Ranked Solo Queue

[formal coral]

Solo player experience is bad vs coordinated teams, it would be nice to add solo (squad) queue. I get it that it might create somewhat of a toxic environment, but it's the only way to distinguish good and adaptive players among players that are happy to find good teammates.

[hoary pivot]

we need a solo queue like an alpha test

[ocean mesa]

actually on some veteran tests the queue was solo queue and the experience was good imho the only concern about the queue is if its sutainable with current playerbase

[rose stirrup]

I get gold 1 and then keep getting bronze teammates and cant get past gold 1

I'm the highest rank on my team 49/50 games

[rose stirrup]

On top of that my chances of getting #1 are like 50% if I have at least 2 other gold on my team

[tough cedar]

it feels horrible to run into a team that is grouped when you are with randoms, they should not play on the same leaderboard as its not the same game being played

overwatch solved this with some manner of middleground solution with limits on how grouping works in terms of ranks that makes it a bit more fair, for inspiration

its also not rewarding to stomp random teams when you are grouped yourself, imo

[clear drum]

I’m sure the vast majority of people playing this game are solo and not squading up, I’d be surprised if it was the other way round

[visual ibex]

Isn't there a handicap for premade squad ? Like the more premade there are in a team the higher there MMR will be ?

[oak cloud]

SoloQ jumpscare

[ocean mesa]

he is actually on a worse spot, legends have hundreds of points to lose this guy is maybe 70RP bronze 4 and with that game will opnly win 70rp maybe

[oak cloud]

i think it can be bad for both if ur legend and want to go for ranks it can also feels bad

but trying to chase ranks as solo is a meme anyways because u can realistically not compete with nonsoloq

entire system just needs a rework. Its honestly so bad rn it feels like ranked shouldnt be implemented in its current state

[rose stirrup]

It's hard to come in first in solo queue. If your good you can pull of second but with a bunch of micless randoms you just wont be able to finish first against a party with mics on

[rose stirrup]

My choices are either to rat or play with a team that just insta dies and die with them

[fading lotus]

Only solo queue I recall during testing was a regular 1v1v1v1v1 solo queue (not squads solo queue), did a squads solo queue occurr in the past during testing?

[clear drum]

Seems like everyone discord and Reddit alike are complaining about the lack of solo queue and the Mmr matching making so hopefully we the fix sooner then later, we’re getting 40,000 peak players which seems insane so I would hate to see people leave before they get a great experience

[ocean mesa]

The veteran focus tests that occured during alpha closed were solo queue and they were the best form of supervive I experienced

[fading lotus]

Huh, that must've been a thing when I was struggling to get access to the game. I bet it was a lovely experience which I sincerely hope they'll consider reintroducing.

[clear drum]

Hopefully we see the light sooner then later

On another note does anything else find it strange how to play ranked u press the tiny switch next to matchmaking? I mean it works but idk feels underwhelming/ very easy to accidentally not que ranked. I think it would be better if when choosing ques there’s Squads and then Ranked squads ect ect but that’s just me

[ocean mesa]

My only problem with that it's that it does not remember last queue I did so I have the chance of queueing unranked after restarting the game

[fading lotus]

On a side note, if the game is balanced around squads, why is duos even a thing? I mean, I'm exclusively playing duos for now as squads is far too easy, but still I can't help by wonder, why not let go of the mode altogether? Maybe I'm missing something here?

[clear drum]

I guess just for the option, may not be the most balanced experience but it’s still nice for a change of pace/ something different

[fading lotus]

" Anyone with more than 500 Ranked Points at Legend Rank will get reset back to 500 RP (this is to recalibrate the top of the ladder competition with our new premade restriction rules)
Squads Master+ Queue will now be limited to duos premades
at most
Duos Master+ Queue will now be limited to solos
at most"

not bad

[ocean mesa]

yeah this is

amazing news

[clear drum]

In before top players wine about not being able to 4 man stack with their budddies no more

[ocean mesa]

they can duo

scrims or unranked

[oak cloud]

was nice while it lasted, everyones getting their points back and its duo q again

[tropic hare]

Competitive integrity for squads, but not for duos, how boring

[tropic hare]

Right back to that inflated bs board

[rose stirrup]

It's a work in progress it sounds like, that being said limiting only master+ to duo premades doesn't sound like the best solution

We want full solo q squads and full premade squads. If there is a duo premade in squauds all the teams should either ber duo+duo or duo+1+1. League and mobile legends both do this

Just to make sure I understand, now if your master+ you can only queu with one extra person in squads?

[ocean mesa]

right now yes