Bro, I DO NOT understand how people who have AC's 10x more busted than yours are DCing when you outplay them. Literally unbelievable - Amazing gameplay, and super sucks to see you deal with this, I'm hoping the next patch fixes this :(

You can tell who's a dark souls tourist and who's a proper raven by who sticks it out in honorable battle no matter how bad.

The sad reality is that probably most people in S rank are those who disconnected during promotion phases, especially when you have to win 8 matches in a row with only 2 chances at best to lose. The skilled people you can actually find are either in B or A ranks, not to mention that if you look at the top of S rank you'll only find the same 4 copy-paste meta builds with very few variations. As for the current situation, promotion phases and their structure are a joke by themself, the only thing they really promote is bad behaviour in terms of gameplay.

Game really needs a concede match option. I get its not fun and its frustrating when someone else's build completely nullifies your own and you're basically forced to watch your ac get trashed no matter what you do. At least being able to concede would mean neither party would have to deal with that frustration and it wouldn't affect rank progression

"You live up to your name, Raven. You fight like a bird in flight... You may yet fly higher, Beyond Rubicon's scorched skies, to chase the freedom we never knew."

In all honesty the matchmaking we got for ranked matches should have just been made for casual matches. It’s really nice and convenient to just load up matchmaking and quickly go from one game to the next. The only problem is like you stated in the video is that the higher up you go the exponentially higher chance you have running into scummy players.

Sadly true, I came across every single one of those guys and they all did weird shit. You could make a video about the rare good guys you fought. I think we met in ranked today😅. No seriously there is a lot of trash but I found some really nice Ravens still. Non Meta and with skill

I'm from Australia and most of the players I encounter in the ranked games are Japanese. I'm A 4.5 and very close to S and haven't had a single person dc since I started climbing. The Japanese have honour and I respect them A LOT. (Edit: Made it to S and had one player dc on me in promotion, non Japanese)

we need a balance patch to even out the playing field and punishments for ditching matches. s rank means nothing when you can just leave to dodge a loss

As a ps player its kinda cathartic to see some of these names. More than once I had to fight some of these peeps before I eventually wrote off ranked.

Ignoring all the negative match abandoning, your movement is really good! I havent seen anyone use assault boosting like i have for evasion and such, youre the first lol

Just passed s promotion finally, every time i would either encounter the same tank build 4 times in a row or see my matches nullified by players quitting. Hope they patch it, so when someone disconnects at least the other player receives the points

Honestly, I can understand that losing is frustrating, especially when someone busts out powerful builds but that's the challenge. To see if you can best them. Running away from a match when you're about to lose just makes you a coward.

I recognize all of these. You got pulled into the DC matchmaking. Same thing happened to my main; my alts in S pull from a completely different player pool with zero DCs. Abusive_Daddy DC'd on me so many times (30+) it grabbed me too. Thankfully for the rest of the playerbase it's not as bad.

I'm currently in A1 and I'm good. Still winning most matches, but I had more fun in late B than I'm having now. Very little room for experimentation. On the other hand, my skill has drastically increased climbing ranks, which is a reason for me to keep pushing.

Pretty sure i had a match with you yesterday. You used the building to great effect to stop my ac being as effective as it could have been, so you deserved the win. My Ac was Apachy.

Rank A to S : 70% heavy weight fat AC 10% nail gun 10% qu-leg missile Last 10% using their fav. AC and suffer in ranking 😞

I totaly understand that the way ac6 pvp works is like a rock paper scisor But they should add weight class matchmaking so we don't get ablotared by a top 30 heavy tank build

First of all yes i totaly agree ,there is no place for creativity with all those meta builds around Second of all, KRSW IN RANKED????? I can't make it work in any build that isnt ugly or isnt arm overburden how did you make it work

I enjoyed a lot the lower ranks because I still saw originality in the builds and experimentation. Now is laser tanks everywhere that when outplayed the pull the plug. Also thank you for the awesome outplays with classic AC2 and AC3 ost.

