• @[email protected]
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    722 hours ago

    So, that’s how ranked play works and only has humans. Problem is, ranked is awful right now. Even in the lowest ranks matches tend to be hopelessly lopsided. I’m not clear on why but it may be streamers and whatnot creating new accounts to stomp on low ranked people.

    It’s in quick match where they are inserting bots, and there aren’t ranks to use.

    • @Kbobabob
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      622 hours ago

      Would making a rule that new players must play an AI for the first few randomized number of games? That way they could have a chance to gauge the players ability before matching.

      • @[email protected]
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        411 hours ago

        Most games do this, you can’t play ranked matches until you’ve played non-competitive ones for a while first, and then you play placement matches where your ELO is allowed to move much farther per game so you dont stay buried in low ranks if you dont belong.

        Ranked games tend to be thrown off by high skill players in low ranks, and it tends to even out once you get to the top ranks as the skill gap thins.

      • @[email protected]
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        618 hours ago

        Maybe placement matches would help, but if they are intentionally ranking low to stomp on people, I guess they’d throw those matches.

        • @Kbobabob
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          110 hours ago

          But they wouldn’t know how many of them they would need to throw.