Appreciate your response. For the record, I think one of the issues is that I’m just barely good enough to get Masters but definitely not good enough to be successful against the average Masters or Pred players. So realistically, I am “bottom tier Masters”. As such, I’m kind of destined to continually play the kids at the top, where I lose the high majority of the time. That’s actually exactly the way it should be in ranked— but ridiculous in pubs.
I also think it’s worth noting that I’m older and my opinions are biased. My golden years consisted of Halo and Call of Duty online matchmaking. I (no joke) was getting my butt kicked by Snipedown more than 10 years ago in the MLG ranked mode.
(That’s not a joke, I played against Snipe like 3 times and got handled lol).
Both of those game used loose matchmaking in their casual modes. In this setting, player outcomes were directly influenced by the players’ competence. As you increased in skill above the “average player-skill”, public matches became easier. Was this a bad time for under-average players? Kinda, but it was technically fair in that you could directly alter your experience by practicing and improving.
So yeah, part of my gripe is that the industry has changed. It’s not all bad I guess, but I can’t help but feel like player competence is a lot less rewarded these days.
This will never end probably I will have to create another account to actually enjoy the game again:
Now it's even worst because now I am fighting against full stacked teams of master and preds... with two teammates that go to last battle with white armors.
Full-stack of predators.
How can I compete, again?
This time there were couple of such very good teams in one lobby.
So what is the point of this, respawn?
The people who defend the matchmaking are top level players. The pathfinder guy on here defending it admitted to being masters. So of course they see no problem with it. Because they get to stomp players who are much worse than them. It fuels their ego. Makes them feel good. It is average players like us who get the short end of the stick. If predators are the top 700 in the world, I should theoretically never see one. Especially one with a dive trail. I highest I have ever been ranked is platinum 4. My lifetime K/D is like 1.02 or something and I have no where close to 10k career kills.
Playing in a lobby full of masters and predators every match is completely unfair. My theory is that the player base is getting smaller every day. I had issues playing sweaty bois in past seasons but not this much. What makes this issue even worse is almost all masters and predators on console are mouse and keyboarding WHICH IS CHEATING. Google defines cheating as : "act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination" Mouse and keyboard gives you a CLEAR unfair advantage over players on controller therefore mouse and keyboarding is cheating. People who defend this are people who mouse and keyboard on console. Also they are admitting they are bad by mouse and keyboarding on console because they need an unfair advantage to get kills and win.
And ranked is not the solution. 75% of people on console are smurfing.
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