@reconzero just to be clear, competitive and ranked are two separate things.
And I play 90% of the time ranked games. Why? Because at least i know that i will have teammates even after they get knocked, that i will not hotdrop because of stupid people and that i will have a decent paced game without seeing only 5 squads left when first zone closes.
Now tell me what's so good about pubs.
@Cro_PitttYou can leave in pubs. Well, you can leave in ranked too, but then you give the two dumb***** who are the reason you leave in the first place a free pass. If you could leave a ranked game without rewarding your teammates for being obnoxious griefers/toxic, I would probably prefer ranked.
@reconzero a) You can tell something's competitive when there is actually something on the line (money in this case). Ranked literally offers nothing as a reward (i don't consider a reward something like a charm or a dive trail). Also imo some people still play ranked as pubs games, and tends to do brainless pushes or actions. But in the end you could have a different perspective of the definition of competitive, so that's up to you i think.
b) Well this of course does not happen every game, but at least there's more consistency in ranked than pubs. And i feel also that on console the situation is actually better. I'm currently in Plat and i've not been put in Predator lobbies yet, but I can see it happens regularly on PC. Maybe a console predator player could confirm or disprove this.
c) It's far from ideal i'd say, but it's much better than pubs, based on my experience.
As for toxicity, i've experienced it, but not that much. In lower ranks picks don't matter, they only do partially in Predator lobbies i think, and even there you can win as Mirage or Rampart lol. If someone keeps being toxic i just mute them and play my own game. For example yesterday a French guy was complaining all the time because our JM did not hotdrop, but apart from this episode all other games were normal, with enough respectful teammates.
@CCbathwater A full time leaver calling other people toxic, funny lol. You always make the right decisions in game don't you?
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I don't know, respectfully disagree. I do love it, but it's a game mode for fun, super fun, but I would not like to see people streaming youtubes and getting bent over how well they did over this.
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