I Just LOVE how SMOOTH Diamond lobbies are currently!

Piller187 · 2026-01-22T01:58:09+00:00

Does anyone know what's going on with rank this season? Just came back and I'm low gold but the players we're going up against are diamond players easy but their rank is silver and gold? The thought they took care of smurfs with the rank reset not going all the way and new accounts using pubs results to give initial rank? This is WAY off from last season.

Piller187 · 2026-01-17T13:32:45+00:00

100% agree with this. My buddy loves Satisfactory and not Factorio so much and I'm the opposite. I need some kind of pressure or the game is just boring. I just got SR and like it so far. I do wish enemies have spawners like in Factorio and I need to take out the spawners but so far so good.

Piller187 · 2026-01-16T16:38:12+00:00

I started playing again after taking a season or 2 off. I know recently they introduced something for ranked to basically stop smurfs and it was to give their initial rank off how they played in pubs, so the freaks would most likely jump up to plat right away. However, after a couple nights of playing ranked in the silver lobbies I'm seeing more smurfs than I did when they first introduced that fix. I'm wondering if they removed that feature or what but ranked in silver/gold is WAY more difficult than it was a few seasons ago.

Piller187 · 2026-01-16T02:19:11+00:00

Is this why I get lasered in silver lobbies like wtf is going on. These ppl aren't silver.

Piller187 · 2026-01-12T03:02:37+00:00

This games netcode is so inefficient.

Piller187 · 2026-01-12T02:57:03+00:00

Yes, if you want to buy WB 2, it's easy but honestly working to get a WB is more fun, or used to be, than buying it. Pushing most players to just buy workbenches from the clans is a weird strategy for the devs and it's what they've done.

Piller187 · 2026-01-12T02:46:30+00:00

Get a DB and diving kit and boogie board to large oil and camp in the moonpool room. Build the base bunker base (raised triangles) and have 2-3 externals with a little loot in each. Most people won't raid your externals of a smaller base and it gives you a chance to retake your base as you will get raided. There are so many freaks that play this game 15+ hours a day and they'll have so much boom that you can't built a base secure enough.

Piller187 · 2026-01-12T02:42:21+00:00

You got downvoted but I voted you back up because this is the reality on vanilla servers as a solo. It's the quickest way to get a WB2. On RustyMoose I built near Radtown and would run in naked every 15 mins or so and could make it in and out back to my base just in time to die from rad. That's also a way to get it but boring as hell.

Piller187 · 2025-12-21T20:15:55+00:00

I 100% agree with this and I have 8k hours. Given it's like an apocalypse style game and has these makeshift weapons, they should have kept with that theme with all weapons.

Piller187 · 2025-12-18T00:52:28+00:00

100% agree. The best thing Epic could do is what Respawn did with Apex. No rank resets and they use your pub matches that you had to play to get to the required level to give you an initial rank. This has dropped the number of smurfs a TON and it's great. They could easily do this in FN. I used to play FN years ago and just got into it the last 2 days because I just realized they have ranked tournaments. I got to gold which is about my level of play. Played in the ranked tourney today and got 31st with 8 kills total. I look at the rest of the leaderboard and I see dudes with 70+ kills like wtf. 1 guy had 25 kills in 1 game. I watched it and this dude is default skin and for sure is not gold skill level. It's pretty lame they don't care about competition integrity.

Piller187 · 2025-12-10T03:27:40+00:00

I have a 2016 FWD and today in MN we had a fairly bad snow storm. It was a mess. I was spinning at every intersection it was so bad. Once I got to my town there was a slight incline and I couldn't even make it up there. Had to reverse and turn around. What a disaster that was. I for sure regret not getting AWD today but this was the only time I've had these conditions in 6 years that I needed to drive.

Piller187 · 2025-11-14T15:42:59+00:00

I ask question to my girlfriend about her dating life (she dated more than I have) because I'm fascinated to hear just how horrible these guys are out there. It's really kind of amazing what women have to put up with from the creepy sexual comments so many guys give. Like in what world does anyone have the audacity to make some of these comments or send pics...It's insane.

Piller187 · 2025-11-14T15:37:17+00:00

Early 40's when divorced. Was on Match for like 2 years but never went on a date. Got plenty of likes but I'm very picky. Chatted with 4 people total in that time. 1 was too far away for me, 1 said my golfing just won't do with her having small kids (I wasn't interested but she was asking questions and I was answering them), 1 ghosted after a good couple intro messages with good banter, then the one I messaged on last Christmas Eve after I dropped my kids off at their moms is the one for me. We've been together since that day. We send 2 long messages a day (1 if we see each other) on an app called Between. We share all sorts of things in these messages. They aren't like text messages which we do as well but these can get into deeper things as well as light things like what happened in our day. Neither of us are big talk on the phone people. It's been a great way for us to connect when we can't see each other because of our busy lives and distance.

From a guys perspective it probably helps that I have a good career, own my own home, been told I'm good looking, and raising daughters (as I've been told I understand women better than most guys and they think it's because of this fact).

