Get Rid Of Rats In Rank!!!

@GAPTWITCHGAMINGThey can’t, they opened this door and now we have to go through it 😉

This season will be a hilarious mess, I am master right now and the amount of high diamond and masterplayers that can’t hold their gun properly is disturbing. And this is just the beginning at the end of the season probably like 30% of the playerbase will be master

just quit this season is not worth to be playing, the ranked badges have 0 value because they are free to get. 

On top of that there is nothing to really grind for.

my squad and me made Master quick and stopped playing after. There is nothing for us to play for, we can’t reach pred because we are not interested in grinding 8h per day, 

on top of that are our lobbies a joke, the avg lobby we are in looks like this:

2-3 hightiersquads + us

16-17 clueless deersquads in headlights

We usually just w at everything we see like maniacs and it’s really weird since we have to actually skillcheck people on range now to actually predict if it’s one of the 2-3 hightier teams or not, and if they are we need to engage them smarter. Because they do exactly the same thing, just w at everything they see.

it’s to late they can’t fix this anymore, all they could do is reset the season. 

There's more to skill than just being able to aim.

Players can ride their IQ in FPS games much higher than the average no-brain aim player because they actually think about what they're doing.

If you just run-and-gun it everywhere without any consideration, you're relying on everyone else being as equally good mechanically as you, and equally dumb as you with their decision making, and that's why you're at a peak where you feel no one can "hold a gun" properly.

Maybe you should learn to improve your decision making so you can climb higher, and be on par with people both intellectually and mechanically?

It doesn't just depict how well you can hide.

It also doesn't depict how well you can aim either.

It depicts the combination of both.

If you suck at aiming, you won't climb.

If you suck at making the right decisions, you won't climb.

If you're being smart about how you play, and take the right fights, then you'll climb.

It just simply doesn't promote being an ape and charging in to every single fight in the hopes of third-partying to steal kills anymore... and the more players realise they can't just do that and expect to climb, then the better tbh.

For example;

I've just came 3rd in a match as a solo because my two teammates decided that it was more important to loot out of zone, than to relocate for the zone. I strategically fought 1v3 and almost beat the team that outed me while solo from playing smart while the person that finished 2nd just hid. We lost that game because they weren't making the correct decisions, and that impacts my rank. Ultimately, it doesn't matter how good your aim is when you have no brains.

I think based on the comments though, in this case "rat" is purely anyone that is at a higher rank that can't aim as well as the one claiming they're a rat.

Which as my comment states it isn't really accurate since players can actually be ranked higher based on intelligent decision making, instead of just being mechanical aimers.

I'm under no illusions that my aim is good - but I've come from a long career of playing online FPS games to know where the best tactical positions are, how to reach them, and when to engage against enemy teams, where as my teammates are repeatedly more intellectually along the lines of cavemen; "SEE ENEMY. RUN FEET. GUNS BRRR"

And then they have the audacity to blame someone else because they aped into a building solo against three players after giving up the "god spot".

EDIT:

FYI I don't also see myself as a rat unless I'm a solo survivor of my squad. I know that I don't stand a chance of winning a 1v3, so I tactically await teams to engage each other, and then I usually shoot a few bullets to get a knock in the fight on the team that's mostly in cover.

I had to educate my team to a win the other day with the same concept - never shoot the exposed team. You just alert them to your position, and allow them to re-position. Equally, the team already in cover gets alerted to your position, and you're in a stalemate there for first.

Always shoot the team in cover and help the exposed team. They won't adjust their positioning to your incoming fire because you're not shooting them, leaving you (or them) to kill the team that has the advantage, leaving them completely exposed when it becomes your team vs their team.

@matzesingt

"But not only that, it’s also the best way to improve the most and get as much practice as possible in. So even from an efficiency/practice standpoint that’s the way you should play."

Now that's an argument. I don't believe it applies to every player, but it applies to most.

But let me throw out yet another kind of player: someone who is already competent in a fight, though maybe no masters level hero. Maybe they like a fight or two per match, but are not interested in fighting their way through the entire match, beginning to end. Especially given the lack of quality in random match squadmates in this game.

I guess you might call that guy a "rat by circumstance" more than by disposition.

What do you think? Cheater? Bannable? Or just an unfortunate side-effect of the way the game works? I'm not trying to beg any particular answer here, but it seems to be a slightly different take on the same discussion we've been having all along.