The rank filter (i.e. “My Rank”/“My Rank Or Above”) just serves to fracture the community even more than is necessary. I’d suggest adding an “Any Rank” option and making it the default. It seems some people aren’t aware of this option.
It’s not like playing with rank 5’s as a rank 1 is a huge hardship as you get experienced at the game.
Ye the rank thing is silly, SD should of kept the whole lobby/matchmaking “cleshay”.
I suggested it because it caused me problems the other night - I was playing with a couple of mates, hit rank 20, so ducked out to spend my points but couldn’t join them again because “rank too high”.
So I though, ok - make a new character. But this couldn’t join because “rank too low”.
WTF? I only noticed because I was trying to join a specific game, but how much of this goes on behind the scenes and is contributing to the bot only games a lot of people find themselves in? Because the matchmaking rules out a load of games because of rank…?
I had this problem when we first got Brink, also I think there’s to many different “game modes” like Campaign, big team, standard etc etc. This does more harm than good seeing as its all the same in the end.
If any rank is on by default, people will end up joining high level games as a rank 1/2 which was the whole point of putting the filter on in the first place
Yeah but is it so bad to have ranks 1/2 fight against rank 20s ? Instead of have each side fighting with more bots ?
I think it should be possible to enter any game, although one could filter the ranks IF HE/SHE WANTS TO, to get a fair game. But if nothing is available, why preventing to join higher/lower ranked games ?
Also, if a server wants to limit itself to lower rank, it should be the server’s settings & responsability to do so, not the game itself cutting it’s community in slices even more.
Agreed with OP on this one.
these MMO like concepts (levelling, ranks, unlocked abilities) really don’t fit well with MP FPS imo. The crowd size don’t allow this kind of segregations based on levels/ranks (which is ultimately because of the abilities they unlock, in fact…).