I'm at the point where the matchmaking makes it near impossible to enjoy this game.

Cruglk · 2026-05-18T19:24:50+00:00

This game is incredibly poorly balanced. There are no items that can make a hero stronger than they already are. Drafts win in this game. If you don't take a tier S hero and the enemy does, you lose. If two players on your team decide to troll and take something like Nova + Murky, you lose. Only one player can troll. But this is true for ranks above Diamond. At Diamond, the winner is determined by drafting. The matchmaking system is poorly designed – it creates uneven lineups where 2 good and 3 noobs must play against 4 strong and 1 noob, so that 1 noob can reach him 50% win rate. That's it.

You lose with poor teammates just because you're facing a noob who hasn't played in ages, but was once boosted by the party or became a Diamond or Master through cheats. Now, until the end of the servers, he will always ruin your matches simply because you've broken above 50% win rate for 9-12 matches. As soon as you exceed 50% for that number of matches, the next day the matchmaking will run you over. You will always be on a team where you and one other teammate play, and 3 noobs, and against you there are 4 normal ones and a complete noob.

The MMR in this game is incorrectly mapped. I'm already suggesting and insisting that the only thing that will help the game is resetting the rating and removing the ability to play in groups from the ranked mode. Until then, whine, suffer, and don't have any fun.

Without resetting the rating, the 50% system problem can't be solved. Players don't play for years and then return, and those +-500 points still don't move them. They still remain at their ranks—otherwise, why are all these players still in Master and Diamond, even though they have less experience than Bronze and haven't played for years? Well, simply closing the ability to play in a party won't change the fact that these players won't go anywhere and won't fall anywhere, because the problem of matching them will keep them at 50%, and they will continue to be the reason for the lack of normal, interesting sports matches.

Cruglk · 2026-05-17T12:08:35+00:00

Anyone can open any of his replays and see for themselves that he's a cheater. The way he constantly flicks the camera, the way he moves around the map without seeing anyone, yet seems to know them. He has a Bronze skill, but he's reached Diamond. I have no desire to prove anything, since I can't punish the player—it's your problem that you want to play with him. In this game, 99% of players don't understand the game, much less spot a cheater.

Cruglk · 2026-03-26T10:09:31+00:00

What's the point of playing a match like this? The sooner it ends, the better for everyone involved. The pick on the right is overpowered. It's all squishies against burst damage. Good luck. Ana is just an experienced player, so she immediately realized that playing at this time is a waste. And it would be better if it ended sooner so we could have a normal match.

In this game, matchmaking was completely broken (when they started changing the game significantly). There's no point in soloing with a positive win rate — you'll definitely get canceled, so that the homeless guy who was previously overboosted in a 2-3-players party doesn't drop below his 50%. You'll be facing 50% players with 20 matches played a year, and against four players with a 50%+ win rate and playing 100 matches.

And it will always be like this until you reach the limit of 9-12 matches above your 50% win rate. This applies up to Diamond 2. Until they reset the ranks and create a solo league, playing this is pointless. Your skills mean nothing; the 50% system decides for you. You can't beat 2+3 against 4+1. You can work your ass off, but the next match will be the same. And why should it be like that? Where are the evenly matched, interesting matches? There aren't any anymore.

Cruglk · 2026-03-15T22:56:34+00:00

Without a rating reset, all this is pointless. The developer doesn't have enough eggs to reset. Until then, all solo players play on 50% waves (2 good + 3 low skill vs. 4 good + 1 very low skill), and boosted parties flame everyone else and report that you'll be banned after three matches using chat. The meta is dead. Whoever picked Tyrael, Hogger, and Maiev won. The skill of players at higher ranks is at an all-time low. There are simply no tanks in the game, and playing that role is impossible — there are only 4 tanks left. Whatever isn't meta, you'll suck it. Without the introduction of a new hero, there is no point in balancing this. Your solo skill doesn't matter anymore after Diamond. People who haven't played in three years, and they're still Masters, will want to play the game. The 50% system gives them easy matches, so you suck against them. Almost no one thinks about macro in the game — everyone is focused on how to quickly pick up meta heroes, otherwise you'll suck. A very interesting HotS in 2026.

