Why? Why not?
I don’t care about the ranks themselves, but I am tempted to give it a go and see if it results in better matchmaking than standard play.
I’ve played 4 ranked games so far and they haven’t been that different from casual games tbh. Biggest difference is probably more comms and more focus on teamwork.
Sounds pretty different
The only communication I get on normal games is russians screaming in their mics and teamwork seems to be the duo lanes feeding Shiv so he’s 12/0 at 5 minutes, so I’m taking anything that can slightly improve that
Personally, I wouldn’t enjoy playing with a bunch of other people who are tryharding or are toxic, and theres no way I can convince 5 friends to play regularly, so there’s no way I would enjoy ranked. Its bad enough as it is.
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People can’t queue for ranked if they’ve received any kind of sanction for text/voice chat.
I’ve played one game of ranked and everyone was on their best behavior. The other team even paused for someone on my team needing to restart the game a couple times.
It’ll turn into a cesspool though obviously.
Yes and if it doesn’t solve the issue of wildly varying teammates I will drop the game sadly.
TBF the matchmaking system is WIP in general.
They likely won’t be completely nailing it for a good while yet.
Yes, until the fix the shitty matchmaking system
It’s almost as if they’re testing many waters in this alpha game before they commit to a system.
Yoshi on the forums has also created a thread for people to send the match IDs for unfairly and/or weirdly balanced matches so they can analyse in detail
