Hey, hey, sir. Been awhile! Happy late birthday, bud!
Competitive part of the game should have been implemented a VERY long time ago, staff never did anything in regards of making dueling fair and yet people kept doing it because playing for fun just does not work for some. Props to you for making this possible. Reinstalled the game a after such a long time just to try this out.
Aaaand if to be honest I have zero clue how this thing works. I have almost 4000 hours combined in League of Legends and Overwatch that runs elo system, but this thing just feels way worse. (Then again, my knowledge is limited regarding this, so I'm sorry if these are two completely different things)
I queued up for my first match as Global rank 625. Got matched up against #25.
I was like, okay, that's pretty cool, some sort of placement system so I wouldn't have to start from the bottom, I get to play against the best until it decides where I actually belong and then starts pairing me up with players of my rank. I was pretty happy about the idea of winning a couple of matches in a row and perhaps even chasing Top 5.
Rekt the guy 3-0, went up from 625 to 620.
So basically you get paired up against someone who made it really high already and get zero award for it. Fair enough for me, if I'd put time and effort I could climb easily, but for a player that's not as familiar with the game, jumping into ranked games and getting paired up against people who are top 30 already is just an absolute non sense. You will most likely lose and even if you manage to win somehow, you pretty much get zero reward for it rank wise.
The entire thing seems to be really rushed and shouldn't have been launched that early, especially considering how big the prizes are.
But then again, that's just my opinion.
Cheers.
Edit: How difficult would it be to implement Placement matches? And would it solve any problems?
Last edited by Kristis133; May 4, 2017 at 02:09 PM.