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6 years ago
@DarthValtrex Mind letting us know how they abuse Rank?
Like how is someone purposely going into the lower Ranks? If you party up with anyone, everyone gets placed into the highest Ranked lobby. Only reason they would be placed lower is if there are not enough people in the higher Ranks which can't be helped sometimes.
Like how is someone purposely going into the lower Ranks? If you party up with anyone, everyone gets placed into the highest Ranked lobby. Only reason they would be placed lower is if there are not enough people in the higher Ranks which can't be helped sometimes.
DarthValtrex
6 years agoHero (Retired)
@iBlockHead Basically you get the two lower ranks in the lobby. The high rank player leaves the lobby. The two lower rank players start the queue timer. You then send an invite to the higher rank player at a specific point/time during the queue. You'll end up in what ever rank the 2 lower ranks players are in. If you don't time the invite right, you won't end up in Silver or the lower rank. But if you do time it right you will.
Do you play on xbox? I do and I can't create looking for groups for ranked it's so rampant. Every single time I create one I get countless Diamond and Predator players trying to get me to do it. I don't want too though, I don't like being carried to W's by other players. I want to improve my skills as I climb the rankings.
I do think there is also problem with the Match Making system. I do occasionally get a random gold or platinum paired into a silver with me via random squad creation. But it's rare..
Do you play on xbox? I do and I can't create looking for groups for ranked it's so rampant. Every single time I create one I get countless Diamond and Predator players trying to get me to do it. I don't want too though, I don't like being carried to W's by other players. I want to improve my skills as I climb the rankings.
I do think there is also problem with the Match Making system. I do occasionally get a random gold or platinum paired into a silver with me via random squad creation. But it's rare..
- 6 years ago@DarthValtrex Yea I play on xbox. I don't think I've seen anyone do this or ask me to do it. Given I'm Plat but I also sometimes get mixed with 2 silvers or gold players if I get on late at night or early morning.
It seems as though the pool for matchmaking doesn't get filled as much at night or morning vs the afternoon.
As for the issue at hand, it does seem like a problem if that's how they're getting into lower ranks. I guess a solution would simply be to not allow anyone new to join after initiating start in lobby.- DarthValtrex6 years agoHero (Retired)@iBlockHead The same and I don't mind the unintentional in which it happens because of a slow server. It's not a huge deal, I just had it happen with a gold player. We liked the guy so we invited him to play more rounds with us. How ever, every round after we invited him we were in Gold. But that is sort of different, we are the ones asking for punishment and it's the higher rank player risking the RP by bringing us into the higher rank with him.
Where I'm getting frustrated is when I want to play ranked with a pre-made squad but have no friends of similar rank on. I try to do the looking for group and can't get a team of silvers together (soon to be gold only 100RP from it). But when I hit gold I'll want to do similar, put together teams of gold ranked players. It's a lot easier to make top 5 and win if we can communicate.- 6 years ago@DarthValtrex Completely understand. All my friends are currently silver or bronze and they fear playing ranked with me thinking it'll be a slaughter fest but in reality, I just need the communication vs pinging which is slower and harder to use in the middle of battles.
If you ever want to play ranked though (might soon be Diamond) drop your GT and i'll add/invite ya.
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