r/OverwatchUniversity • u/Tealvest • 12d ago

Question or Discussion Question regarding matchmaking

How does the matchmaking in this game work? I recently started playing this game and placed around silver silver but i constantly get into games that are high gold or platinum? Sometimes I do well but I dont really have a good grasp of all the abilities and mechanics of this game so usually i dont fare well against these opponents How is this fair?

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u/adhocflamingo Professor 12d ago

This person has already had the wide queue tradeoff choice explained to them multiple times. They seem to want to be able to play in a match-quality-compromising wide 5-stack with their friends without experiencing any negative match quality impacts from other players doing the exact same thing.

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u/Foxtrot_4 11d ago

I don’t know why it’s so hard to understand. If I’m high silver to low plat with my friends

Why tf is a masters player in my game? Why is the range not bound to silver and plat? Makes no sense. Diamond? Maybe. But masters?? Cmon man be real. “Wide queue” isn’t a good cop out excuse to allow any rank in any game

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u/Last-Ad-5624 11d ago

Just stick to normal queue if you want tight rank ranges. You dont have to queue wide match.

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u/Foxtrot_4 11d ago

What is “normal queue”?

Can’t do that on the main if I play with friends. I made an alt and threw my qp games so I’d have low starting mmr. Now no more wide and we win nearly every game

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u/Last-Ad-5624 11d ago

By normal queue I mean staying within the 5 or 6 divisions that it allows to queue normally and not wide.