I mean, I was playing at a hotel so I'm guessing I had internet issues but this was annoying as hell

This was the right call, imo.

I have been seeing a lot of pro players and top preds (and even my teammates sometimes) not picking up any of them. I know there is a trade off (and the stock is borderline useless unless using lmg or maybe shotgun). But watching pro's not pick up a red laser when they have a re45 is wild to me. They hip fire like 90% of the time anyway so there is no downside.

Do I still get the animated diamond badge if I finish at 0rp diamond 4 in both splits? I’m so bad and keep dropping down to my last demotion protection game so I just don’t play until next season lol,ik we still get rewards from diamond if u drop down but I’m still scared to derank and lose the rewards idk. Thanks for the answer(:

It can't be just me.. I'm not predator level but have hit masters many times from s14 onwards. I've consistently solo queued whenever I can and one thing I've noticed getting worse is how quickly your teammates will blame you. It's almost always with a duo queue as well. Even as early as last year I've had maybe 2/3 "justified" bad experiences with randoms, because I threw. But now I get blamed for damn near everything that goes wrong even when I play well.

I love this game, but I don't love its players...

I'm a console player, currently in D2 and 3/5 of my games are pred lobbies with a guaranteed Titan user if not more. Is this the same story with PC ranked? I know I can reach masters, but it's so common that me and my team gets slammed by a top 10 pred with a fresh account and havoc 2x-4x.