Forgot how bad the last few days before a new season are . . .
All the cheaters, smurfs, and 3 stacks are out in pubs warming up for S20. The solo queue life is agony around this time of the season. Just sayin'
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@reconzero So do you think it might be a good idea to avoid ranked for the first couple weeks? Maybe it will be possible to get a higher rank if I wait to do my provisional matches until then.
@AymCTL
My personal advice is to avoid ranked hoppers, any game, any time. For me, I already know exactly where I stand on the skill ladder without subjecting myself to the pain and soul-crushing humiliation of a rank chase. But if you have no such reservations then I would still say that you should give it a couple of weeks before you start. Give the masters and predators time to work their way into their own lobbies. Getting slaughtered by them doesn't make you a better player or teach you anything about the game that you can't better learn some other way. Respawn can give them a couple of weeks of free kills if that's what they think is best for the game, but they're not getting those free kills off of me.
@Airish85
"Pubs should have random matchmaking."
I'm gonna go ahead and disagree in principle, but in practice pubs comes a little closer to random than I'm comfortable with. So I guess we both win on this one. Or lose, depending on how you choose to look at it.
My personal advice is to avoid ranked hoppers, any game, any time. For me, I already know exactly where I stand on the skill ladder without subjecting myself to the pain and soul-crushing humiliation of a rank chase. But if you have no such reservations then I would still say that you should give it a couple of weeks before you start. Give the masters and predators time to work their way into their own lobbies. Getting slaughtered by them doesn't make you a better player or teach you anything about the game that you can't better learn some other way. Respawn can give them a couple of weeks of free kills if that's what they think is best for the game, but they're not getting those free kills off of me.
@Airish85
"Pubs should have random matchmaking."
I'm gonna go ahead and disagree in principle, but in practice pubs comes a little closer to random than I'm comfortable with. So I guess we both win on this one. Or lose, depending on how you choose to look at it.
