News: Rank Demotion Is Not Happening
Before the actual developer response about the issue, a short context why he needed to even address it. ImperialHal said in a recent twitter thread that he feels that Rank Demotion should be placed...
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@KelRievermay i remind you that a lot of players are students/children ? They have quite a lot of time and the urge of climbing up ranks ...
i just wanted to prove you wrong when you said it would not be possible.
And i didnt say that ppl would do that in masses, but with such a big playerbase, there is at least one guy that might do it.
I heard about a guy who proved a point recently by ranking up very high on Crypto without making any kills, or very very few with a bad KDR. A quick google search couldn't find it for me, I have to ask my friend for more details so I can post it.
- @pandareno1999 We've had forumers who said their kds were .6 and they make diamond. It blew my mind at the time but if they position well and have the time I guess anythings possible.
@hayhor Well part of the point was that with Crypto you don't have to shoot your gun very much if your team mates are good and you are skilled with the drone, with KP being the same for kills or assists. I really hope he can give me a detail or two with which to find the story.
Diamond is kind of boring so far. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad since I could drop back to a more interesting rank
- @pandareno1999 I remember when I used to play exclusively ranked, on season 4 and 5. My k/d went from 1.3 to almost 0.9, its just such a toxic gameplay sometimes. Luckily I got to get back to my previous k/d along next seasons, but the exclusive ranked play just creates that enviroment, that positioning is the most important thing. You can have 4 kills and still get negative RP xd
And dont even get me to how randoms make rank up way harder - @KelRiever This the other reason we don't need demotion. People doing it on purpose.
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@pandareno1999We've had forumers who said their kds were .6 and they make diamond. It blew my mind at the time but if they position well and have the time I guess anythings possible.As of right now most of the people who have K/D 1+ has this because they quit before they smacked. Having 0.6 K/D means nothing, I have no idea why K/D is a part of any stat in this game that people actually cares about, in CS or other games where solo performance is key it has meaning while in Apex if you have fun dropping hot to practice something in pubs you will destroy your own K/D in no time. Right now the stat has no meaning as anyone can have over 1K/D just by making sure you quit before you are downed completely however bad you are.
Same your role on the team might carry you 0.4 K/D but still you got 2.8 A/D (assist/death ratio), so it really dont mean diddle 😉 MMR should definitively not be a whole lot based on this stat as it does nothing to describe how good you are.
- @hayhor That person didn't say how much time it took him to get from Plat IV to Diamond IV, trust me it's on the higher side. I mean it's a BR, all about the grind.
@BaldWraithSimp silver 2 to Diamond 4 can be done in less than 24 days 😉
Watching streams many quit before it counts esp in pubs where it's normal to mess up your kd. Also as I mentioned in another thread K/D might not be applicable as you might have like 3 in A/D as a secondary breacher I mostly supply damage and my primary breacher keep stealing the kills, I get the same points so I dont really care. But fact is and I see this a lot i pubs with people quitting if they see they loosing the fight, for instance last night landing fight I got no weapon only an arc star so I stuck a watson, took 1 second and he quit before even downed. I see this several times a day, especially streamers quitting fast on drop.
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