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Marge010
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

Will ranked ever return to normal??

I've made a lot of posts about this already. The first split of this season I found silver ranked extremely hard and a lot harder than pubs. After 90 games I managed to rank up from bronze 2 to silver 1 which is ridiculous and took a long time to do. 

This split I have dropped down to bronze 3. I thought I would give it a few weeks first to allow the try hards to rank up but man it is exactly the same. I've been playing for an hour and a half today and I've not got a single kill!! At Bronze level! It is crazy.

The thing I find strange is that my teammates in ranked are always getting destroyed as well but the enemy teams are always very good??? Why aren' t my teammates in ranked good players like the enemy teams?? Wierd. 

Do we think ranked will ever return to normal? In terms of bronze being easy and slowly getting harder as you progress rather than it be super hard regardless of rank.

Do we think Respawn will eventually change the way ranked works? 

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  • @Marge010 wrote:

    The thing I find strange is that my teammates in ranked are always getting destroyed as well but the enemy teams are always very good??? Why aren' t my teammates in ranked good players like the enemy teams?? Wierd. 


    The sad thing about bronze-silver lobbies are there are a lot of smurfs. Even though 80-90% of the people in bronze lobbies are new or not that good, there will always be 1-3 squads that are 3 stacking smurfs. You can definitely see that there's a single squad dominating the whole lobby. 


    Do we think ranked will ever return to normal? In terms of bronze being easy and slowly getting harder as you progress rather than it be super hard regardless of rank.

    Do we think Respawn will eventually change the way ranked works? 


    I don't think that you can say that having harder bronze lobbies nowadays as "abnormal". People are getting better at the game and there are also ex-diamond/master/pred playerswho didn't play rank for multiple splits/seasons putting them in bronze. As for do we think that Respawn will change how rank works, I think yes. Recently there has been a movement to add deranking and an overhaul on how you gain RP in ranked by the players. I hope we can see these changes sooner than later. 

    If you're still in bronze, I suggest that you always hotdrop just to get some immediate kill points since there's no -RP yet. Goodluck!

  • @Marge010 I haven't been playing much recently. I didn't have much motivation to play last split so I have ended up in Silver 2 at the start of this split. I am going to grind it out next week though so I can't really give my full comment to this post unfortunately.

    I have found ranked a lot harder in general though, especially when I am solo queuing without my actual pre-made squad.

    I'm not really sure what changes they could implement into ranked either to be honest.

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