Congrats! Rank Is Broken

@Death_By_RingThis is very much true. Respawn knows how to make the matchmaking work, but they choose to go a EOMM route. I think this is also to satisfy the top 1% of players (the masters/preds), as they get into lobbies they can easily stomp and destroy.

The new rank system is okay in its own rights, but its implementation of matchmaking is WAY worse than S12, and prior seasons.

Due to this decision of EOMM, and how badly they messed up ranked, (the fact that Bronze to Gold rank lobbies are consisted of Rookie to Diamond players, with the skill required to rank up being Pred++ level), I have decided to ignore every single teammate I get from this point on.

I refuse to work as a team with below level 100 teammates, teammates who are still Rookie rank, teammates with no skills (ranging from aiming, awareness, etc), teammates who play like noobs/bots, and other kinds of useless teammates.

Having to resort to this kind of behavior doesn't sit right with me, but Respawn doesn't want to have an actual matchmaking system. So, for that reason, I won't care about the teammates I get.

This is the sort of thing that also leads to toxic players. Such as the ones who run off solo and then blames their teammates.

Based on how I've been feeling about the game, and as things like this goes on, and even how teammates steal my IMC Armory loot (from my bins after I open them), amonst other actions, it becomes easier to understand why this game has so many toxic players.

It seems that a lot of players want to work as a team, but they're forced into terrible matchmaking over and over, that they become irritable and more prone to snap on their teammates for every little action.

While I don't plan on becoming toxic, I'm sure my random teammates are going to feel like I am. However, I keep the game voice and text chat muted, and if they start spam pinging, that gets muted as well.

A better solution would be for Respawn to fix the issues with the game. Instead us players are going to have to play as solos, and break away from the "team-based" aspect of the game.

Edited: After posting this, I got these two teammates who are in the same club. This only enforces my reason for playing as a solo in ranked:



While of course, since I decided to be a solo, I still get to fight other low level players from enemy teams. My teammate Ash above was a smurph. They were playing like a pred, while Wraith was 100% a "new" player. That Wraith got killed 3 times in a row. In the meantime, this is who I died to when 3 different teams focused their fire on me:



I don't know how Respawn defines "rank", or "skills" exactly, but anyone below level 100 shouldn't qualify to even get into rank, because people are just smurphing to murder lower lobbies or to get into matches as a level 10-50 cheater. That's not fun for anyone else.

Edited 2: My next game, I got these two teammates who are also in the same club. If anyone thinks the game has any kind of skill base matchmaking, or meaning to the matchmaking, this is simply not a thing.