Fly through 20 divisions after your last match? It’s not just you.
I’ve never played an invite-only beta test with such a fully-formed ranking system as Deadlock’s, but I guess when everyone gets unlimited plus-ones, the audience is big enough to warrant it. Besides, the game’s beta status didn’t stop me lamenting my place in Arcanist IV—below average, assuming ranks fall into normal distribution—but a patch dropped yesterday that majorly shook up everyone’s ranked placements, leaving me three full leagues ahead of where I was and terrified for my next solo queue.
To my surprise, though, the update wasn’t to the matchmaker, but to the ranked badge system. As developer Yoshi put it on the Deadlock Discord: „Previously, badges were tied to fixed skill ranges on the backend, rather than percentiles.
