Upcoming Competitive Level Change

(MissMurder) #1

With the Containment War Update, we’ll be unlocking Competitive mode at Level 7. It will take new players 5 times longer to get into Ranked play, with around 11-12 hours play required, instead of the previous 2-2.5 hours.

Competitive can be a daunting experience and is incredibly reliant on team play and a knowledge of the Mercs and their gameplay roles, so it’s better for everyone if players are more experienced before entering the mode. This will also increase the amount of effort that ‘smurfs’ or cheaters have to put in to get a new account into the game mode, generally improving the quality of matches for everyone else.

However, anyone below Level 7 that already has a rank when the update is launched will continue to be able to play in Competitive mode.

(TmGSpade) #2

YES! YES YES YES!

(farmakoxeris.exe) #3

i think 10 lvls would be better!! but still this is a good change!

(PixelTwitch) #4

You really should increase the levels of the max level servers as well to give newer players at least 10 more hours of protection from the really experienced players.

(defiantStar) #5

omg! best change ! :smiley:

(PaNdarat0r666) #6

@PixelTwitch said:
You really should increase the levels of the max level servers as well to give newer players at least 10 more hours of protection from the really experienced players.

Would be nice, but really, there’s little difference to the normal servers unfortunately :frowning:

(opicr0n) #7

thumbs up

(Sprix) #8

This is definitely a step in the right direction! Hopefully some additional rewards/benefits to motivate more players to play competitive are added in the near future, something like higher credit gain or higher chance for cases would be nice.

(watsyurdeal) #9

Me reacting to this whole update right now

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

(kibloy) #10

Great move, and you had the foresight to exclude people who already have a rank.

I still remember having to grind 20 hours of casual in CS:GO despite having played hundreds of games in competitive shudders

(FireWorks) #11

Now make sure they dont get comp mode missions during their low level time. Seen some youtuber having multiple comp mode missions while he was still low lvl.

#12

Thankies. <3

(MissMurder) #13

Good point.

(_Sniff_) #14

Good point. [/quote]

I’m not sure it is. Shouldn’t newbies be forced to play in general population matches before playing competitive? That way they get an actual taste of how Dirty Bomb can be?

I figure the max level servers have a much different pace than general population servers.

(Lumi) #15

This should have been done like the week after you downgraded the requirement to level 5 and noticed it was a mistake…

(Mrarauzz) #16

I would love if you got rid of the comp missions if you made this change! I’m currently doing a series on YT with new account to farm credits quick and I got lots of comp missions and its a hindrance. I really feel like this should have been removed first before the level change…

(FireWorks) #17

That would be you then :slight_smile: Do you mind posting a time marked video for easier reference, please? I kinda lost your series in the wides of the net :wink:

(Mrarauzz) #18

Ha at work and my 4g data gone so can’t mark with all the buffering but here is the link for the playlist, and thanks for watching :slight_smile:

(Lissxy) #19

Woah totally unexpected but so helpful!

(FizzySpaceJuice) #20

Thank you for helping make people who are thinking of climbing the ranked ladder have some more experience before giving it a go and those who are already doing it know that they will have people on their team who are a least informed with the basic techniques, hopefully.