I'm only at rank B and i too have experienced these kind of DC'ing actions i just don't get it especially all my builds are pretty much meme buils like my all pulse bubble build and my zap zap Electric build

Even outside of this the ladder system is so broken. You gain so many more points for winning than losing that you can climb with a negative winrate. And once you go up a tier there is no way to go back down. I had like a 40% winrate in B and that was enough to push me up to a promotion i got lucky in. Now I'm stuck in A tier fighting players way better than me and no matter how much I lose there is no way to get back into B. B where I still wasn't even winning 50% of my matches. As a utility for finding players of your skill level it's completely non-functional.

You are one of the pilots I would consider a canonical 621 🫡🫡 Good shit man

I just got the 3rd ending in single player. Now, I'm not sure if I want to dive into PvP.

Fought a few of these folks on Steam version, got the same result. They leave when they think they are losing. Or sometimes just flat out at the beginning of the match when they see who they are fighting. Thank you for exposing them. They are the reason S Rank is nearly impossible to obtain. Also, watch out for Rank 08 Akita. That dude bounced on me when I was about to win round 2. :l If you come across more, do another video so we can see who they are. You got my sub, boss.

I hope that fromsoftware takes action on the matter, the games are not fair, the builds are mostly unbalanced because the meta is BVO, tank build or double zimmer, adding the fact that people can alt+f4 without any penalty is very disastrous on the part of the game development team. The season ends in February and I hope you listen to the community

Ah, the moonlight and the karasawa, the ac1 staple. And nice choice on music

Firearm specializations know where the enemy ac is at all time because it knows where it isn’t at all times

Liked, subbed, shared. Thank you for your service. Btw, I love your build. It's annoying to fight against but it's really fun to play, and so honest compared to what's out there at high ranks. Also, big fan of 2x trueno myself. False alarms from cancelling them is the gift that keeps on giving. Nice flying, Raven.

I really do missing Rank B, after i few doesnt in Rank A i found myself just sticking to fucking scummy build and not even having fun anymore atleast with rank B is still see a couple of intresting builds A rank is mostly just metas and im bored. Wish theres some sort of casual que system or some shit i like the que of ranked since it carry an element of suprise and its easier to find matches than custom browser.

🤓hello I’m Eternal Dragon, codename *Valkorion,* and this is my epic combat mech “Crimson Glint.” As you can tell by my choices of names and emblem I tread on the dark side, heh, let’s just say you don’t want to mess with me. (Cut to guy alone in a dark room yelling at screen and ripping cord out of ps5 every twenty minutes)

My PS+ expired some days before I started playing due to my protests against the price hike. After seeing this, being unable to access multiplayer might have been a mercy to me all along.

A casual "Quick Match" button and a resign option in the pause menu could help fix that (and a fucking ping indicator ffs)

The fact that you even stop when they stop just incase their batteries died or something, only for that sportsmanship to be rewarded with a disconnect. Honor among warriors seems few and far between on rubicon, i respect your fortitude for pushing onward despite all the trouble, just means youre really good :)

Nice gameplay and pilot skills. 😎

I appreciate you putting these bastards on blast. I'm pretty sure I've ran into a few of these dudes. RAW for sure dc'd against me when I was climbing rank

Ranked has burnt out every single trace of good faith or respect for the playerbase (matched is where I go to actually have fun), but the one thing I will NEVER do is DC or resort to ping damage + running away. I have no real hope things will ever improve, based on the new parts and weapon From seems pretty supportive of getting meta or getting the hell out.

PS player here. Already S ranked ages ago with my own build that i enjoy just confirming that the Disconnects dont stop. Even in S rank, and thats even if you get a quick game in the first place. S rank is a barren wasteland that'll have you fighting the same person over and over until one of you gets tired and gets on customs or gets off the game. Many hollow pilots, and many more hibernating pilots, so enjoy the ride up as best you can before it stagnates.

this game should have an Alt+F4 blocker like the MH:W it is really fristratingo to go on ranckeds like this, even more on 3v3

love your AC. i’m gonna steal it. what’s your FCS tho? i really want to try this build out

Hey man what armor pieces are you using? I am not into pvp but I used your weapon loadout in S rank Arena and did surprisingly well, better than my original builds. But I was unable to figure out which armor pieces you used.

