited and it’s a first offence, they have nothing on them. I suspect a lot of incidents, “baiting” is more likely than someone just throwing things about.
