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Dux Durandal wrote:

eLantern wrote:

stephenrg95 wrote:

If Ranked BTB is going to stick around I think the best maps with gametype combinations are...

AsymmetricalGuillotine - 1 Flag - TS
Meander - Strongholds - TS
Port Authority - Strongholds - TS
Voyager - 1 Flag - TS

Symmetrical Crossbow - Assault - TS
Dead Heat - Assault - TS
Panic Attack - CTF - TS
Viking - CTF - TS

You seriously selected Dead Heat & Panic Attack over Echoes, Fracture, or Traffic Jam? Just... why?

Plus, I don't know how you leave Scavenger out of your Asymmetrical selection.

Scav is a fun map, but with two good teams it gets pretty stale.
I like echoes, fracture and traffic jam, but i definitely think viking, crossbow and panic attack fill those same roles in a more competitive way. That being said, there’s room for at least a couple of them.
Dead heat seems pretty meh to me, though.

The Viking and Dead Heat remakes are duds. 1 Flag on a Relic remake would be awesome.

Genesis Rider wrote:

• Starting weapons: BR and AR (default versions of both). Note: No change necessary to the starting weapons. The current BR prevents players from "cross-mapping" or "beaming" players from great distances and adds a skill gap to the weapon via the vertical recoil. Players must adapt at different distances to the recoil, but since the bullets in the vertical pattern are 100% accurate and no longer "randomly spread," recoil only adds more of a skill gap to the weapon.
  
  Vehicles: The warthog's gunner is way too easily shot out of the gunner seat. There are plenty of large maps to enjoy vehicles on and it is a critical part of BTB.
  
  Game-modes: Big Team Slayer, CTF, Strongholds, and Assault are fine for the current BTB ecosystem. Balancing these out so they appear an equal amount of times between all the maps in BTB will be the challenge.

I think the BR's characteristics are gone now and the maps sight lines should be at fault for beaming players.

The Warthog is definitely something else. I see it work on some maps but I see the gunner gone in seconds on others.

iSpartan119 wrote:

People play btb rank to reach champ but those who haven’t reached it, wont because the system is being manipulated by players who quit out

I think the majority of people who get a champion rank play in parties. I don't see how most people could rank up to champion playing solo unless they carried their team to victory or dropped a significant amount of kills almost every game. I think a lot of the quitting is just a result of uneven skill matching due to low population. It's evident with what you mentioned by not even having 200 champions yet and there are a number of smurfs as well on the leaderboard. Uneven matching leads to bad CSR payouts or losses and playing solo means you're more than likely going to lose a lot more than you win so you're stuck in an endless loop of going up and down two or three ranks even if you're actually higher skilled than what you're rank represents.

I'd be surprised if this lasted more than one season. During the weekend, I could hardly find games in the early morning hours and got timed out four times while on expanded which would normally not be an issue during the summer in the past. I've had plenty of games with platinums and golds although I don't get much CSR if at all for those games so I suspect it's a population issue. It sucks though cause I would like to see what the actual representation of the skill ranking looks like with onyx and diamond players, but it's not gonna happen if the population remains low.

I STOLE ur ATV wrote:

iSpartan119 wrote:

I don’t see btb rank coming back for another season after this one. Anybody else?

I certainly hope it goes back to social, the mode will be actually playable again.

I could care less if it is ranked or not. I play it the same way regardless of the rank. I just want btb to stick around. The talk prior to ranking about btb possibly going rotational playlist is the only reason I want it ranked. 343 seems to give their ranked playlists way more leeway for population numbers than social or warzone. I just want btb to stay.

I do think fixing the csr issues would help. The disparity between gains for wins and drops for losses is comical. 2 teams play each other. They go 1-1. Everyone on those teams is considerably lower csr than where they started prior to the matches. That’s broken.

Heaviies wrote:

Nofunnyideas wrote:

I STOLE ur ATV wrote:

iSpartan119 wrote:

I don’t see btb rank coming back for another season after this one. Anybody else?

I certainly hope it goes back to social, the mode will be actually playable again.

I could care less if it is ranked or not. I play it the same way regardless of the rank. I just want btb to stick around. The talk prior to ranking about btb possibly going rotational playlist is the only reason I want it ranked. 343 seems to give their ranked playlists way more leeway for population numbers than social or warzone. I just want btb to stay.

I do think fixing the csr issues would help. The disparity between gains for wins and drops for losses is comical. 2 teams play each other. They go 1-1. Everyone on those teams is considerably lower csr than where they started prior to the matches. That’s broken.

The csr payout depends on performances in wins and losses though based on the team balancer. are you proposing a flat payout for wins vs losses?

No. Performance and competition should still be taken into account.

I just want things tweaked so that the players pushing rank don’t get frustrated and quit. Right now wins are not rewarded enough and losses and too highly punished. Quits affecting gains isn’t helping either.

I still havnt seen onyx ranks yet and at this point that’s very strange. I also Havnt matched any champs below the 70’s. Compared to every other ranked playlist something isn’t working right.

LUKEPOWA wrote:

Did the matching restrictions get loosened? I had multiple games with gold and silver players last night so was curious.

I've had quite literally gold and silver level players in almost all of my games with the exception of playing against full teams. I wonder why you haven't been matching with them or against them prior to last night

I STOLE ur ATV wrote:

iSpartan119 wrote:

I don’t see btb rank coming back for another season after this one. Anybody else?

I certainly hope it goes back to social, the mode will be actually playable again.

I agree. I miss btb when it was social. If 343 really wants btb to be ranked they could just have both a social btb and a ranked btb.

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