Suggestions to populate Ranked?

(Your worst knifemare.) #21

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Ranked is hard as a solo queuer as you end alone VS the World.[/quote]

As solo you don’t have to feel bad about using your team as meat sheild.

(OwynTyler) #22

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Except people don’t surrender? Hard as hell to just get people to vote on a dead weight afk players…what makes you think people are paying enough attention to vote and put enough thought into that they could make more points with quick surrenders?

I’ve voted for surrender in a game once or twice when my teams were getting our asses kicked and they were jumping down my throat and telling me to quit because we may actually win.

So yeah…voting surrender is as useless as voting for a swap or to kick a afk player. [/quote]

just get 3 more ppl who’d like to farm credits, or just launch 3 more game windows yourself…

(ImSploosh) #23

[quote=“DefaultSettings;c-227389”]My experience with Ranked season 2:

Played 10 placement games, won 9 out of 10 and ended high Silver (not even the highest one)
Played 30 more game, 19 wins for 11 losses, so almost 2 times more wins than losses: Today, I have the exact same Rank as day ONE. Lol.

Why would I bother playing this ? I have better experience on MIN 20.

Ranked is hard as a solo queuer as you end alone VS the World.[/quote]

Same man, same. I’ve been almost Gold 3 times and have yet to do it due to crap teams. I’m stuck at Silver Officer/Master. Lately I’ve been literally using my teammates as meat shields. Sometimes I even just shoot them to get them out of the way so I can actually kill people. I can’t tell you how many enemies have been able to run off with little health because my teammates get in the way, start shooting too, and miss every shot.

Yesterday, I had a teammate who ran into my laser more than once. I’m guessing he didn’t know it was friendly fire. My laser wasn’t even moving and he was looking right at it; still ran straight through it.

(ThunderZsolt) #24

I did quit playing ranked because the matches were not fun. (constantly 5v4 because leavers, high ping servers, unbalanced games, yadda yadda, there are tons of threads about it)

Best reward for playing is playing itself.

I won’t grind matches I don’t like for some shiny loadouts, a credit boost or whatever other “reward”.

I hope that allowing 3-4 man parties and promising improved matchmaking + adding dockyard would boost the ranked population at the beginning of season 3, and people see that it’s truly improved and stay (assuming it is improved)

(Sorotia) #25

[quote=“OwynTyler;c-227414”][quote=“Sorotia;c-227387”]
Except people don’t surrender? Hard as hell to just get people to vote on a dead weight afk players…what makes you think people are paying enough attention to vote and put enough thought into that they could make more points with quick surrenders?

I’ve voted for surrender in a game once or twice when my teams were getting our asses kicked and they were jumping down my throat and telling me to quit because we may actually win.

So yeah…voting surrender is as useless as voting for a swap or to kick a afk player. [/quote]

just get 3 more ppl who’d like to farm credits, or just launch 3 more game windows yourself…[/quote]

I don’t even know 3 people who play DB anymore…they left long ago because of the crap and or are waiting for some actual new content to be released and not just a shiny new trinket or pretty new skin to keep people busy grinding for.

I have 2 people on my friends list who still play DB and 1 of them is actually active…we tried a few ranked matches and we got our asses kicked. (We queued…both unranked and we got put up against a team of 4 golds and 1 silver, think the only game where a surrender actually worked.)

(KangaJoo) #26

@ImSploosh said:
DefaultSettings wrote: »

My experience with Ranked season 2:

Played 10 placement games, won 9 out of 10 and ended high Silver (not even the highest one)
Played 30 more game, 19 wins for 11 losses, so almost 2 times more wins than losses: Today, I have the exact same Rank as day ONE. Lol.

Why would I bother playing this ? I have better experience on MIN 20.

Ranked is hard as a solo queuer as you end alone VS the World.

Same man, same. I’ve been almost Gold 3 times and have yet to do it due to crap teams. I’m stuck at Silver Officer/Master. Lately I’ve been literally using my teammates as meat shields. Sometimes I even just shoot them to get them out of the way so I can actually kill people. I can’t tell you how many enemies have been able to run off with little health because my teammates get in the way, start shooting too, and miss every shot.

Yesterday, I had a teammate who ran into my laser more than once. I’m guessing he didn’t know it was friendly fire. My laser wasn’t even moving and he was looking right at it; still ran straight through it.

If it makes either of you feel better, I lost 1 and tied 1 placement match, got placed into the highest silver rank and was gold after 2 more games. Elo hell sucks. I deserve global Challenger gg.

(Chris Mullins) #27

Ranked could definitely do with more players in there, and we’re hoping that the updates we’re doing in time for Season 3 will do the trick. We’ll be keeping a close eye on it, and will also make a laundry list for features we want in Season 4.

(watsyurdeal) #28

My laundry list for season 4

  • Man up and play more ranked pleb

That wasn’t too bad

(ABigKahuna) #29

[quote=“ImSploosh;d-36410”]So Ranked in the U.S. has no players playing at the current time. It’s like this for most of the day until the peak times (and even then, 10-15 minutes to find a match, often playing with the same people just different teams). I’d like to obtain a decent amount of Ranked cards, but sadly the lack of players makes this impossible. I only have 3 because no players and the long grind to obtain them makes it difficult.

Anyone have any suggestions?

