To start off I’ll state that I’m plat 5 (trash I know, “git gud”) and I legit play on console with a controller. In the past few days most of my ranked games are against a team with at least one onyx player on PC (sometimes more) and then they have someone else on their team who’s a low rank like a silver on a smurf account. Why am I playing against onyx so much at plat 5? So if you win the match you will gain no rank because of that one silver player but if you lose you’ll derank because of that same player. On top of this, I don’t trust any of these players at all not to be using cheats. How can anyone take ranked seriously in this game with a matchmaking system that allows this an no anti-cheat? I’m sure there are some legit skilled players out there but with the current broken systems in place a lot of these ranks are completely meaningless. There’s no point in playing ranked anymore with the way it is unless you stoop to the level on the illegitimate players.
I think the Solo/Duo / Controller Queue is not as bad, but you will definitely get unbalanced teams sometimes. And, if an opponent has a connection advantage, it gets really frustrating.
I kind of like when it’s a mixture of skill levels though, as long as it’s balanced. But, it’s not the easiest thing to do to balance it cause skill level isn’t always the true skill.
I just lost a whole night’s worth of progress because I played two games in a row where there were cheaters
yay
Good good, right back to where I was at the beginning of the night. I lost about 4 hours of sleep and punched myself in the face repeatedly and have nothing to show for it
I mean, you might have a bruise lol
i’ll have worse than that if they keep this up
every other game its a cheater, and the games its not…actually all the games regardless, its packet loss BS and desync and xbox players getting free kills because they don’t have crossplay turned off
i’m onyx and have never encountered a cheater.
99% of ranked games have been a complete smooth experience and i’m playing from the UK so i’d imagine i’ve been thrown in US servers at times.
someone always says this
you’re incredibly, unnaturally lucky, embrace it
i know, a lot of my mates have dramas with connection/lag and the like.
I’ve only once encountered being killed from behind cover but can honestly not recall a time where i’ve played against a cheater, however a SWAT game last night had some debatable players.
Since I’ve completed the battle pass ranked is really the only reason I have to play at the moment (that and the fact that I genuinely enjoy playing). I’m plat IV so I’ve still got a lot of climbing to do.
The moment, when your teammates dont pickup the ball even when all enemies are down and there are only a few seconds left to win, especially when your team lost the first round. -_-
I feel your pain in a different way. AFKs.
Oof yeah I had one of those too.
It’s a grind after about Diamond 2, you get way less credit for wins and k/d, and you lose way more when you don’t perform well. 2 steps forward, 2 steps back. Over and over
3 ranked games where people quit out, 1 with cheaters using wallhacks, lost more of my diamond 6 than i’ve gained tonight
and yet almost all the onyx players I see in the games have barely a 1.0 k/d overall when you look at their halotracker stats, well worse than mine consistently, so wtf is this game even?
You’re required to both win a game AND go positive consistently to rank up, yet the onyx players all have really underwhelming kd’s and won’t play the objective.
How are these people getting these ranks for real? What is this game looking for and why does it feel like it’s subjective? I win a game by playing the objective, go even, and go DOWN in rank one game.
A perfect ranking system (which doesn’t exist) should leave you with a KD of 1.0 and a W/L of 50%.
I imagine there are a lot of very good players with KDs of 1. Especially if they are playing the objective over padding their stats.
Honestly I think this is a bit of a fallacy.
We know that the win is the main factor.
There is a weighting for kills - but we don’t know how this is applied… especially outside of Slayer games.
I personally have seen jumps in my rank bar on the back of low kill games because my more talented team mates have dragged over the line to an upset win.
Most of what people see as different rank changes for the same game is probably more to do with the shape of their skill curve. If the system lacks confidence in the player’s skill the curve is wider and more volatile.
And the anecdotes get a bit more blurry when you sift through those who were victims to oddball’s result errors… and those who thought their red bar drop was just the last loss and not the season as a whole.
You can’t play the objective over padding stats and increase your rank in the game. I’ve had pros tell me flat out that kd is the main factor in this ranking system and it’s true. If you win and go negative you get nothing or even lose rank. Your rank can be preserved by going well positive and losing the obj.
The game is not calculating things appropriately
Edit: Update - I finally got onyx. Diamond 6 was a nightmare to slog through for some reason
So i at one point thought it was my controller or my game connection was weak but then i find out pc can cheat and they know about it then they create ranked matches with those same cheaters extra shields stronger guns one guy jumped so high it was like he left the stage i stuck a grenade on one guy he just kept walking like IT WAS A BUG LIKE WTF
onyx 1700 on 2 accounts ranked is trash system but good gameplay and modes.
When the game starts without your 4th teammate >>>>
Who understands my pain LOL