_Weeping_Angel_, on 13 February 2019 - 09:35 AM, said:
I just peeked at your stats,
ouch. Mine did the same thing back in Dec. I struggled to stay above .500. I took 3 weeks off to lose my toxicity for the game. Unreal losing streaks, insane how hard I had to carry to get a W. The MM has changed. I don't think anyone will argue with that statement. I just don't see it as rigged.
I personally wonder if they were tinkering with how they set up MM in ratings battles, which are really just handicapped matches, and added a little of that system to the general population and see what happens. I hate rating battles because there are so few people in cue that as my rating goes up and up, I get handicapped with worse and worse players to make that individual game "fair" or "even". But that is a whole different topic.
Yeah I used to play around 60 and my 30 day has now sunk to 50. At first I thought it was just a losing streak, then I thought it was the tanks I was playing, then I thought maybe I'm losing something in my gameplay, now I don't know. I'm not saying that my problem is MM, but I'm not not saying that either. I hate to blame MM because as you say it's the same for everybody. I do have some excuses:
- I bought a Mutant on the New Years event. I know it's got big weaknesses, on open maps it's so tall it gets really hard to hide your super thin sides, but I've been really enjoying it anyway so I've been accepting some losses and some crappy survival rates.
- I've been systematically playing higher tiers. I played a lot of tier 7 for months, very successfully, but I was going credit hungry and I felt like I was always low tier. So I've started playing tier 8 premiums. I've been making money and have not been low tier as much but my WR is in the crapper.
- I tried working on mediums, which I've never played much, and died a whole lot. This happened in the middle of my slump so I've abandoned that stupid idea for now.
All that being said I don't feel like my play is any worse than it was before. I know my survival rate has taken a real nosedive and I've been making some bad decisions and taking some unnecessary risks, but I think I've always done that, fate favors the bold and all that. I'm trying not to let myself get discouraged but I'm almost a 40%er now. Last night I finally went back to my roots and played a couple of games in the KV-1, which went well, so maybe I should just club tier 5.
I am starting to think that while MM is not rigged it might be a little broken right now. I do feel the problems started with the update, and I don't think it will be fixed soon. For one thing, WG has to recognize that it's a problem. If they do then they have to come up with a fix and then add it to an update, and that's at minimum a two month process. And that's a really optimistic view, like I said, WG recognizing a problem is a big hurdle.
And I could be wrong, it could just be me. At the end of the day, I'm not the kind of guy who stresses about stats all the time, but I do like to win. I'm also a big believer in overcoming problems myself regardless of outside influences. In other words, if other guys can play at 60% with the MM we have, there is no reason I can't, so I need to try harder, play smarter, or drop to tier 5 and try to club with the KV1.