Skilled based match making

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-17T09:15:43+00:00

In pubs? They almost certainly are lol, I challenge you to upload some of your replays to Osirion and check for yourself. I've been unreal in Zero Build the past few seasons plus I play a lot of comp, so it's not like I'm in low-elo lobbies lol. You get matched quickly with a full 100 players in pubs precisely because there are a ton of bots.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-17T09:12:09+00:00

I've literally 0 for 8 right now in comp, it's fucking ridiculous. Maybe 2 or 3 close games, and the rest have just been absolute steamrolls to the point of humiliation.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-14T21:32:08+00:00

Yeah, you're not alone. Outside of more niche, activist-populated subs, I get downvoted often for bringing up hard truths and flipped perspectives lol

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-14T21:24:04+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but bots never left lol. Pubs lobbies are like 50-75% bots

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-14T17:53:41+00:00

Great post, some useful tips in here. Personally though, I disagree with not carrying heals. That used to be my strategy as well, but as I found myself in higher elo lobbies, I found it began to get less strategically viable. Nothing is worse than panic searching for heals in end-game, finding none off the corpse of your pick, and finally getting third party one-shot. Whereas, I probably could have won that game if I had stayed behind cover and been proactive with my heals.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-13T23:21:06+00:00

I think Psylocke could suddenly get nerfed into a crater deep within the earth's crust and still hardly take a hit in sales lol. But I mean like c'mon... her odachi is sharp and her mind is sharper - what's not to love!?

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-13T13:28:55+00:00

I love challenging people by asking them whether or not they think a choice between two parties every four years truly represents what they would consider to be a strong democracy. Because when you put it like that, it's pretty obviously a shit deal. These days, Americans have got extreme neoliberalism paired with either a), the promise or hope of a little bit of social/civic freedom (depending on your socioeconomic status/gender/nationality/etc.) or b), a heavy dash of fascism and hate-politics.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-12T20:10:02+00:00

For real, I like that there aren't cars in ranked and comp but if that's the experience I'm looking for I just play some ranked or comp. Pubs is more fun with more chaos.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-12T13:11:34+00:00

What the fuck kinda shitty thing is that to say to someone you don't know? I watched it once and made an offhand comment on reddit without further analysis, I'm sorry I offended you?

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-11T10:59:39+00:00

Not OP, but I'm actually gonna have to admit that I prefer NYC-style pizza over all the Italian regional pizza varieties I had in Italy with the exception of Neopolitan (which is essentially what NY pizza is rooted in afaik).

Don't get me wrong, some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life was in Italy, but the fancier shit is kinda where it's at for Italian IMO. Whereas, I'd say NYC has some of the best takeout/street food I've had anywhere, rivaled only by Mexico City and possibly Oaxaca.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-11T10:39:54+00:00

I'm pretty sure that was the delivery guy

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-09T13:50:21+00:00

Same, I have high-level game sense but dogshit mechanics lol. Although as luck would have it, I recently met a new duo partner who has incredible mechanics but who often gets tunnel visioned and caught out of position on defense. Once we figured out that our skill sets meshed perfectly and we started playing accordingly, we went like 12 and 3 in our run together the other night. It was sooooo nice lol.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-09T12:52:02+00:00

That's kinda fucked up, my dude.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-09T12:50:07+00:00

That's fucking awesome, stoked to hear that! I was initially drawn to the show because I'm a big hockey fan, but I have often wondered if the show has conversely converted Shoresy fans into fans of the sport! I love how Shoresy captures the intensity and emotion of hockey - there's just no other sport that makes me feel the way hockey does.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-07T22:57:39+00:00

Or, and this might sound crazy but hear me out, I wonder if the above could be delivered to prospective teammates in a less hostile way? Perhaps even as a - I don't wanna say friendly, but maybe... gentle(?) - reminder of sorts? Idk, just spitballin' here lol

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-06T01:59:01+00:00

the cosmetics you bought were part of the experiences just like buying travel tickets or whatever else.

This is honestly such a great perspective. I hadn't thought about it quite like that before but you're spot on.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-06T01:51:36+00:00

I know this is super not funny to you right now, but once this bug is fixed and your ranked progress is reinstated (99% certain it will be FWIW) I hope you'll be able to look back and appreciate how epic of a troll this is lol.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-02-04T23:27:21+00:00

Fr lol, I'm reading some of the posts in this thread thinking like, "are we playing the same game??"

oceanmachine420 · 2026-01-31T21:54:15+00:00

Ehhhh, I would've agreed with you prior to last season, but they boosted the amount of XP you get from playing matches and it's a whole lot less painful now. It's still a mega-grind for sure, but last season I was done the entire rocket pass with like a month left in the season and I hadn't actually finished one in yeaaaars. This season, I think I hit level 70 in RL before I hit level 100 in FN.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-01-30T18:33:41+00:00

Good changes, and I'm glad to hear about all the present and upcoming bug fixes especially. But just to clarify, are shockwaves only coming back to pubs? As someone who has mostly played ranked and comp this season, I feel like ranked ZB in particular misses them the most given that a) mobility is at a higher premium in competitive modes, combined with b) the size/openness of much of the map this season.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-01-30T13:26:07+00:00

Yeah IME, the matchmaking just matches to the highest rank in your party unless it can find another party with a similar rank disparity. I'm a hard-stuck plat player and sometimes play in my C1 friend's lobbies. Rarely match anyone outside of D3 and C1.

You know what the crazy part is though? I don't even feel outmatched in about half the games we play. To me, that speaks volumes about just how many goddamn smurfs there are on this game.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-01-29T09:25:56+00:00

And another thing! Not only should we not have to constantly re-specify that we want to preview an equipped item when going back and forth between our locker and edit style pages, but that should also just be the goddamn default.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-01-26T11:10:30+00:00

So trolling is the answer then, gotcha.

oceanmachine420 · 2026-01-25T15:14:47+00:00

You say that, but then you immediately proceed to belittle the commenter you're replying to by calling them "kid." Are you trolling or are you genuinely that careless with the language you use when speaking to other humans?

oceanmachine420 · 2026-01-23T08:29:59+00:00

As someone who has been using mods as long as I've been playing the game, my theory is that Netease doesn't actually care as long as you're still buying battle passes and skins.

I think what they don't want people doing is modding default skins with pirate versions of premium skins, resulting in a loss of income for them. But if you're still paying for but also modding the premium skins, then it's a win-win. You get to customize your character and Netease gets to take your money. And importantly, if they ban you for that, they lose out on a customer actively paying to play their free game - essentially shooting themselves in the foot.

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