4 years ago
Rank RP is Toxic
Plain and simple rank needs to be revamped at least in platinum plus expecting people to constantly win points wise and come out positive is just a terrible experience for majority of players. And af...
@MabusHadesmy two cents on this whole thing.
1. expectations of infinite gains - the biggest problem I have with ranked, players in there, and their attitude. Somehow everyone feels like they suppose to be at least Master, well newer players will settle with Diamond.
Let's be honest if Diamond is 2nd top rank and Master pretty much is top rank, there can't be 20, 30 or 50% of community there, it's like saying that every 2nd or 5th basketball player should be in NBA.
= people just need to lower their expectations and understand that if they struggle in whatever tier it might be their skill cap / their team skill cap, as getting set team you can play well together is also part of BR game!
2. KP - I have posted before and post again that the team should have 1 kill and 2 assist points per each enemy killed as long as everyone on the team is alive (even knocked), because doing the dirty work still should be rewarded e.g. mentioned case where two people watch how one pushes to clean up later.
Let them do that if their moral standards allow that or they are just doing so because they are afraid to push from the start, but at least the person that does the correct choice and benefits the team's progress should get at least an assist for it.
3. Evaluating and rewarding damage - hell no, then the situation with damage farming, comparing will spin out of control even more. Ranked should reward efficiency and winning not a person who has 4k damage mostly using Chargerifel and farming tactics while having 4 kill e.g. 1 kill should take at most 225 damage so person with 4 kills if playing well should not have more than 1000 damage, rest is lack of skill, damage farming or just game situation that does not need to be rewarded like unfinished business in any aspect of life, your tried you failed so you failed, no reward boo-hoo.
4. Should RP points be changed - no, because changing the multiplier from 10 to 100 will not make any difference, you will only see Masters go from 10k RP to 100k RP but they will still be there and they will still be 10 times better or what not than you, because they just are (are using some help).
If Respawn changes system totally we will not be able to compare how good/bad changes are, because there would be no objective criteria.
5. Removing tier protection - YESS PLEASE! That might be actually the most important change so that all boosted accounts, people who do not play regularly or well enough will automatically be demoted and you will not have those situations where in Platinum lobbies you have ex diamond / master players who just joined in the split as well as boosted gold players hang by their thread in Platinum 4 because of tier protection all at the same time in the same lobbies. In my opinion, this will improve not only matchmaking but all the bickering about stupid losses, because you will just have fewer "stupid" players per tier.
To sum up: remove tier protection, add assist to all team members alive and the rest is the community's problem of perception of what ranked it and ability to understand that whenever there is a competition there will be winner and losers and a bunch of people in between.