u/Electrical_Drag_2228

In my personal experience during demo, I would say it didn't do much of anything:
- I would still be placed in lobbies with people running legendaries, while I myself am wearing blues + playing a class "for the 1st / 2nd / 3rd time in my life"
- I would be placed in lobbies full of bots, once I die once or twice

All that with queue times pretty much never exceeding ~2m.

I fear, if this doesn't change by release, many people will not be willing to put up with that bullshit.

After playing this beta-test, I feel like there are too many one-shot scenarios:
- got hit by barbed arrow and have nowhere to hide ? well, gg
- got hit in the face by a charged sorc fireball ? gg
- shadowstrix jumped on you ? gg
- even mercenary sometimes manages to stay on your cheeks and fist you to death, without you being able to respond

And it gets worse, the better the gear gets, I feel like.

You need an outstanding reaction to be able to turn the fight around after just 1 mistake, and you get ~1 chance to do that (if any at all). I can't say I like this kind of gameplay in an extraction game - it's not much different than getting head-shot by a bullet in a shooter.

Note, I intentionally don't use TTK to describe this, as time-to-kill may be large simply because you are "fishing" for that one-shot combo of yours for a while ... but once you commit, the actual damage-dealing is way too fast.