TL;DR It's responsive and tight, it's fair, it's brutally hard, it's very satisfying in every respect to play.
BUT. the menus are so bad it makes it hard to play for any amount of time.

The issue lies in the fact that the UX is the worst of any modern multiplayer shooter. The menus are slow and sluggish, the loading takes forever, there are unnecessary menus on top of unnecessary progress meters. You get kicked back to menu after every match despite the fact all you want to do is play uninterrupted for a few hours.

It's such a shame since the duels are super fun and really intense, but the queue times, combined with the fact you cant hop around an empty server while searching, and the slow matching make it a true test of patience to play any amount of duels. And once you finally get a match there is a large change that you are going to get demolished by someone way higher or crush someone way lower than you.

Maybe it will be changed in the future. They have made some great (and some not so great) balance changes so maybe that effort will be extended to a UI rework

TL;DR It's responsive and tight, it's fair, it's brutally hard, it's very satisfying in every respect to play. BUT. the menus are so bad it makes it hard to play for any amount of time. The issue lies in the fact that the UX is the worst of any modern multiplayer shooter. The menus are slow and sluggish, the loading takes forever, there are unnecessary menus on top of unnecessary progress meters. You get kicked back to menu after every match despite the fact all you want to do is play uninterrupted for a few hours. It's such a shame since the duels are super fun and really intense, but the queue times, combined with the fact you cant hop around an empty server while searching, and the slow matching make it a true test of patience to play any amount of duels. And once you finally get a match there is a large change that you are going to get demolished by someone way higher or crush someone way lower than you. Maybe it will be changed in the future. They have made some great (and some not so great) balance changes so maybe that effort will be extended to a UI rework