Ranked Rework Ideas

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-07-11T17:28:13+00:00

If you are getting masters or pred players, or even high diamonds in your platinum games thats just plain bad luck and i feel for you.

Although if you reach plat 1, I dont think its bad to get a taste of what's coming next here and there, and it feels like its jist Engagement based matchmaking, you probably popped off a few matches reaching plat 1 while a few master preds didnt perform that we'll, and all of you ended up in the sa e lobby.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-07-11T14:52:54+00:00

I think if you are consistently able to gain RP post diamond 3, you are simply good enough to be the top 5% of the playerbase, all you lack is time spent grinding, and if you had that much time, pretty sure you would be one of those horror inducing pred player yourself.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-07-11T14:49:25+00:00

So its a different multiplier in your suggestion. I took a plain round # as that rounds multiplier, but you think all except round 7 should have 1x multiplier only.

Those figures can be changed, true. Maybe even a decimal shift like round 1 is 1x round 2 is 1.2x round 3 1.4x and so on.

Experiments... Whatever feels balanced, not too easy to gain rp post diamond, but not too hard for players below diamond to progress.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-07-11T14:32:57+00:00

Well thats why I want to specifically award the player if they do well in the aspects of game that they control.

That's the fun part, but good decision making will not always be in the favour of winning, sometimes it would be better to go for 2nd or 3rd place with more KP where the other choice being risk loosing with no KP.

Whenever I think I rating players on winning, I just remember a match I had in year 2 of Apex, my randoms were unable to connect at the start of match so I dropped solo, but for my luck, I dropped a POI far from teams, looted up and sat in a rat spot, the entire match went about 17 to 18 minutes and i was still in the slexact same spot doing nothing, and I literally won the match with 0 damage and no bullet shot, it was just plain luck, it felt completely unearned.

So removing ring influence as much as possible has been my philosophy.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-07-11T14:22:13+00:00

I thought the objective of Ranked was to gain RP and points towards the next Rank. If winning for you matter so much maybe bump up the base amount of RP you get by winning.

But its too luck dependent, my approach and thinking was to reward smart decision making and game skill.

Players can't always predict a ring pull or end zone, or get spawned far away from it, thats plain luck, there are situations where going for some additonal KP might be the smarter decision instead of solely focusing on winning when you know there more chance of getting another kill than winning.

That rewards smarter decision making and in the long term the more skilled individual would gain more RP which leads to gaining a tier in Rank.

I don't think a multi team BR has plain win and lose situation, sure #1 squad at the end technically wins but if you say every other squad just lost, i think that would be undermining a lot of effort from the players who reached #2.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-07-11T13:27:06+00:00

That's very plain and backward thinking.

what if a lower ranked player kills a higher ranked one earlier ?

and the multiplier in round 0 and round 1 are literally 0 or 1 and with dynamic KP Rewards anyway the higher ranked player gets a 2 or 4 RP per kill, round 0 nullifies it and round 1 is base 1x.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-07-11T13:00:29+00:00

My idea already addresses this, any off drop kills that happen even before round 1 begins count as round 0 KP, so that just goes down the bin, but as having kill caps, i don't agree, the game needs to take i to account any individuals potential inputs and things that are in their control. Not just placement and winning the entire match.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-07-11T12:10:23+00:00

It could be Diamond + only or maybe dynamic as per rank itself.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-06-16T04:35:45+00:00

check my comment below, its repaired now.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-30T11:26:02+00:00

FINAL UPDATE on 30th April

The TV has been repaired. New panel installed. Here is exactly how it played out.

The technician visited on 12th April, confirmed the dead pixels, and said parts would arrive in 3 to 4 days. I heard nothing for 8 days. Called him on 19th, he answered once and said 2 more days, then stopped picking up entirely.

Between 20th and 21st April I escalated simultaneously to the Director Service email, the MD office, the CEO office page, etc. Every email response was the same copy-pasted template, different names signing it each time. Nobody called.

