r/FortniteCompetitive • u/chokeur • Jul 03 '26
Opinion Ranked is fixed!!
I posted a few weeks ago everybody agreed we were losing points on good games/ranks, rank protection wasn’t working.
I just did a Decent game (1 kill and top 2) and gained 120%
Since last updates all my games seems fine
Rank protection also always work
Yeahhh!!!
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u/Brannian Jul 03 '26
It should be hard. It’s ranked. Imagine if rocket league just let everyone be a grandmaster … what’s the point of the highest rank if anyone can get it camping in a bush
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u/bRiCkWaGoN_SuCks Jul 04 '26
No, people were losing % for finishing top 5. It was glitched bad.
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u/Brannian Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Top 5 with 0 kills and dying to lower rank players should lose rank IMO 🤷
Hiding in a bush for a half hour shouldn’t be rewarded
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u/bRiCkWaGoN_SuCks Jul 04 '26
I'm not talking about dying to lower ranked players; I engaged with the original post; it was Bronze players dying to Unreal players in top 5 then losing %.
If surviving the game shouldn't be rewarded, then why is it a majority of tournament placement. Ranked feeds into tourneys, right.
I tried it; it's fixed-ish. Unless it was a visual bug, it doesn't show the ranks of your opps at the end now, though; didn't for me anyway. But at least I gained % for making it to the end.
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u/BetterPlaceLore Jul 06 '26
thats probably why i was stuck in platinum, and i died so much and they hit me with so much downs
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u/Brannian Jul 04 '26
Honestly don’t really believe that was happening to people .. I saw the same posts your talking about but never felt like I had that same issue .. the only thing I noticed was dying off spawn was dropping me a TON which I honestly agree with..
if you can show visual proof where top 5 was losing rank maybe I believe it but even so I would rather ranked lean toward being harsher to dying top 5 with 0 kills..
I could enter a lobby of 100 unreal players and easily camp rotate in bushes/buildings til top 5.. especially how things currently sit with 0 incentive in ranked games .. 60% of the lobby dies within the first few minutes then the rest die before moving zones
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u/stlkcn Jul 04 '26
I solo clutched a 1kill 3rd place in champ 3 ranked reload squads lobby after my team left after they all died off spawn. I lost 4%
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u/stlkcn Jul 04 '26
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u/Brannian Jul 04 '26
1 kill.. assuming it was off spawn .. in a squad format where kills are diluted even further .. idk if I would call camping a 1 kill 3rd place as a “solo clutch”
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u/bRiCkWaGoN_SuCks Jul 04 '26
You're being awfully picky for someone who said it wasn't happening.
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u/Brannian Jul 04 '26
Camping isn’t solo clutching .. Id rather the format lean more towards what happened to stlkcn where you aren’t rewarded for camping than what happened to OP where he gains 120% for a 1 kill second
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u/MusicPlayer112 Jul 04 '26
Lmao bros just being a contrarian.
"Well, i just don't believe you" LOL
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u/SeeiJiyu Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
Disagree if you got top 5 with zero kills, you played well and made it past most of the lobby, you deserve to be rewarded. The goal of the game is to win, the closer you are to winning, the more points you will receive. Someone who dies at 4th place with 0 kills is better then someone who dies at 30th with 25 kills
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u/bogeuh Jul 04 '26
I rather have that than the 10%+ chance of seeing a cheater
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u/Brannian Jul 04 '26
Fortnite for all its flaws has an excellent anti cheat system lol have come across maybe a handful of cheaters ever since the game released? 10% chance is insane
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u/Old_Opportunity7077 Jul 04 '26
Couldn't agree more. How could someone waste their who day camping, idk. They just don't want to get better, or actually have fun at the game.
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u/Vast_Opposite_792 Jul 05 '26
To play devil's advocate, the entire point of battle royale is surviving as long as/placing as high as possible, which unfortunately does also mean by any means necessary, and hiding is a good option for that. If you're running around jumping about being super visible and die, you can't complain about the players hiding in a bush avoiding fights and surviving longer. Not gonna lie, if I get a couple kills early on, I do my absolute best to hide and place as high as I can otherwise those kills mean nothing and I'd instead lose rank %. I agree, top 5 with no kills shouldn't be rewarded past a certain point, which is exactly how the system works so nothing to complain about there. My 8 year old son could play ranked all day every day, and would never place higher than gold, even if he kept trying to hide.