I've recently clawed my way to B rank (PS4) with strictly non-meta builds only, and boy oh boy, there are a shit ton of people disconnecting on purpose at the very moment they FELT they have a slight chance of losing. If Fromsoft really want to put any sort of emphasis on PvP, they better step up there game, literally.

Damn, so many rage quitters oO Also really cool AC build you have, especially with the oldschool Moonlight Karasawa combo x)

Honestly people who just cheated their way up should face a substantial penalty for quitting/closing mid game.

On a more positive not I love seeing the creative builds like this one. Unfortunately I use heavy tetrapods so missiles are really my only option

So much for FromSoft looking into this. I've thankfully (mostly) avoided the whole "leaver" thing in 3's, but that gamemode is so dogshit otherwise that I don't think I'm touching it again since I've S-ranked it.

i don't understand do you drop in rank from A onwards if you lose? or are they trying to make their match history look pretty?

I'm willing to admit I rage quit im the face of a heavy laser tank I fought twice back to back, but I did by simply closing the application on playstation. It still logged a loss for me so I assume my opponent still gets their win if you quit that way? I hope so, makes me feel better about that moment of rage

I literally just hit S rank last night on American servers, my god this was funny to watch! Yours truly, "SimpSlayer"

Some 14 year old AC6 sweat watching this: "Bro, what did you expect?...."

Haven't seen anyone disconnect on me yet, though I just made it to rank. Cool build btw.

Nice cover play. I will learn to do it just like you.

I'm playing on Xbox and I can say the situation is no different from Ps5 or pc the amount of disconecters is crazy and there are also toxic people who would hate mail you if you win, its ridiculous how so many grown adults act childish and just don't want to play fair

WTF, I KNEW YOUR AC LOOKED FAMILIAR. We fought one time, the "Pretender" was sick as fuck. I was Gabimaru in the "Obsidian", a BVO build.

There needs to be more public shaming of people who d/c in ranked. Bravo sir, top notch gameplay too

DCing from a match i don’t mind as much(it still sucks), it’s just that the player who stays doesn’t get compensation for wasting that time and the one who DC’d would potentially gain from doing that

Lost it at the guy who litterally copied your AC and disconnected on you :') the ultimate scrub.

As a low rank casual player who don't know much thing about high level pvp, I have a genuine question: Alt f4 sure is pathetic, but what are your opinions on people who use builds/strategy that can be considered as cancer? Like a full-missiles endless hovering kite build? I really have mixed feelings about that, like sometimes it pisses me off when I see the other guy staying 1k feet above, throwing a metric to onf missiles at me, and sometimes I love when I manage to outsmart them and get them. The other way around, I wanted to try one of these, and I found it to feel really different, but quite enjoyable sometimes (I'm not staying in the air the entire time though, but I use it among other moves with this build). And sometimes I do realise that most of the time it makes everything more easy, and I kanda have the impression that I am ruining the fun for everyone. Well, sorry if my english is not that good, and sorry if I spend to long explaining, but I reaaly was curions about the opinion of serious pvp players on this one. Do you consider these builds/player as scummy as the Alt f4 ones? Or do you think it's annoying but fair, and experienced players would be able to get them anyways?

Bro i feel ur pain man! I worked hard to get to S rank with my builds made to face these runaway kite rats/heavy tanks and multiple time i'd get players rage quitting on me and messaging afterwards saying "you're using a meta trash build that shouldn't exist bye loser" like brah if you can't win against my build then you're the real trash here! Sorry had to vent about it 😤

Trudged through into S rank….it feels awful that I don’t really want to touch singles anymore. People who use the obnoxious builds there just feel even more obnoxious then ones fought previously. Hope the next patch comes soon and that it brings some things down a notch or two

I've been hard stuck at A rank for weeks. All I ever see in ranked anymore is missile boats and zip code cannons, and it seems like I can't go any further purely because I'm unwilling to bend the knee to the meta.

