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5 years ago

#SaveApexRanked

I'm a plat/diamond player normally, saying that to preface that I am neither a pro player nor a complete casual that's fresh installing.

I really believe the Rank system in Apex needs refreshing. It's consistently disappointing solo-ing through plat and getting teammates that are skill-wise in Silver at best. While I could pin this on "SBMM," I think it has more to do with how easy it is to rank up in this game and how players cannot rank downwards. I know that several pros have mentioned removing tier protection which I think could be a start, but I also think it should be more challenging to rank up. With the amount of under-skilled players that are able to enter plat and Diamond in our current system, the solo/duo queue experience is a mess. My first idea was to remove the KP cap, make KP worth less on the RP scale, and keep the placement RP the same or potentially decrease it just a smidge. I understand this could encourage the rats to continue ratting every game, but I think it could overall encourage the Battle Royale element of this game where the highest bonus one can get is a win in Ranked.

In my eyes, not everyone deserves the cosmetics/badges/trails that come with the higher ranks. The ease of our current rank system encourages a slow grind to D4 just to get enough for a dive trail even if you shouldn't have made it out of Silver I.

Drop ideas or comments below since an idea from all of us is better than an idea from one.

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16 Replies

MLBoozer
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5 years ago
I personally think there should be a shorter (very short) timeout for inactivity. Like seriously, so many entire squads are just sitting in rooms waiting for one person to walk through so they can destroy them. I know restricting tactics is kindof lame but so is getting ambushed behind every corner by people who can win a game to save their lives on a good day. Also Revenants totem needs to leave players with less health or less shields when sent back to totem. They have it way to easy for a high return with his Ult. Maybe also put I cool down on some of these ping spammers, it's hard to hear the game when some teammate is using all of his fingers to tell you an enemy is across the map when one is clearly right in front of you.
iPyromix
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5 years ago
@papahandsoap Don't save. Does not deserve because respawn do nothing with smurfs. Smurfs is real problem.
papahandsoap
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5 years ago
@iPyromix Professional players are forced to smurf by the lack of attention high-level ranked gets. They are consistently fighting cheaters and DDoS lobbies. I have sympathy for it
papahandsoap
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5 years ago
@MLBoozer Agreed. Inactivity in ranked has to be penalized, I get really upset when a teammate costs me RP. Ratting however is just part of ranked, I'm not going to commend it but it's a play style and it can be used or countered.

Revenant is a whole issue right now. Too easy to use, and there are not enough consequences when a team uses his ult.

PS: You can mute pings
Irres169
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5 years ago
I was gonna give input....but I think people need to realize one thing first.
NO ranked system will work when the company that makes the game doesn't do anything about cheaters.
papahandsoap
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5 years ago
@Irres169 Big facts. It's even sadder when I find a cheater in a platinum/diamond, because those are ranks one can pretty easily get into just by playing the game. They seem to not really care about cheaters though which is sad