Comp is useless, aside from gold skins, players suffer ranking up bc of the ranking system. Bring back SR, its better for us.
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it takes a lot of effort to get better at anything. you need determination, confidence and the ability to know where your mistakes are. what makes it even more tough for this specific game is blizz has not given us a single reason to want to rank up.
top 500 players are meta slaves. stay silver, play who you want, have fun, be free.
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becuase the balance team and devs are brainless
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Biggest challenge I’ve found is incompetent teammates. Can’t rank up when you’re stuck playing with people not following the meta, not willing to change roles or characters to counter, and not willing to play as a team
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Here’s my last two sets:
5 wins, 2, losses, deranked one rank.
5 wins, 3 losses, stayed the same rank.
So apparently 10 wins 5 losses = you move down a rank.
This makes total sense and I can see 0 issues lol.
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This. I have more fun one tricking Doom on my silver alt than I do playing Hog at platinum. It is not even that big of a jump, but it is enough to make you realize that lower is better.
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You’re at the rank that you deserve. Obviously it’s hard to get what you don’t deserve
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Honestly, these devs can do better T-T
It’s about grinding out those user metrics for shareholders.
I get placed correctly every season, only to go on a massive losing streak, so I can grind my way back up, to give the illusion of progression. It’s all smoke and mirrors to keep players on the grind.
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At least they don’t think everything should be balanced around mediocre gold tracers.
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Imagine having to play 19 matches just to get a rank update… that sounds like fun! (Not!)
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It’s soul-crushing to see zero progress.
My friends got OW2, placed plat, lost all the way to silver/gold, took a break and improved, returned and lost even more down to bronze. They took another break to focus and improve. They racked up hundreds of hours in QP, aim trainers, coaching vids, working on strats, etc. Their hero pools are solid, they know rollouts, ult economy, get clean picks, never feed, etc.
They clearly made progress and improved as players.
What did the game decide their hard work would be worth? Bronze5.
Bronze5 → bronze5 → bronze5. Nonstop stomps and wins and even without placements.
Stop gaslighting people to improve and gitgud and work on themselves.
The ranks are broken, there are bugs, there is no transparency, and there are a bunch of patents that seek to rig the experience for marketing purposes. It’s fake, and it’s a joke.
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the good thing you can get gold skins even if you lose, but golden weapons are crap anyway, sometimes i forgot i have them equiped, sometimes i took them off because they look ugly with the skin
Maybe if yall didn’t have these fever dreams while overdosing on copium you could actually win a game an climb up the ladder. The bronze bug doesn’t exist anymore. It’s just them being bad at the game
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Again, they have improved, greatly, and are still at the same rank.
That’s not a ranked ladder system, that’s a broken experience.
These players are being done dirty by rigging they can’t even audit or explain or see clearly.
We’re talking not even an update to bronze4, after hours of aim training, videos, coaching, amazing stats, good gamesense, etc.
The system isn’t about to discriminate between bronze5 and bronze4 because it’s terrible.
Progress is progress, even from being bad to less bad.
And this system isn’t given that out and/or the input effort is totally disproportionate to the visible output.
Ok so before they were bronze 8 material and now they’re bronze 5 material? It doesn’t matter. They are getting what they deserve for how good they are at the game because if you keep losing matches in the metal ranks against metal ranked players then it’s your own fault. Coping on that is just purely cringe
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It’s not. It’s you. You’re in a rank where no one plays how or what they should, right? Well, that applies to the enemy team as well. Do the right thing, and your team has the advantage. In other words, you’d win more games than you’d lose and gradually rank up.
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It’s not gaslighting. There’s a reason good players always climb.
How are they bronze8 material when they stomp golds/plats in QP? There has to be a ‘skill level equivalent’ to QP, even casual golds/plats messing around in QP…that maps into the comp stream? You’re telling me stomping golds/plats in QP is easier than ranking up from bronze5 to bronze4? Shouldn’t bronze5 and bronze4 be reserved for people who don’t try and improve with hundreds of hours playtime, aim training, vods, etc.?
if so, that’s still a broken (mapping). by induction, the rest of the ranks would also be broken.
Afterall, it’s the lowest of the low. The sensitivity threshold should be ridiculous. Even the most minor, insignificant improvements should be enough to trigger a jump from bronze5 to bronze4.
That’s not enough to specify rank determination and correct labels. It’s easier to figure out vaguely what rungs you are on the ladder, but it’s harder to decide how far apart those rungs are. Good players always climb isn’t enough to prove a working rating system, only a weak or partial ordering one.
They should give rank updates every 5 matches to keep it fresh
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