Battleground Frustration
Talhamaziz
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A little context,
Finished last season in Diamond 1, started this season Plat V. Somehow managed to get to diamond V in a couple of days. Recently got Paragon with 1.4 mil rating.
Now, it has been around 9-10 matches I am getting top tier matches which is frustrating because I would want to win in order to move up.
What should I do?
Stop playing?
Keep on losing?
Take a gap or wait?
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Everyone that got to GC are starting st Diamond V, that include the like of Andrew, Bero, ect.
BG only started less than 2 days, so players haven't even started to play yet.
You progress to the start point of all players (including top endgame players) with less than 2 days and that is why you are facing big account.
Thing should improve in the next few days.
They need to change that because is pretty bad to new players. Maybe do something like the Arena thing to new players, which is separed from everyone elses arena.
Kabam should look into it. I got my wins so whatever but it'll only mean that those players are farming points and will stomp 2 players before losing twice deliberately, then stomp 2 players then lose twice and repeat till they get 2500 Titan shards 🤡
Have to blame Kabam as well, why points solo and BG points awarded are same in victory track and GC when the difficulty is day and night difference?
First two weeks of GC should reward bonus points when win/loss 🎉 to force whales to farm up there.
Is data not automatically catching these players who exit out the second ban screen comes up? Like wtf.
The only matchmaking rule that exists is that you're matched with everyone in the tier you're in. You were able to climb the ladder last season, you can do it again.
As others have said, give it a week.
The real detection mechanism is the same one they use in Vegas. Pit bosses have no way to know what's going on in your head: they cannot detect card counting directly. But they *can* detect the other half of card counting, which is constantly changing your bets based on the count. All pit bosses are taught how to count cards, so that if they suspect someone of card counting, they just start counting themselves and if a player starts betting when the count is good and lowering their bet when the count is bad, they know they are card counting.
A player trying to deliberately manipulate matches for solo points has to do two separate things to be remotely effective. They have to win one and then lose two (more or less) to continue to stay in a low tier and get favorable matches. And they have to use energy when they lose and marks when they win. If they use energy for every match, then it will take 600 matches to reach 300,000 points burning 9000 energy. I doubt anyone does that, and this is so extreme this would also be easy to detect and difficult for a player to defend.
Kabam is specifically looking for players who try to point farm with this strategy, and there's no way to lose in a way they can't detect, because they aren't specifically looking for players who lose "deliberately." It is enough to lose, and bet in a manner consistent with the player *knowing* with a high degree of certainty when they are going to win and when they are going to lose. If you know when you're going to win and you know when you're going to lose, or even if you're just right often enough, that's proof enough that you're losing deliberately.
If you see players that seem reasonable strength quitting out, that's probably less that they are solo point farming, and more likely they are just objective farming. They might have decided to get a few quick matches in to reach the play-three objective. As far as I'm aware, while this is probably frowned upon, there's no explicit rule forbidding it.
Or, and this is also a possibility, you should not presume that everything that players do in Battlegrounds makes sense. I still run into people who have one and two star champs in their deck. They might think this helps them, but it does not. Players do all kinds of things thinking they are doing something useful when they are not, because most of the players playing the game get their knowledge from their friend Bob, who makes up most of the stuff they claim they know.
But at some point, you're eventually going to run into players much stronger than you. You promoted five tiers in a couple of days. Nothing else was going to stop you. So now you have. The only players you can beat are now behind you. You can't match against them, because they haven't caught up to you yet.
You tell me what would the best course of action be in that situation.