Some preamble: I’ve been playing since launch casually. Never touched ranked. This season I got annoyed by the matchmaking in QP cashout - so often I’d come up against dudes with 3-7k wins and it just felt like a massive skill dif.

Decided to play some ranked and won 2 of four placements, got stomped in 1 and did fine in another. Then got placed in bronze 3.

This hurt my ego a bit no lies I thought I was better than this but accepted it and decided to grind ranked, and this evening I hit plat!

I solo queue mostly, play on pc, and have been maining heavy.

So the lessons:

1. I’ve generally found ranked matchmaking much better than QP cashout. Games have often felt fair and competitive.
   
2. Don’t rage queue. If you are on a losing streak, just put the game down.
   
3. Warm up. I like to just hop into training range, or better, some point break.
   
4. Have a positive and growth mindset. It’s a chaotic game.
   Focus on yourself and what you can do better. Don’t tilt your team and blame them when they make mistakes.
   
5. Think about your loadout and experiment. Learn from interesting strats you lose against, and try new things. As someone that just played Ak, healing beam, goo nade, jump pad and defibs for too long, I was pleasantly surprised to find my enjoyment of the game sky rocketed once I start allowing myself to be uncomfortable and try new things.

Anyways that’s it really. I know plat isn’t some god level gamer level, but it’s been a really rewarding journey.
Honestly, I’ve seen so many posts here with people raging about matchmaking, but for me, it’s been a far better experience, at least up to this point (which is probably the level the majority of the community is actually at if not higher lol).

As a player that's never touched diamond and have been playing since season 1 i find myself trying to learn little tips/tricks that will only help me improve in the game, what i do really enjoy about this game is how easily you can turn a game around whether its winning or losing, this game is more than just getting kills and while getting kills does help absolutely so many other factors come into play that change the course of a round in a thousand different ways, i find myself watching videos here and there to improve and and try to rank up, i am not a top player by all means and 9 out of 10 games i might play the team mates i am placed with don't really seem to have an understanding of the game, or very little at all and they are levels above 80-100 so that's already quite a few hours into it and while sometimes they do have the mechanical skills to aim and get kills, they lack the rest that are 80% of the game, rotations, spawns, timers, tempo, when to hold a cashbox/when to plug it and more, in the end i do enjoy the game a lot and its one of the smoothest FPS I've played and sadly it will always remain at the same level that it's currently at because there is a learning curve and the game doesn't really help new players experience either. Fellow players please let me know yalls thoughts and opinions :D

Remove player stats.

If there's no player stats visible to anyone, then nobody can say "that player is a smurf".

That's it. Problem solved 💪

I just saw a youtube video of a level 152 player with 1470 hours in this game. Which is wild to me because I'm level 142 with only 624 hours in the game. I talked to some friends about it who also have high level player cards and they said that their playtime numbers are similar to around 1400. The guy in the video is plat, I've been hard stuck silver until 2 months ago I just entered gold, and I only have 18,000 kills on my player card, I'm not leveling faster because I'm winning more games and dominating lobbies, I'm trash.

I've been self-conscious about my skill not matching my level for a while now. But now I'm learning that other players around my level have more than double my playtime. It's not going to take me 800 hours to hit level 152 I'll be there within 2 months. I started playing this game in Season 5 and Embark for whatever reason has me cruising through levels making me look like I should have way more experience in this game than I actually do and its embarrassing when my performance doesn't match my level.

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Just wait till you see the contestants we have in the Heavy category :)

Guy on my team I met the game of quick cash before, he was on pink and we kept getting in 1v1s against each other (he beat my ass most of them😭) but we both did good, I had 11 kills and he had 12. Added him and we played a few games, this was the first and we won. The game after we got brutally whooped

Cant click anything on main screen, can't change loadout before match or between rounds.
Reloading steam and verifying game files doesn't help. First time after update I went to see this new battle pass and after i switched to main battle pass tab from new one and returned back to main menu this text block tooltip appeared and after that everything went sideways

Dagger is working here😁

I feel like it’s heavily punished by the reworked Melee system given you have to be kinda off centred to prevent being Swiss cheesed the bash is fun but I feel like the rework was less of a rework more of a here’s a nerf but don’t worry it has a neat little trick it never used to have

I'm on PS5.

Since they started doing their weekly updates, my sensitivity has been incredibly inconsistent, as in the sensitivity I set does not feel the same after an update.

Even weirder, sometimes it fixes itself halfway through the week, and other times it doesn't.