My suggestion is just a simple bug fix: after a recent update (forget which one exactly, but it was in April), Ranked defaults to European servers every time you start up the game. If this could be changed so it goes back to how it was, you choose your server and it stays that way until you change it again, that would be nice.

Obviously we need to incentivize Ranked or something to get some more players joining. I’d like to get some damn cards! [/quote]

Crack down on the cheaters more.

(watsyurdeal) #30

[quote=“ABigKahuna;c-227713”][quote=“ImSploosh;d-36410”]So Ranked in the U.S. has no players playing at the current time. It’s like this for most of the day until the peak times (and even then, 10-15 minutes to find a match, often playing with the same people just different teams). I’d like to obtain a decent amount of Ranked cards, but sadly the lack of players makes this impossible. I only have 3 because no players and the long grind to obtain them makes it difficult.

Anyone have any suggestions?

My suggestion is just a simple bug fix: after a recent update (forget which one exactly, but it was in April), Ranked defaults to European servers every time you start up the game. If this could be changed so it goes back to how it was, you choose your server and it stays that way until you change it again, that would be nice.

Obviously we need to incentivize Ranked or something to get some more players joining. I’d like to get some damn cards! [/quote]

Crack down on the cheaters more.[/quote]

What cheaters? We have gone through 3 anti cheat systems, yet I keep hearing about these mystical creatures.

(ImSploosh) #31

[quote=“ABigKahuna;c-227713”]

Crack down on the cheaters more.[/quote]
I have over 500 in-game hours on Dirty Bomb and in total, I’ve encountered less than 20 cheaters. They generally come in waves and you’ll see the same 2 or 3 playing for a few hours. After they get banned or bored (whichever comes first), they’re normally never seen again.

Anti-cheat systems combined with the lack of incentive for cheating have made it a rare occurrence. I’m just confused where you find all of these cheaters. Even in ranked, I’ve only encountered 1(?). Not even sure if I’ve seen one in ranked, I just remember there being a suspicious guy who may have been cheating.

(watsyurdeal) #32

Random idea, make pubs more like pubs. Map votes are during the game, you can choose your team, loadout cards, etc before you spawn for the first time.

Stop treating pubs with the same mindset we should be treating Ranked, and people who want balanced games will start playing ranked more.

(bgyoshi) #33

Be careful, this sounds WAY more fun than Ranked could ever hope to be.

(watsyurdeal) #34

Be careful, this sounds WAY more fun than Ranked could ever hope to be.[/quote]

Then that’s a good thing, cause apparently it’d get people playing. Keeps people playing, keeps population high.

If people have a place to play around and not give a shit, then they can grow naturally with their aim and death match ability. So when they are ready for coordinated play they aren’t struggling to keep up with the rest of the team.

(bgyoshi) #35

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Then that’s a good thing, cause apparently it’d get people playing. Keeps people playing, keeps population high.

If people have a place to play around and not give a @$!#, then they can grow naturally with their aim and death match ability. So when they are ready for coordinated play they aren’t struggling to keep up with the rest of the team.[/quote]

Good for the game, but I think the devs want Ranked to be more fun than pubs, personal views aside.

Plus this is a ‘populate Ranked’ thread. I think the idea is to get a higher percentage of pubbers to play Ranked, instead of just increasing the general population of DB. I think at the peak of Season 2, 40% of players were in Ranked. Shoe saw it as a win for them, but I mean, it’s still less than half of DB players. I’m thinking this thread aims to getting that number up to 60-70 %

(M4st0d0n) #36

I need to schedule my ranked sessions. That’s my problem with it. Getting some planning hygiene. Ranked is a serious matter. Leave the work at 17h max. I’ll tell my wife to keep the supper warm untill 22h after the servers die. Keep the damn cat at bay because it has a tendency to walk on the computer power switch. I need to socialize with other players. Yuk. I need to go full hardmode, have a star trek desk chair, buy some ritalin, drink electrolytes, learn to speak russian and clean my own blood off of my mousepad. With more blood.

And yet here I am, exhausted after grinding my 24 execution rounds mission, reading the forum.

(Melinder) #37

Having a reward system similar to that of Overwatch Competitive would stop players playing for the sake of ending games fast and farming cards, and instead having them try their best to win every game. Either drastically shorten seasons, or break seasons up into parts. At the end of each season break, have player rank reset, and receive bulk ranked points depending on the rank that you ended on. Like Overwatch, have your proceeding placement matches reflect what your rank was the previous season (meaning if you ended in cobalt, you will be facing other players who ended in cobalt, and will place high gold/low cobal after completing your placements, depending on performance).

To incentivise players to still play after reaching elite, grant players bonus ranked points for reaching “top 10” or “top 50” in the world by having leaderboards and numerical mmr past the point of elite operative.

(Noir) #38

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To incentivise players to still play after reaching elite, grant players bonus ranked points for reaching “top 10” or “top 50” in the world by having leaderboards and numerical mmr past the point of elite operative.[/quote]

If that could prevent them from playing on smurfs… I mean, I have no issue with smurfs on Pubs, but when it comes to Ranked mode… That’s very selfish. Come on please.

(K1X455) #39

Execution mode will be good for those farming for Rank Coins for skins. Earn rate is faster, but you can lose rank much faster too. Good for smurf accounts as well.