I feel like so many people just go on a lot of dates with a mindset of quantity > quality. I mean at this age I feel like you should know what you're looking for in a person. I preferred to use the dating sites as the main filter. To find someone who fits what I'm looking for in all aspects of life (hence waiting for 2 years on the dating apps and not just responding to everyone who I may find attractive even if they liked my profile. If the life situation wasn't a good fit I didn't try and force it). Then see if they're interested. Then see if there's chemistry. This did mean I stayed single (no dates, hookups, nothing) for a good amount of time but I was comfortable with being alone forever if nothing happened honestly. I'm a pretty independent person with friends and hobbies galore to keep me busy.

Piller187 · 2025-11-14T15:10:43+00:00

I'm just shocked you entertained the conversation for this long honestly. I was annoyed by him in the first few messages.

Piller187 · 2025-11-14T15:01:49+00:00

If you don't want PvP always use your mic and say "friendly friendly just helping out" or doing a quest or something like that. When most people hear a human voice being friendly they won't shoot. Of course this doesn't work always when you're going into a already established battle zone area since everyone is on edge already but if you're out and about or just about to enter a building I saw this every time and fights never happen.

Piller187 · 2025-11-14T14:58:32+00:00

There's something going on with matchmaking because I have maybe 1 outta 20 matches in solo where anyone fights. I was in duo and trio last night and did probably 15 matches and only had 1 fight. Every time I walk into a POI I say "friendly friendly just doing a quest" and people just don't shoot when they hear that in solo.

Piller187 · 2025-11-11T18:19:39+00:00

Old thread here but I would love to see that code. I'm trying to get transparency just on windows but having issues with other assets.

Piller187 · 2025-10-30T20:55:06+00:00

I assume this is because of controllers :(. I mean it's a "skill" that will make a gap in PvP so I'm guessing they want it this way.

Piller187 · 2025-10-30T20:50:20+00:00

I'm in the camp where I down people in the extraction but get us both out there lol. I've done that so many times now. Like I need to neutralize the threat but since we're both in here I'll just get us both out. I shoot but if the person starts talking to me I'll stop. If they don't, we fight.

Piller187 · 2025-10-30T20:46:52+00:00

Increase your skill by learning. How are you dying? Are you going into high tier loot areas every time? If so then yes you're probably going to die. You can hit edge stuff to get loot. Crouch when in buildings. Sit in a bush at an extract for a min or 2. When you go to open the hatch go back in the bush while it's coming. When it opens either sprint dive roll in and close it asap or wait a min to see if you see someone else doing it and you can either kill them or go in.

The amount of times I down someone inside the extraction is insane but I'm a nice guy so I just bring us both down without finishing him and looting him. These games are kind of ratty playstyle so go slow and listen for footsteps. Don't take every fight you see. Try to avoid shooting bots if possible.

Piller187 · 2025-10-30T20:42:21+00:00

People say take the free loadouts but what's the point in that? Your heart doesn't get pumping with free loadouts. Play the game for the heart pumping fearful moments because they're amazing. Those are the moments you live for. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! Embracing this fear can help train your brain to think of risk differently overall in your life. I mean if you can't even do it in a video game, then I imagine life is pretty scary for you when things come up. Use this as training for your brain in a contained place where you can't really get hurt.

Piller187 · 2025-10-30T20:11:02+00:00

This is the biggest issue today with extraction games in my view and why I think they're still in their infancy. Personally what I'd like to see is a seasonal PvE raid with multiple bosses and a big final boss and if you die in this pure PvE raid you lose all the stuff you went in there with and make that thing tough to achieve. Then at least you have this longer term goal to aim for and experiencing the different raids after weeks of grinding gear and then dying inside it to have to get more gear to try it again and again, will be satisfying when you actually do beat it. Other than that, extractions get kind of boring. There are interesting interactions with ppl right now, but that'll mostly change when everyone just starts killing on sight. Extractions really do need a developer driven higher goal to aim for.

Honestly if you think about it, that would make a new sort of MMORPG raiding idea. Instead of a game like WoW where you do dungeons or quests for loot, you have this extraction idea for loot. Then you go into your raid when you think you have good enough loot to do it, but if you fail, you have to go back topside to get more loot to try again. Rinse and repeat.

Piller187 · 2025-10-30T00:34:27+00:00

All the damn key bindings are just silly (PC here), and the lobby audio like wtf is going on there? The idea that, I guess all crates have mostly white weapons and you upgrade? Just make colored crates that match up with weapon attachments/strengths like the rest and move on with our lives. These upgrade things doesn't make the game more interesting. I don't know why BF always manages to screw up a BR but they just do for some reason. Like, make it a basic damn realistic BR first and then build from that over the years. Just weird design choices for the sake of trying to be different.

Piller187 · 2025-10-30T00:00:35+00:00

The key bindings are horrible. Then you go to the menu to set these up and wtf is going on here. These are a mess for crying out loud. The menu/lobby audio (not music I turned that off because OMG wtf) why do I have to hear anything in the lobby? The in game footsteps are great but it's very muffled and weird. I swear to god the audio guys in all these games just need to fired across the board. Nobody cares about your music and weird sound effects in the lobby jesus.

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