Recent reviews by K3R3W

forza>nfs

I have an incredible love-hate relationship with this game.
On one hand, it is one of the easiest games to become immersed in completely and forget reality exists, but on the other hand, it's not such a pleasant experience to be immersed in when you play online.
The matchmaking system is broken, let's not sugar coat it, it really is broken.

Every rank reset at the start of every season leaves me more bitter than the last. No, I don't mind being dropped a whole rank after placements every season, I mind being matched with and against players 2 or 3 ranks below me after placements every season. It makes grinding incredibly unrewarding for solo q'ers.

Nevermind that, I can no longer leave casual games at my own leisure. Everyone has plenty of reasons to leave a cas match early, the most important one is the vibe. If a game isn't fun on account of the opponent being too good, or my tm8 just not meshing with my playstyle, or any level of toxicity, I'm not going to stick around. I will happily accept a hefty cas MMR penalty in exchange for a better cas game, and I think that's what the devs should've facilitated, not just forcing players to stay or banning them from matchmaking. It's a very disappointing move if I'm honest, and the game has recently become harder to love.

The playerbase is also quite toxic the higher your rank goes. It's not exactly a deal breaker but it doesn't leave you feeling good when your entire session was populated with What a Save's, Okay's and Nice Clear's. The variety of teammates you'll play with will leave you bitter as well. Lots of players are boosted to higher ranks for rank rewards and sabotage every one of their teammates they decide to solo q with as they fall back to their real rank. It results in lots of players being over ranked. The amount of GC tags I've seen in my climb all the way from P2 through D2 is disturbing. I recommend the devs completely remove rank rewards until they can find a better way to prevent boosting.

The game deserves credit for being good enough for me to play it for 800+ hours (on Epic), and I doubt the game will ever be bad enough for me to stop playing, but I've almost entirely stopped playing the game alone, it feels like it's lost all appeal for solo q'ers.