There is a new “exploit” to cheat the new promotion match system in order to higher point gains than usual. If you take a look at the leaderboards for any mode besides TPP – Squad, you may notice that some players have extremely high points, especially this early in the season. This is because these players are purposely failing their promotion matches in order to gain their rank in a different game mode.
Before I start, it’s important to note that promotion matches can only be played in TPP – Squads. However, if you are ranking in a different game mode (for example, TPP – Duos), the points you gain from promotion matches will be stored. You will then receive the points in the next match that you play in your respective game mode (in this example, you will get bonus points in TPP – Duos than TPP – Squads). This exploit cannot be performed in TPP – Squads as points are normally calculated and cannot be transferred in between different game modes.
Let’s take a look at the #1 FPP – Duos player in Europe (5877598835). This player currently has around 7,700 points, making him have even more points than the #1 player in TPP – Squads (EU). But if you take a look at his TPP – Squad statistics, you can see that he has a large amount of matches played there too. Since this player’s rank is Platinum V in TPP – Squads, gaining points is very easy, even if you perform terribly. From what I understand, these players will play normally as they do until they reach Promotion Match 3. Upon reaching promotion match 3, they will fail on purpose but still maintain a mediocre final position (ex: #12 in Livik) so that they can still get some points. After failing the promotion series, they repeat this process several times to farm easy points with no risk of losing anything.
If you are interested, this player (5549479497) (which is also #1 TPP – Solo in EU) has their career results public if you want to see how this exploit works. You can also look at the leaderboards of your region and see that some of the high ranking players are abusing this (Look at point differences between high ranking players)
I’m making this post in hopes that the developers or the moderators of this subreddit can see this. Though this exploit doesn’t affect you if you don’t care about your rank, I still think it’s important to let this be known because it makes the entire ranking system unfair.
So, how do we fix it?
1. Make promotion matches available ONLY in the respective game mode
2. Get rid of point transferring in between game modes
3. Remove the promotion matches system entirely
I wonder if anything will be done about this issue. But knowing the developers, it will probably go unaddressed. Honestly, it will only be a matter of time before someone gets 13,101 points using this method. Personally, I believe that punishments/penalties should be handed out to players abusing this exploit.