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StanglyDanglyie's avatar
StanglyDanglyie
5 years ago

Pred lobbies with 400-600 average damage, and 1:1 kda

Why is it that if I win 1 game with 4 kills and 800 damage I get placed in  pred champ lobbies with 20 kill badge for the next 10 games. Now I go into games for the next hour getting absolutely crushed and it feels TERRIBLE. 

You're almost forced to hot drop every game just to tank your mmr so you can have fun.

Put me in games with people of my skill level, 2k badge, average 400-600 damage a game, and get about a kill a game. This is absolutely insane how much better than me the people I face are.

I get it, you want people that can win a game in a mmr to get placed into a higher one, but isn't there a middle ground here? I'm literally being punished for doing mediocre in a game.\

I feel a good solution to this would be make it so your normal MMR is based off kills and damage, rather than based on your placing in the match. This would make it so that you would always have a fighting chance against the players in your lobby. 

The current system is extremely demoralizing to mediocre fps players such as myself, that don't want to just hot drop straight down all day long. All of my noobie friends that come into the game complain about the exact same thing, and can't play more than 10 games without being extremely frustrated. Which eventually causes them to quit the game, and frankly I'm about to leave too as 15 minutes of fun just isn't worth the hours you have to spend getting absolutely crushed. 

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  • pastaclown's avatar
    pastaclown
    5 years ago

    Matchmaking experience is tailored for newer / low skill / casual players rather than anyone else. Getting put into Predator lobbies after winning a single game is pretty much the norm for most people regardless of stats and overall skill level. This is also partially due to the player-base being on the decline for a while. Lots of people want the current matchmaker to improve, or to be removed altogether. 

    I'm at 3.2 K/D, 667 DMG/M, and every game was a Predator / Diamond game for me, and my teammates are always similarly / lower stats than you are, and I mean that with no disrespect. 

    It's funny, because during S1 - S2 there was talk about SBMM being formally introduced (even though SBMM has been in game since S2) and the criticisms of people for and against SBMM were as follows: 

    Newer Players / Casuals / Low Skill didn't want random lobbies because game population was high and getting stomped by higher skilled players isn't an enjoyable experience.

    Higher Skilled / Professional players didn't want SBMM because eventually every match, unranked or ranked, would be equally sweaty and there'd be no way to simply enjoy playing the game both solo or with friends. 

    Here we are nearly 3 seasons later, and newer / casual / low skill players are getting put into Predator lobbies and getting stomped because there aren't enough people playing, and high skill / pro players can't enjoy playing the game with their friends nor solo because every match is super try-hard and their friends just can't keep up. Supposedly there are supposed to be improvements coming, but I'm highly skeptical. 

  • pastaclown's avatar
    pastaclown
    5 years ago

    @StanglyDanglyie not yet dying, but absolutely 100% not as successful as it could've been. Everyone hyped this game up to be the Fortnite killer, and it could've been but, you know. 

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • DarthValtrex's avatar
    DarthValtrex
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @StanglyDanglyieI don’t even pay attention to the drop ship trails anymore or the champion banners. The worst thing you can do is stress yourself out.

    Just do the best you can. Who knows you might have some success in those lobbies and take out some preds. Nothing better then wiping a premade of preds. Even if you just damage them and get them eliminated, it’s a step in the right direction.

  • tommor1988's avatar
    tommor1988
    5 years ago

    Its not that terrible tho its probably more based on the region you play. Im worse than you as looking at my stats this season im at 0.93 KD and 320 average damage (and thats after a week on 144fps, before at 60fps i stopped at 0.88 KD and 290 damage), playing only with friends and we can win games where champs are full pred squad with 4500 kills this season or 20k lifetime kills. On the other hand sometimes we die to level 10 guys with 30 kills.

  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
    Hero
    5 years ago
    @DarthValtrex This is all you can do. I had a heartbreaking end game loss the other day. Me and two friends fought and downed all three of the last team. The Octane I downed initially as he tried to flee. He had gotten pretty far and crawled behind a rock. I would have thirsted him if he had been closer but my teammates were struggling with the other two. One of my mates was downed as I got there. Me and the other managed to get both members of the other team down but as we thirsted both of them we realized the octane must have had a gold knockdown. So we got our third up but as he got up the octane naded us, knocking the third back down. At that point me and my mate were not quite together and that octane was moving like nothing I've ever seen before and managed to kill us both. What pops up on his stats and banner? Full on pred, 55k kills, thousands of wins, all the top level badges.

    I'm still gutted thinking about it. We had it but blew it in the chaos. My teammate hesitated when I pushed which gave the octane two 1v1s.
  • Mary-Reilly-Fil's avatar
    Mary-Reilly-Fil
    5 years ago

    You are not a bad player its just your wigman shot dont reg like it should. Reason why u dont get 20kills

    u need lower than 120ms ping to get kills easily

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