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VoKks9
6 years ago

Re: Ranked is broken after diamond.

@mastiffslinger It's not broken, It is just incredibly harder. From bronze to low plat there's not much difference in the skill level IMO. But Diamond is where the real games begin, and also where a lot of players realize they aren't as good as they thought they were.

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  • mastiffslinger's avatar
    mastiffslinger
    6 years ago

    @VoKks9 

    I don't disagree that the Diamond lobbies should be harder than Platinum at all. But in that screenshot you can see the player who liquidated my squad was a predator. Which in every game of ranked but for 2 so far i diamond the championship squad has been 3 predators. 

    To put it in perspective, how many Platinum 4 games have you seen a Diamond 4 or higher player in? That is why ranked is broken. There is no point to an internal tier system if it is going to flex in and out of said tiers anyways. I pushed myself squadding with randoms through Platinum. I am no god at this game, but I can hold my own both in here and on other shooters which I have been playing for quite some time. I don't care how good I am in one game vs another. What I do care about is playing a game where there is actually a chance of winning a gunfight, why else would I play it? I mean in fornite I could build a mean fortress I guess. But in APex the sole purpose is fighting and winning fights and trying to win games. 

    And to be honest this was really more of a late night rant, after this game I played 2 more with similar stats and results, died to Predators in every one of those games as well. SO if they are going to water down the ranking pool start dropping D4 squads into Platinum to balance it out as well.(Never going to happen i know because Reddit would explode)

    I have zero aspirations of making it to Predator, I just want to enjoy the game and see where I can go against similarily skilled opponents. Since that is what ranked is described as. I suck at the wingman not going to lie, but getting bricked by one pretty often as of late. 

    Oh well I appreciate your feedback, since i am playing less and less as of late my frustration certainly has lessened. 

  • Leo_the_Lion25's avatar
    Leo_the_Lion25
    6 years ago
    @VoKks9 The skill level between Diamond and Predator is so different and great. Ignoring all the people who Dashboard and Alt+4. Diamond and Predator is a different level.

    I think Season 4 Ranked will be different because us Diamonds need to learn more if we want to get better. I can solo queue to Diamond with ease, but it gets hard to solo out of Diamond because the randoms in Diamond aren't actually decent. The disbelieving of you being a good player is also there as you see and meet stronger players who are real Predators.

    Then there are people beyond Predators but they can't go higher.
  • VoKks9's avatar
    VoKks9
    6 years ago
    @mastiffslinger I see predators almost every game now I'm in diamond, in my first game there was a pre-made predator squad, one of them being #35.

    I see where you're coming from, my only guess is that there's such a small percentage of players in the high diamond/predator ranks that sometimes you maybe end up with one or two in your lobby. In low diamond, I see predators almost every single match. Low diamond and high plat have a minimal difference skill-wise, so I wouldn't worry too much about seeing preds in a high plat lobby. If you're in high plat then you're most likely going to be in low diamond very soon where you'll consistently face Apex preds anyway.

  • VoKks9's avatar
    VoKks9
    6 years ago
    @Leo_the_Lion25 I agree, Diamond has great players, but the real predators are beyond that.

    I got into diamond a couple of days ago and yeah, you need to be insane to solo-queue out of diamond and into pred. One bad teammate and the games over, and it's pretty much mostly pre-made squads you're up against.

    I also hope Season 4 will bring something different to the ranked modes.
  • mastiffslinger's avatar
    mastiffslinger
    6 years ago

    I am in diamond 4. This is where I am seeing the predators. My point earlier was imagine the outcry there would be if plat 4 players had diamonds in their lobbies regularly. 

    My experience in diamond ranked is it is just a predator lobby. Occasionally I get a predator on my team as well. 

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