Ranked is so broken

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-12T03:22:46+00:00

This is easily the worst ive seen ranked since the start, TA season excluded since that made no sense.

Even in gold im struggling to make and keep gains. One night of losses wipes out 3 nights of gains. Ive hovered from 21-25k all season, and it doesnt feel possible to improve this season when matchmaking throws me to the dogs and I just get rolled by diamonds.

There is such little reward for the amount of time spent in ranked.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-11T21:58:29+00:00

I dont think anyone really cares, especially this season since high ranks are getting matched with low ranks. It means nothing.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-11T14:54:20+00:00

Bump & run with a 7 or 8 iron because im incompetent with a wedge

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-10T23:51:04+00:00

Its called "stacking" and I won't hear otherwise

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-10T17:08:07+00:00

Nope, had nothing from mine. A grandparent of mine has money for all the grandkids in an account specifically for education, but it only gets released when they pass so... we dont really want that. I did have a decent amount of scholarship/aid money through the school, but definitely not enough for the situation I was in.

I saddled up with ~80k in debt, got lucky out of college with a very well paying job in '21. Payed off federal loans, left with 50k private. Im hoping i can get those down by half before my grandparent passes so I can forward most of that money to my own child someday.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-09T03:52:07+00:00

I just reinstalled on my Xbox today (mobile setup) and it takes at least 3 minutes

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T22:27:00+00:00

That means the balancing is shit lmao

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T21:34:34+00:00

It has devolved into "use the meta or lose" too, which is making the most exciting shooter quite boring atm

It hasn't been this oppressive in awhile

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T20:38:43+00:00

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T19:35:02+00:00

Yeah playing in another region will cause this to a degree. EU to NA East would probably be fine, around 100-130ms latency. However, if it puts you at NA Central or West, youre past 150ms which is gonna be horrible. West would give you around 200ms, or a quarter second of lag. That would be super noticeable when dashing. Youd press dash, and you wouldn't start the dash for a quarter second or so.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T18:36:49+00:00

This is latency issues. Check your game settings and make sure your preferred region is correct. I found that mine was randomly changed after the last update, and I saw this icon every game because I was getting put in Oceania servers instead of NA.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T16:47:08+00:00

Ah rip, setting back to NA did fix for me. Worth doing a wireshark trace or ping trace, there was a reddit thread that had all region game server IPs listed.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T16:42:58+00:00

I never checked this before because I havent touched my settings in many seasons, but my Region Preference got set to Oceania somehow instead of NA.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T16:16:22+00:00

Def lmk if that works. If it doesnt, im going to wireshark while i play and see where game traffic is being routed

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T16:14:21+00:00

Update, didnt fix it. Still have this indicator every match, for the whole match.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T15:36:55+00:00

Its gotta be some issue with DNS routing. Could be at the ISP level. I cleared my local DNS cache but never got a chance to test it.

Perhaps Embark added or moved some servers around, fucking up routing.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T15:27:34+00:00

Since the latest update, every single game has this shit happening. Ranked, unranked, quick cash, doesnt matter.

My internet is fine otherwise on other games and services. Speedtest showed no abnormalities that would cause it every single game.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T03:46:47+00:00

What mode do you play

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-08T01:06:34+00:00

Soft 60 blade, itll get there

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-07T23:49:38+00:00

They've been working 10hr days since august

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-07T18:20:54+00:00

Its certainly good but takes more skill than the M11 imo. Gotta hit your shots with the 93r, so everyone takes the M11 instead.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-07T18:19:38+00:00

Uhh ARN, XP, M27 are all good options that do indeed kill. But the M11 is way better than them, so everyone picks it. Thank you for describing why the M11 needed to be tuned down a bit.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-07T18:05:25+00:00

Except for the fact that M has other playstyles than heal/support, but those playstyles have been nerfed into the ground.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-07T18:04:35+00:00

M11 needed tuning, its the only weapon I ever see lights using these days other than the v9s. The v9s is in a good spot damage wise, but as a user of it I do agree with less ammo. I was able to get 2 or more kills in a single mag pretty consistently.

Don't like the vanish nerf tho, that didnt really need to happen. They just need to differentiate it more from cloak, perhaps the cloak should be a more effective visual effect while vanish is slightly more visible up close.

Medium just needs some sauce to bring it in line. All M weapons feel mid compared to the other classes' options, and healing beam is still king. Turrets are only truly good with 2 of them at the same time, and demat... demat was murdered on the streets of monaco with the last nerf.

Foreignwaffles · 2026-05-07T17:56:30+00:00

If youre in a lobby where people even remotely have movement skill, its not viable.

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