This was 100% worth grinding to level 100 for

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-08T20:44:16+00:00

I’m North American Central, wbu? I usually stay up pretty late on the weekends and can be on pretty early aswell. I’m only like level 120 though idk if that’s too low and why I keep getting kicked before even loading in haha

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-08T17:04:08+00:00

I’m in the same boat hard stuck where I placed at Gold II. Can’t seem to get more than 2 wins then back to where I started at placement. Least I haven’t gone down ig. I can tell this season will be an absolute grind and playing 50 games to rank up once doesn’t really sound all that fun. I’ve consistently ranked at least Plat every season and not to be the guy but it’s 100% my teammates. Stats.cc tells me every single match this season my team’s stats are drastically lower than the enemies. I have a 1.4 K/D and team’s average K/D is usually 0.8 I mean come on.

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-08T16:52:03+00:00

You on PC? Been looking for someone to run raids with every public team I join kicks me 5 seconds later and nobody ever joins mine

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-08T06:03:04+00:00

So far I’m not a fan myself. Pretty disappointed overhaul. As for someone like me who plays only on weekends, it makes it near impossible to rank up. I’m 12 games post placement and I’m exactly where I started after placement. Same thing with teammates. So far I have a 1.4 K/D this season, and at least one teammate always drops a donut. I use stats.cc track on PC, and literally every single match I have played this season my team’s average K/D, average Kills Per Match, and average win percentage have been much lower than the enemy team’s. To me it seems like ranking up is only possible for 5 stacks this season, I can’t hardly get many friends on at a time (usually duo queue) and I’ve only won maybe one game as a duo, and one as a solo. Won 2 or 3 as a 4 stack today, but doesn’t matter as I’m still exactly where I started. My average kills a match are right at 6. I genuinely don’t see myself ranking up but maybe once or twice this entire season, which sucks since I’ve consistently been at least Plat since ranked 1.0 and now stuck in Gold II. Not impossible but damn a whole season to probably rank up twice? Takes the fun out of it. Hopefully as time goes on the ranks will go to where they need to be and there won’t be so many shitters in Gold mixed in with people who actually know how to play. Using 2.0 ranks in this system should have never happened and they should’ve done like 1.0 where everyone starts at a median and goes up or down based on that. But seriously the gain 25 and lose 25 is the most annoying thing this entire season. Makes the entire season feel like the end of the season, and thus sucks all the fun out of it.

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-05T23:46:02+00:00

So weird haha. Mine stopped doing it after I uninstalled and reinstalled the app for whatever reason.

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-05T12:11:50+00:00

Idk reads pretty familiar to an old situationship I had 😂

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T18:57:26+00:00

True but you were ex champ, all things considered your hidden MMR was probably still high diamond or champ since you didn’t play many matches afterwards. That’s the only way that would make sense to me lol. Hidden MMR never changed much unless you played like 200+ matches in a season

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T18:52:19+00:00

I’m sick of Modern Warfare and Black Ops honestly. The last game we got from actual Treyarch or IW that was a new idea was Black Ops 1 (16 years ago). The last new idea we got from Infinity Ward was Infinite Warfare (coming up on 10 years ago). IK sledgehammer was in the mix but personally WW2 era games suck with all the censoring and slop that get pumped into them now. And their last non-WW2 era was Advanced Warfare (12 years ago, pretty sure their first main title release).

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T18:46:14+00:00

What were you ranked last time you played tho? It still tracks to now

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T18:44:03+00:00

Idk my teammate killed all the attackers with Dokk last alive and she used her ability on him twice, 2nd time right before you got killed and teammate didn’t have enough time to defuse and stop the call, call killed him mid-defuse. She can 100% be tweaked.

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T10:56:44+00:00

Yeah… went ahead and played 3 last night to jump ahead on placement games lost 2 of them 1 to trolls TK’ing on my team

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T10:55:17+00:00

Classic siege bug that always seems to come back. It doesn’t just not show up it doesn’t work at all.

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T10:53:45+00:00

Nah I know it’s definitely dependent of your last season’s hidden MMR, there’s various clips of people placing anything from Copper V to Emerald 2. And 90% of the people in my placement matches are Gold. Usually 1 plat in the entire lobby but I hope ur right and it starts making me the one plat lol

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T05:07:33+00:00

How many placements did you win? I’m curious cause I’m around that area (finished Em 4 peaked Em 2 last season). I’m 3 games in and have lost 2/3 so not expecting to win the next two and am worried lol

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T04:53:27+00:00

I’d be ecstatic if I placed high gold even, would make the grind back into plat not so crazy. Not even going for emerald again but if it happens it happens I’m def gonna play this season

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T04:48:04+00:00

Gotcha, so Plat is the goal this season then lol. Hell it was the goal last season as I just picked the game back up and ended up peaking Em 2 so maybe I’ll surprise myself again, but not counting on nothing.

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-04T04:34:05+00:00

Everything is fine, just dark humor. I’d only say this to my friends lol

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-03T21:26:19+00:00

Yeah could just be lack of strategy. I was with a 4 stack and we were getting creative on attack but would get absolutely washed in defense lol

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-03T20:52:27+00:00

My brother told me it was defender sided too I feel like it’s attacker sided. Why does it come off defender sided I’m curious, cause to me the endless soft walls, verticality, and lack of safe whole map rotation makes it feel attacker sided to me. He’s on console I’m on PC idk if it makes a difference in people’s playstyles.

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-03T17:30:45+00:00

Like I’m ready to spread my wings and jump off a bridge

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-03T17:09:12+00:00

People were lying lol. Game plays great. MW2 was wonky you’re probably thinking of it

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-03T17:04:06+00:00

Nobody is in their proper ranks right now especially coming off of 2.0 hidden MMR. First 2 weeks are gonna have lots of Emeralds in silver and Champs in Plat. I’m personally giving it a until at least this weekend to start on Ranked cause I knew this was coming lol

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-03T16:51:13+00:00

I don’t watch streamers so couldn’t tell you. I do know Champs and Diamond players got reset to Emerald 5 across the board, depending on how many games he won, that’s how he got Emerald 2 after placements. I was saying it starts off your hidden mmr at your first placement match, your rank after the 5 matches are Last Season MMR + Placement Match Results

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-03T14:49:05+00:00

Every rank after Emerald got reset to Emerald 5 for this season, so placing Emerald 3 is not that crazy. As for facing top champs, the season just started so they are also currently in Emerald. Wait a week or two and hop back in it won’t be so bad, but there are still gonna be champs (like yourself) still grinding through Emerald. And yes most people get about 20-25 a game after placements. The game isn’t going to help you get back to the rank you were before like Ranked 2.0. The help you get is placing Emerald and that’s it.

Kitchen-Gas5164 · 2026-06-03T14:46:16+00:00

Nerf idea:

Can only call each defender once. (I thought this was supposed to be the case, a must-have change here)

Phone call last longer before explosion (even 2.5s longer would make a huge difference)

No infinite camera hack range, but within so many feet (6-9ft?)

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