Starting with season 17, I played almost every day for a couple of hours. My kill to death ratio is now 0.9, down from 1.7 in season 16. Now I'm in the Bronze League and I don't understand what superpowers I need to get to the Silver League. All these days I stopped enjoying the game, only suffering from the incredible difficulty of the gameplay in the initial Bronze League. I'm just in tears, I can't play this game anymore being in Bronze league like I'm in Master league, no gameplay fun at all. I assume that the developers of the game focused on the majority of those who make donations, that is, for the sake of increasing monetary income, they added the comfort of the game to one group of people and took away the comfort of the game from another. A player with average or below average skill will easily pass Bronze League, Silver League and be in Gold, while a proven one will suffer in Bronze. An experienced player has spent money and time to improve his skill and is now inferior to a player who did nothing. I could be wrong, but I don't think it's fair I'm not a smurf, I've been playing this game since season 1. Now most of my opponents in the Bronze league are 4000K and 20 kills and send me to the Lobby in seconds...The only playstyle left is to hide in quiet and dark places until the ring chases me out Developers, could you make changes to Matchmaking so that players like me can enjoy the game again? [CM - Edited to remove political remark]

@hayhor Why do we play this game? In order to hide in corners and waste time on nothing, even being in the very beginning league? For this, I'd rather play Alien Isolation, it's the same but with a better horror atmosphere. This game has always been interesting because of the dynamics of the fight. And now it leads to negative results due to extremely unfair Matchmaking. A beginner who makes no effort to improve his aim or to apply tactics or other training will be rewarded with the satisfaction of the game, which was forcibly selected from the pro players, the same ones who spent a lot of time and money to become the same pro. That is, the more you work and give, the more will be taken from you for the benefit of those who do nothing

Well in properly working MMR system if a player acting like he is the best player in the lobby and try to kill everyone he should be punished. Only exception is the pro players since there are not enough pro players to fill the lobby, they can land between multiple teams and kill them. Which is wrong and should be fixed with better MMR adjustment.In an ideal system everyone should have KD around 1.0 with some exceptions.Sometimes I see a random octane dropping to fragment with 2 teams and 2 other teams to near small buildings just to third fragment. Only expected outcome for that octane is to going back to lobby with -25 LP.Similar thing can be happen the midgame. I'm hitting the scan beacon and we saw 2 teams rotating behind us, but teammates trying to push a team on the high ground when in disadvantage. Even we kill the team in the high ground the rotating teams will third us.Battle royale is not just about fighting and getting kills. If a player just enjoys fighting there are other modes in the game.

I tried it out. Did the prelims got stuck with squadmates who hot dropped and wound up in rookie 2. This ranked system is pubs 2.0 for me. Potatoe teammates going up by against stacks of premades. I am not going to lie I was sick of gold and silver teammates the last several seasons going to diamond. But this is just stupid. Leaving games with hot droppers with sun 50 damage if any at all. Cracking top 10 only happens if I leave them and rat. Otherwise a couple of kills and back to the lobby.And honestly how many da goat teammates can I get?????

@creater_uaother than waiting for top 10 to start fighting in term of ranked , you also need to improve your game play in general.spend more time in firing range ,improve your aim and target tracking.some people do movement training some do aim and some do both.hiding in the corner while playing ranked is not the answer for the main issue , whatever the rank system is there will always be 4k 20 kills , predators and masters players.the way to counter this is to be more ready to fight this kind of players , not hide from them.go to the firing range every time you start a session , turn off aim assist if you are on controller and turn it back on in the actual game and see the difference.if you are on PC then you have a lot of options to train and improve your aim.believe me if you spend 15 to 30 minutes in firing range or training everyday ,your fighting skills will improve very soon that if not immediately if you focus enough.you said you KDR was 1.7 last season , do you know what a 1.7 ...it's great that's at least diamond level , maybe you are just burnt out or tired you just need little more focus.i had a friend who used to get terrified (literally) when he see a master or pred trail , he started training every day in firing range movement and aim now he is 3 times master, I call him Aceu 2.0 because of the moves that he pull off consistently.another routine i like to do is solo que no fill in duos and try to take every fight even when it's 2v1 close range , you will not believe how much you will improve if you do it more often.side note : you always need to plan your attack , angle , surrounding what type of weapons you are using and enemies are using

@maximas1986 Preach it. Words to game by. Could not have said it better myself.

