{"id":1354326,"date":"2025-10-11T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Pt6m657mds2n9RNPtD2VJC"},"modified":"2025-10-11T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:09:07","slug":"deadlock-just-shuffled-everyone-into-new-ranked-leagues-overnight-but-players-suspect-matchmaking-wont-feel-any-different-if-you-were-miserable-before-youll-still-be-miserable-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/deadlock-just-shuffled-everyone-into-new-ranked-leagues-overnight-but-players-suspect-matchmaking-wont-feel-any-different-if-you-were-miserable-before-youll-still-be-miserable-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadlock just shuffled everyone into new ranked leagues overnight, but players suspect matchmaking won&#8217;t feel any different: &#8216;If you were miserable before, you&#8217;ll still be miserable now&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never played an invite-only beta test with such a fully-formed ranking system as Deadlock&#8217;s, but I guess when everyone gets unlimited plus-ones, the audience is big enough to warrant it. Besides, the game&#8217;s beta status didn&#8217;t stop me lamenting my place in Arcanist IV\u2014below average, assuming ranks fall into normal distribution\u2014but a patch dropped yesterday that majorly shook up everyone&#8217;s ranked placements, leaving me three full leagues ahead of where I was and terrified for my next solo queue.<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise, though, the update wasn&#8217;t to the matchmaker, but to the ranked badge system. As developer Yoshi put it on the Deadlock Discord: &#8220;Previously, badges were tied to fixed skill ranges on the backend, rather than percentiles. As new players joined and as the distribution shifted over time, it caused badges to clump up in negative ways. You can head over to your profile now to see your rebalanced badge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Players did exactly that, of course, and the Deadlock subreddit is ablaze with players who had similar leaps to my own. Reddit user <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DeadlockTheGame\/comments\/1o3aajt\/comment\/nitpyii\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\">YunusES <\/a>said, &#8220;Bro I got sent to fucking Phantom 4 from Emissary 4, I&#8217;m scared to even search for a game.&#8221; Sharing a similar anxiety, user <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DeadlockTheGame\/comments\/1o3aajt\/comment\/nitq9w2\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\">Papalmpy <\/a>said, &#8220;I was Archon 1 and got shot up to Ascendant 1. Why does it feel like I&#8217;m about to get my ass destroyed?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">trying to get to Ritualist rank in Deadlock only to be slingshotted to Oracle by the update today pic.twitter.com\/B2lYHAiSRG<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1976733502440980604\">October 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As plenty of people on social media are pointing out <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IntelDeadlock\/status\/1976847120968843692\" target=\"_blank\">in response<\/a>, though, the badge changes shouldn&#8217;t signal a matchmaking change. Whatever your new rank is, it&#8217;s just a different\u2014ideally more accurate\u2014digestion of the same match history data that determines your MMR. As Redditor axepeartree <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DeadlockTheGame\/comments\/1o3aajt\/comment\/niu595k\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\">put it<\/a>: &#8220;If you were miserable before, you&#8217;ll still be miserable now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given that, when parsing match data from before this patch, Deadlock stat analysis website <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/statlocker.gg\/rank-distribution\" target=\"_blank\">Statlocker<\/a> showed a disproportionately huge number of players stuck in the very lowest rank, it seems like this update was a long time coming. Whether you went from Initiate to Eternus or Initiate 1 to Initiate 2, your bragging rights should be doled out more accurately now\u2014ideal, given that Deadlock doesn&#8217;t have an unranked queue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"41337ab1-4e1e-4b82-ba79-16bfadb9e56b\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deadlock-just-shuffled-everyone-into-new-ranked-leagues-overnight-but-players-suspect-matchmaking-wont-feel-any-different-if-you-were-miserable-before-youll-still-be-miserable-now.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"41337ab1-4e1e-4b82-ba79-16bfadb9e56b\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/moba\/deadlock-just-shuffled-everyone-into-new-ranked-leagues-overnight-but-players-suspect-matchmaking-wont-feel-any-different-if-you-were-miserable-before-youll-still-be-miserable-now\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never played an invite-only beta test with such a fully-formed ranking system as Deadlock&#8217;s, but I guess when everyone gets unlimited plus-ones, the audience is big enough to warrant it. Besides, the game&#8217;s beta status didn&#8217;t stop me lamenting my place in Arcanist IV\u2014below average, assuming ranks fall into normal distribution\u2014but a patch dropped yesterday that majorly shook up everyone&#8217;s ranked placements, leaving me three full leagues ahead of where I was and terrified for my next solo queue. To my surprise, though, the update wasn&#8217;t to the matchmaker, but to the ranked badge system. As developer Yoshi put it on the Deadlock Discord: &#8220;Previously, badges were tied to fixed skill ranges on the backend, rather than percentiles. As new players joined and as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/deadlock-just-shuffled-everyone-into-new-ranked-leagues-overnight-but-players-suspect-matchmaking-wont-feel-any-different-if-you-were-miserable-before-youll-still-be-miserable-now\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1354327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,490],"class_list":["post-1354326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-moba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deadlock just shuffled everyone into new ranked leagues overnight, but players suspect matchmaking won&#039;t feel any different: &#039;If 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