First ranked game in a couple days
Guess how it went. Yeah, exactly how you'd think it would go. Land, beat a squad, get immediately wiped by a squad of Apex Predators while we were Plat 4. Get respawned, no loot, die, repsawned agai...
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Got stuck in gold 4 with Skull Town landing tryhards.
@hardgrapple I feel your pain homie as I've just about given up solo queuing in Ranked and gone back to pubs. Camping to top 3 - 5 consecutively isn't as easy as people think either and is incredibly boring/frustrating as hell to do in order to salvage a bad game.
The higher you go the worse it gets as there's zero incentive to fight a losing battle to beacon retrieve or even revive in some cases. You get no rp for it which doesn't make any sense in a team based competitive format. Even if you somehow clutch you'll have next to no time to loot and just attract everyone on the server to third party you. You have no choice but to camp (completely understandable as you need to at least cover the rp cost of the game) which means you're competing with any survivors for top 3 that could already in a better spot on the next ring site than you. Add in the escalating ring damage and late teams actively hunting down any solos they hear/see...
I can only imagine how much worse the TDM pub stomping mentality would be if kills were awarded more points and placements/survival time didn't matter. Ranked and Casuals would literally be no different... *Shudder*
The higher you go the worse it gets as there's zero incentive to fight a losing battle to beacon retrieve or even revive in some cases. You get no rp for it which doesn't make any sense in a team based competitive format. Even if you somehow clutch you'll have next to no time to loot and just attract everyone on the server to third party you. You have no choice but to camp (completely understandable as you need to at least cover the rp cost of the game) which means you're competing with any survivors for top 3 that could already in a better spot on the next ring site than you. Add in the escalating ring damage and late teams actively hunting down any solos they hear/see...
I can only imagine how much worse the TDM pub stomping mentality would be if kills were awarded more points and placements/survival time didn't matter. Ranked and Casuals would literally be no different... *Shudder*
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