Breaking News! - Inside hundreds of cracked ̶R̶a̶n̶t̶ Ranked-Nutshells, Scientists discovered... Just Another Nutshell
Posted Aug 30, 2018, 1:21 PM UTC
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Respect to people that can endure this horror. It's got little to do with skill it's just enduring the pain until you get enough lucky breaks. One of the best players in our clan who is super unicum has 48% win rate currently. It's made worse by being t10 as the proliferation of radar is horrifying. I've tried to do it but after about fifty games I cannot face it any longer - every season.
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To my knowledge, pretty much everyone's win rates have significantly dropped since Ranked became T10. Even some of the best players are having a hard time, pulling their weight in Ranted Ranked mode. (Edit: by "everyone", I'm referring to good/very good core-player)
Truly playing to win and purposeful Star-Saving (risk minimizing) don't really go together, because winning pushes are often risky. Yet also incredibly strong assets to turn almost lost games. So ppl are more inclined to sit on their ass and play safe. When you're busy saving a star, you're often not busy winning.
If your chances to win are nearing a random 50%, yet your chances of saving a star on a loss can be increased to well over 70% (playing safely), Switching to Star-Saving is the smarter choice. Not only the safer and more reliable route to R1, but also the shorter one.
But in turn, making games even more random an affair. Triggering even better players to switch to Star-Saving. Also hurting teamwork, because your team's best player is also your greatest rival.
Seems like a self-exacerbating, neverending cycle of agony to me.
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The star saving system has ruined the game play of ranked. When it was really enjoyable everyone was doing their best to win, because if you lost, you got nothing. Now everyone has in the back of their mind that they need to be maximising xp at all times, which completely changes how people play.
Bring back the bonus star on rank up. Get rid of star saving. Fix ranked!
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Last season was my best ranked season by a considerable margin, thanks pretty much entirely to tier 10. I never play to save a star and think people vastly exaggerate how much of it they see.
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I would disagree, I think there are lots of people playing specifically to save a star, but if the game turns strongly enough in your favor, they will help secure the win. The only issue is if you turn it to your favor too late, they may be wildly out of position farming fire damage on a BB instead of being close enough to support a challenged cap.
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Ranked gameplay
It's got little to do with skill
That's a severe case of self-delusion you've caught there.
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So "ranked in a nutshell in a nutshell"?
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Ranked Nutception.
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what is nutshell -.- .... im out
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:-D
No idea... but I figure it's where all the bad nuts go that don't go to nuts-heaven.
Cheers, fellow Pun-da!
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I wish we could filter out ranked posts, it can get annoying when half the sub is just filled with rank rage.
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The memes and rants are the best thing about ranked
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You're part of the problem with humanity.
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Ah the guy that comes in and say why everyone sucks, then insults everyone that downvotes to make the claim valid.
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Well even if u are a super unicum, if 6 other teammates are crap and the enemy are slightly more decent, you are guaranteed to lose the battle.
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Doesn't everyone?
Is there really anyone that plays ranked for the pure enjoyment of this mode?
I think most people play it for the rewards and/or the bragging rights.
I moderately enjoy ranked.
I have a friend who loves it because he prefers the smaller number of ships amplifying the importance of each.
I feel it's more of "modifying the impact of each mistake".
Say your only DD decides to "flank" the enemy fleet even though you have the cap advantage and for some reason he gets a bit too close and gets blapped - that already puts your team at a HUGE disadvantage.
Agreed. But I only play a match or two of ranked a night. I was stating his opinion. I personally suspect it's because he does better if there are fewer opportunities for him to get cross-fired, because he's not good at managing angles of detection/fire.
Hehe, don't let your friend read this!
About half of the time ;)
I actually prefer the chaos of Randoms over ranked.
I also prefer not looking at team comp and going: oh fuck we have an Asashio as our only DD we've lost.
Ranked is like randoms, except every potato weights approximately 1/7th instead of 1/12th.
The likelihood of 12 random picks resulting in a very unfavorable team is far lower than the likelyhood of this happening with 7. In numbers, let's assume you have a random population of 30-70% WR candidates. With 7 team members the likelyhood of getting a team with an average WR below 45% is 13%. With 12 team members it's 6.7%.
its like masturbating, we enjoy it in the beginning but after we hate it, and we say will never do it again, ... 2 hours after you are masturbating again, and the loop is looped
Ahahahah :D
25 through 17 ranks have given me better games on average than random battles.
Last season I felt like in the low ranks in T8 you could really make a big impact to push your team towards victory but as I started directly with T10 this season I don't get any of that.
I have to say though that I feel more engaged after a ranked game than after most of the random battles I've played.
I definitely know a few that truly enjoy it. So these ppl exist.
But despite the Ranked-lovers, I'm still not sure whether the level of rage and frustration of others is ultimately in WG's best interest. Or instead hurting the game.
Maybe they crunched the retention numbers and figured out: "Yepp. Absolutely works and pays our bills as planned." Would be sad for me, but at least explain why we see so little change in the format.
Just find it odd, because Clan Wars in comparison, at least doesn't seem to be the source of even a fraction of the rage, anger and frustration Ranked induces.
yeah for paying bills, I found my self thinking about buying the premium camo for Republique as Im enjoying it now in ranked, (and for that legendary upgrade mission -.- ), as I thought about Montana last season, but I will not buy
I love ranked! Less ship's to worry about ruining my day both on the enemy team as well as my own. Plus at tier 8 ranked I got to experience my favorite ship's not being uptiered.
I highly enjoyed the Tier 8 part - no up-tiering, matches with a different team size. A lot of fun.
I love ranked.
I only hate the people, the game meta and the mechanics of it.
I enjoy it...it lasts for a week though before I rank out with everyone else but for that week, everyone at the top is playing and everyone on your team and the other knows each other and the game quality is amazing, (all unicrumb) For example one part of it is playing mind games with your opponents because they know your playstyle and you know theirs
I enjoyed ranked in my Tirpitz. This season that was all of two games :(
Ranked is fucking horrific. People pick unsuitable ships, dds suiciding for a cheap torp run, brawling BBs trying to snipe, there's always a retard in a corner or going around the furthest island, cruisers who charge in at the start and are dead with a minute etc.
The whole thing needs a rethink. It's utterly frustrating to play with people that pick a ship,rush in, die, rince and repeat. The best comedy I saw yesterday were two Bismarcks, a Tirpitz and a NC attempting to all sit in an Edinburgh's smoke and fire at the same time. Pants on head retarded. Another immediate loss and those players will never ever question why they lost. All they do is go back to port, pick a ship and do it all again. At the very least ranked needs divisions.