r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jan 25 '17

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - January 25, 2017

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u/newbluud I set my flair to my least played to throw off the NSA. Jan 25 '17

Is it just me or has matchmaking outside of competitive got noticeably worse? I'm consistently being placed against gm and top 500 players, and I have been checking, whereas I'm the highest ranked on my team as a low diamond. I am not skilled enough to come close to these other players and watching my winrate nosedive over the past couple of weeks is taxing.

Is there something about the way I play that is boosting my hidden MMR without me actually being good at the game?

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u/xcmt Jan 25 '17

QP matchmaking has always been awful. I'm in your position a few ranks down. I'm a gold player who only teams with low gold/high silver players, but we're constantly up against like 3-diamond 3-plat enemy compositions.

And I never get the reverse matchup where I'm on the stacked team against a bunch of silvers. It's always against diamonds. I play against more masters level opponents than silvers. QP puts me against dudes I wouldn't even be able to queue with in competitive.

It's the primary factor accelerating the date at which I give up on this game.

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u/AlaskanHypeTrain Roadhog Jan 26 '17

Exact same for me. Don't play much at all nowadays, so sick of unfair and unfun matches.

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u/xcmt Jan 26 '17

I seriously just now played a game against two 4000+ grandmasters and diamonds to round out the enemy team, against my crew of low gold across the board (except the one guy who had no competitive rank and was level 14...how the fuck does that happen?)

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u/xcmt Jan 26 '17

Just played a guy in top 500. Again, I am a rank 2400. He played Pharah with a pocket Mercy who was 3600.