Gold
I'm not much for ranked but have been giving it a go since Christmas day and last night via my final game reached Gold. It amazes me how so many poor players make it to silver. I was 3 points from Go...
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@EdwardDLuffyI agree that the ranked system does not function. I'm in Gold 1 and should be in platinum but have been solo queuing it.
I would estimate that 90% of the people I get matched with do not belong in Gold. I had a LL who had a gold back pack, she would NOT revive down teammates mid fight, despite me telling her reivive revive revive. No rev around so that was not the issue. More than half the rounds I'm in the people have a hard time breaking 100 damage.
I have had dozens of teammates drop to Trials. when I ask why.. "it's slow" yeah because the loot is horrendous and you're good as dead as soon as you leave (if you don't get killed by those who drop to sky hook first).
I want to see them completely eliminate placement points and replace it with a multiplier that multiplies your kills RP. with a maximum RP of 225 still. This will weed out all of the campers who avoid conflict to make it to positive RP. If you win a match with 0 kills you get 0 RP.
But it will fix ranked. At the very least I'd like to see them slash placement RP by about 70% and boost what you can get from kills/assists.
Silver is not hard at all, I solo queued through it in about 48 hours gaining something like 1300RP in a 24 hour period.
@DarthValtrex Remove placement points in a game where winning the match is the goal? Come on man. No what they need to do is simply remove the cap on kills and assists and make it more difficult to move through levels. Last split I went to platinum from low silver in 5 days without even trying. Also remove the downgrade protection below plat 3.
- @hayhor Did you solo queue it? Try solo queuing form silver to platinum. You'll see what I mean. There are hundreds of people in the gold/platinum lobbies that do not belong there. They camped there way up to it.
90-95% of my teammates tonight belong in silver lobbies. They can't use legend abilities. They can't rotate a map. They spend to much time looting that forces us to deal with the storm then try and fight the people camping the edge of the ring as we stumble out damaged from the storm..
Final two squads are fighting, I want to third party it.. Nooo they want to sit there and watch, let them heal up.
Placement multiplier would work wonderfully. It's a Battle Royal game.. If you get 3 kills and 2 assists and win the match then get a 3x multiplier on your kill RP. I understand the object is to win, but it's also to eliminate your opponents, not just hide in a corner while other people do the fighting. I'm not saying you have to push everything you see and hear, but at the very least you should be able to stand a chance at winning the fights you get into. The people I was getting matched with the last 48 hours stood no chance.- @DarthValtrex <— I’m with this guy on this one. Do something like 10 kills is max (cause realistically, who gets 10 kills on a regular (like 1 in 5-10 games) except for highly skilled ppl and even then when going rank up it becomes more difficult) and with 10 kills and top placement you get the max RP. Do this up until diamond.
In diamond ppl know how to play, there you can do the current grading method. This way ppl who are actually gold ppl will stay in gold as they will get stomped by aggressive or eager-2-advance plats and highers and will likely only maybe get killing RP which they’ll lose as soon as they see other ppl cause they don’t wanna develop skillz except roasting s’mores.
Plat lvl players might make it to diamond but if they know whats good for them they wont do it as soon as they see what diamonders can do!
This hybrid model will def work!
@Daze623... in silver & gold the ppl I got bunched up with didn’t hotdrop, didn’t go to 1-other-team places but actually went to whole other side and cautiously moved towards storm -_- if seen a person they either fled or fired rounds as if they got fire ants in their pants tickling them just by walking them... but as soon as enemy opened fire it was as if the fire ants were biting and if you know how painful their bite is you get what I’m saying what happened to my ‘teammates’. - @DarthValtrex The beauty of this game is there are a lot of play styles that can win a game. A person that hides until the end and wins should get the most points available. I dont care if 2nd place had 10 kills. They ultimately failed the main objective of the game.
Again I'm all for increasing points for kills and assists by getting rid of the cap but you initially said to get rid of emphasis on placement and winning.
As for when I played, I was playing with ferrari and we decided to play ranked to get away from the pub lobby sbmm. I havent tried soloing ranked in a long time and probably never will. I'm gold 2 now I think randomly playing it with ferrari. You dont need a full team to advance to plat, really you just need either A)time to solo it by being very careful or B)a second that you mesh with. As someone that has solo Q'd to plat+ every season except 2 and 3, it's incredibly easy to make it to play. You can AFK the entire match, as long as you play top 5, you still get points...
Then once you're in plat, it gets even worse, because people make it there simply from either ratting or because they have good mechanical skills (i.e. aim). The reason it gets worse is because they have absolutely 0 game sense and their positioning is terrible. Highest I've made it is diamond solo, but once you get there, then it's full pred squads and try-hards, either that or you get stuck with plat4 rats.
Just posted about this in another thread.
Frankly, ranked isn't that much more serious than straight up pug games. I find it tiring to get through bronze and silver, even though you can get lots of kills. I like it for certain things, but none of them have to do with the grind of going up which takes too long.
I'm not ashamed to say I've abandoned matches. I'm also not ashamed to say I've watched pugs hot drop, while I go somewhere else, let them leave after they know I won't be picking them up which would be suicide, and then placing 2nd-5th alone.If it were better, like most any other game with ranked, where you literally weren't still more rewarded for abandoning games than sticking with them, maybe it would be better. But then again, it's a Battle Royale...you kind of get really dumb games all the time and that's not just with other players. You drop and get no armor, you drop and get no weapons, you have to run away, you have to wait, you have to do so many rng things that even when you play your best, it can be a chore.
But yeah, I don't really do well with most players. I do sometimes find really good people though and I keep playing for the few matches that are really fun because of good team mates when they show up.
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