DevReply I'm Not A Seal Clubber

Guys, I need help.

I was at like 3100 infamy. Now I'm at 1600. Before you stop me and say "actually try then" or something like that, let me explain.

It started with a chain of bad luck. Teammates ditching the team, committing suicide, just general bad luck in terms of matchmaking. It got bad as my infamy approached 2500, though, as my rewards also started to fall. The lower I got, the worse my teammates would work together. Currently at 1600, even when I use my best boat, I usually don't stand a chance as my teammates run off in random directions and die off 1 at a time. Sometimes we pull through with some clutch victories. Sometimes we even dominate. But it's more than likely that I have to try my very hardest and still lose horribly due to lack of teamwork.

I think cutting the rewards is not a problem when it comes with dealing with actual seal clubbers, but if my opponents are always like 2500+ even as I've been stuck at 1600 for about a week, my odds of winning are still about 50%. In other words, I'm just stagnating at this low point and the matchmaking is treating it like I'm still at 2500, so I can't rise back up and start getting rewards again.

Please fix this. I can't even fleet with anyone since they just get 2 shot by everyone up here in Ace.

Attached is a screenshot of my most recent matches. Note that I am indeed trying my best to win ALL of these matches.

 

I just noticed that I have 3 kills in one of those (the only visible victory). Before anyone says I'm being too aggressive for a fixer, I have those kills because all of my teammates died.

 

Using supportive fixer will piss you off because you may heal a million HP and still lose, Join the tape side ,that way you can rely on yourself

 

Congratulations. You're a M5 at 1600. Now, as you noted, you are down in the land of flotsam and jetsam where winning is a dicey proposition. Sink a bit lower and most of your team won't really want to win at any given moment.

Oh the joy of it all. Good thing matchmaking is working as designed.

 

It hurts so much lol. I honestly wouldn't mind if all rewards were cut and guild quest contribution was disabled until I get within range of my league. If they made it more feasible for me to get back up there, I couldn't care less how severe the penalty was for being down here, as I have no intention of staying down here and normal matchmaking would make it stupendously easy to get back to at least 2500.

 

I actually do use 1 tape as one of my 3 greens so I can help tank some damage a bit and also to prevent myself from dying too fast. Originally bumped me up from 2800 to 3300. I guess having just 1 tape suits my playstyle. But this is besides the point.

 

Can you give me a screenshot of your build from your hangar?

 

Since you asked, here you go, but before you blame my build, I must remind you that this is the exact setup that got me to 3000 (actually it's better since I upgraded my rudder and railgun to t4 since then)

 

Normal? You mean... matched against players who are appropriate to their infamy and trying to win?

That isn't normal in Battle Bay. What you are experiencing now is "normal". I think only a tiny percentage get to experience actual combats among willing participants.

 

Ditch the duct tape, it's so weak. I would also ditch the rudder for now because your playstyle and gear does not suit it. Run a shield. Switch the tape for another bolt or box or something. If you want to actually make use of the rudder, run triple tape and a flare.

 

I get what you're saying but infamy is supposed to represent the strength of your skill and items together. Normally this would cause a rise/fall as it does in most other ranking systems: you rise and gets harder, you fall and it gets easier. My issue is that it isn't getting easier at all and my teammates are throwing games left and right. The rise part became extremely difficult, despite my low infamy.

This just doesn't work and I will not hesitate to call it a major problem.

 

If you let me play on your account I can get it back up. I have confidence that it's just a skill problem. But honestly I would ditch the rudder for now. Your hp is just so low. And the duct tape too at least have it higher than t1 lol

 

I'm not changing my build when it worked just fine before. I'm often told that my fixer is great and I do a good job focusing on the team, only attacking when necessary. I agree that my tape is weak, but it still helped me gain infamy and I don't currently have anything better.

And switching to triple tape is something I'm heavily opposed to, especially since, as you can see, my only other tape is a t1 rare.

 

If it were a skill problem I wouldn't have made it to 3000 with the very same setup.

 

Being down alot of infamy is never a constant variable. If you continue playing for an afternoon you will get back up. It's like a wave, you just gotta keep going. Thats why I'm saying if you just let someone else with more time to grind some matches for you eventually you will go back up. It's never real going to be a permanent thing lol u got nothing to worry about.

Replace your tape with rare t3 bolt asap

 

I understand what you're trying to say, but understand that infamy is easy to maintain because normally the matchups get easier as you fall, but they simply don't anymore. And building a new t3 item requires a lot of resources, which right now would take me 4 times longer than usual due to the cut in rewards. I can't stress enough that I've never fallen this low since getting to Ace league and it really is a painful struggle. It's not as easy as simply climbing back up. I've put off discussing this for a week because I also thought I would easily get back up but that doesn't seem to be the case.

 

Let someone do it for you.

 

That's not how I do things. If I can't do it myself even though I could before with no trouble, something is wrong.

 

Whatever floats your boat, I'm just saying that if you let someone else play they can get you back up. Works for me

 

That wouldn't fix the problem, though. I'm positive this is affecting other people as well, so I think it should be fixed at the source instead of simply walking around it. Having an issue be fixed by having someone else play on your account sounds like a horrible solution, even if it works in the end. Nobody should ever have to resort to that.