What's the deal with Competition Playlist?

(Zelltre) #1

I kinda stopped playing this game for a week or so…come back and I can’t get a blasted Competition game started for the life of me…

Turns out, you NEED 10 people to start the game…and ALL TEN PEOPLE have to ready up? For reals? People are making this game an infinite round of team deathmatch because they aren’t readying up…I think it’s kind of a step backwards…All I play is Competition. For it to be like this…and then nobody starts the game kills off any motive I have to play the game besides Old-Skool and customs.

The idea wasn’t a bad one…but I can barely get competition games started, resulting in lobby jumping more than wall jumping.

Can someone level with me on the implementation on this? I don’t demand change but…I’d like to be able to play competition playlist…not infinite TDM.

(Wildkarrde) #2

Apparently it’s the"lobby" everyone wanted

(tangoliber) #3

I’m pretty sure you don’t need everyone to ready up in Competition. Maybe half of the people?

If its a 1v1 you might need both people to ready up.

(wolfnemesis75) #4

[QUOTE=Zelltre;345787]I kinda stopped playing this game for a week or so…come back and I can’t get a blasted Competition game started for the life of me…

Turns out, you NEED 10 people to start the game…and ALL TEN PEOPLE have to ready up? For reals? People are making this game an infinite round of team deathmatch because they aren’t readying up…I think it’s kind of a step backwards…All I play is Competition. For it to be like this…and then nobody starts the game kills off any motive I have to play the game besides Old-Skool and customs.

The idea wasn’t a bad one…but I can barely get competition games started, resulting in lobby jumping more than wall jumping.

Can someone level with me on the implementation on this? I don’t demand change but…I’d like to be able to play competition playlist…not infinite TDM.[/QUOTE]

I played Competition in the first couple weeks, but haven’t since. You can get kicked from it, so that was one negative aspect of it. I also played around in the Warmup phase and its good for talking and shooting the breeze. Competition mode is not as competitive as Standard Mode when you are facing 8v8. 8v8 all humans who are 20 lvl is as hard as the game gets. Competitive Mode is too easy.

(Zelltre) #5

Yeah. Can’t get anything going in Competition…good job…

(Floris) #6

Afaik, the competition playlist is designed with tournament play in mind. In a tournament you don’t want a match to start while half of your team is still fetching a drink or taking a dump.

(wolfnemesis75) #7

I’d expect maybe when Clan support comes out, it will be easier to organize a match in the Competition mode. (Xbox)

(nephandys) #8

These were my thoughts on the issue as well. While some might like to just jump in solo to play some comp it appears like the idea in mind was to round up at least your own team if not the other and then get into the game.

Not necessarily supporting their logic, but that seems to be the idea behind it.

(Zelltre) #9

Understandable…like I said, the idea isn’t a bad one, but this game is losing steam fast, and I don’t think that was the best time to implement this idea…At the end of the day, this all comes down to a poor executive decision IMO. I played a 8v8 match(which wasn’t all that fun) and saw alot of the people I normally play with/against in competition. Presumably because they couldn’t get a game started either.

I don’t wanna be an ass about this, but I mean…it’s stupid to implement at this point.