The problem with separating soloqueuers and teams is that the playerbase simply isn’t large enough for that. Plus it works with other games too, you just gotta communicate more with your random team mates, I don’t know why so many people in competitive don’t even use their mics.
Not enough people play ranked... What would get you to play more ranked matches?
SzGamer2271
(SzGamer227)
#22
Well I’d guess that with random players on your team it’s hard to know how many medics/fire support mercs you’re going to need, among other things. Teams of players can coordinate who will be in what role and where to be without any messy trial and error.
Xan
(Xan)
#23
Being able to gain daily credits by playing competitive and have a little credit bonus when won the game?
Wolf_Darkrose
(Wolf_Darkrose)
#24
@SzGamer227 its hard to say man… if you outright boost anything in ranked every pubby will want that and the flood of players that just screw around in pub matches or troll will be there killing ranked. on the other hand it would help in a way to boost or set a reward… like how what rank you are at the end of the season you get the rank"s trinket. Cant wait to get my gold 5 one.
Wolf_Darkrose
(Wolf_Darkrose)
#25
[quote=“Jostabeere;131537”]a)Make it a 5-friends-mode-only
b)Make it a solo-team-mode-only
c)Give special shiat for people who frequently play it[/quote]
ohhh i go with B there ranked is a pain when its almost the whole team is friends on the enemy side. its a very unfair advantage.
PD_Agent47
(PD_Agent47)
#27
Every time when i play a competitive … there will be a SKYHAMMER guy team mate throwing bullets on me instead of REVIVING me . and he says SORRY I AM NEW TO GAME … and throwing AIRSTRIKE MARKER at the spawn when the opponents repaired EV … Everytime i lose even though I top the Table with 15K xp and JUST CONSOLE MYSELF BY SAYING GG !!! u know what… GG !! ( hate Competitive matchmaking )
SiegeFace
(SiegeFace)
#29
Why do you need an incentive to play comp other than to play in a competitive-esque scene with 9 other players all wanting to play…well…competitively?
That is the question I have not been able to answer.
The only reason I got into say CSGO, was because of the competitive ranked matchmaking, which was a feature I loved about halo 3 back in the day, and I said to myself “man I suck at this game, but if there is skill based matchmaking, maybe I can improve and get better at the game” just like I did with halo. And I spent a year honing my “skills” in that game, striving to get better, and I did, I made friends along with the way, even formed a team. The only incentive was to play, get better at the game, win, try new strats, see what works see what doesn’t etc… But then again I’m not other people so people probably need free stuff for playing like drops or something.
Thing is with Dirty Bomb, I was instantly good at it, not super amazingly awesomely good, but good at the game, the only things I was bad at was understanding what merc had what ability, what merc strengths and weaknesses were, map knowledge etc, basically everything that comes with playing a new game. But coming from a background of Halo, Battlefield, CSGO, Unreal etc I knew the mechanics, I understood the objective style focus, and just fell in love with it.
Now I really want competitive to succeed, so whatever SD has to do to “incentivize” to get more people to play it, they need to do it, since it is also in SD’s mission statement as a “Competitive First” shooter. We need it! SO JUST…DO IT!
I am sick of pubs as its either stomp or be stomped, and players don’t really know what they are doing in pubs 80% of the time, its the same for competitive at the moment, but if we can encourage competitive first, pub as secondary, then maybe the majority of players mentality could change and actually start playing there roles, communicating and working together etc
Scav
(Scav)
#30
Nothing can get me to play competitive other than having friends to play competitive with. Earning credits is ezpz, so is mercs, and loadouts are RNG anyways. What would motivate me? Well, having a bunch of ppl that i know what i can expect from, know they are not assholes, etc.
And atm i cant see a reason why playing competitive is any more than regular.
Get to meet pro ppl? Im not that good yet. Smaller teams? Dont care until its not 8v8. Ranks? Why would i bother, its just a rank, it doesnt do me any good.
Playing comp solo? Dont be ridiculous. Even EU CS:GO is pure hell with all the slavic morons screaming jibberish because they cant learn a single other language.
p4v
(p4v)
#31
I play solo so if you want to farm me at least give me more credits for playing ranked than pub. I just played 15 matches and the game began putting me against gold/cobalt premades. It wasn’t fun so I stopped playing ranked.
Give me more credits so I can at least buy more cases after getting rekt in ranked.
SzGamer2271
(SzGamer227)
#32
…and eventually those non-competetive players will end up with appropriately low ranks while the rest of us enjoy the privileges of balanced competitive matches. 
PeneTraitor1
(PeneTraitor)
#34
Ranked chests. Maybe with skins to distinguish your rank in competitive. Or something a little more visual than a trinket which honestly I barely ever see other than inspecting my weapon in execution when I know I am being specced lol. Something to distinguish you from the pubs.
N8o
(N8o)
#35
Special cases that drop with a high chance of getting a “ranked skin”, along with boosted credits.
The ranked skins should change the character model (similar to the Founders cards) for each rank. (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Cobalt, Elite)
srswizard
(srswizard)
#36
I know it’s not fair to compare DB to a game like WoW, but basically their arena rewards were good enough to get a huge bunch of people to grind through a swamp of ass sweat, tears and blood.
I lost my dignity and my sanity, going against counter comps, and all kinds of retarded one button classes.
All it took was a carrot on a stick, in form of e-peen titles to display in front of your character’s name, and some shitty low poly-count mounts that took maybe a day or two to design and model.
So yeah, why not repeat the successful formula, but just replace mounts with some special merc skins, or such?
N8o
(N8o)
#37
[quote=“srswizard;131907”]I know it’s not fair to compare DB to a game like WoW, but basically their arena rewards were good enough to get a huge bunch of people to grind through a swamp of ass sweat, tears and blood.
I lost my dignity and my sanity, going against counter comps, and all kinds of retarded one button classes.
All it took was a carrot on a stick, in form of e-peen titles to display in front of your character’s name, and some shitty low poly-count mounts that took maybe a day or two to design and model.
So yeah, why not repeat the successful formula, but just replace mounts with some special merc skins, or such?[/quote]
I really, really like this idea.
watsyurdeal
(watsyurdeal)
#38
Just being able to get a damn match, seriously you don’t need to coax me, I just want to play and not have to wait 15 mins or more to find something.