Future of Ranked Matches and Competitive gaming with Squad system

[Da_Mummy]

@Xenithos said:
When we should hopefully have some playerbase to sustain the game.

“Hopefully”
Still afraid that 1.0 won’t really be that massive in terms of new players but I hope I’m wrong.

[phobiatic]

@Xenithos said:

@phobiatic said:
For me ranked is not fun anymore.

• High ping because you can’t select what region you queue into.
• Most matches just end up 4 vs 5 etc because that one player that don’t want to put effort in and it takes forever to get a replacement for that player because again low population.

I agree with everything you’ve said except for these two things: 1st, you CAN select what region you queue into, maybe you’re saying not completely precise as in you can’t choose NA EAST, but you can choose NA versus Europe or Asia or South America yadda yadda. If you still believe that you can’t and need help finding how to change the region, ask me, I’d be happy to show you.

Second, those matches with one player leaving or being useless? Currently Dirty Bomb doesn’t have back-filling in ranked matches, meaning it’s not going to just “take forever,” it won’t even happen, ever.

Yes you can select Europe, but there are 3 servers and there is easy 80 ping difference between all those 3… i don’t want to play a ranked match with 102 ping while i could have 15-30 max. Until they can deliver stable and low ping servers, I will no longer participate in ranked. I hardly play the game now for 5 hours a week where it easy was 60hours+ :neutral:

[Xenithos]

@phobiatic said:

@Xenithos said:

@phobiatic said:
For me ranked is not fun anymore.

• High ping because you can’t select what region you queue into.
• Most matches just end up 4 vs 5 etc because that one player that don’t want to put effort in and it takes forever to get a replacement for that player because again low population.

I agree with everything you’ve said except for these two things: 1st, you CAN select what region you queue into, maybe you’re saying not completely precise as in you can’t choose NA EAST, but you can choose NA versus Europe or Asia or South America yadda yadda. If you still believe that you can’t and need help finding how to change the region, ask me, I’d be happy to show you.

Second, those matches with one player leaving or being useless? Currently Dirty Bomb doesn’t have back-filling in ranked matches, meaning it’s not going to just “take forever,” it won’t even happen, ever.

Yes you can select Europe, but there are 3 servers and there is easy 80 ping difference between all those 3… i don’t want to play a ranked match with 102 ping while i could have 15-30 max. Until they can deliver stable and low ping servers, I will no longer participate in ranked. I hardly play the game now for 5 hours a week where it easy was 60hours+ :neutral:

Alrighty, just wanted to make sure there wasn’t an issue I could have helped you with. Have fun anyway!

[n-x]

@Xenithos said:

@Da_Mummy said:
So it’s technically an FPS version of the good old CoC concept.
But as mentioned I’m afraid that it just won’t work with the current number of players in game.

That’s why we’re saying after 1.0 release. When we should hopefully have some playerbase to sustain the game.

I wouldnt get my hopes up. 1.0 is just a number. Dirty Bomb has a horrible player retention and just because it will not be a “Beta” anymore doesnt change that all of a sudden. It’s the decisions SD has made and how they chose to develope DB that has made the game what it is today.

They have lost a lot of their actual target audience, because most of them probably have heard of DB by now and decided to not stick with it. And no events or new mercs will get those players back.

Sure 1.0 will bring in a lot of new players and bring back a lot of old players. But if SD doesnt change the way how they handle DB, they will lose those players (again) like they lost all the players before.

[SiwaonaDaphnewen]

From my experience in other game, i would suggest to add a notification:

“Player of your rank is required to start a game” when system got like 6-7 players for ranked.

This would make everything A LOT better. People would see a ranked game is almost ready and they will get in game with almost no waiting.