Good to see that nothing has changed at all. I wouldn't mind returning to it, but I guess that the EOMM is still actively hampering any fun you can have with the game.
On first sight it's a fun enough game, but the EOMM is just so fucking out of control it's pointless to even play. It's a Chess game where every time you capture a piece the opponent is pretty much allowed to kneecap you in retaliation to keep things "even". My friends mostly play on Console, I did the ranked grind once and ocasionally they call for some QPs but I would never play this regularly again. The devs saying there's no EOMM but copping to "Basically we have EOMM but it's called different!" is such a shitty, narcissistic, semantics-game excuse. I'm sure they'd deny there's a handicap too but it's plain obvious to anyone with half a brain that the losing team gets expanded hitboxes, reduced hurtboxes, and faster ult charge. Specially when none of them are good enough to stop the problem player on the winning team.
The matches WILL be even, they WILL be close, there WILL be rubberband moments, even if two seconds ago you were utterly destroying the dudes to the point they couldn't leave spawn. It's to a point where I can accurately predict when they're gonna curbstomp us outta nowhere in the next fight. Not at all subtle. So many freaking matches go from attack is completely deadlocked and can't even leave spawn to last point overtime and defense is fighting for their life it's not even funny, and it feels completely manufactured.
Gaming used to be so cool. Online pulled no punches. If someone put in the time, they'd get good and run lobbies. Nowadays competitive multiplayer is a cheater infested, EOMM riddled hellhole that you might as well not engage with. It's normified to the point you would need to be niggercattle to want to partake. This shit and modern COD might be actually worse than MOBAs, matter of fact.
The very fucking premise of "We nerf good players as the match goes on so the blind and infirm may stand a chance" should act as nuclear-grade deterrence for anyone who isn't gonna benefit. Shit, I'll take the game skewing matches in my favor, but being labelled as a carry and subjected to a never-ending cavalcade of niggers and sandniggers instalocking Spidey or Bucky and going 0-3 does NOT sound like fun to me. And the game Tinders their self esteem too: They're all gassed to the moon mid players at best who think they're hot shit. I mean, they win half their matches, so clearly they can't be bad, eh?
I managed to grind all the way to Celestial I on season 2.5 and never looked back. I had a top 0.1% KDA. My teammates never had that. All I usually got were idiots that I was clearly meant to carry. And they were usually belligerent about it as well.
