Rant about the current game state and why new players leave.

I have a very strong love/hate relationship with this game as I'm sure many of the finals players.

I love this game for the amazing tactical gameplay and destruction. However, it feels like the embark team has a different opinion on the game. Instead of cultivating a healthy competitive scene, that allows everyone regardless of the mechanical skill level enjoy the game, they cater towards hardcore players that don't leave their chair until they hit a daily quota of 200 kills using a meta build that is hard to impossible to counter (like well known cloak + stun + shotgun, or a beaming famas).

But the weapon balance isn't the thing that I came here to rant about. It's the matchmaking.

I love playing this game with my friend, who objectively doesn't have a good aim, plus he plays using geforce now, which creates additional input lag. He's bronze in ranked, silver in wt. I'm gold in wt, and silver in ranked.

Quick cash just tosses everyone in the same pot, regardless of level and it's most of the time managable to play, because you don't get continuously demolished by premade diamonds and up, however that happens too, and definitely doesn't provide a compelling beginner experience. Which is the reason why beginners quit right away.

However WT (which I believe for many people is the star of the show, the core of the game at this point) is a completely different scenario.

This season's WT has been unbearable to play because we always get thrown in diamond/emerald lobbies. (To foresee future questions- Yes I would rather wait longer to be paired with someone our level than get demolished. This is not fun, and games are made for fun (or am I missing something?)

I put in almost 600h into the finals, but I think I'll take a break from currently my favorite game, because it treats us like professionals when we're clearly not.

I feel like the same thing happened to me when I played Rainbow Six Siege, which I really liked to, but it kept putting me and my friend in lobbies that would demolish us.

Matchmaking is hell. I guess game devs don't see it as a problem.

What are your thoughts?

What have your experience been so far?

I have a very strong love/hate relationship with this game as I'm sure many of the finals players.

I love this game for the amazing tactical gameplay and destruction. However, it feels like the embark team has a different opinion on the game. Instead of cultivating a healthy competitive scene, that allows everyone regardless of the mechanical skill level enjoy the game, they cater towards hardcore players that don't leave their chair until they hit a daily quota of 200 kills using a meta build that is hard to impossible to counter (like well known cloak + stun + shotgun, or a beaming famas).

But the weapon balance isn't the thing that I came here to rant about. It's the matchmaking.

I love playing this game with my friend, who objectively doesn't have a good aim, plus he plays using geforce now, which creates additional input lag. He's bronze in ranked, silver in wt. I'm gold in wt, and silver in ranked.

Quick cash just tosses everyone in the same pot, regardless of level and it's most of the time managable to play, because you don't get continuously demolished by premade diamonds and up, however that happens too, and definitely doesn't provide a compelling beginner experience. Which is the reason why beginners quit right away.

However WT (which I believe for many people is the star of the show, the core of the game at this point) is a completely different scenario.

This season's WT has been unbearable to play because we always get thrown in diamond/emerald lobbies. (To foresee future questions- Yes I would rather wait longer to be paired with someone our level than get demolished. This is not fun, and games are made for fun (or am I missing something?)

I put in almost 600h into the finals, but I think I'll take a break from currently my favorite game, because it treats us like professionals when we're clearly not.

I feel like the same thing happened to me when I played Rainbow Six Siege, which I really liked to, but it kept putting me and my friend in lobbies that would demolish us.

Matchmaking is hell. I guess game devs don't see it as a problem.

What are your thoughts?

What have your experience been so far?