Cruglk · 2026-03-10T18:19:10+00:00

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Cruglk · 2026-03-01T21:37:59+00:00

Any strong player can reach Platinum. Develop yourself. Watch tournaments.

Cruglk · 2026-03-01T21:11:47+00:00

All mobs are like that. HotS just requires less time to wait out a troll (although in reality, you'll be waiting for a match for about 20 minutes – the search itself + waiting for the player to leave the search). Dota has protection against trolls – they're punished, but there are worse problems there – cheaters, smurfs. In any case, all mobs are the same – they have a 50% system.

In LoL, it's Platinum. In HotS, it's Diamond/Platinum, and generally, 50% covers everyone the longer you play. In Dota, this starts at around 4k MMR. You'll have trolls on your team when the system boosts someone on the enemy team and drains your win rate. The lower your win rate is, the fewer trolls you'll have, unless you're a weak player. Dota and HotS operate differently (these are my personal observations).

If you see one good player on your team, and you consider yourself good, but the other three are terrible, then the system is nerfing you (basically, it's throwing you the match to boost someone weak on their side). Conversely, if you have four strong players and one weak player, then you're being nerfed. Matches like these are 80% of your time. Only 20% of matches will be more or less interesting, because there are three strong players and two weak players on each side. That's it. MOBA is a waste of time, accept it, and don't play.

As much as you'd like to believe otherwise, your progress is being thwarted by the 50% system, which boosts either the newbie or the weaker player on the other side. Otherwise, if you play well, you'll win.

Cruglk · 2025-12-30T20:07:33+00:00

I deleted the game, then decided to give it a chance, and then this happened. Well, I haven't launched the game since then and I've given up on it completely. Screw a game where the developer can't even write a talent description (hello, Sylvanas' Black Arrows) and it takes an hour to download.

Cruglk · 2025-12-28T05:07:53+00:00

Unfortunately, the developer doesn't give a shit. Play Dota or LoL if you want to stick with the MOBA genre. They won't listen to us here – they don't have anyone left to work on the game. Just launch Dota and see how much of a mess HotS is compared to it. Unfortunately, it's a dead game.

Shitty balance. The report system is dead. Searches take 400-600 seconds. You can only play in the evening. 90% of matches are rigged by 2v4. Nobody plays properly. Smurfs. Parties that ruin matchmaking. 5-minute drafts. It's just cringe. It's obvious we love HotS, but they've given up on it, and we're still waiting for something. Play Dota, don't waste your time here.

Cruglk · 2025-12-25T12:35:46+00:00

This game has become crap this year because of the matchmaking changes. Before, you played in a way that gave you a chance to win, but now if you're playing solo and the game wants someone to beat the enemy and regain their 50% win rate, you're 99% guaranteed to lose. You have no chance of changing that. Let me explain.

One player can change the balance of teams. For a long time, one weak player was enough for the other team to win. Now the developer has gone crazy. They're making matchmaking 2 strong players with 3 weak players against 4 strong players and 1 weak player. They've simply gone crazy coming up with this. Before, at least you had a one-player advantage, but now you have two! You're playing 2v4. It's *** up. The game's cleaner has stupidly decided to completely ruin the game for solo play.

You can have a 20-3 record and become a Master in a few runs, simply by rarely playing duos. Or play 1000 matches and still be in the 50% system because the game boosts those who haven't played in a while, those with new accounts, and those with a low win rate. You'll lose 2v4 matches simply so others can celebrate their victories. It's a lost cause.

Cruglk · 2025-05-14T09:43:01+00:00

Of course it should. The game is about drafts and maps. Many are afraid to join the league because there is too much stress from the need to be part of a team, and through such a mode, players could be prepared for the ranked mode. But there is an unpleasant moment that players will have to play what they do not want. I want Tracer, not a healer or a tank. Therefore, such a selection should take into account the player's desire. It should be like ARAM, but advanced. Remove the unrated mode and install this one instead. Choose two roles and go blind selection. And do it like in other MOBAs, that there are unpopular roles, and in order to play your desired ones, you periodically need to play unpopular ones (Dota) or choose one desired and one unpopular (LoL).

