Hard Reset

[Tyberi]

Playing before Epic took over RL I remember there were Hard Resets of ranking system. Very rare, correct me if I'm wrong but there were atleast 2 Hard Resets before Epic and they were a tool to keep ranking system a bit healthier, because over time it was noticable pilling up of players who clearly didn't belong their rank.

Current season is about to end and that got me thinking - when was last Hard Reset of ranking system after Epic put their hands on RL? I had a long break from the game from S1 to S10, at S10 I played week or two and got another break until S12 and playing atleast once a week since S12.

If I remember correctly, I wasn't forced to regain my ranks in any list even once.
Was there any hard reset since Epic bought RL?
Because if we got (atleast, I don't remember when was last hard reset) 14 Seasons without hard reset, no wonder ranked matches are such mess sometimes.

I mean, there is something mesmerizing about playing in Diamond or even Champ with people who turn their cars around exact same way I"m doing it IRL at parking spot. I won't lie, it is entertaining to watch someone doing 3-point turn in Dia/Champ, but also got me thinking - how do we end up here.

[quickER 🛠]

Originally posted by Tyberi:

Playing before Epic took over RL I remember there were Hard Resets of ranking system. Very rare, correct me if I'm wrong but there were atleast 2 Hard Resets before Epic and they were a tool to keep ranking system a bit healthier, because over time it was noticable pilling up of players who clearly didn't belong their rank.

There was only once in original Season 3 and it was not good according to them;

Hard reset ranks 2019 March message from Psyonix_Rudi on Official Discord Server :
"Based on our observations of the last hard reset, we don’t feel like this would be a good experience for most of our players. The previous hard reset created significant matchmaking quality issues, which frustrated low-ranked players and bored high-ranked players as they randomly matchmade against each other for a time. We’ll continue to work on matchmaking and how we do resets each season, but as of now we don’t have a full hard reset planned any time soon."

[Side note, Hard skill reset was done in Season 3 https://www.rocketleague.com/news/coming-soon-competitive-season-3-and-season-2-rewards/
"However, we do not want to repeat the matchmaking frenzy of the first few weeks of Season 3 when we did a full skill wipe. Average match quality was poor as the entire playerbase churned through placement matches and climbed back to their relative skill rankings." https://www.rocketleague.com/news/changes-coming-with-competitive-season-4/

[AJYXQ]

Originally posted by quickER 🛠:

Originally posted by Tyberi:

Perfect. I was about to comment the same. It didn't stop smurfs at all and took awhile just to level out and get a fair match. That hard reset wasn't fun at all. If anything, the smurfing problem was worse for it.

[Tyberi]

Thanks, human memory is tricky.
I remember hard reset and I remember the obvious mayhem straight after the reset, but also overall I remember that as a fun experience. Well, atleast I understand now why I wasn't forced to regain my ranks once again in a long, long time, yet kinda felt like it was common thing back in a day. Maybe because reranking different competitive playlists felt like it happened multiple times.

[Rotate.]

Whats messed up about this is before the Epic sale RL numbers were dropping and to fix it they boosted new players to plat and diamond ranks so the queue times wernt so bad then just never readjusted it after the numbers went up again being ftp. So now u have all these players in ranks they dont belong. People who play casual 20 hours a month and have no skill for thier rankings. So now u have people complain about smurffs in thier ranks but really its just RL messed up ranking system.