Well I respectfully disagree and here’s why:
1#Your unbelievably naive if you think no one is hiding to climb ranks , so many people are complaining about it as it’s one of the most viable point earners in ranked and one of the many reasons why the ranked system is broken . It’s absolutely bs and I discourage it to anyone but people are gonna exploit the system currently in place much like the losers who were camping to get a higher elite streak when the event was on.
2# I’m not a pathfinder player I use every character except Gibraltar, with pathfinder being my 4th go to after mirage, octane , bloodhound - so don’t make assumptions.
3# I never said I was a ‘god’ at this game and am perfectly happy to accept I’m on the better side of average - more like consistent , and and I already said above I’m more than happy to admit when I’ve been outplayed . Being seemingly one shotted or (having my level 3 armour turned to dust by the re45) by some low level player who doesn’t strafe , has terrible positioning and isn’t even working with their team is not skill it’s luck and bs and it’s happening often enough for me to bother making a post about it. Getting killed by a premade squad with co ordination or some nutter that has the 20kill badge and 500wins with their main is being outplayed , what I’m talking about is not atall.
When the ranked started , besides all the details, I only considered myself a gold rank player with maybe hopes of climbing to platinum or even diamond in the long run and of course I expected the matches to get harder due to skill ramping! - BUT I’m currently at gold 1 almost platinum and I’m still playing against bronze rank players who smash me regardless of their inexperience and bad plays .
I honestly think a balance patch is needed asap to fix a lot of the problems with weapons and ring and as for lag etc , well I’ve done all I can on my end and have a stable and fast connection and play console so am not able to have any other problems that would be my fault .
EDIT; misread your first bit and thought you were completely denying the fact that people hide so sorry for that, but still it definitely is happening more often than not .
And my comments prob look aggressive and snappy - I’m currently playing and encountered some of the very bs were discussing just before replying , so again sorry for that haha