Any effort to attract players to ranked is great. However, ranked NEEDS merc limits to be considered a competitive and balanced mode. Even ignoring balance, there will be full Javelin squads entering ranked as soon as she is available. Javelin isn’t OP but she is a merc that is exponentially more unfun to play against when stacked. Same is the case for plenty of other mercs and combos. With the 1.0 release player retention will be especially important so the competitive mode for this “competitive” shooter needs to be as balanced and fun as possible. The game is just impossible to balance when taking stacks into consideration. That’s fine in pubs but any mode devs expect players to take seriously and potentially play competitively needs to be balanced and accessible to the average player. It’s easy enough to join PUGs but the game should provide that experience on it’s own by now and certainly for full release.
I still think the default loadouts for all mercs should be available so merc limits can be implemented without issue. With the current unlock system I don’t think it would be too much trouble to display the mercs each player has available so teams can decide a comp before starting a match? I’m sure devs have brainstormed plenty of ideas internally, I just hope it is in fact a priority for release even though it hasn’t been brought up recently.
The two things that would make me interested in ranked play - merc limits, solo only queue.