I've played a few games of Ranked since it launched. For me I haven't noticed any chance in the waiting times, which is to say I experienced really long waits for full lobbies prior to the change and I continue to experience really long waits for lobbies after the change. While I have had decent continuous matches with short waits those were, and continue to be, few enough and far between enough that I don't really bother with Battle Arena.
As far as performance as Plants, the last game I played several days ago we, as Plants, were getting trounced 0-3 and saw some light taunting from the Zombie team as they closed in on what was starting to look like an easy Win for them but then we managed to turn it around and win the next 4 rounds to take the game, and were treated to someone on the Zombie team calling out "You guys are hella trash" on their mic before half the lobby dropped out.
But that, honestly, was about on par with the level of toxicity I've witnessed in other areas of the game but I don't doubt that with the introduction of Ranked we'll see a lot more problem behavior from people who have their Ego wrapped up a bit too much in the game.
I'd blame server issues on EA since my experiences with EA games with online multiplayer modes in general has seen the same server problems consistently across all games which they publish.
Anyone who doesn’t know, @realitysquared has played BA with me (pre-Ranked), like many PS4’ers here. I LOVED the mode until Ranked.
.... yeah, @realitysquared .... I’m not sure whether you paid attention to the hours I logged playing BA before (via PSN list showing me in Funderdome) but the BAD toxicity was only ~10% matches on most days. Now, I’ve played 9-10 matches and only ONE wasn’t toxic. 😢. I always want to win but prefer having fun and just doing decent with frags. Now, I hardly win and the fun is gone. To make it worse, if I tried to play 8 hours in a day, I honestly doubt I could complete 10 matches because of the delay in connecting to EA and matchmaking in Ranked.
To be fair, the servers only got this bad after the last update. I had moments of instability before but now the inconsistency in connectivity is (literally) the only constant.