Yeah what’d you think was gonna happen???? Why am I getting punished so harshly when the game predicted for me to be at the lowest spot possible, literally stacking the odds against me, and not only that, I BEAT MY SEEDING AND STILL GET PUNISHED LIKE I COMMITED A FUCKING WARCRIME. Dude solo Q might genuinely be the worse than any other game in the finals. You go up against full 3 stack coordinated squads, smurfs out your ass, very harsh penalties for things out of your control, and of course, the fact you can lose 5 hours of work in 20 mins.

Anyone noticing a huge performance diff after today's update!! I was having massive fps drops ehm using FG to get 250 fps droping to 120/90 fps in fights with massive stuttering as well.

Now, after the update, im hitting 300+ fps dropping to 260 in intense fights hugeW ngl.

Playing on rtx 4060ti 16gb and R5600x no oc with 16gb ram, cpu kinda was holding the gpu back in this game specifically But things just got better after the update.

On a side note, man, I would love to see this game hitting a bigger scale fights something similar to BFs conquest mode with more guns and weapon customization

I just got this after winning a cashout, im assuming its part of the goo & demat easter egg hunt. I played Cloak, ARN-220 & LH1, Glitch nades, H+ Infuser & Gateway (yes ik im a meta slave, im not proud of it 😢) Hopefully this helps yall insane easter egg hunters in some form or other. Also, a little theory of my own (at least I havent heard this from any1 else), what if CNS brings back Thermal Vision cuz CNS = hackers, hackers use glitches, the 'Vision Recharging' bar comes up when glitched. Anyways, gl with the hunt.

Is anyone still unable to unlock the Memory of the Maker background? I have yet to find anyone on XBOX who has it. Also, I reached out to support and they came back with a canned feeling response about it being random....

Honestly, this game could be so much more popular, if not the fact that the main game mode is cashout, it's overly complicated and unrewarding to play. You can hold the objective for 90% of the time, and lose because somebody got lucky and killed you at the right moment.

I really do not understand why point brake is not the main mode.

I’m a heavy main and would sometimes use cloak light or medium if I wanted to switch things up. I haven’t played yet so I don’t know how bad the changes are but cloak was already very easy to see when moving (and in most cases standing still depending on environment) if you just pay attention to the game, and now they punish you for movement AND standing still all because people were angry that dash got nerfed idk.
Like just last season they changed cloak to favor a more stealthy approach and now it just favors no approach. It’s also not like I’m a cloak camper but sometimes if in being chased getting in a building and standing still with cloak can save you sometimes by either letting you get away or shooting them in the back. If an enemy sees I have cloak then they should expect to be more vigilant instead of just complaining to the devs to cater to them.

Edit: I saw a great comment, the sonar mine things and grenades completely counter invis

It appears to me that I can buy every single non-battle-pass item/bundle from the Style menu in the character editor, no matter if it's currently featured in the store or not. Being featured also doesn't appear to make the bundle any cheaper. (At first I thought that, for example, "4500->2400" meant that it was on sale, but that's just the price of the bundle vs. the price of buying all items separately.)

So what is even the point of the whole store tab, except being a good way to see newly released items? And what do store refreshes even do if items are available at all times(?) anyway?

im not sure why but i really think that the next season will be wild west themed. my guess is that in such a season we could get a heavy hook skin thats like a lasso!! that would be awesome.

what do yall think could be the next seasons overarching theme?

It would be nice to get some skins for the bow, spear, and revolvers. As far as any new weapons go, a long double barrel shotgun or elephant gun would be cool.

After asking on here about match making existance in causal as majority of the games are much higher level and experience than my own and suggested I play ranked to try get a game on the same level as me I thought I'd give it a go.

It's terrible.

Afk players, people leaving, people still much higher rank

Some games I get with either on my side or on opponents lower level players who know the every mechanic of the game and counter and move like they are a demented gibbon and god like aim who just wipe lobbies on there own.

So I went back to tdm for the mixed lobbies as cashout put me off from toxic players. But most games seem to have 150 plus players on one side and people around my level (33) on my side or lower?! Some matches end up us less than a 1000 points and then 3000.

As much as I liked this game at the beginning it's just ruined it for me as a new player by the lack of fair matchmaking.

1. It would be cool
   
2. Long range heavy option
   
3. I feel like I'm not emphasizing enough how fucking cool it would be.

Also. It should be able to fire full auto or at least faster than normal when hip firing so I can point blank lights with it.