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DARAPTURE07's avatar
DARAPTURE07
12 months ago

Change Ranked progression.

We need a more balanced system, facing predator badge players every game and literally getting chased down every game by said team is annoying. For instance having a dedicated ranked mode for ex pre...
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Dusst3r's avatar
Dusst3r
Seasoned Traveler
12 months ago

I also think there is no middle ground for ranked right now. I enjoy it up till diamond. I reached diamond in 70games and 2,56KD while only soloQ

After that it's basically unplayable. Threestacks jumping on me with shotguns, calling out every bit of damage they do.... just not fun.

Wish it was different. I will not bang my head into wall just to hit masters. It's useless if i don't enjoy it.

DARAPTURE07's avatar
DARAPTURE07
12 months ago

In plats and literally faced the number 1, number 2 and number 4 current predators today.

Now if personally, if this happens your entry fee should be like knocked down to accommodate the lobby.

it was a straight up loss, waiting to happen which even my team mates already typed ‘GG’ in chat before we had even dropped.

  • DARAPTURE07's avatar
    DARAPTURE07
    12 months ago

    Just to further clarify, my gripe with said system. The whole point of ranked is to establish skill and be an even ground.

    I’m sorry but I’d be extremely annoyed as a competing player for the number 1 spot to find out, the current players are getting extremely easy lobbies of Majority of Gold, Plat and Diamond players.

    I got the recording of said footage because it was back to back, Not once but twice. So could find the exact distribution.


    However my point still stands, Predators should not be in the same lobby as anyone Diamond or below.

    Personally previous Predators and Masters should be in their own category and if the lobby can’t be filled, the point system should automatically adjust accordingly.

    Heck even if the lobbies had to be cross server, or cross platform to fill them, that should be priority over offering them free kills.

    • reconzero's avatar
      reconzero
      Seasoned Ace
      12 months ago
      @DARAPTURE07

      "The whole point of ranked is to establish skill and be an even ground."

      And here's from where your disappointment springs. This is most emphatically not the point of a ranking system. The system exists to provide a grind. The ideal matches, players evenly matched, is something the system should only provide at the end of the season for the most skilled players, and earlier in the season according to how far down the ladder you are.

      Unfortunately people begin to play on secondaries in direct relation to how fast they finish their grind, or how frustrated they get with rank-lock, or with the constant barrage of OTHER players using secondaries to cheat the matchmaker. And before you know it the matchmaker is matching an OCEAN of players who are far more interested in easy matches than they are in playing against players of similar skill. SBMM became utterly pointless twenty years ago when people first figured out that if you don't like what it's telling you then you just manipulate it in order to screw other people by getting matches easier than those you should really be in. And that is now the de facto standard in every sbmm shooter I've ever played. This is why you're being pub stomped in every match.