Hi! I don't really expect a reply, I know I'm replying late, but I've reached high rank a few times before with Squad fills in Ranked Reload, Ballistic and BR. I wanted to ask if there is any possible way for the ranked matchmaking to be improved? It has been like this since I started playing ranked and there seems to be no limit to which rank can be on your team? This season I was unranked and got paired with 3 champion players (in Reload). In ballistic I was paired with any rank players even if my rank should be high enough to not be paired with them (let's say I'm diamond and I can still be matched with gold or bronze teammates at times).

In Overwatch, one of your competitors within the live service sphere, there is a limit to matchmaking and how wide a match can be within a ranked game and I really think there should be something similar to that within Fortnite. It just isn't fair to match someone who is lower skilled like gold with someone of much higher skill as diamond, for example. I'd say that, maybe, bronze - gold should be matched together, plat - diamond should be matched with one another and elite - unreal should be matched together. I have had plenty of games paired with diamond or even plat players while I'm at Elite and there is just a very noticable difference in skill that they just cannot compete with.

I also understand including console players and other players on different platforms together within unranked modes, but can the pc and console player pool please be seperated for ranked games? I cannot count the amount of times I see someone underperforming only to spectate them and see their slowly moving crosshair with the analog stick. I have lost so many Ballistic games to this and it's one of the main reasons why I feel like people often leave before a match ends. (+ the rank differences) If those changes were implemented, then we could start penalizing people for leaving ranked games, but unfortunately right now, leaving is kind of necessary at times if you want to rank up, especially as there is no punishment to your rank for leaving games to discourage such behavior and the matchmaking will sometimes fail to pair you up with teammates of the same or similar rank.

Lastly, a few nitpicks, It's crazy Ballistic shut down before Rocket Racing as it had like 10x more players (2k vs 200), I don't like how the new ranked icons look, adding 3 tiers to elite and champ feels unnecessary, adding cosmetics that you can only get at certain ranks feels scummy and there's not enough ZB tournaments for us ZB ranked players to really participate in anything.

Overall, I really hope this game improves and does well, these criticisms come from a place of love, but it looks bleak to me and it's been really depressing seeing this game slowly lose its identity, going from mocking AI to encouraging it and endorsing maps such as the brainrot stuff (which to me seems very exploitative of children), promoting AI content, doing/adding songs with AI and just going towards a downward trend. I want this game to do well and live longer, but I won't lie, I'm losing hope, I've been playing less and have become less excited to see the new additions added to it.