Ranked

Please put the mute on for your own sake, esp if you feel like this. I am always muted, not going to let the toxic ones in to distract me and I have a hearing issue anyway (less audio is more!). Its sad that the toxic ones spoil the barrel.

Ping is fine up to D4. No reason for you not to learn to play like this.

Go solo and drop solo, if you dont like where hot drop Henry and mate are going, and then respawn them.

I had over 200 respawns getting to D4, but generally my squaddies picked up on the idea after the respawn. So many hot drop Henrys, dying to lose hard got rp.

Only 2 did the childish running around shooting into the air to sabotage the game after I respawned them, trying to show their pretty princess displeasure at me not joining them on their chosen hot drop. 

One of those games, I ducked into drone when they were shot at, and dispatched very quickly by another squad, but they didn't find me. I got to 2nd despite the princess, but interesting to note they stayed around for their points! 🤣

I only encountered the poi drop and Diamonds midway through Plat 1 on euro server.

No toxicity let in and loads of fun.

I wish they would use MMR(not Hidden) and at least try to match players based on that and not just their rank. Pubs is honesty more sweaty than ranked because of the fact that they use a strict MMR based matchmaking system. Yet ranked has the biggest skill disparity which is nuts. Preds get to roll normal dudes just playing the game. Its like having LeBron, KD, and Steph just pull up on you and the boys playing pick-up. How is that fair?

Yeah, you are not wrong.  It's just sad you have to do that.

I'm not sure what the problem is.  Did well, shot up to Gold II/III and every game over the last two weeks has been disappointing.  I played for 2 hours just now and got 0 kills.  Nothing.  I don't think our squad won a single fight.  Just outclassed every time.  Zero fun just being a KD pill.  Not complaining, just don't understand why we can't win 1 fight in 2 hours.  To me, sounds like a match making issue.  I have no control over that.

In all honesty I've pretty much given up.  Day 0 player and I play less and less.  The people I normally played with casually have quit so I'm on my own and this sucks.  Might be time to just call it a day.  I just switched to other games I played because this was not enjoyable and I can have fun playing something else now.

Its more a pity, than sad.

But it has to be said too that I went off the boil years back, dont really play pubs anymore, but I have found a way to continue to play the beauitiful game. I enjoy the run to diamond with my particularly refined niche skill and then play mt to finish off the bp. 

The daily legend challenge makes me to play legends I otherwise wouldnt, same with some of the gun dalies. All novel to me 😁

I would like to see arenas return though. Splendid fun there.

I was disappointed they took arenas out.  I didn't play it but I thought it was good to have options for those who like it.  The chaos mode (Wildcard) is amusing - it's literally just pure chaos which is entertaining.  I suspect that is what has replaced Arenas as they probably can't support both modes (download side, server issues maybe, I don't know I'm speculating).  I've already hit lvl 60 this season so maybe will just sit it out and reconsider in the new season.

As a day 0 player I have loved this game but I've always had people to pal around with and play with too.  I did not realise how important that was.  Constantly solo queuing kind of sucks and in Ranked it seems everyone is as bad as me (lol) so we just get smoked in the first encounter we have.  I expect that now and then but not for 2 hours straight.  It's hard to understand what is going on or how this works sometimes.