It is absolutely brutal in pubs right now. Teammates worse than me and enemies better than me . . . every single match.How bad does it have to get for MM to put you in lower lobbies? I'm in hell at the moment, TBH.

@reconzeroless experienced is meant as an euphemism i hope ...How can it be that i have to carry dead weight 99.9% of the time ?Just right now, i do 1K Dmg and my mates dont even reach 200 combined when i even gave them extra shields with Conduit ... they still dropping like flies ...And dont get me started with the ultra rigged point system in Ranked ... i do all the work but my mates get more points than me , how is that even possible ?!? Its like the old Arenas Point system where Noobs get boosted and selected players get punished for what ever reason.This is not how to establish trust in the Rank System.And to be clear , i dont have a problem with high tier lobbies , but i do have a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge problem if you give me 2 concrete boots as mates to fight in those challenging lobbies.

@HappyHourSumwurI can attest to also always getting squadmates who are "less experienced" than I am. But that doesn't seem any different to me than the game ever was, any season you care to name. Enemies, on the other hand, seem consistent and at or around my skill level. The difference being that their entire squad is equally skilled and they stick together, which my squad never does. Though that's entirely on me. I'm the rogue. So my experience is not terrible, as good as last season, and an improvement over what it was prior to last season.

Yeah it’s awful , I’m consistently play-diamond every season then I stop as masters solo Q sucks.everyteam I get is low levels vs pre made 3 stacks.

@HappyHourSumwur The experience for this season is indeed awful. Last season at least i got a good start until it became sweaty as hell but this on it started sweaty as hell with some random bot teamates in the middle.Im gonna go as far to say that 2-stacks and 3-stack are destroying the match-making and solo-qs are the one paying for it.

@DeepBeats 2 stacks can be pretty awful as well because you typically get a much worse teammate, effectively making you 2v3 in almost every fight. My brother and I party up and we are about 1.0 KDR players; the lobbies we get put into are ridiculous and we almost always get a complete bot as a 3rd. It is a truly horrible experience.

Please do something about matchmaking for solo players

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r1ggedgame
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@reconzeroless experienced is meant as an euphemism i hope ...
How can it be that i have to carry dead weight 99.9% of the time ?
Just right now, i do 1K Dmg and my mates dont even reach 200 combined when i even gave them extra shields with Conduit ... they still dropping like flies ...
And dont get me started with the ultra rigged point system in Ranked ... i do all the work but my mates get more points than me , how is that even possible ?!? Its like the old Arenas Point system where Noobs get boosted and selected players get punished for what ever reason.
This is not how to establish trust in the Rank System.
And to be clear , i dont have a problem with high tier lobbies , but i do have a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge problem if you give me 2 concrete boots as mates to fight in those challenging lobbies.
AreYouShivering
New Ace
2 years ago
@HappyHourSumwur I doubt anything will happen in that matter for real. It's not something accidental, or unintentional. In fact giving more and more of full premade squads against squads consisting of solo players is how this game scales difficulty, not simply better players but also stacks - this is how this works for me. I play pubs with 3500 damage, 15 kills? Next day only stacks kill me. I select "no fill", and I don't even have to drop damage, full stacks kill me. I used to think only few stacks are in randoms lobbies, but not anymore...
reconzero
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@r1ggedgame

Yeah, it's sort of a euphemism. But also sort of not. I still have very clear memories of my first three seasons, during which I hardly ever even picked up a weapon. What my poor * teammates must have thought about that I cringe to think.

And it isn't as if I never get squadmates of equal or greater skill than my own. But that's often just as bad in a different way.

And obviously this would all be 10x worse in ranked. Which is one of the many, many reasons I will never play a ranked game mode again except in extraordinary circumstances, and not for the rank. You have my sympathy, my friend.
pandareno1999
Hero+
2 years ago
I've played almost 70 games thsi season duo queued with a friend who is higher skill than I. Not solo q obviously, but still somewhat relevant,. Our experience with random thirds has been quite mixed. But, on average, we are given a very inexperienced player. If I had to guess, we get a low skill player around 80% of the time and a decent player 20%. Only 2 wins so far indicates that the deck is stacked somewhat against us.
BennSauna
2 years ago
@AymCTL My last match in the new mode I did 5407 damage whilst my other teammates did 1700 and 2700, which combined is 1000 damage less than I did by myself. However, these were the best teammates I had gotten all day and many times I’ve gotten teammates which were below lvl10 and didn’t know what they were doing. Meanwhile every team in fighting has either pred or at least 4k20 master players, often multiple of them. It gets even worse in ranked where it’s impossible to carry such bad teammates. I played mixtape and got 18 kills in control and the next highest kills were 6, with most people struggling to break 300 damage all match. My chiropractor told me he has never seen a back so sore from carrying. Please save my back.

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