Talk:Conclave/@comment-78.8.235.237-20171001223915

This is a joke. I started my adventure with conclave yesterday, in the evening. I did one or two challenges in a few matches, enough for my first rank up and some rep on top of that. All in the "noobzone", of course. I wasn't good, but there were enough people worse than me around to do the challenges.

Today I logged in, with challenges reset, I got quite easily to 22k for a rank up. The weeklies, which I finished soon after, gave me 50k, which allowed me to do the 44k rankup. I got to rank 3 in less than 24h, and I had to leave the "noobzone". I was honestly terrified of the difficulty spike. I was afraid it will feel like being ran over by a train. It didn't.

It felt like being bombarded with ICBMs.

30% of the time I didn't even see the person that killed me. 60% of the time I just felt powerless as they owned me hard. 10% of the time it felt like lottery - not even a fair fight, more like "okay, they have 30% hp, I suck, who will f**k up motr?", and it ended with me winning 50% of the time. So in general I died 95% of the time, survived 5% of the time, and never felt like I truly earned it.

New players who are not used to this kind of competetive play have no way of learning. First they spend some time - sometimes less than 24 hours, apparently - with people on the same level as themselves. They have no way of learning how to counter advanced tactics, because noone there is using them. Then they get thrown into a pit with people who know how to jump around like crazy, headshot you from above latched to a wall and all that stuff you never had to deal with before. I guess not much more can be done since there simply aren't enough people playing for any matchmaking algorythm to really work, but maybe they should add a second tier of "recruit conditioning", for ranks 3-4, as most of the advanced players are in rank 5 and have no way to go below. Not sure if that would solve the main issue anyway, but it would maybe give people enough time to actually learn how to play. I mean, come on - 24 hours and you're out of the noobzone? That is ridiculous.

I really want those skins, so I will probably end up just forcing myself to do the weeklies and not much more. Too bad, the mode looked like it might kinda be fun. It actually is, when you manage to find people on your skill level. Which for me will be never again, I suppose.