Me and my plat/diamond friends decayed all the way to silver and every game its harder than the plat/diamond games we had before. Everyone's super good and I even noticed many plat/diamond buddies on their guns. Now we are stuck at these ranks and some of my friends even deranked to bronze.

There's no way this is the new true level for silver. Otherwise new players would have no chance winning games and have no incentive to play. We are just facing the same group of people who have plat+ hidden mmr in silver.

Edit: me and my buddy just played a comp. Theres 2 plats and 1 diamond in our team with bronze/silver ranks. I really don't know what to do with this.