Incredibly difficult matchmaking for Season 17. I can't beat Bronze League

33 Replies

hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@creater_ua Are you trying to fight before top 10? In the current points system it's best to rotate and wait to fight.
Axs5626Sxa5001
3 years ago
@hayhor You’re 100% right and I think this is a critical error of the current structure. It absolutely doesn’t pay to take fights at all now if there aren’t less than 10 teams.

How long before team’s intentionally (think “gentleman’s rule”) don’t fire on each other until the “team’s remaining” counter is close to 10.

I definitely see what they we’re aiming for, but I’m not convinced this is the perfect balance between action and placement.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Axs5626Sxa5001 I do not understand why they do not model ranked scoring after algs. Algs rewards people that play position and people that play edge for kills.
creater_ua
3 years ago
@hayhor Why do we play this game? In order to hide in corners and waste time on nothing, even being in the very beginning league? For this, I'd rather play Alien Isolation, it's the same but with a better horror atmosphere. This game has always been interesting because of the dynamics of the fight. And now it leads to negative results due to extremely unfair Matchmaking. A beginner who makes no effort to improve his aim or to apply tactics or other training will be rewarded with the satisfaction of the game, which was forcibly selected from the pro players, the same ones who spent a lot of time and money to become the same pro. That is, the more you work and give, the more will be taken from you for the benefit of those who do nothing
el7uarvszheo
3 years ago
Well in properly working MMR system if a player acting like he is the best player in the lobby and try to kill everyone he should be punished. Only exception is the pro players since there are not enough pro players to fill the lobby, they can land between multiple teams and kill them. Which is wrong and should be fixed with better MMR adjustment.

In an ideal system everyone should have KD around 1.0 with some exceptions.

Sometimes I see a random octane dropping to fragment with 2 teams and 2 other teams to near small buildings just to third fragment. Only expected outcome for that octane is to going back to lobby with -25 LP.

Similar thing can be happen the midgame. I'm hitting the scan beacon and we saw 2 teams rotating behind us, but teammates trying to push a team on the high ground when in disadvantage. Even we kill the team in the high ground the rotating teams will third us.

Battle royale is not just about fighting and getting kills. If a player just enjoys fighting there are other modes in the game.
mastiffslinger
3 years ago
I tried it out. Did the prelims got stuck with squadmates who hot dropped and wound up in rookie 2. This ranked system is pubs 2.0 for me. Potatoe teammates going up by against stacks of premades.
I am not going to lie I was sick of gold and silver teammates the last several seasons going to diamond. But this is just stupid. Leaving games with hot droppers with sun 50 damage if any at all. Cracking top 10 only happens if I leave them and rat. Otherwise a couple of kills and back to the lobby.
And honestly how many da goat teammates can I get?????
Palette24carats
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@el7uarvszheo Who are you to say what battle royale is and is not? Battle royale is anything we make out of it. For example in Warzone ranked there is 150 players... so winning is not likely unless you are the very best. So in warzone ranked you get points for being top 30 team alive. You also get points for a kill and assist the same as you would top 50 teams or top 2 teams. Like ALGS in fact.
maximas1986
3 years ago
@creater_uaother than waiting for top 10 to start fighting in term of ranked , you also need to improve your game play in general.
spend more time in firing range ,improve your aim and target tracking.
some people do movement training some do aim and some do both.
hiding in the corner while playing ranked is not the answer for the main issue , whatever the rank system is there will always be 4k 20 kills , predators and masters players.
the way to counter this is to be more ready to fight this kind of players , not hide from them.
go to the firing range every time you start a session , turn off aim assist if you are on controller and turn it back on in the actual game and see the difference.
if you are on PC then you have a lot of options to train and improve your aim.
believe me if you spend 15 to 30 minutes in firing range or training everyday ,your fighting skills will improve very soon that if not immediately if you focus enough.
you said you KDR was 1.7 last season , do you know what a 1.7 ...it's great that's at least diamond level , maybe you are just burnt out or tired you just need little more focus.
i had a friend who used to get terrified (literally) when he see a master or pred trail , he started training every day in firing range movement and aim now he is 3 times master, I call him Aceu 2.0 because of the moves that he pull off consistently.
another routine i like to do is solo que no fill in duos and try to take every fight even when it's 2v1 close range , you will not believe how much you will improve if you do it more often.
side note : you always need to plan your attack , angle , surrounding what type of weapons you are using and enemies are using
Asmodeus566
Hero+
3 years ago
@maximas1986
Preach it. Words to game by. Could not have said it better myself.
matzesingt
3 years ago
@creater_ua The superpower to get to silver or even master is to avoid fighting till you are in top10…