The ranked playlist is a good idea for those who want to play to win with a semi serious mentality at least. Casual can sometimes be a brainless crapshoot.
My main gripes are that players cannot drop rank. Working my way through silver, players were playing smart and playing to survive and win. Since hitting gold 4, nearly everybody seems to play like muppets because they cannot drop rank, so they play wreckless in the hope of that one good game. I can see why Respawn did this to stop people trashing their rank to play easy games in lower ranks and ruin the experience for others, but they can still do this with smurf accounts really. My suggestion, allow de ranks.
Another bug bare for me is the RP points. As brought up in various threads, RP should be spread across the team and not RP to individuals. It's a team game and should have a team kill, damage and survival score handed out to all players who didn't quit the match. Yes some players may get carried but so what. It'll balance out over time.
To be honest- the appeal of ranked to me was getting to play with other players who weren't new and who would make me work for my wins. Pubstomping is garbage after a while unless you're someone who really gets a kick out of killing lots and lots of people who don't stand that much of a chance against you.
The biggest issue with ranked for me is that it's been set up in a way that incentivises hiding disproportionately. I know we're playing last-man-standing but unless we're changing to hide n seek online instead of BATTLE royal - then actively promoting a style of play which prevents battles from happening for the vast majority of a 20 minute game is just pointless to me.
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