What is it with landing on the Train Yard?

It's because of how the ranked system was changed in season 3 where high placement alone isn't enough to climb meaningful amounts of rating. And players NEED to have some kills or assists to benefit from the placement multiplier.

People drop train hoping for some easy kills on players with no gun and/or armor and then dip out allowing them to just camp out the rest of the game and avoid fights until you secure a top 3 placement. Then go from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds to try and snag a win.

Especially with the vaults in the game. Every team on the map is scared of running into a squad that got kitted with a vault key when they're still rocking lvl 1 and 2 shields and weapon attachments themselves. Gold armors being too common contributes to this phenomenon.

As the match goes on, your odds of running into some insanely stacked squad increases, so scoring easy kills in the off spawn fights and then just hiding in rat spots is the safe play to climb rating somewhat reliably.

I'm not exactly convinced that mucho gold armors and loot vaults are good for the game to be honest.