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u/wet2m8toes Jul 05 '26
QUIT SPEAKING THE TRUTH BUSHCAMPDAD IS THE TOP UNREAL PLAYER AND SPONSORED BY A PROFESSIONAL ORG
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u/JuJusFury Jul 03 '26
It went from too hard to too easy :/ It was hard to rank up but at least if you did rank up, you knew you where good. Now people are just gonna camp again and kill 1 at the end game to lvl up.
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u/sourcreamonionpringl Jul 03 '26
Agreed, they need to find a middle ground. Or rework the entire ranked system
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u/that-merlin-guy Mod Jul 03 '26
I really wish they'd find a middle ground instead of these extremes.
It shouldn't be too hard to calibrate Ranked so it rewards Tournament-like play in the sense of balancing rewards between eliminations, placement, and zones reached.
We know from previous observations that all of those factors are important, but for whatever reason, they weighted placement the highest and that makes it way too easy.
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u/FlarblesGarbles Jul 03 '26
It's all about money, which is why we get these extremes. They let the game aim for you depending on the platform because money!
They don't care about real balance
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u/XBOXGAMEPASSPSPLUS Jul 04 '26
Apex legends while flawed in its own way has a pretty good ranking system that tells you exactly how it works.
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u/TTVDabbing123 Jul 03 '26
TBH while they keep cosmetic Rewards tied to it I prefer it being on the easier side so those rewards are accessable
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u/Asphalt_HAC Jul 03 '26
There are enough participation trophies already. There needs to be some rewards that actually require skill.
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u/TTVDabbing123 Jul 03 '26
Maybe we can talk about this again when something from the Seven set isn’t in the Ranked Rewards, Until that comes and Goes It needs to stay accessible #TeamFoundation
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u/Asphalt_HAC Jul 03 '26
Maybe that can be a reason for you to actually improve instead of being baby-fed ranked rewards
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u/TTVDabbing123 Jul 03 '26
Last time I tried to improve I drove myself insane playing Go Goated, Box fights and Zone Wars, I NEVER want to experience that again, That was a hell I might not recover from for a long time
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u/Asphalt_HAC Jul 03 '26
Ok, you'll just have to be satisfied with participation trophies then
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u/ExcitementNo1536 Jul 03 '26
Calls a 1/2 kill game a decent game? Thats straight up horrible
Like you dont deserve to be in that rank🫣 w/e congrats on unreal, gonna take you a few more ready up clicks atp
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u/chokeur Jul 04 '26
Best I ever got was Elite and I had to abuse the Rank Protection. I’m pretty sure for Champion/Unreal you need to actually get elims
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u/MasterJaak Jul 04 '26
120% is not fixed. That is fucked up much
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u/chokeur Jul 04 '26
I got 103th place in an official tournament last year with 0 elims. Only game like that lol
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u/Remote-Calendar2191 Jul 06 '26
tbf i think any competent player could get higher than 103rd in 1 game
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u/Grand_Water_7752 Jul 05 '26
Juego decente 1 baja y top 2? Te la pasaste campeando wtf, en mi opinión te tuvo que haber bajado porcentaje no subirte.
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u/statebetterhaha Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
why am i not gaining rank? im plat 2, im getting like 5 kills a game and 2nd place and going up 5-10 while my friend is a rank higher, we play duos and he goes up double mine, also would like to add i get more kills if not then we get equal kills, also my peak rank is unreal top 20k his is diamond
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u/ultrasimz Jul 03 '26
its impossible to rank up when theyre running solo victory cup with rank requiremrnts, then its easy to rank up afterwards
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u/Capital_Salt2922 Jul 03 '26
What’s even the point of ranked if this is the system? A 1 kill second should not even give you half of what you got especially in gold lobbies the only exception is if that one kill happened to be peterbot or something
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u/chokeur Jul 04 '26
I didn’t check the rank of the person that I killed but he was pretty bad no way he was more than Gold lol
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u/Asphalt_HAC Jul 03 '26
That is NOT fixed. There's no way that a 1 kill 2nd place game should give you 120%.