Can the new ranking system not place us against 5 stacks and pros, especially if we are in our placement matches?
My first 2 placement matches on Escalation I was put against people who are clearly better than me. I understand you need to play people better than you to improve, but goodness me. the guys I was playing against were on another planet to what I was on.
I like how you are using interplanetary warfare as a metaphor for matchmaking.
My younger brother has watched a lot of star wars recently 
āThose guys are on the surface of Coruscant and Iām just minding my business on Tatooine!ā
At least your good enough to get back up in one match. From D1 with a quitter to either high onyx 3 sometimes low onyx 2. Takes me a few matches playing solo(koth) to get back up and that is if everything goes right. No quitters and randoms are paired good enough for us to get the W and avoid a stack. Sometimes it honestly takes me days lol. One day I will hit D2 solo queue been super close a few times only to have the luck of the draw against me.
We got put up against a pro team the other day and got hammered. Lost 900 points. It was also vs PC which I try to avoid. Because clearly there is a difference in connections when I dont play pc.
Lost 1700 points that day. One the next game 2-0 and went up 40 points. Thatās a problem.
Wow, still no word on the updated ranked system?
I was going to start a new thread on just how broken and messed up it is but used the search function for a change! Iām surprised how unpopular this thread is.
To put it quite simply the ranked system is a complete mess. Point gains for wins right now are absolutely horrendous where I find Iām losing 4 or 5 times the amount of points for a loss.
2 weeks ago I was 110 points away from hitting masters in tdm, 2 losses later I was back in diamond 2. Over this past week or so it seems to have gotten way worse to a point where Iām fighting between onyx 2 and 3 as the points Iām getting for a win are nowhere near enough to push me back up.
The game massively punishes you for playing as a stack Iām finding, over the weekend I was playing in a team and we mustāve won between 12 and 15 matches straight most of which were 2-0 and I only moved from onyx 2 to 3 as the point gains were so minimal. Any 2-1 wins seem to be a guaranteed 0 points. Really shouldnāt we be gaining a lot more points for winning tougher games where both teams are 90k plus skill??? Instead you gain next to none for these sweaty painful dragged out camp fests.
I then tried playing solo, which I found I was gaining a lot more points for winning but then Iād get randoms that are going severely negative to a point I canāt control and lose us the game. But somehow in games where thereās a total of 30-40k skill points in a team Iām gaining a lot more points for a win. Seems a bit backwards.
The main problem however seems to be the servers, most of the time the connection is so horrendous, even on lower ping (around 20) Iām finding in games thereās a delay on gnasher fire by 1 sometimes 2 seconds, Iām having to stand on top of people to get a gib. People are able to up-a me from the opposite side of cover before I can even fire a shot, just last night I hit someone with a shot which shouldāve been an instant gib, it somehow wasnāt so I stabbed and they still didnāt drop but somehow dropped me. How can we have a ranked system in a game with servers as bad as this. At least 90% of games I play I feel Iām completely out of control in due to the server. The other 10% its like Iāve got god mode on and I can instant gib anyone. So unreliable its unreal.
I honestly donāt know why Iām still playing at this point. And I donāt understand why TC havenāt mentioned anything about how terrible the servers are. Its pointless changing the ranked system if the servers are still going to be just as unreliable.
Anyway I hope this can spark some discussion and be recognised because I seriously love the game and I hope something can be done to make it a better experience for those serious about ranked playlists.
I was 8 points from hitting Masters in KOTH 
Its an insanely frustrating/unrewarding system because you can win an hour long match and get absolutely nothing for it, which, as you said is stupid because you can then turn around and win a 5-10 minute match and somehow get points even though one of them quit the first roundā¦
The ranking system just needs a few tweaks really, wins should always give you points, it should take into consideration basic crap like how long the match is, and I seriously believe that points should play less of a factor because if you base it off of points its bound to be broken ultimately (this leads to really selfish play giving far more Master ranks than it should, whereas wins themselves are far better at encouraging teamwork)
Ah another pain that I forgot to pick up on. Quitters, you gain way more points if you win after someone quits on your team which is fair enough. But when people quit on the other team when your absolutely whooping them you gain next to none for the win. Your team shouldnt be punished for quitters on the other team. Do these quitters realise they still lose points for quitting?!?! Cant understand it lol.
well the larger issue is that the game will often kick players out of the match, so they canāt realistically increase the penalty for quitting because I would say a good chunk of people who quit were just kicked in the first place.
Yeah I totally get that and the penalty ban point. But from a ranked points view if your winning a game and someone on the other team disconnects or quits I donāt think itās fair your team will get less points for the win for something out of your teams control.