The ranked in this game is a complete joke. I can’t take it anymore.
I won 4 games in a row; went from Divison 9 to Division 7 in one game. During the next game, I went back to Division 9 (before the game finished, and I still won that race.). After completing the race, I got promoted to Division 8. During the next race, the same thing happened, again and again. I am now Divison 8 once again. There’s no point in even trying to go for Grand Master when the game can’t even determine your rank.
And that’s not the only issue…
THE CONSTANT RAMMERS! Playground, please add a god damn penalty for rammers. Opponents literally ram me off the track because they have no chance of winning. How is that fair??? Me: Accidently rams my car into a wall PG: OOP TOO BAD 3 SECOND SLOW DOWN
Opponent purposefully rams me off the track and sends me into hyperspace because they can’t drive a car for their life. PG: sleeps
And again, that’s not the only issue…
How are Divison 12+ players getting queued up with Grandmasters? Is there seriously no Skill Based Matchmaking in a RANKED game mode? I cannot stress the number of times I play with teammates who can’t drive for their life. It’s like they’re using their feet or something.
It’s a serious shame that this is the only good open-world racing game out right now. I’ve played all the rest, and none of them can match Horizon. unfourtunately This game has so many bugs, it makes Cold War seem like a masterpiece in game design. I seriously don’t understand the point of sweating in Ranked when issues as simple as these can’t be fixed after 2+ years.
Re the large skill spread, I think it just doesn’t have the player numbers to create adventures with tighter skill spreads. Even Rocket League, which has massive player numbers such that it can extremely quickly create matches on demand with tight skill spreads at lower ratings, can take minutes to create matches for top players. I think people would have to wait a very long time in FH4 for it to find 12 top 1% players to match. Even GT Sport has pretty big skill spreads in daily races, it’s only the scheduled FIA races where you get the very tight skill spreads.
I agree about the ramming, it’s a major reason I only play it once a month to get the playlist %.
The game doesn’t need to just match top 1% though. 20% bands would be fine for example. Yes, you’d still get some one sided races but if I knew that everyone I was racing was guaranteed to be even League 10 or above I’d be perfectly happy with it and would merrily wait a few extra minutes to get at least 5 other players at that level. I can’t believe that would take too long to do.
Where it absolutely winds me up is when I get a lobby immediately and start the adventure and it’s me plus 4 players who are ranked 14 or lower. I’ve had that where it’s a 5 race cross country ending in Titan. That’s 30 minutes of time to have zero competition knowing, at the end of it, I’m going to win and get somewhere between 0 and -2 points for my trouble. That’s way more annoying than the game not finding a match at all.
I don’t think it would make much difference to the level of competition, I think even a genuine league 5 player (as opposed to someone who is better but hasn’t played enough to get their rating up) would give you zero competition, but I take your point about the impact on your ranking points.
My advice is to look to other games for ranked gameplay, I think it just isn’t what they’re trying to achieve with FH4. As far as I’m aware, there is absolutely no official e-sports side to the game? PG don’t themselves organise any sort of competitions using FH4?
I’m assuming that you are playing Team Adventure. The points in this are broken so that if anyone leaves the adventure no one gets points. Yes, it’s frustrating and beyond belief it hasn’t been fixed but it’s been like that for well over a year now. It’s not going to get resolved. Play FFA instead where points actually work.
Can’t do much about the rammers. Only solution is to get so good that you can, most of the time, be clear of them before ghosting ends. Unfortunately it’s why using meta cars is so important at ranked - even if you can win in other cars your risk of being taken out early increases. If you do happen to get stuck behind a rammer, I wouldn’t ever try and fight fire with fire. Generally, try and wait until they run wide at a corner and cut down the inside - they can’t turn into you when they are already fighting to hold the corner.
yup, learned it the hard way; there’s no point in playing Team Adventure unless I’m completing the playlist. Unfortunately, you make a good point. I can’t do much about the rammers, which is terrible. Gonna have to pray and play FFA
Jokes aside, online adventure has been beyond trash from the start and they have no intent to fix it. I bought this game more than a year ago and after I submitted a ticket with the same issues as you they told me they know about it and they will look into it. If I had known competitive was so bad I wouldn’t have bought the game in the first place, but by the time I got better at driving and wanted a challenge in ranked it was too late for a refund.
What do you expect from a game that has even the forum bugged out.
