Season 8 ranked update discussion

Finally some good changes to ranked! I really hope matchmaking will be better because as it stands now it's really bad. Respawn should have been more brave increasing the points cap, but this is the right direction. 

Not sure how to feel about the 750 predators, probably top 500 was better visually, we'll see. Increased time for assists is a good thing too. Probably this is the first time I actually agree with most of the changes lmao.

P.S. Finally Diamond trails are back! 

Some good changes in here. Some questionable.

Diamond Players Get Trails Again: It shouldn't have been removed in the first place and took like a year to come back. As always tardiness is a synonym for Respawn after all. 

Improved match quality, longer queue times for more teammates of the same rank hopefully. This is a good thing.

Increased assist timing, you now have 10 seconds to get an assist up from 7.5 seconds. This is also a good thing. \

Placement RP starts at 13th place instead of 10th, and Kill / Assist cap has been increased to 6. These don't make sense to me.

@EA_DavidI like those changes, I think they are in the right direction. I would have increased the Kill/ Assist cap to 10 though, making camping less viable and giving good players more rewards. Now with 5 kill/assist cap there is no point in fighting anyone after all your team members have 5 kills/assists and that's not a healthy system if you ask me, it promotes camping and camping should not be a thing in a fast paced fps as apex. I'm sad to see they haven't implemented rank demotion yet, big letdown.

If they increased the the kill/assist limit, they'd have to increase each ranks RP amount to avoid players (especially those with cheats and strike packs) dashboarding to higher ranks again. But that's still a good idea.

@hayhor then shouldn't they reward skilled play by eliminating the kill cap altogether, and removing tier demotion protection? Nothing says, "I don't belong here." than getting consistently getting 10-20 kills in low ranks. Then when you hit Diamond that's when tier demotion protection kicks in (probably cause there still won't be enough people in Diamond).

Like here's what I would think about someone getting 10-20 kills per match for each rank:

Bronze: You don't belong here.

Silver: You don't belong here.

Gold: You don't belong here.

Platinum: You got lucky in one game and can't do it consistently, or if you do do it consistently, you don't belong here / are cheating.

Diamond: You got lucky in one game and can't do it consistently, or if you do do it consistently, you don't belong here / are cheating.

Masters: You're probably cheating.

Apex Predator: You're definitely cheating. 

@pastaclownI love your post, it's brilliant, totally agree.

@Tad844 whoops, didn't catch that. Thank you kindly, I fixed it. 

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@pastaclown wrote:

Like here's what I would think about someone getting 10-20 kills per rank:

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 @pastaclown do you mean 10-20 kills per rank or 10-20 kills per ranked game? 😃