Maxim Pax, on 11 July 2020 - 07:58 AM, said:
I am a new player that only started playing this game in May. A co-worker got me and a few others from work to play. As a new player, it doesn't make sense to be started anywhere other than Tier 5.
I am not good with a mouse and I'm new to everything, but stubbornly played through the 160 games it took to move from Tier 3 back to Tier 4. It was very much not a fun experience. None of my friends who started with me put up with the instant death and verbal anger from teammates about them not having a clue what they were doing to make it out of that tier. They have all given up this game for now.
Oof, sorry to hear that. We might have been better off making everyone start at T5 and give big PSR boosts for high-end matchscores. That way the elites could climb out quickly and leave T4 and T5 as they should be. Right now everyone is exposed to T1 killers until they can lose enough to drop down.
Frankly, it's a little disheartening even for me right now. I can handle one or two good pilots on the enemy team, but there are so many elite T1 groups dropping right now that games are a total crapshoot. If four grouped comp players drop on the other team, you can kiss your a** goodbye unless you've got something equivalent on your side.