Yeah but if you are a pug vs a pre-made, its just a stomp. Really needs a ranked solo queue or a better match making. Matchmaking is a weak spot for Blizzard, just look at how bad HotS MM is.I still find myself playing this a bunch. If you're good you can still carry a team of average baddies.
So about 20% of games include a premade of 3+ people somewhere.In the beta so far, over 80% of the games played had either all solo queued individuals or a maximum of a two person group. So the majority of games being played do not actually involve "premades".
Also, when it comes to a 6 person team facing off against others, these are what the stats look like:
6 v all individuals: 0.59% of games played in the beta
6 v 2 person group as largest group size: 0.81%
6 v 3: 0.44%
6 v 4: 0.25%
6 v 5: 0.18%
6 v 6: 0.11%
(the numbers for a 5 person premade look about the same)
Even despite what the stats say, we have some plans that will make individuals facing off against "premades" even less likely in upcoming updates. Also, when the population of the game is larger (it's very small right now) this will be even less likely.
From a high level perspective, our goal is to not prevent people from grouping. It's just the opposite. How do we get more people to group, be friends and coordinate. The experience is vastly improved if you play with people you like. We're focusing a lot right now on improving our social systems to enable people to form groups easier as well as make friends (and yes, with a small beta population your friends aren't all in right now -- they will be in early May).
We'll keep working to improve the experience. Sorry it has caused you some frustration.
Thats probably a symptom of there being maybe a few thousand players online at a given time. I've played with the same handful of people constantly. And to the point that also makes it so match making is a complete crapshoot due to not having the population required to support actual good match making. I'm not letting Blizzard off the hook here because it took a really like time for Heroes to even have semi-competent match making but you can't expect completely fair matches when the pool of players is so shallow.I see familiar names almost every game.
Not saying its all 6 on the other side, but 3 friends working together with a good comp will shit on pug teams. It was like that in Mechwarrior Online too.They've published statistics showing the probability that you've ever been all-solo vs 6-man is like 0.50% of games or some shit
This is the main thing. Good matchmaking needs two things: Large active playerbase at any given time and sufficient enough time to actually tier skill levels for said players. On the flipside, though, is you also have to balance that with player attention span. Think about CSGO comp matches where it is searching for 10+ minutes. At some point, you just want to play the damned game and not be spending all your time in a queue.Thats probably a symptom of there being maybe a few thousand players online at a given time. I've played with the same handful of people constantly. And to the point that also makes it so match making is a complete crapshoot due to not having the population required to support actual good match making. I'm not letting Blizzard off the hook here because it took a really like time for Heroes to even have semi-competent match making but you can't expect completely fair matches when the pool of players is so shallow.
Why is Tigole and the rest of the dev team a bunch of cucks?
They're removing a tracer victory pose because some SJW whined on the beta thread that it's too sexual and doesn't match her character. Why do companies give into this kind of feedback? it's actually mind blowing to me.
Blizzard to remove Tracer's Pose : OverwatchI like this from the Reddit thread
Can't pick up med-kits either. The attacking team should never lose unless terribleAre any of these 'weekly brawls' actually fun? every one i've played has been absolutely horrible gameplay. Headshot only mccree where you cant even flashbang, punch them in the head, or right click is hilariously bad gameplay.
Found my new most hated, whoever was behind making the McCree brawl mode is a evil mastermind that hates people, awful.Headshot only mccree where you cant even flashbang, punch them in the head, or right click is hilariously bad gameplay.
Tigole... i mean Tigole oh such a sweet irony coming from a guy with THAT internet name.Why is Tigole and the rest of the dev team a bunch of cucks?
They're removing a tracer victory pose because some SJW whined on the beta thread that it's too sexual and doesn't match her character. Why do companies give into this kind of feedback? it's actually mind blowing to me.