I am getting so sick of this garbage

@HappyHourSumwur

If the algorithm sees that you're willing to keep queuing up match after match no matter how bad the pummeling, then there's no reason for it to stop pummeling you. This is why so many people anecdotally report getting easier lobbies after long breaks from the game. If, like me, you're disinclined to take breaks from the game, then you need to explain to the algorithm in other ways that you're disatisfied with the quality of your matches.

I quit matches liberally and for a variety of reasons and the algorithm notices. And reacts. My reason-of-the-moment for this season has nothing to do with being matched above my skill, but with how difficult it is to find a weapon I want to play with. Though inexperienced teammates run a close second as a reason to leave matches. They drop Estates, I drop edge, then I wait to see if they can survive on their own. They usually can't and I'll push on to see if I can find a viable weapon, and to test the quality of the last few squads. Sometimes I'll let the match play out, but mostly I quit. It's the safety valve for sbmm. And giving free kills to playstation squeakers irritates the crap out of me.

I know this is not the way most people envision the game being played, but sometimes the REAL game is the one I play with the matchmaker, not the in-game skirmishes. And that's a game that can only be won with an iron will and a lot of patience. And who wants to play without a charge rifle anyway?

@HappyHourSumwur

This is making me very curious as to several things, none of which you have to answer if you don't want me picking apart your unhappy relationship with matchmaking, but....

What was your highest ever rank?

How is your average k/d over the last few seasons?

Are you playing primarily in ranked, in pubs, or both?

I'm assuming, like me, you solo queue 99% of your games?

I ask because I often see threads where a player will have the same experience as you, and then later confess that they always used to solo to masters and now can't get past high diamond, and their k/d was always over 2.0 but now they can't break 1.8, etc. I know this isn't you, but I'd be curious to know if or how any of these factors play into the problem.

@HappyHourSumwur I have greatly been enjoying my extended break and lowered blood pressure, yes.

@reconzero I'm starting to wonder if the matchmaker doesn't understand what people like me what from matchmaking.

My average K/D is terrible in BR, around 0.25 this season. In arenas, it was always much higher, but still under 1.0. About 0.89 I think. I don't know what it is in mixtape, but I would imagine in between arenas and BR.
Anyway, my point is that my win rate is relatively high in mixtape, and in BR I rarely finish below top 10 or top 5, mainly because I play conservatively. I ping, hang back, try to figure out where people are before engaging. It's mainly either my aim, my 120 ping/poor hit reg, or my intense dislike of cheating and/or tap strafing that gets me melted.

So, above average win rate.
Well below average K/D.

I wonder if the MM looks at the win rate or placement as the "successful" match. Otherwise, I don't know why I keep getting MVP in so many matches when I've only done like 200 damage in the previous match against 3 stacks.

Maybe the devs don't understand that I could care less if I win or lose. I just want to play against other teams that are in the general area of my skill level. It's one thing to go against players that are somewhat better than me (so, kill me 3 times to my 1 kill, or something like that), but when you literally get melted by wingman pop shots or 1-clipped by volt headshots, how is that fun even if I end up winning thanks to one teammate with 20 kills?

@reconzero

I haven't really played ranked but the one season I did (S11?) I made it to gold and it was brutal. I was getting fried in Bronze lobbies by all kinds of smurfs and by the time I got to gold, I'd had enough. Now I solo queue Trios in pubs almost exclusively on PC, MnK. I'll occasionally party up with my brother and play Trios with random thirds and it is absolutely horrific most of the time.

My KDR is usually around 1.0, but with a ton of quit to lobby games. In reality, it is closer to 0.8.

I absolutely hate people complaining about their 2.0 KDR, too. That is some entitled, spoiled, whiny stuff right there.

I keep playing because I guess I'm a crack addict. I keep chasing that high when everything comes together for a 2k game, a 7-10 kill game, and/or a crazy win. The rest of the time, I'm strung out hearing voices in my head and screaming at buildings.

@LaughingSharko
@HappyHourSumwur

I wish I could explain it, gentlemen, but from what you're telling me I can't see any reason why you're being thrown to the wolves as often as you are. I'm not saying my matches are all cakewalks, but the instamelts are a thing of the past for me. If only because I can tell when I'm in that kind of lobby long before the bullets start to fly. And I leave them. But also because matchmaking has, I guess, got tired of trying to get me to play ball.

The only thing I can see that makes me wonder is this: "I keep chasing that high when everything comes together for a 2k game, a 7-10 kill game, and/or a crazy win." For me it looks a little more like: I keep chasing that high when everything comes together and I one-shot that last guy in the last squad before he could shield up from beating the #3 squad. That's a match that ends with 25 damage, 1 kill, and a win. That's my perfect match, and I'm pretty sure it flies under the algorithm radar. Though honestly, who knows how any of this really works....

@reconzero "I keep chasing that high when everything comes together and I one-shot that last guy in the last squad before he could shield up from beating the #3 squad. That's a match that ends with 25 damage, 1 kill, and a win."

I hate those matches. Run around for 15-20 minutes doing nothing as a team (boring) or individually (embarrasing) and then hit one lucky bullet FTW.

I don't expect to win all the time, but I want to have more success than I do and when I lose, I'd like itto feel more competitive. Dying repeatedly in embarrassing and humiliating ways sucks.

@reconzero For me it looks like: I keep chasing that high when everything comes together and my teammate doesn’t spit verbal obscenities at me. That’s a match that ends with me looking positively on humanity. That’s my perfect match, when I don’t experience people that make me think Thanos was right.