Season 4 Ranked Split is Awful
Beyond frustrated that the ranks were split after months of grinding, it is almost enraging having been a Diamond player that dropped down to Gold and now has to literally deal with Bronze 4 players - brand new players - WITH A MAP SWITCH. Random teams are unplayable for me right now.
King's Canyon is a dumpster fire of a map for serious gameplay. There are far too many corners and undersides I can hide in that practically make me invisible, and too many high-altitude areas in massively wide-open areas where I can just camp with a Charge Rifle, unchallenged. The map just sucks.
The loot situation is horrendous, and extremely unbalanced. The loot points are scattered ridiculously far apart from each other, be it bins or floor drops, and the loot that I do find is typically bottom tier trash like level 1 armor, miscellaneous ammo, heals and the like. However, after having looted for about 10 minutes in one game, having found nothing but a pistol and white armor, I went to the circular platform in the Thunderdome and found two level 4 items, a level 3 item, and at least two level 2 items. These were sitting within inches of each other. There is that, and then there is the IMC laboratory that always seems to have enough sniper rifles and side pieces to arm half the lobby. I am not sure if something was changed or if the RNG has just been steadily garbage, but every match has been me having about two items in my inventory 5-10 minutes in.
No, I am not just pissing on the game to vent my frustrations over a bad match. I had zero complaints when playing ranked on World's Edge, apart from randoms, which have nothing to do with the game itself obviously. World's Edge was a grand ranked map. There were no massive open spaces be helpless fodder for snipers. There weren't thousands of cracks and crevices to go incognito in, or under. The loot spots were compact, well-organized, and always had something for everybody. I couldn't get enough of World's Edge Diamond Tier rank pushing before today's reset. But now I am just not having fun. At all.