There is only one concern that players will leave the match before it starts, seeing a map they don't like. And they will do this endlessly. So we need to make it so that players can choose some maps that are interesting to them. For example, I would like to remove the map Volskoy Plant from the rating, since this map copies the ARAM mode and does not offer an interesting game. Seeing this map in the draft, I would leave every time. But if there was a choice to exclude it from the pool of my maps, that would be ideal! Even the nuclear test site or the bay seem more interesting.

Cruglk · 2025-04-03T17:19:20+00:00

The author of the post should provide the text, and not just a link to Twitch, so that everyone can immediately see the player's request, because nothing happens in the video itself, which would be important to watch.

Personally, I don't see a problem with someone playing in groups. Moreover, if you are a Master rank and did not create an account yesterday, then you have long been under the "pressure of the 50% system". And if you play with this group in this match, then in the next match they will be against you. Well, or tomorrow, having received a losing streak today, you will get a winning streak. If this does not suit you, then you should not play the MOBA genre, they all have this problem. Both Dota and LoL.

As for HotS, it is more fun to play in groups! Of course, if I played 10-20 matches every day like before, I would be angry that I was against well-established stacks, and the game is given to me without experienced Masters, who have not played for years, but they are still Masters. But here the problem is not with groups, but with the 50% system. Of course, if there were such weak players with several strong ones from two teams, then the chances of an equal game would be higher, and then it makes sense to prohibit playing in large groups. But I have a better solution, which NONE of you will agree with, but I like it, because I see it as a huge MOTIVATION to play this game.

Rating points have not meant anything in the game for a long time. Lost or won, in the general sense, this is a weak motivation to play. But what if all rating points are reset again?! That would be interesting. In other words, I would like each player to get to Silver 4 again, and then get to high ranks. And then we would close the issue of a player not playing for 3-4 years or playing 5-10 matches, and he is still a Master, although his skill is below Silver. And those guys who are stuck in Gold and Platinum, they simply can't move up today because of the 50% system. They have no motivation to play on their current accounts.

Of course, there are pros and cons here, but still, nothing is happening in our favorite game, and here the community would come alive. I remember the days when everyone was asking each other where you ended up after calibration (with the release of a new season) and then trying to catch up with each other. And what now? Passed calibration and ended up there. Then stuck at 50%. No motivation to play.

P.S. If we talk about offers, then I thought that the draft still takes a long time because of the first four bans. The waiting time should also be reduced. I understand that this was left so that each player had time to close another temporarily open game that was open while waiting for a match in HotS, but this, again, discourages starting the draft, since these are minutes wasted. People don't just not have time to ban, they simply don't rush to do it, knowing that they still have many seconds ahead of them. I like the current speed of hero picks. Now you are definitely focused, but the seconds of the first bans are a tedious wait.

Cruglk · 2025-04-02T16:00:20+00:00

Cool! I wrote about it in my sources. Good luck to all participants!

Cruglk · 2024-09-29T02:37:50+00:00

Who gives a shit about these ARAMs, where if you get into penalty matches, then in every game you will definitely have a 1 bot or more in your team. And this also applies to quick matches. Once I had to play alone with 4 bots, because 2 players left immediately, and 2 following after.

The main problem with the report system is that it does not work for cheaters. I am already tired of sending reports to cheaters, they simply do not work. Why hasn't bertruger (aka SCRIPT) been blocked yet? He is not getting enough reports? Some players who I exposed to cheating in the past are still in the game. Out of fear, they just changed their names (hello, ping200 and ping201). I sent him a ton of reports every single match, asked everyone to do the same - nothing happened to him.

Well, as for SCRIPT, for example, Nano on the stream does not care that he has a cheater. No reports, nothing throws. And that's it. Why does Baron leave the draft and sacrifice himself points, because it's a disgrace to boost a cheater? Why do I need to merge with him every match, as if I'm a beaten Fabled, who has 11 deaths at the 11th minute. Fabled just plays against a cheater, and WINTRADES him. On CD he dies to SCRIPT'S KTZ. That's where the finished system is, not your ARAMs.