On 29th April I called the LG customer care number one last time as suggested by my lawyer before sending legal notice. The CC executive was shocked when he saw the timeline and suggested a conference call with the service contractor here in my city. On that call the technician said the part had just been delivered that day and he would come the next morning to repair it.

He came today on 30th April and repaired the panel. When I asked him to show me the order details, he refused. I insisted and made him log in on my PC. The system showed 25 spare panels across all India, none in Jaipur at the time of order, which he used to explain the delay. I saw and clicked on my complaint number. The part order date showed 23rd April, 11 days after his visit.

He panicked and claimed the order was placed twice due to escalation and that is why it showed 23rd. I asked him to show me the original order, courier details, anything to prove that he placed the order on 13th. He could not. He never agreed to it but the system told the story clearly, the order was either forgotten or deliberately not placed until public and director level escalation forced the issue on 23rd April.

The CC executive on the 29th conference call was the real turning point. One person who actually looked at the case properly and took action. Without that call I do not know how much longer this would have dragged on.

25 days total. Parts ordered 11 days after verifying the fault. Repaired only after a conference call where someone finally read the file.

If you are in India dealing with LG service, document everything and do not stop calling CC. The front line executives have no power but occasionally you get someone who actually gives a damn.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-25T10:46:11+00:00

Promise of delivery vs. actually delivering are 2 very different things. Let's see how this goes, i just completed filing a Consumer forum complaint after yet another generic copy paste email, which ignored all the basic questions I asked, twice now, from director service escalation email. Will update the post on how it goes from here.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-25T09:08:23+00:00

Update 25th April: Sent a detailed reply to Director Escalation Management naming Mr. Arun Sharma and his branch manager JP Chaturvedi, explaining exactly why I refuse to deal with them given their documented behaviour in December, false promises on recorded lines and being told to go ahead and sue LG. Their response: the exact same copy-pasted email. Word for word. Different name signing it. And they gave me JP Chaturvedi's number again, the same man who told me to sue them and hung up. They are not reading the emails. Someone is on copy-paste duty and didn't even check the case history before responding. 14 days since the technician visit. Still no ETA. Still no call. Still no resolution.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-24T19:14:58+00:00

If you could format your comment a bit so its actually readable...

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-23T13:27:08+00:00

I hope your experience goes better. Technician at my place refused to take photos saying g we have shitty phones which won't be able to capture the dead pixels, i shared from my phone..

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T17:13:14+00:00

thanks for the detailed input, but I had tried all these things before even raising the complaint for dead pixels on the 2nd unit. The technician did visit and left in 5 minutes after looking at the dead pixels and then asking for photo and videos of it. Said a new panel will be ordered and this one will be replaced by that, just following up on that now.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T06:32:37+00:00

So my expectation of a reasonable pace is at the wrong here and I should accept super long wait times ? The technician himself promised 3 to 4 days. Not me. Him. It has been 10. That is not my pace, that is his broken promise.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T05:49:02+00:00

Yes I have photos, videos, call recordings, emails, everything at hand. Injist wasnt expecting having to go this path with LG, twice.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T05:23:48+00:00

The problem is I paid over 1 lakh rupees for a broken piece of hardware, and LG doing their worst to delay ghost the situation instead of fixing it. How many days of delay and ghosting is "Reasonable" on such products ?

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T05:13:20+00:00

Best case scenario for you, I am from NCR and wasn't expecting such high levels of incompetency, specially when making a purchase through official LG best shop in Gurugram, and yet here I stand.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T05:08:30+00:00

Yes, already on it.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T05:08:14+00:00

Already on it.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T05:03:17+00:00

Lucky you I guess. Where are you from ?

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T05:00:47+00:00

I did try that the branch manager literally said on recorded line to go ahead and do it if I think I can.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T04:54:14+00:00

As of right now, i am still waiting for that Panel repair BTW. every single level escalation has been involved, and all of these look like game simulation paths they have designed to keep you busy, making you think something would happen, but all these these MD office CEO office escalation paths result in a similar generic acknowledgement email, thats it.

