Happy Friday the 13th

Happy Friday the 13th Legends I hope your Friday is luckier than the ones the Knights Templar had back in the early morning hours of Friday, October 13, 1307 due to the actions of Pope Clement V and King Philip IV of France.

We are a few days into the new season and I keep hearing the woes of the Solo Q player and the new ranked system.

Now there are Solo Q players and there are solo players that Solo Q and it makes a world of difference to them with the new system.

If you are the Solo Q player that will try and work with your Randoms and the Randoms do the same with you then you are playing as a team and the changes should not overly affect you, the goal of the changes was in fact to encourage and reward team play.

If your are the Solo player that Solo Q’s you have a problem because you are playing for yourself and hoping your tag along teammates will or will not help you as you will probably not help them. These are the types that are hunting for kills. They are also the types that will suffer under the new system and will be found lacking in the team play skill department. They will either get lucky and rank up or invariably will be the ones that will not hit their last season high marks and keep falling down from their previous hard stuck D4 to platinum and back again or worse.

In theory I welcome the new ranked changes.

In practice I find the entry costs to be a bit to steep. Coupled with that I find the Rank thresholds a bit high. But that is just right now so lets just wait till the end of the split and see how it pans out. I have played purely Solo Q this season so far and have found that (small sample size) in 90% of my games my random teammates had made the adjustment and were willing to play as a team and also to play smart. That is great because I have only had 1 hot drop Harry experience so far and last season there was just to much of that style of play in ranked. Ranked is looking to get away from the ME. ME,ME experience and more to the team experience and so far I think it is working.

The almost all across weapon dmg nerfs and better helmet protection and nerf to headshot multipliers are almost non-noticeable. TTK is barley affected, I still can melt people and they can still melt me in seconds.

The armories are a cute addition if you can get to one with no teams nearby. If not they are a death trap, this needs to be fixed otherwise you are just looting for the team that is waiting for you to try and get out alive, you are basically free KP and free loot. Beware for the time being.

Have not played Newcastle so no comments.

If your team does not have Valk in ranked especially on SP you are missing out on something.

Lastly have fun and play smart, do not let yourself down, by letting your team down, by playing Solo my name is Rambo.

Good luck and happy hunting.