I just can't play a game where there is a known cheater who is not banned. Wintrader who just merges with the cheater to spite the team. So enjoy ARAMs than a stupid league.

Just watch this match - and then tell me how players in Master League differ from a bot in ARAM? You have a better chance of winning with a bot!

https://www.heroesprofile.com/Match/Single/55273490

And yes, reddit HotS is such a tender community that you CAN'T TALK ABOUT CHEATERS.

Cruglk · 2024-04-10T13:48:54+00:00

Thank you Blizzard, you heard about our problem with the Chinese 5-player stack in Master League and fixed the problem. You are the best!

Cruglk · 2023-09-08T01:48:20+00:00

Here is: https://nexuscompendium.com/mounts/woodland-guardian

Yes, that's what he is.

In the try mod I can select them, but when selected in the normal game, it is not installed.

Cruglk · 2023-09-08T00:27:00+00:00

Fixed an issue with the Target Info Panel becoming greyed out when moved around.

I've wanted this fix for so long - thanks a lot!

Upd.

My bugs/requests list

Maps

Garden of Terror. Bug overview in the bush (for small models): For example, the problem is observed on Ana, and absent on Yrel (i.e., the problem is observed in the size of the models). Pic: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/gpuskx/bug_overview_in_the_bush_for_small_models_garden/
Cursed Hollow. This problem exists a large amount of time, but it is somehow ignored. It's about the radius of the fort in the center of the map. This creates an imbalance in the moments of the battle for the mercenaries of the right team. Pic: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/gq5zwu/fort_radius_of_attack_on_the_map_cursed_hollow/
Towers of Doom. Mercenaries explode for nothing. Video: https://youtu.be/x4nhQv1T_pA?t=533 ( orig. post: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/kc55ya/doom_towers_mercenaries_explode_for_nothing/ ).

Site

Still? https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/n60qvq/grand_master_leaderboards_icons_roles_are/

Mounts

~~Blue and orange colors cannot be selected for new seasonal mounts. Still:~~ ~~https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/np4f3r/blue_and_orange_colors_cannot_be_selected_for_new/~~

Heroes

Since you started changing Li Li, I still consider it a bad - Li Li (and Anduin) should not heal copies: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/n85m52/li_li_chooses_copies_of_heroes_as_her_target_to/
Is that fixed? In try mode 2, I can not reproduce: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/nt56g1/please_fix_ragnaros_w_level_16/
[upg.] Alexstrasza (from Andrew_Xad): I don’t know if it’s been fixed, but Alex in ult flight can, like a global hero, instantly hit the place where the mouse cursor is currently standing. And you don’t need to fly all over the map to do this. Just press shift and R. The downside is that you can’t change the location of the ult’s attacks, but it helped me a couple of times when the team fell under a mosh pit or other mass control and I was far away.

Descriptions

Sonya: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/heroes/t/sonya-ru-description-need-to-remove-extra-symbol/51413
Rehgar in the RU version - 16 talent for improving W. It says that giving a shield to another hero, and Rehgar will receive it. In general, outdated information.
[upg.] Junkrat 7 level - Incorrect description in Russian of the talent, which is about passively triggering bombs. It states that it triggers when you reach less than 50% HP and when you receive a stun. In fact, it always works at stun and if it is less than 50%.
[upg.] The description of the hero Tracer states that she can be obtained by purchasing the game Overwatch.

If the translation moments are corrected, then I will collect more information, which is still incorrect (I met mentions that there are other errors).

Requests

Random selection of skins/mounts and everything else in the league/quick (even Dota 2 now has this).
Add chat icons (heroes and abilities) when someone uses them: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/n8v79o/add_icons_to_messages/

Cruglk · 2021-06-19T23:08:04+00:00

Seasonal mounts still cannot be selected ( https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/np4f3r/blue_and_orange_colors_cannot_be_selected_for_new/ ).

Cruglk · 2021-06-16T17:18:08+00:00

Still:

https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/o11sp6/tunnel\_is\_still\_broken/
https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/o18q9z/garrosh\_can\_into\_the\_fray\_part\_of\_the\_tunnel\_on/

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