God I hated that change so much. I only play 2v2 ranked with my buddy now. I never play anything else anymore.
There was no reason to ruin casual like that. I remember all the whiners on the RL subreddit saying crap like "I want to play a full match with a team!" and all I could think was, then go fucking play ranked! They like to drop terms like "not sweating" to justify ruining casual. Really?? If you don't give a crap about ranking then who cares what ranking you are in ranked matches? Just go play ranked! And if you're that mentally weak, then yell at epic to let you hide your ranking from being displayed after matches instead of ruining an entire game mode.
I miss having a zero commitment game mode that I can pop in while waiting for my buddy to take a dump or something. Now casual is just ranked without the ranking. It still has mmr, you can't leave without bans, it's absolutely pointless and might as well not exist. Let me go get my ass slapped by a grandmaster! Or let me show off to a bunch of bronzies. It hurts no one.
Very true. I usually binge videos for whatever game I'm currently playing.
I like watching Nilhaus play factory games so I can learn some new ways to better organize my logistics. That's a big one.
I've never played Europa Universalis IV but I love watching videos of it.