is MM fixed yet? (ranked)

(activeClip) #1

As title says is MM/Ranked play fixed yet? I am Cobalt 3 if i play the game will i still get Gold 5s and Silvers in my games?

After a few hundred games it got fairly boring of playing with low skill or new players over and over.

(watsyurdeal) #2

Well the player pool is pretty small right now, so you probably won’t have good matches even if they make the matchups better.

The game just needs more people playing, period.

(activeClip) #3

[quote=“Watsyurdeal;89431”]Well the player pool is pretty small right now, so you probably won’t have good matches even if they make the matchups better.

The game just needs more people playing, period.[/quote]

probably right based on the steamdb its fallen off hard in past 2 months https://steamdb.info/app/333930/graphs/ after going from 7k to 13k from Total Biscuits video the player base stayed near 9-10k for quite some time. From the late everything to lackluster merc additions and such the game sits near 3k which is pretty dire.

When the game first released on Steam around June i had a dozen friends playing, 90% of them quit within the first month due to the hacker fest and slow initial support. Month or two later i had another group of friends playing near the same amount 10ish which also quit a month after that mostly due to the hackers.

When will companies learn that basic features and support can not come 3 months into the game, by then its either dead or dieing. Not to mention how most of the competitive players quit due to the direction of the game and closing of GGcups or what it was called.

RIP Dirty Bomb please can the fan boys not go too hard on me and their denial. Im sure the game wont die out 100% but at this stage it probably won’t reach 5k concurrent players again except for some miracle hype patch in the future which will only hold those players for a week.

Tune into this thread for the upcoming fanboy excuses.

(watsyurdeal) #4

Imo, there’s quite a list of things that need to be added

  1. Recoil patterns for all guns, not just the m4.
  2. Imo…make all mercs free, but change the enconomy to allow people to simply buy various load cards.
  3. User hosted servers, absolutely needed
  4. Better support for the comp scene

And prob more, and I’d say more but I am at work.

(Pecka) #5

The devs seems not to really listen to high skill/ competitive people here. So I would not have my hopes we will see some huge population growth in this area.

Also you are from US right? If you would be Cobalt 3 in EU you would not be bored :wink:
Also nothing personal, but you would not be cobalt 3 in the first place >D

Pecka

(activeClip) #6

[quote=“Watsyurdeal;89435”]Imo, there’s quite a list of things that need to be added

  1. Recoil patterns for all guns, not just the m4.
  2. Imo…make all mercs free, but change the enconomy to allow people to simply buy various load cards.
  3. User hosted servers, absolutely needed
  4. Better support for the comp scene

And prob more, and I’d say more but I am at work.[/quote]

Totally agree, so many minor details that should of been perfected the day it was on steam really hindered the playing experience for the majority of players. They were as small as only the party leader being able to invite players to competitive lobby, making people skip invites and playing with others cause it took time and not everyone wanted to add every random friend someone knew. Even after that the bugs that came where you had to constantly restart the lobby after games or failed games ect. There are quite a few trivial things that really made people not play at times. Dosn’t matter if initially people would be like fuck it ill play later or not, this same mindset happening over and over just stops people logging on.

Really surprised it says 200k players in the past 2 weeks but it looks like most of them didn’t play like myself with the Median play time at 44 minutes.

(activeClip) #7

[quote=“Pecka;89437”]The devs seems not to really listen to high skill/ competitive people here. So I would not have my hopes we will see some huge population growth in this area.

Also you are from US right? If you would be Cobalt 3 in EU you would not be bored :wink:
Also nothing personal, but you would not be cobalt 3 in the first place >D

Pecka

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Im Cobalt 3 in EU, i started at like Gold 4 after my 10 placement games. Havn’t really played more then a few dozen hours since late July though.

Ive unlocked all my mercs and bronze cards off credits alone, Sawbonez, Sparks, Arty, Phantom, Red Eye, Pheonix, Fragger and still have credits parked for the next Merc. I have really played a lot of this game in a very short time. Including playing against and beating a bunch of mix competitive teams consisting of players who all placed top 4 in dirtycups.

Sorry to disappoint you but im not noob, im best Sparks EU.

(GiantGiant) #8

Hmm… Maybe they should allow community to create maps. It worked in ET.

(Pecka) #9

[quote=“activeClip;89439”][quote=“Pecka;89437”]The devs seems not to really listen to high skill/ competitive people here. So I would not have my hopes we will see some huge population growth in this area.

Also you are from US right? If you would be Cobalt 3 in EU you would not be bored :wink:
Also nothing personal, but you would not be cobalt 3 in the first place >D

Pecka

[/quote]

Im Cobalt 3 in EU, i started at like Gold 4 after my 10 placement games. Havn’t really played more then a few dozen hours since late July though.

Ive unlocked all my mercs and bronze cards off credits alone, Sawbonez, Sparks, Arty, Phantom, Red Eye, Pheonix, Fragger and still have credits parked for the next Merc. I have really played a lot of this game in a very short time. Including playing against and beating a bunch of mix competitive teams consisting of players who all placed top 4 in dirtycups.

Sorry to disappoint you but im not noob, im best Sparks EU.[/quote]

Okay, got it. Sorry, nothing against US guys, but it’s like that since forever. General skill is considered lower in US (with exception of course)

Well, yeah, except few cobalt mixes and teams, you mostly play vs gold clueless players. But that’s how it is, it’s not about match making but lack of players. And it stands what I said, if SD won’t start listening to high level players the number of high skilled players is not going to go up, and you will rather start seeing clueless cobalts (already something I observed). That’s how I see it.

Newb from sick6 made a great feedback thread, basically pointing out everything that is wrong with competitive DB, do you think he got any answers from SD about his points, or do you think he will ever get? http://forums.dirtybomb.nexon.net/discussion/18233/sick6-newbs-feedback-post-v2#latest

(watsyurdeal) #10

Skill is considered lower in US because nobody fucking listens to good advice.

Hey man you shouldn’t buy th-SHUT UP THIS BRAND IS AMAZING!

Hey man you should try lowering your-SHUT THE F%$@ UP I DO WHAT I WANT, FREAKING SCRUB

Hey man we should try getting on the-SHUT THE F%$@ UP I PLAY HOW I WANT, STOP TRY HARDING NOOB

http://i.imgur.com/pT3Yx11.gif

(Jostabeere) #11

Never gonna happen. Unreal engine AND own servers? This will become worse than COD in terms of game-engine-hacks.