This could be your thread to bring players together to team up for the achieve. The title looks promising in that regard, but it looks like you just wanted to start yet another whine thread.
Look, this map has been up for almost 2 months. So many players got the achieve in well under 2 weeks, before League s4 even started. Salty Sea Dog in 2mo was never a challenge, by any stretch of the imagination. Only challenge is if you start now, in which case, who’s to blame?
Like I said before, find people who need the achieve and team up. 6 wins should be a piece of cake, even with the new map taking over the pinned slot.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that someone set up a team of 5.
There is a 43% – approximately – chance of any given unpegged map even coming up to vote. Even if it does come up, five people voting for it isn’t guaranteed to get it, and a premade team of five is likely to be matched against other premades who may be voting as a block for another map. Let’s allow a fudge factor for some occasions where the enemy team votes for the same map and call it a ¼ chance of even getting Capricorn.
You then need to win. Assuming MMR has done its job, you should have roughly a 50% chance of winning a game. So that’s 8 games to progress Seaside Victory by 1, on average. If, hypothetically, someone was looking to start from scratch, that’d be 200 games.
I’ve got three wins I still need, so I’m not looking at 200 – just 24. If I get together a full team of people who will vote Capricorn. That’s a far cry from yesterday, where you had a better than even chance of getting Capricorn in the first place, so you could realistically expect a Capricorn win every 3-4 matches just by soloqueuing. Which is a bit more than I could realistically grind out last night, but 9-12 in soloqueue is a lot better than 24 if you have a full premade team.
Now, once I’ve done the new story, I may well be looking to team up. However, “just form a team” is not exactly consolation when the difficulty even with a team has now gone up significantly compared to what it was just with soloqueue before.
A 5-man premade will not necessarily (and probably not even likely) be matched against another 5-man. You’re only guaranteed to be matched against 2-man premade or higher. So, assuming you’re going in with a decent team comp, a decent plan, have decent communication.. cos if you’re teamed up, why wouldn’t you have that?… you should have a very good chance of having a favorable winrate, well over 50%. But yeah, you’re more or less right. It’s a pain, but doable.
Just offering a solution, but I guess a lot of people would rather complain than put effort into it. In which case, how important is the title to you, really? The sense of entitlement is astounding. We were informed in the July 26 Game Release Notes that the achieve was limited-time-only, just like we always are for limited-time content. If a person can’t be bothered to read the release notes, he/she shouldn’t be upset when this sort of stuff approaches the final stretch.
I will concede, however, that releasing and pinning the new map before retiring the previous one (and its associated achievements) is a bit puzzling. I do like the concept of rotating through trial maps in Unranked, though. People have been asking for new maps for a long time. This seems like a great way to test out new maps, and I hope some are well-received enough to make it into Ranked, which atm is basically always Forest and Legacy.
which patch notes was it in? not the recent one ?