i actually uninstalled the game last night. skirmish lately has turned into just queueing with the same randoms every game or getting matched against premades/clans, in which case, i started just leaving games because its not fun at all. the meta and the balance of skirmish is horrible, majority of clans get a few capable archers which basically completely nullify cav with arrows/throwables way too easily..and yes im guilty of this myself. many skirmish games turn into bannerlord being the hot new FPS title...and its honestly really lame and getting really stale. archer classes should be garbage melee like they were in warband and if you played archer it was because you undoubtedly had good enough skill in melee combat OR you took the risk. people spam archer now because almost all of the high tier archer classes have both viable armor and weapons. some are even more well rounded than an actual melee class.
there are not even enough people playing even if they WANTED to push a ranked skirmish mode. it would have to be solo queue only. and as ****ty as it sounds, they may have to cut game modes in my opinion to drive more players to play the most popular game modes.ill be back when they come out with a few updates to fix this game