Remarkable how totally ridiculous the matchmaking remains.
Obfuscating Ranks doesn't work when people stream - If i'm a plat player in Ranked Arena I don't think it's fair to punish me for losing to a Diamond player. Ranks should go against each other, with increased waiting to balance skills properly. The fact that there's no selectivity in matchmaking is really ruining things.
Losing to a Diamond Arena team then having to face a Pred three stack then another Diamond squad makes zero sense (The amount of people streaming makes this easy to verify) If I have a personal MMR why is it not being used for anything except to calculate my 12 point AP reward (or -19 loss) and not for determining the difficulty of my opponents.
Right now I am Plat 2 in arena's and getting 12 points per win because i have lost a lot. Going up against a Master 3 stack (who are obviously not Plat 2 right now) is in now way balanced as it's impossible to beat them (they won in 3 games).
Can anyone justify why the RANKED mode is set up to work this way? Any reasoning behind it at all???
Also Crossplay needs to be disabled in Arenas. It's not a fair representation of skill when one side has a software advantage that tracks players at close range. Controller players should not be given aim assist in the arena where there is no looting.
It's also broken and despite all the dev interaction we get on these boards (ahem) nothing gets done...Queuing into Ranked Arena as a duo it's impossible to win...and yet still no loss forgiveness...
FIX RANKED ARENAS
Matchmaking in Ranked Arena's REALLY needs to be tighter...I'm playing with Gold and Silver duo's, then all of a sudden I'm up against a Master three stack? HOW IS THIS a fair system putting me against my peers? I'm playing at peak hours on EU servers.....PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME do something about the balancing.
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