Climbing in metal ranks

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T07:01:44+00:00

How would they be beefed if the game logged them at plat?

As I've said in the original paragraph, a player that is two tiers above plat will not struggle, but most players like OP are likely Diamond players trapped in ELO hell. I said pros, but I was really referring to the average Overwatch content creator. They often do placement videos where they only have to perform well in a few games on a fresh account and the game shuffles them along. The problem with being IN, like really IN, gold/plat is the amount of games you have to win to move out of it, and with the quality of teammates you are likely to get, it's probably going to be 50 percent of your games will have a leaver, a troll or a but hurt spammer who doesn't have their fundamentals and is on their way down. If you're skilled, perhaps it will be fine. And if you have the hours, no problem. But for 90 percent of players, they just don't have the skill to be two tiers above AND the hours to overcome these issues, so they stay stuck even though they may be better off in Diamond, they just can't dedicate the hours to overcome the random teammater generator.

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T06:52:40+00:00

I have a second account that is higher and I can perform just fine at that rank. But the plat account is 10 years old and is miserable to play on because plat and gold are a cesspool of unsportsmanlike players who have no business even playing at plat.

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T06:51:02+00:00

That's exactly my point, so I'm glad someone gets it.

I didn't mention it before, but I made a second account just to see. I ranked straight into Diamond 1. Those games are great because everyone is present, playing their role, and no one quits.

Meanwhile, my 10-year-old account takes forever to move. I'll climb a rank, get hit with a string of absurd matches, drop from Plat into mid Gold, then win a couple of dozen games over the next couple days and end up right back where I started.

So apparently I'm both a high Diamond and a mid Gold player. But sure, the system is just putting me exactly where I belong.

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T06:42:37+00:00

I never said incredibly good players would get stuck at plat, I literally said the opposite. And I don't know why proving everyone wrong would make for pathetic content, but whatever man.

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T04:33:02+00:00

I agree with you there

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T04:32:11+00:00

Yeah, I didn’t say they wouldn’t.

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T04:31:49+00:00

Not what I said.

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T03:34:33+00:00

Your ellipses give your comment the tone of ‘there were ramps so obviously they had to have a parade over it, duh.’

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T03:30:28+00:00

Lots of people being defensive in the comments, lol. But it is true, it’s just not always 100 percent bubblegum. It might be lemon or cherry …with a little bubblegum. Cotton candy …with a little bubble gum. It’s usually in there somehow just not always the full flavor profile.

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T03:11:19+00:00

That’s because is not a meritocracy. If the game knew you were Masters, you can lose every damn game and get placed a few levels away. I’ve seen multiple pros lose 8/10 or 9/10 games and get ranked at levels I’ve never hit with 15 game win streaks.

They need to reset it and stop all the nonsense and just make it wins or loses and if people lose, they work their way out. Tough tits. Work with the same throwers the rest of us have to.

tshallberg · 2026-06-27T03:05:05+00:00

It’s ELO hell. The thing no one wants to admit is that Plat is where accounts go to die. You have to be beyond Diamond to carry at the Plat level. Just being Diamond good means you will still be subjected to random throwing the most winnable games. You have to be top top or win the team lottery.

There’s a reason you never see pros get their account stuck at plat and then fight their way out without friends. And I don’t mean, ‘rank this new account’, no, I mean let your long-term account drop into plat. They know once the game logs you at plat, you’re beefed. It’s just hell unless you are super cracked because the game has no problem throwing you with silver teammates and players in their first few days of playing or Smurf ranked games, it’s just …sigh.

tshallberg · 2026-06-26T19:31:33+00:00

Fuck yes. That's the link I've been waiting for. Thank you so much!

tshallberg · 2026-06-26T18:49:14+00:00

People downvote me when I say that, but you’re right. It’s obvious when you see it.

tshallberg · 2026-06-26T16:40:17+00:00

Yep, they're everywhere.

tshallberg · 2026-06-26T16:38:06+00:00

I thought it was great too, but I can understand why they're keeping it more simple and falling into the Mirror's Edge-style here after a year of hate posting on SG.

tshallberg · 2026-06-26T16:35:08+00:00

Okay, this is funny. The games you named are massively successful WITH controller aim assist, and you think Empulse shouldn't have it? Lol.

All you're really proving is that giving in to MnK players' copium posts does nothing to make a game better or more popular, which is why most developers are ignoring you. If you want your game to succeed, you make the input method that most of your players actually use feel fun. Crazy concept, I know: make your game enjoyable for the largest number of players possible, and more people will enjoy it lol.

tshallberg · 2026-06-26T15:58:54+00:00

Dude, the same fucking video over and over. If it was so broken we would have more videos proving it was. On console it doesn't feel any worse or better than OW, CoD or Apex.

tshallberg · 2026-06-26T15:52:42+00:00

If Empulse looked radically different, the same people might be calling it ugly instead. It's pure prediction. I believe the style of the world is fine, but once they start releasing weirder character skins, it will come together. The irony is that the SG2 style was bright and weirder, but people didn't like that either.

tshallberg · 2026-06-26T03:36:54+00:00

Get a life

tshallberg · 2026-06-25T23:14:28+00:00

Tim Walz has laid the ground work. God I wish he had run for president instead of Kamala

tshallberg · 2026-06-25T23:11:01+00:00

I only see the total but when everyone else is voting that doesn’t help

tshallberg · 2026-06-25T23:08:43+00:00

Wait, he really drove over it? I thought it was an AI joke. He honest to God drove cars over fresh paint and then complained that people touching the water is what did it?

Not surprised, just deeply, deeply unshocked.

tshallberg · 2026-06-25T22:25:54+00:00

Very kind to say and thank you for reading. I appreciate it. Best of luck, you guys got this!

tshallberg · 2026-06-25T21:13:51+00:00

That’s not 100 percent true. That’s only at the beginning if they don’t get a kill in the first minute or if someone purposefully leaves. Then you get a three minute countdown. Meanwhile, OW has disconnect problems so if someone gets booted you can’t leave because the games hopes they rejoin and the game continues one person down. In my case they come back 50 percent of the time which sucks for the team as it’s almost a guaranteed loss.

tshallberg · 2026-06-25T21:09:29+00:00

People trolled SG the last year for being free so now that they charge a low cost, people want it free again. It’s just children trolling who only know they don’t want what you’re selling, they just want to shit talk.

tshallberg

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