Before when I played modes like Deathmatch, Hero Gauntlet, Mirrored Deathmatch, etc. I could regularly dominate to win first place over and over just by virtue of dueling skill alone.
In the past half year these modes have been altered to force losses, however, by outright rigging the spawns. If you’re a regular player of these modes, the game automatically spawns you after every death farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr away on the other side of the map, forcing you to spend MOST of your time wandering the map looking for fights instead of getting straight back into fights, such that by the time you reach fights they’re already decided so you have to keep searching, thus giving all the other players a chance to catch up and even infuriatingly surpass you. Meanwhile, other players get regularly spawned right behind you, or are spawned near you when you’ve already started engaging a fight, so that your target is kill-stealed along with your own life. Sometimes they LITERALLY spawn right in the corner of your eye while you’re in the middle of a duel with low HP, giving them free kills on a platter.
These rigged spawns are ESPECIALLY infuriating as you approach victory, because even if you’re in the lead sweating like a tryhard it can literally hand the victory to other players who aren’t being inhibited in the same way. I absolutely HATE being one kill from victory but thrown onto the other side of the map desperately wandering around aimlessly looking for someone to fight and hearing the person in second place spawning ahead near fights that they can killsteal, pulling into the lead and winning the game that I was dominating until the spawns decided to screw me over, it’s not balanced for fairness at all. At that point it’s not about skill it’s just about pure luck.
In the end it’s a system designed to discourage regulars from playing these modes. Why would they do this? I’m guessing in order to either make completing the battle pass more difficult in the hopes of encouraging more purchases of credits, or to drive players away to other modes like QP or comp in order to keep the queue times low. Either way it’s frustrating! If you don’t want me playing these modes then either give me incentives to play the other modes, or just rotate these modes out so I can’t access them as often, instead of ruining them like this.
