Rank hard stuck at Initiate 1?

[mtlancenese]

I understand how ranking systems work, I understand even me being in Initiate. I don't really care about the ranking but I have not even moved up to Initiate 2 for one game and then immediately went down. My total win rate is 45% from 60 hours of gametime. I played yesterday and won 4 out of 5 games and I didn't even bump up to Initiate 2? One of those games I carried with 30 kills and 70k souls. Even when my team loses, I am one of the top of the total souls collected. I'm not even this low of a rank in LoL and I barely play that game.

When I play in higher lobbies with friends, I still play well, positive K/D/high farm. I understand weighting wins/losses heavily but surely you can rank up without having to hyper carry 5 games in a row with 5 complete strangers.

 

[Leto]

Ranking seems more than a bit buggy at the moment, and I don't think fixing it is a priority for the dev team.

I take long breaks from the game, so my rank has reset a few times since the system was introduced. In previous instances I was always somewhere between high-alchemist to mid-arcanist. I haven't played since about February but after coming back a couple weeks ago, my rank has been permanently initiate 1 with absolutely zero change which strikes me as odd.

Maybe I'm just absolute dogwater, but it seems improbable given I've been playing other shooters and improving my aim and situational awareness in the time I was away from DL. I personally feel like I've been playing better than before, and the match stats reflect this, but my rank does not.

 

[Leto]

To add to this, I wanted to check out the match rank distribution. Not sure if we're allowed to link to any 3rd party tools so I'll just include screenshots of the charts.

Here's the lifetime rank distribution of matches:


And the last month:


Now this *could* be entirely due to new players, but it still seems kind of off? Unless there's thousands of people playing one match and never playing another, or only ever (and correctly) placing in initiate 1 and staying there, the second chart doesn't make sense to me.

But I guess time will tell ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[nulltype]

That graph implies something is pretty broken. It sounds like @mtlancenese's win rate is fine though. @Leto do you have a win rate greater than about 75%? If not, I would guess that the displayed rank could be broken, but the actual underlying matchmaking rank could be correct (if the matchmaking rank was incorrect, it should reflect in the win rate).

 

[Leto]

Since I started playing again two weeks ago I have a 53% win rate, which is not too outlandish.

You're right that it may be my displayed rank that is incorrect, but that begs the question of what ELO metric is actually being used for matchmaking at the moment. I know a lot of this is obfuscated but if ranks were accurately being kept track of, why would it just be displayed incorrectly? And match ranks are based on player ranks, so you can't really have one be wrong and the other correct.

Could very well be that the current internal metric for matchmaking has a mismatch with the public ranking system, which would explain the discrepancy in the chart as well. I.e. maybe people are being skill matched correctly but a good amount of players AND games are being mislabeled "initiate 1" on the frontend.