I have payed comp for a few months new since I started the game. At first not understanding one game would be an amazing win the next we would get rolled. The amount of actually hard fought battles and what seem like an evenly skilled game have been very few.
I came to realise that there are so many people out of rank. Smurfs, people hard stuck. People improving or changing mains but yet they are in the wrong rank.
People throwing and leaving, well this seems to happen a lot and more and more people openly wishing to loose SR to play at a lower rank for some reason or another.
Is it time for a hard reset of stats? Would it be the fix for smurfs, people out of rank?
Also a leavers pool. Yeh banning them is great and all but sometimes people can’t help it and they just want to play so yeh keep small bans there but stick them in their own pool of mm.
I am not saying this because I believe I am not in the right rank. The truth is i don’t know what rank I could get too because I loose so much SR due too 5vs6 matches, and smurf on the enemy and also vice-versa.
I am am 2400sr, i have friends 1650 and below and also friends in masters and they all feel roughly the same and are having this experience more and more. My friend in masters told me there’s a big problem with people being boosted to that rank.
I love this game but playing comp should be a good team based amazing time not a total stress with people already tilted to hell because they have had leavers, throwers smurfs or people out of rank in their games.
Sorry for the long story but I am not the only one that feels like this blizzard!
A reset would just mix top500 pros with bronze players. And you are maybe one of the lucky ones beeing on the better team. It would be waaay more random than it is currently. Until it has been even out. And then we’re probably at the same place before the reset.
I am not saying its the perfect fix here. However its about time something is done. Maybe there is a way that some stats can carry over to the reset. I don’t know the full answer but really comp is sometimes horrible to play and not because the hero’s feel to unbalanced or the maps but because in a game one lets say 2000sr player is playing against someone who is actually 2000sr but is maybe more like 3500sr or opposite or this and they are 1000sr. Maybe placements need to be like 30 matchs and it soft resets you and more agressively adjusts your placement from last season.
As i said I don’t know the full answer here but surely the rest of the community see this issue more often than not.
Yeh something needs to be done and there is no perfect situation here maybe placements being slightly different. I am not sure if a hard reset would work but i would be happy if it would fix the issues with smurfs and boosted players.
Yeh there is a big point to be made here. For example all over youtube master/ gm / top 500 players smurfing in bronze / silver for example here is NA top 500 player smurfing in silver and he’s a popular youtuber/ streamer
i feel ya , and i dont think its gona happen .
like the game is build around MMR , gives u a rank it thinks u deserve and makes u stay there or makes it very easy for u to get there
wining or losing is not random or it wouldnt be a 50/50 chance match
its unfair as hell right now but its overwatch devs dont care about doing the
right thing , they care about how it “looks”
Fair is everyone gets the same tools no one hacks etc
u bad u lose u good u win. this 50/50 mmr bs is not fair for anyone
why in the long run would ppl care about a comp experience that decides your rank for you.
so now u got smurfs that dont care about rank , playing at w/e rank they have more friends . and boosted ppl that dont derank couse the stats on the acount are good enough for the game to think the player belongs there
oh dont forget if u rly wana climb ,just one trick and make the nrs look as good as possible , u lose less sr and u win more
Considering that gm’s and top 500’s are a small minority no it wouldn’t impact the game that much. People of all ranks will play of people of all ranks and they’ll be placed were they should, of course the smart ones would play with people that they now are around their level but that’s a moot point.
Your personal SR should be based off your personal skill level, not how lucky you have been in matchmaking.
I dont know what metric they could use (certainly not the medals, they should be removed IMO), maybe how your performance with a certain hero on a certain map stacks up against the average?
That way if you’re on a team full of throwers or against Smurfs then you can still improve if you play well as opposed to having a loss of SR shoved up your ass.
thats what they do right now man , the metric is called MMR. thats why the comp sistem is broken and smurfs are viable + one tricks , think about it ( facepalm)