I had just went inro ranked today after awhile and got a BVO that dc'd when i done nothing but stagger him, and im in high c rank btw. It's just sad seeing all of this and seeing how ranked became now just completely south than we hoped. Maybe the next patch will help

I really wish FromSoft puts more nerfs on heavy builds. There is no reason not to go heavy at this point, makes me sad.

Glad you exposed these fools. Always the meme builds, too, with the match dropouts when they lose. I’ve played the same players and they all bailed on me.

Just want to win so badly

Literal gigachad

Nothing against you tho - great job there xD

Nice to see someone humiliating those damm lazzy tank climbers, you are a real S rank player.

In every ranked anything ever, if someone leaves, they lose. Why is this not an accepted universal standard? People should be allowed to forfeit, just count it as a loss.

Bloody heck. Even if I face a build that counters mine like there's no tomorrow I'll still take that L and move on like a man damn it.

Straight up “nah, I’d win.” Energy

I’d love to fight you sometime! I’m only A rank and you’ll probably kick my ass, but I’m just looking for friends to fight as an alternative to the sweaty locker room that is AC6 ranked. I just wanna have fun again.

Imagine being a tank player and alt F4ing 🤣. Dope video great gameplay

Maybe the real S rank was the friends we made along the way

Dang. All those players you put in there that DC'd to save rank points...

Dat Silent Line theme.

Huh. I'm admittedly in A, not S, but I've only encountered one single quitter so far

At this point just give us our points when enemy dcs. Banning people is too slow of a fix. They can ban them but I feel like still having my points would make it a lot less frustrating

Why do competitive games (or competitive modes of otherwise casual games) let you disconnect from the match in the first place..?

It has happened to everyone who over came the hyper meta

Plot twist, all those S and A rank accounts are managed by one 12 year old booster.

If we fight I hope it's nothing but a good time

Walk of shame. I never disconect a online game of my life. Even if I get my ass kicked so hard. We need to take it like a champ. Move on,Learn our mistake and get better.

What's that build you're using?? I'm new to the game and haven't touch pvp yet lol

I'm waiting for the next patch and rank reset. Hopefully they address tanks, heavies, kiters, and larrmeiger (misspelled) missile rats.

Having played both i found console wayyyyyy easier to climb on than PC

well I just don't have fun to play against someone who is just running away 4 minutes straight and shoots rockets at you. So if I see a Rat I disconnect and don't give a f...

those guys wish they were real Ravens

These guys are worse than PC. I got a plenty of S ranks altF4ing on me during promos, rank 85 just yday, "Nemris". What a bunch of sad people. Sad video. Sadder still that this is just one PoV, there is more out there, we all witness it. We hope FS or BN will have an adequate answer for this. Even now its almost too late.

Good job. Moonlight-sawa for the win.

My nat type 3 wifi can barely find games. I barely play but ive made good progress towards A rank.

We could maybe have a duel in Ac6 as fellow ksrv players.

Maybe just maybe this meta build is designed for easy and quick kill but you use protagonist build, rather than gaining easy win you got godlike skill like a protagonist!!!

too many people lag switching to win and rage quiting when they loose.

I have not long gotten to A rank, and I experienced this same shit after getting sent back to the start of A rank multiple times, so I just ran my AC "GOLD" Free Kill apparently you can't drop rank I want to be back in B.

For me i didn't mind if they alt+f4 when the game start but alt f4 in mid game is disgusting

I'm not sure what's wrong with the ranked pvp community, you don't see this behavior in dota 2 or CSGO, only AC 6 since the punishment is not explicit

Why don’t you just lose if you disconnect?

Tbf anyone deluded enough to think 1v1 loadout lottery is competitive gaming deserves each other. Not sure what naming & shaming will do for you though. Might wanna check ToS for that. Else someone in your list reports you. Also if you think FromSoft will do anything to punish players, you got another thing coming for you. They won't even address hackers in the Elden Souls games

Exactly. These assholes just DC their way to promos. Fromsoftware really need to ban or punish them severely. They are literally getting away scot free, at the moment no punishments were dished out yet from what i see.