Wtf are we actually doing? This game has been out 7 months and the same BS glitches continue to happen. This is why your game is dying/dead. You have all these streamers and dedicated people trying to play this game and make it bigger and your dev team is just hot garbage with no work ethic along with having to communicate with 3 different studios. Get your shit together.
I had to wait a little bit to post this because after the last 5 days of playing ranked I have become more tilted than ever before. There are SO many problems and its like DICE just doesnt improve anything without also ruining other things.
I have a 9.6 KDR in Regular quads with a 28% win rate, I know what I am doing and have competed in multiple tourneys/kill races. In ranked I have a 4.6KDR with a 18% win rate...Not too bad when considering I solo que a lot or only play with 1-2 buddies.
Hit registration: Hit reg has been god awful since launch but it was in a good spot before season 3, I felt like my bullets were hitting, I was winning gun fights that I should have, etc. Season 3s hit reg (especially in ranked) has been awful. 1/4-5 bullets will actually register. Some lobbies are just bad ping but this is in reference to EVERY lobby. There have been multiple occasions where I wait for an enemy to run in front me while im waiting behind a head glitch, then I start shooting him, get 145ish damage and then he turns and lasers me. Now, he may have just had snapped onto my head and had a high headshot multiplier weapon but the issue is, I had 100% accuracy with a SCW which has the fastest TTK in the game. There are multiple instances of this happening.
DMRs and Snipers: I wrote about this one a few days ago but DMRs and Snipers RULE the Ranked play list right now. The DMR (SVDM) is a 3 hit kill and you have no time to get cover or run off or smoke and run, just immediate dead. Snipers are two hit kills especially with the new L115 and long range bullets. It is almost impossible to push or run or hide from a full squad with snipers and DMRs, even if you use smoke, the DMR users just spray and get lucky and then ping you. They need nerfed to entice those players to use other weapons.
Weapon Balancing: Weapons were in a good place and then you guys completely destroyed that. You added recoil to guns that already had recoil and took skill to use and now those weapons are unusable. MP5 used to be my main smg and after repeated nerfs, its just not worth using unless you get one off early game. We were able to consistently switch between the SMGs with one or two of them not being good enough but now its only the CZ or SCW if you want a chance to compete. The carbines were in a good place and now they are short range weapons only with the AK205 being the only one with any range. Assault rifles have always been bad, idk why you dont buff those for more options. Idk what happened to the KTS but the hit reg and feeling of the KTS is in shambles after the update, thankfully the RPKM and RPK70 still feel good.
Defibs and Mobile Redeploys: Defibs need nerfed ASAP, especially for ranked. It is making fights last way too long and makes it incredibly hard to finish kills to receive RP. Defibs need to be harder to find and not so many uses. Mobile redeploys are either in abundance or impossible to find, I would love to see them be more evenly placed around the map or the RNG improved across each team.
Pings: This one is kind of impressive to me. Since launch, the ping system has been absolutely atrocious, something any other dev team could get right on day 1 but you guys have managed to turn pings into an impossible feature to use. First when I ping a enemy, the live ping goes away almost instantly and then I have to re-ping the enemy, which would not be an issue if it worked properly but the actual ping takes over and just causes a huge distraction on screen, making it harder for teammates to see and also be aware of where everyone on the enemy team is. You still cant ping on the map, you still cant ping right out of the drop ship. Like come on guys this is a simple feature and theres MULTIPLE other BRs you guys could take inspiration from to maximize this system.
LOOT: Loot has been god awful in Ranked. Spots that used to have multiple loot crates now have none, loot now also drops god awful weapons a lot more often. Needs fixed. If you are running from a team and go to a POI that usually has boxes but suddenly the entire building is empty, there is an even smaller chance you survive. If you dont increase loot inside the weapon crates than there needs to be more custom weapon drop around the map. Right now, its not uncommon to get stuck with crap guns for the entire game simply based on weapon drops having 5 teams gunning for them or teams camping them non stop. You cant have crap box loot and crap custom loot, pick one or the other for balancing.
Matchmaking: You guys have made the ranked matchmaking system hysterically bad. I cant play with my buddy who just started playing because hes in rookie? but then the 4th guy you give our team is unranked player playing their first match? Make it make sense. The amount of times Ive found a decent random in the past few days and we play the game with him and then invite him after, only to kick him because hes too low of a rank, is a joke. You have streamers and pro players going in with 4 stack pro lobbies but I cant get a 4th because hes "too low ranked" just for you to stick us with a random who is playing their first game.. DO BETTER.
Kills and Assists Change: Revert the change you guys did where we have to confirm the kill to get any credit. With all the defibs and everyone using DMRs, it is incredibly hard to finish your kills. I get probably 10-15 knocks a game but can only confirm 4-8. This ruins my ranking up experience as someone who solo ques or only plays with 1-2 buddies. It makes no sense that I can do a full kill on an enemy, he gets defibbed and then my team mate shoots him once and gets a full kill and credit for the kill. Its unacceptable.
Overall State of the Game: There was 41,000 players playing at 5pm Pacific time on a Monday night. 7 months ago you outsold Call of Duty for the first time. You guys are absolutely blowing this if you want to continue the trend of outselling them. STOP LAUNCHING HALF BAKED UPDATES. Every time you introduce a new season or a new big update, you also introduce 20 new glitches and problems within the game, if you look around this reddit, you can find a bunch of them. Take the time to actually perfect the update and TEST it before you release it, I mean we encounter these glitches in 90% of games, play a few rounds with testers and get them out before you release the update. Also, balancing weapons doesnt have to mean "nerfing" everything. You can improve some guns to make them just as good as others without ruining other weapons. This game is still a blast and I will continue to play until I am Elite 250 but my god please make this game worth playing whether we are a streamer with a full stack pro lobby OR just a regular dude who wants to get to the highest rank. Its do-able and not a lot to ask. Thank you.
All people use are DMRs and Snipers and they are wildly OP. It also feels like customs and loot boxes have been nerfed, its been hard finding decent weapons. Netcode has been garbage, hit registration feels worse than ever. Fix it.