It’s nearly impossible to go above mythic 2 I’ve lost 11 games in a row from it. The systems just keeps putting all the idiots on my team.

Comp does feel unfair sometimes. I swear I get so many teammates who hold onto their super until the match is basically over

Yes...comp solo is very frustrating. After hitting Legend...I'm getting matched with team mates who are saying, "oh...I don't know the map, I just started playing..." and things like that. It could be player count is low for Solo Comp. Some will say it's skill based match making, or similar ELO match making,...I know I'm not the best in the world...but after hitting Legend, I shouldn't be getting team mates who are just starting out and can't get a kill. I think one should be matched with team mates who are in similar brackets of rank in Glory.

Good ole damage referee kicking in. My Chaperone...NEVER...EVER....one shots a Guardian, no matter the health they currently have. My Summoner...will melt n destroy for two games....then not kill anything til I die 5 or 6 times first.

Reached 4200 multiple times this season solo, only to go on a losing streak and down to 3400 again. I just said -blam!- this im out

one of the many reasons i stopped playing comp and any type of pvp a long time ago

Comp is definitely rigged. I noticed the same pattern a few seasons ago. This is one of the reasons I rarely play Comp anymore. I too tried the same strategies, such as taking an extended break, changing characters, quitting matches, and more but it made no difference. Now I just play a few matches occasionally for the seasonal triumph, and then I am done until next season. Bungie is completely clueless about how to handle PvP. The only way anything will ever change is if upper management gets rid of the decisionmakers in charge of Crucible. This is unlikely to happen. Instead of fixing the essential problems with matchmaking, they neglect Crucible for months and then foolishly attempt a remedy through weapon nerfs.

I have a story that lends a little credibility to this, and anyone can check my profile for proof. I was playing survival:freelance recently (6 days ago for those that will check) and we were on Burnout. I was laughing like crazy at the people we were fighting, because I noticed they were, and I say this with the utmost love and adoration of them for sticking with it throughout the ordeal, complete garbage. Their highest K/D was 0.67, and none of them had any idea how to handle a gunfight in any way, and they were wasting their abilities in the worst way possible. I ended the match with 17 kills, and a 4.25 Efficiency. Compared to my teammates, who got 9 and 8 kills respectively, and a 4.0 Efficiency and a 1.5 Efficiency respectively. I do not say these things to brag. Fact of the matter is...I'm pretty bad at PvP, despite playing it more than anything else. My profile stats reflect this: any time I'm put against anyone with skill, I have a much harder time even holding my own, let alone winning, and in a real fight against PvP-exclusive players, I cannot and never have won. I understand this, accept it, and try to grow from it. But the fact that I was able to slay out so hard means I was put with people that have absolutely no idea how to PvP, and as a result, my Efficiency and such skyrocketed. My next match went similarly, with me facing enemies that clearly had no idea how to handle PvP. Again causing my Efficiency and such to skyrocket further due to the amount of kills and such that I got in the match. The reason I am telling you all of this is because the next match, I was put up against enemies I had absolutely NO business being put up against. People that I should NOT have been paired with. I was told that Survival and Survival freelance are the only two modes that are still Skill-Based Matchmaking. If this is the case, then the games algorithm needs a heavy re-work. Because the people I was up against for those first two matches 6 days ago had NO BUSINESS fighting me, and the people I ended up fighting after those first two were so far above me in skill that I had no business fighting them. I ended that next match with a 0.29 Efficiency, one teammate ended with 0.11, and another ended with 1.5. The enemy team though? 6.0, 3.7, and 2.0 respectively. We had absolutely NO business being paired with them. With skill-based matchmaking, the skill gap should NEVER be that large. But this is where the problem comes in. I don't think it's so much rigged as it is HEAVILY flawed. You do better, you get placed with better players. Do worse, you get placed with worse players. The issue is that if you're better than those your put with by leaps and bounds, you get put against players that have a similar AVERAGE EFFICIENCY. The problem here is that players that get, say, 4.0 or 6.0 or even 8.0 in matches REGULARLY are so far and above most players that they really only have business fighting other top-tier players and streamers. But when you get placed in a lobby with people that have no clue how to fight, and you end up with a 6.0 K/D because you're actually semi-competent in a fight and they aren't, then the next match goes the same way, the game decides "Okay they're getting a huge K/D consistently, they need to be put with people that get around the same" and your next match ends up being against people that also get that high of a K/D regularly. So if you're not actually on that level, and you just had a couple of matches against walking trash cans, you end up being put in a league you DON'T belong in, where YOU'RE the trash can by comparison, because the games logic is FLAWED. It needs to be fixed. Until it is, there will always be things that make it seem rigged, or intentionally set to 50/50 win rate. It's not INTENTIONAL, it's ACCIDENTAL, and symptomatic of a terrible way of determining "skill".

So I think it’s three based my experience. There is skill based match making but only in the solo que and as it applies to team balancing. There is a forced 50/50 win-loss in the solo que. And there is also glory and skill based mm at mythic on. Basically the lower ranks are like the placement matches. When you get above 4200 almost all of the matches are with players that have similar glory. Then the team balancing uses the skill indicators to force the 50/50. I also found after you go legend once you will be matching the sweatiest players in the solo que at any given time. Really the only way to break the issues is to run with a team.

It's been known for a long time now that comp has a forced 50/50 win rate

Haven’t been able to make it past mythic 2 in a month. I long on and get 2 wins and then it’s all downhill from there. Sometimes I’ll press my luck and go for a third win but it just doesn’t seem to be in my favor no matter how well I played prior.