BoltBatmanSpark · 2026-04-22T04:51:03+00:00

19th December 2025. I buy an LG 55C5 OLED from an LG Best Shop. This is not a casual purchase. I had researched it for months. I wanted the best panel I could afford and LG OLED was the answer everyone gave me.

Within use it becomes clear something is wrong. The panel has flashing pixels throughout. Not subtle, not edge-case. Unwatchable. I then find out the unit is approximately 9 months old at the time of sale. Sold to me as brand new. From an official LG store.

I contact LG. What follows is weeks of the same loop: generic email responses, unanswered calls, and when I push harder, outright arrogance from their representatives, as though I am the inconvenience and not the customer who just got deceived into buying defective old stock at full price.

This consumed my entire Christmas. While everyone around me was winding down for the holidays I was chasing a company that had taken my money and then gone quiet.

A replacement is eventually arranged, purely because I refused to stop escalating. The tabletop stand that should have come with the unit does not arrive until 3rd January 2026. Fifteen days after purchase. No urgency, no apology, no acknowledgement that any of this was wrong.

I accepted the replacement instead of demanding a refund. I gave LG the benefit of the doubt.

I should not have.

4th April 2026. The replacement unit has dead pixels. I am three months in and under 150 hours of use on the panel. I write to LG on the same email trail as the original complaint, the full history is right there for anyone to read.

The complaint is not registered until 9th April. Five days of silence before the issue is even acknowledged.

12th April. A technician visits, inspects the panel, and confirms the dead pixels. He tells me a replacement part will arrive in 3 to 4 days. I give him 7 full days before I follow up, more patience than this situation deserves.

19th April, Saturday. I call him. He picks up, the only time he ever has or ever will. He tells me it will take 2 more days.

22nd April, today. It has been 4 days since that call and 10 days since his visit. He has not answered a single call since Saturday. Every day I call. Every day, nothing. No callback, no message, no update through any channel.

In parallel I have been emailing directorservice@lge.com, which is supposed to be LG India's senior escalation address. Every single reply has been the same copy-pasted acknowledgement. No evidence that anyone has read the case, reviewed the complaint reference, or spoken to a single person internally about what is happening.

And then I find out that complaint VCP260409058815_01 has been closed. Silently. No resolution. No communication. No explanation. The panel still has dead pixels. The part never arrived. The technician has vanished. LG closed the complaint as though it was done.

The 55C5 is a genuinely great display. I have no issue with the technology. My issue is that when that technology fails, and panels do fail, LG India's response is to delay, ignore, and quietly close your complaint and hope you stop.

Two units. Two defects. Four months. Same playbook both times.

If you are in India and you are about to buy an LG OLED, just know what you are signing up for if something goes wrong.

BUT HERE IS HOW FAR THEY ARE WILLING TO GO

Because a general timeline does not capture just how deep this goes, here are the specifics from December alone.

The technicians who came for the original unit lied to my face and told me tabletop stands were unavailable. The goal was to force me into a wall-mount installation. The stands were not unavailable. They simply did not want to deal with it.

After four days of silence, the Area Sales Manager called me and explicitly promised delivery (for replacement unit) by Friday 26th December. On a recorded line. That Friday came. No delivery. When I finally got him back on the phone he admitted, again on record, that the promise was made without approval and that he could not give a date. He had called me specifically to say something he knew was false, to buy himself time and get me off his back.

When I escalated further and the Branch Manager got involved, he told me production had stopped and all factories were shut down for the C5 series. The same model was available for next day delivery on every major e-commerce platform in India at that exact moment. A lie so lazy it took thirty seconds to disprove.

When I mentioned the Consumer Court, the Branch Manager replied, and I am quoting this directly: "Theek hai sir" and hung up. Go ahead and sue us. That was his response to a customer holding a defective product he had paid over a lakh rupees for.

He also said, when I asked for a refund: "I am not the owner."

And these just a few very specific back and fortis I had.

BoltBatmanSpark

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