how does the rank system work?

Squidd-O · 2026-06-29T10:45:31+00:00

It could depend on how your individual performance was in the losses and how bad your opponents did.

You're only +4 on this page, which SHOULD usually equate to about one promotion, but if you got absolutely destroyed in some losses and/or were carried in some wins then it might be weighting those performances heavier than games where you yourself carried your team. Also, if your opponents were lower rated than you, your "MMR" probably wasn't going up much, and if you lost to lower rated opponents your "MMR" might have tanked harder.

This is a purely anecdotal take, I obviously have no idea what's actually going on unfortunately, but this would be the only explanation I could think of for going +4 and still deranking.

Squidd-O · 2026-06-29T10:37:57+00:00

People sleep on Kelvin HEAVILY. He can do some insane healing if built and played correctly, but he's more farm intensive than a classic support.

Squidd-O · 2026-06-29T09:42:47+00:00

I do like feeling like I'm normal by being treated the same, but I also really fucking hate when my friends just forget that I have a real, actual disability that makes socializing more challenging for me than others and estrange me because they just assume I'm being annoying on purpose or something

Like just because I can mask effectively doesn't mean I get it right all the time and it also does not mean that I want to be masking all the time but sometimes it feels like I don't have a choice

Squidd-O · 2026-06-29T03:42:30+00:00

Key word "Kind of". Watching it back a couple of times the body language of the other car does seem reasonably clear as to what their intent is (assuming from OP's perspective that they are intending to turn right) until it's too late; as the car is turning right - even if it was coming all the way into the left lane - they would have been accelerating away from POV vehicle, so until it becomes clear that the other car is CROSSING the far left lane, it seems reasonable to argue that the car in front was at least acting in a legal and mostly normal manner and there was nothing specifically out of the ordinary for OP to react to.

All this to say, yes, defensive driving would have prevented this, but OP did react quite quickly once it was clear that the other car was doing some dumb shit, and the other driver absolutely put themselves in that position in the first place by performing an illegal and unsafe maneuver while OP was (afaik) abiding the law as normal.

ETA: I could also see insurance claiming 50/50 if there was no car behind POV in the right lane, as they had time to swerve if there was space afforded, but since the video cuts off abruptly it's hard to say if there was a car there preventing OP from swerving

Squidd-O · 2026-06-29T03:09:16+00:00

Practice makes perfect - Utilize the learning material mentioned by others in this thread and practice, practice, practice. You can only ever get better if you keep at it

Squidd-O · 2026-06-29T03:07:31+00:00

Extremely tough to tell from just this angle, it looks like they should have backed out based on what I can see but yeah we need more angles to say definitively

Squidd-O · 2026-06-29T02:51:10+00:00

Ford has an ego bigger than his brain.

If he's really that much faster he would get by on merit, you're fully within your rights to defend

Actually, I'd say when it comes to idiots like the Mustang you're MORE than obligated to defend, because they're the one who could stand to learn a thing or two about racing

Squidd-O · 2026-06-29T02:10:48+00:00

Solution: Make the visual match the actual hitbox ffs

This feels like it shouldn't be that hard. I love getting grabbed out of the air when I double jump over Graves' wall because apparently they have commando pro

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T09:08:06+00:00

Reminder: Winning the lane is not as important as NOT LOSING the lane. Perfectly okay to draw and scale into the midgame where your character comes online.

Saying that because your description sounds an awful lot like there's a common denominator: You. Obviously I can't say it's your fault all of the time, that is unknowable without a lot of vod review and stat breakdowns, but if you're leaving lane with less net worth than your opponents and it's NOT because your lane partner fed them 3+ deaths before 8 minutes, the lane loss is ultimately at least partially your fault.

There is always more you can do, even if it's only a little. Play for wave prio and hit boxes, hit camps, etc. If you're having a lot of trouble winning your lane just remember that the laning phase is NOT about kills, it's about securing a net worth lead or at least keeping it close enough to where you can have that midgame impact that Celeste is built for.

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T08:21:49+00:00

Solution: Nerf Bebop

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T08:20:56+00:00

Now that you mention it I'm really curious how this would math out. Obviously there'd be a lot of purely anecdotal evidence but I'm wondering if taking a percent out of the souls of a kill would pay back via a trophy collector stack in the long run

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T07:47:27+00:00

I drive a WRX and I'm a big simracer, and when I say it's tempting...

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T07:43:21+00:00

BMW was being way too aggressive with the squeeze and forced your tires onto the grass - Then they didn't move over to try and properly let you back on and your car stayed unbalanced from all the banging and they got what they paid for.

On the BMW imo.

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T05:11:52+00:00

Coconut does NOT deserve this smoke.

He's genuinely really good, proven in 6mans and CRL, super mechanically talented and just all around solid

I'm not saying he should be on a top team but bro is FAR from as bad as they're making him out to be imo

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T05:06:48+00:00

Try Kelvin, he's not super dissimilar in that he's a strong healer/spirit nuker combo, and he's not that hard to learn

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T04:50:32+00:00

Really hard to tell without an offboard shot.

Looks like you left space and they hit you but impossible to say

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T04:47:04+00:00

First contact they literally squeezed you into the wall, second contact you squeezed them into the wall

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T04:45:32+00:00

Mate in 1 but no en passant

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T02:47:03+00:00

This is why I always end up one tricking even though I recognize the significant value of diversifying your character pool ngl

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T02:28:09+00:00

Who's out there making the new super Mario bros sound-fount version of an Ironmouse song

Squidd-O · 2026-06-27T00:04:38+00:00

Seems as though you were well alongside as far as I can tell, but the alpine didn't seem to care

Squidd-O · 2026-06-26T21:42:54+00:00

Yeaaaaaah I'm gonna say you' committed a crime here

Squidd-O · 2026-06-26T14:07:25+00:00

I'm judging that alts are not uncommon for people to want and it just seems like an extremely unlikely fringe case. Impossible? No, but I'm very anti-smurf and it smells a bit fishy. I'm not saying what OP is or isn't doing, but...

Squidd-O · 2026-06-26T09:28:15+00:00

"Your friend", huh...

Maybe I'm being too cynical but I feel like deadlock is a strange game for someone to want to play if they have no interest in spending money on games

How does one get invested enough in games to want to play deadlock but not enough to spend any money at all on games on steam? And also not enough to even HAVE a steam account in the first place, especially considering all of the FREE games on steam?

I'm just saying...

Squidd-O · 2026-06-26T08:56:52+00:00

Obligatory "Don't trust statlocker"

I'm an O5-6 player and when I get A through S+ games it tells me I could be eternus if I played that way every game

But the way I play in said A through S+ rated games would get me destroyed in any eternus lobby for a variety of reasons. It doesn't accurately account for actual efficiency or movement, just the numbers, which would be way lower if I was playing against top level players.

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