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5 years ago

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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DarthValtrex

Hero (Retired)

5 years ago

@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.

hayhor

Hero

5 years ago

@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.

Daze623
5 years ago
@hayhor I think they should get rid of placement rewards except for top 3 teams. It's unnecessary to reward teams for surviving as surviving is still gonna be your top priority when playing this game anyway so might as well just reward people for risking instead of playing it safe.
DarthValtrex
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
@hayhor Good point and sure conflict avoidance might be a strategy to winning a match. But players should be able to hold their own when they can't avoid conflict.

I get so many teammates who just run as soon as me and the other teammate engage an enemy. They don't even try and fight.

No matter how you look at it the ranked point system is broken and it allows people to make it up into higher ranks that they have no business being in.