If you complete your very first competitive placement matches in matchmaking with a GOLD ranked player, you will be placed in gold or (if you can hang, whatever ELO your friend sits in when you do your placement matches), EVEN if you have VASTLY superior mechanical skill to anyone in the next three or more tiers on the ladder above you.
Because you are grouped with an already ranked gold player, you will never be eligible to even get the diamond or higher placement matches to pop, because the gold player in your group is not qualified to appear in matchmaking for diamond+ ELO matches.
The player I played with was an actually gold ranked player (he’s a console cod guy so a mouse and keyboard to him has been an adjustment period) I’ve used the same sens for 20 years, and i’m deadly with it. I don’t have this problem.
I literally have 26 years of experience clicking heads. The first FPS I ever played was return To Castle Wolfenstein in 1993 when I was 14 years old. I played DOOM online before the internet even existed! (we used a local dial-up BBS to find 1v1 matches in the stone ages, the challenger paid the phone charges if the match was a long distance call) I even competed in local regional Quake tournaments in the mid 90’s in LA, we didn’t have much of a pro scene. Thresh and Fatal1ty were the aim gods of my day.
When the 10 year CS veteran coin is finally issued to players, I will be one of the first 10,000 players on the planet to receive it, because I have been playing CS since it was a modification in beta for Half-Life 2. I am also eligible for a 15 year coin, and almost a 20 year coin if they ever issue those.
So if your standard for gold ELO is players new to FPS titles that have issues aiming and moving and shooting properly (mechanical skill) - and I somehow eternally exist here because of a loophole in the system that was never fully considered for (what happens if a REALLY good FPS player does their placement matches with someone who isn’t that good), unable to climb out no matter WHAT I do or how hard I pop off in matchmaking, you have a MAJOR problem on your hands. Because there is simply no way that I am the only player experiencing this issue with your ladder, the law of probability does not allow for it. FPS titles are not new, and we all have friends that are scrubs (that we love).
Because if matchmaking MUST be fair, that means there is an enemy in all of my games on the other team that can frag like I can, and that’s enough to massively imbalance any game, doubly so in an ELO where people cannot AIM properly. You can’t even argue against it. That player is legit high ELO, or cheating, straight up. And my gold team has to deal with that, if that opponent (who I have to identify which player in the match it is by monitoring the kill feed for red arrows (no matter the hero, they will be going for head shots as I would be), and then counter them and push risky 1v1’s repeatedly to shut them down before they destroy my whole team. it’s why I constantly feel that if I die, my team is going to crumble and fall apart immediately. It’s my accurate shot pressure that is creating space in lieu of competent tanks doing their job more often than not in my games.
But, if that skilled pub-slayer, and even one more mediocre enemy player tunnel me, the supports aren’t good enough to keep me alive, and my team loses when I can’t play the game where I am supposed to be dominating in (and thus climbing out) when the enemy win condition evolves into keeping me out of the fight, because the other enemies are actually plat and low diamond players slumming in gold ELO to grief players that cannot aim. Because putting a bunch of actual golds in a match with just me, would be wholesale slaughter for them, and I can dismantle entire teams when I get these matches in off hours (if there is no dps smurf in the pool of available players that fields similar stats when I queue, matchmaking has to put me against the most skilled player they can find.
Plat (aim intensive) DPS players, are plats because they can’t click heads with any level of regular consistency, it’s also what keeps players from ascending to the global elite, and ultimately the pro circuit in CS (their sens is not right for them, typically it is too high, or they use some absurd value like 1000 dpi 15 sens when the pro standard is 400/2.0ish, so when a gold ranked, SILVER BORDER (I play a ton of pub games, comp is too aggravating a lot of times) player shows up and starts putting them in the dirt with head shots in an ELO where head-shots don’t even exist with any sort of regularity - they tilt. hard. (you can merely review this forum to get an idea of how the average player feels about being shot in the head from across the map. And that jealousy of aim, can get easily get you tunneled out of the game, unless your supports (random strangers) pocket you basically 24/7, a tall order to ask for in any ELO that intrinsically and irrationally loathes DPS players to begin with.
Here is my Overbuff and VOD (warm up, widow hs, qp, matchmaking) I tilt in these videos, I’m only human, and it’s a frustrating situation to be in to say the least, I don’t have fun in a lot of these games, and I feel bad for punishing the rookie mistakes some of these players are making, but I also don’t want to remain down here. I tried to minimize what I actually said to my teammates, so please note the muted voice icon when I inevitably flame them out loud.
I am fully aware that they are not the problem. Not truly. They are new, they don’t know any better. But being forced into matches with these nubs over and over, is just making my hair expeditiously grey out even faster. I feel like this account is just toast, and there’s no way to transfer all of the cosmetic skin crap to another account, and I actually like some of the skins in this game that will never be available again (Kerrigan widow).
I should not have to purchase an alternate account to climb to the ELO where I should have been playing at all along. That is wrong. But if my internal MMR is sky high, and matchmaking keeps trying to push my SR up to match it, yet it is being deterred by external variables that matchmaking cannot detect (a player deceiving the system by intentionally avoiding playing a hero that they have mastered until the time is right to avoid detection of being a higher skilled player than is allowed to be in the match) and thus upsetting what the odds even are in the REAL match, as two vastly superior players turn the 50/50, or 60/40 coin flip prediction upside down, and can easily make it 80/20 in reality when they want to go hard, because they are capable of carrying in an ELO far below where they really play at) - The Top 500 players that also boost meet this criteria when their client accounts pass through your ELO. If you get in their way of fulfilling the clients needs by being a nuisance, they will do everything they can to destroy JUST you (they want to avoid detection, so they won’t ravage entire teams, they only do what is necessary to win the match).
For review:
Overbuff - /players/pc/Vyel-11922
VOD - Twitch – /videos/348984607
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