[quote=“Amerika;156628”]
An devil’s advocate argument against that would be a lot of times those teams of 5 players would have a couple of good players carrying quite a few players who should be lower ranked according to their actual skill. So the current system might put some individuals where they should actually be ranked as opposed to having the benefit of a full 5 man with the communication/strats that come with that + having the potential to have better players than yourself carry the day.[/quote]
I don’t see a problem in higher ranked players helping their less skilled teammates. They weaken their own team. I’m pretty sure a team of 2 cobalts+3 Silver can compete somewhere in the gold ranks but won’t be able to climb higher in rank. I don’t see a problem here. Individuals may have a rank which is too high for their skill, but as a team it is their own problem. There is no disadvantage for a team with all solid gold ranks in fighting them.
[quote=“Amerika;156628”]
I think there should be 5 man queues but I think they should be separate and have separate ranks from solo/due queue. But that would be extremely hard considering the current amount of players queuing up in general. A giant population of people playing ranked solves a ton of problems. Now that SD has stated they are looking into getting server rentals out there I would be all for removing all public servers, having everyone queue up as casual 5v5 (and you can queue with your friends) that is unranked entirely while also providing ranked. Then let the community host larger pub servers and match servers to build out their community. That fixes so many balance issues (both mercs and skill level) and makes ranked actually mean something for once…and we won’t lose anything since community servers would be a thing finally.[/quote]
I like the idea of rental servers, but in my opinion they can’t be a adequate replacment for having competitive ranked team games hosted by db. Maybe as adittion to the normal ranked games if you can set up your team and it is open for others for others to join.
I think the biggest problem and the main reason for removing queues of 5 is that the player base on ranked games was to low to provide games between high rank players. So they splited up teams and throw them all back into a pool of random players. You have a bigger player base at low lvl and ranked games are now actually possible. It won’t be that obvious anymore that the player base isn’t big enough to play a system like that. (What else can be the reason why you don’t see the ranks of your teammates and enemies anymore?)
But the frustration in ranked games is real now. That’s a experience that is made by a lot of people. I played around 50 ranked games in the new season. Started as Silver 4, moved up to Silver 2 after 10 more games. But out of my last 20 games I lost around 15. I know my aime is not the best, but I know how to play the objective and I can carry a team on lvl 10+ pub games. But there is literaly nothing I can do if my teammates start to shot eachother because they don’t like the mercs the other on chooses, there is nothing I can do if it’s a 4v5 because out of the 15 games there were atleast 8 were someone left and there is nothing I can do if I am paired with people who don’t even know that only one person can repair an objective at the same time. I end up with useless Vasillis and teammates who don’t protect the bomb. I am not a cobalt or elite player, but I am for sure better than the Silver 4 or 5 I’m facing right now. But there is no way to rank up, because there is way to much luck involved in the matchmaking. I win 2 games, lose one because of a leaver and I am back to were I started. Ranked games are ruined for me the way they are now. That’s why I hope they will increase the minimum lvl to 10, increase the penatltiy for leaving a game and why I want to have the good old days back where I can play with my clanmembers. Because we never lost by someone leaving the game early or because of someone who doesn’t know what to do. We lost because the other teams had batter tactics, had the better startegy or was just more skilled. That was ok, the frustration right now is not ok.
