u/SoundAccurate

I started playing Overwatch again for the first time in a while, and honestly, Comp feels ridiculously easy right now.

As a veteran player, it feels like I came back and immediately started dominating again. Maybe it’s all the experience and muscle memory from playing Overwatch for years, but a lot of these matches feel way easier than I expected.

Maybe I’m just getting lucky with my teams. Maybe the matchmaking is being unusually nice to me. Or maybe I actually still have it after all.

Either way, I’m enjoying it while it lasts because I know Overwatch matchmaking. Sooner or later, it’s going to remember who I am and throw me into the most cursed, unwinnable games imaginable to balance everything out.

I genuinely love this game, but I’m honestly exhausted. The matchmaking is already frustrating enough, but constantly running into XIM players in high elo makes it even worse. You spend so much time trying to improve and compete fairly, only to end up against someone using a mouse and keyboard with an unfair advantage on console.

At some point, it just stops being fun. Every game feels like there’s another XIM player, a smurf, or some completely ridiculous matchmaking situation waiting for me. I’m tired of getting frustrated every time I queue up.

So yeah, I think I’m going to take a break from Marvel Rivals for now. Maybe I’ll come back eventually, but right now I just don’t feel like dealing with this anymore. I play on console to compete against other controller players, not people using XIM and pretending everything is completely fair.

I’m just tired. 💀

I got a chat ban for typing a single word. No insults, no harassment, nothing toxic at all. Just one message and suddenly it’s a penalty.

Meanwhile people are arguing, throwing games, and being way more toxic in chat or in game, and nothing happens to them.

Feels like the system is way more sensitive about chat than actual game behavior.

You can lose games because of obvious issues, say one harmless thing out of frustration, and you end up getting punished.

At this point it honestly feels like talking at all is more risky than playing the game.

I'm fine with losing to better players, but losing to people using XIM is just frustrating.

High elo should be about skill, teamwork, and game sense not hardware advantages. You can often tell when someone's using XIM, and it completely ruins the competitive experience on console.

What's the point of grinding ranked if people can just bypass the limitations everyone else plays with?

They're almost always Puni players.

How is it even possible for a D1 player to end up in a full Celestial lobby in Marvel Rivals?

I just had a ranked match where almost everyone was Celestial 3 - 2 and then there was a Diamond 1 player. I'm genuinely confused about how this matchmaking system works. That's a two-rank difference.

I'm not trying to blame the player, but this shouldn't happen in a competitive mode that's supposed to be based on skill. Either the matchmaking is way too loose, or the hidden MMR system is doing some really weird things.

At higher ranks, every match matters, and seeing huge rank gaps like this makes ranked feel inconsistent and unfair. Has anyone else experienced Diamond players showing up in Celestial lobbies, or is this just another Marvel Rivals matchmaking moment?

Unfortunately, I didn't take a screenshot.

I've noticed there are quite a few XIM players in high Elo, and honestly, it feels like Netease doesn't care at all.

It's unfair for regular controller players to have to compete against people using mouse and keyboard through adapters. The worst part is that a lot of players don't even report them. People are quick to report throwers, AFKs, or toxic players, but when it comes to obvious XIM users, most just ignore it.

If the community isn't reporting them and Netease isn't actively dealing with the problem, then what exactly is supposed to happen? High ranked matches should be about skill, not who has the biggest hardware advantage.

I enjoy the game, but running into XIM players makes competitive feel less legitimate every season.

This is only for Console players. Sorry, Pc players.

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Netease seriously needs to focus more on matchmaking instead of constant balance changes. What’s the point of balancing heroes if the matchmaking itself feels bad?

Most matches just turn into a coin flip because teams are filled with way more bad players than good ones. It doesn’t even feel competitive half the time just random. One game you stomp, next game you get teammates who look completely lost.

Right now the game feels 50/50 purely because of matchmaking, not skill.

I used to play Marvel Rivals a lot more, but these days I barely touch it because the matches just aren’t fun anymore.

You can share your thoughts on this.

I know that balance is also important.

Why is Qp more of a tryhard than comp? I just want to learn a few characters, but I'm getting completely destroyed. Let people have a little fun.