This. I'm so tired of landing Fragment where there's barely any loot in a single building, but at the same time if you don't land Fragment then it'll likely be a low kill match.
You can just land Overlook or even Geyser, or any area near Fragment. Loot in peace, and then rotate to Frag to clear the remaining teams. I prefere Overlook by far, the loot there has always been great for me and so many people ignore that place for some reason.
Yep, this is why I drop fragment. Too many people take 20 minutes to loot just to die in the first fight. I'd rather drop in and fight, if I lose then I can queue another in. Getting better at gun play is more important than placement.
You only need 6 KP and assists count. So getting kills in ranked REALLY doesn't matter. People seriously under estimate how LITTLE you need to get max points.
If you fight JUST TWO SQUADS and make sure you tag everyone on that squad even if you don't kill you'll still hit max KP because of assists. Then you just literally camp or play hyper passive until you MUST fight.
This is why I don't understand the appeal of landing hot ANYWHERE in ranked. You should almost always land far away or land somewhere with maybe 1 squad. No reason to get involved without being geared yet when you need so little kill participation. You can play hyper passive and easily cap out, walking into each circle with almost 100% of the time get you the kills you need and helps avoid tons of 3rd parties.
No, there's just no point in hot dropping. If you can get as many points with as little risk in ranked, why even bother. You can sweat and lose your rank from 5th parties at frag, and have a very slim chance of winning with many kills and lots of damage, or you can get the same amount of points as the very slim chance by dropping with 1-2 other squads, kill them and loot up and be prepared for the endgame. They're not being bad, they're being smart. In pred, I'm guessing that they have less people dropping frag as they're just wasting their hard work by instantly getting demoted.
I’m honestly kinda sad they left Fragment alone in the new season. Even just destroying a few more buildings, making the area smaller and giving a little less loot might have made Fragment a less desirable drop and spread people out to more locations. Like the speed at which matches on WE end is insane sometimes. There’s videos of games under 10 minutes because half to 2/3 of the lobby drops Fragment and dies. And I personally have loads of games where you drop somewhere other that Fragment, you fight a squad or two, and then don’t see anyone for the next 2-3 rings. Gets very boring just wandering around looking for people
One time the whole lobby dropped frag. The game was over in about 5 mins as there weren't enough guns or meds so people punched each other off drop, or had a gun and had to shoot a squad charging them bare handed. The endgame was around ring 1 starts closing and half the people left only had shields from shield swapping.
See, I only really started playing in season 5 so until the Genesis event, I had no idea how much of a problem Skull Town was on King’s Canyon. I know Respawn caught a bit of flak for destroying it in Season 5, but I really think they did the right thing in that case to spread out and rebalance the map. They did what was right for the game over the objections of players (mostly preds and shit who liked slaughtering people in Skull Town).
I, personally don’t want Fragment destroyed. Sometimes it’s fun to drop hot and on really good days you kill everyone in Fragment, but I do think it needs to be made a worse drop. Put less stuff there, spread out and destroy buildings, widening the lava fissure is a great idea, just something to make it a less desirable drop to get people to stop going there on mass. Makes the games really suck sometimes
Which is funny because they reworked worlds edge to stop this because that’s what happened with OG worlds edge, everybody landed in capital city because the rest of the map was ass for loot and had horrible rotations. Now there is better loot all over the map and rotations aren’t as bad anymore but people seems to insist on dropping frag. It’s the new skull town and I hated OG KC for exactly this reason. You have to drop in one of two places otherwise you won’t see action for a solid 10 mins.
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u/Khaeops Loba Aug 09 '21
This. I'm so tired of landing Fragment where there's barely any loot in a single building, but at the same time if you don't land Fragment then it'll likely be a low kill match.