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#6

No ranked and no more useless game modes like clash, please.

Predator: Hunting Grounds is all about the hunt and hunt is not suited for a ranked mode.

Ranked mode is often badly implemented. It splits playerbase and promotes cheating significantly. We already have some Epic players who use exploits, filters and macros to gain an advantage.
Furthermore, it’s unfair if there are no separate ranked modes for premades and random team-ups.

In the end, it’s always nice not clearly knowing before if the match will be a walk in the park or a ride through hell.

Just enjoy the hunt. You never know who you will be up against. Actually, that’s not completely true since in case of a full Epic fireteam, it’s likely that someone will resort to macros and filters. Just leave in the last second and let them play with themselves.

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#7

As long as there’s no possibility to put every player in the same condition there’s absolutely no purpose in activating a ranked system

#8

People that want matches of higher level can just set up private matches.

#9

What does that mean?

#10

Think of chess: it is the competitive game par excellence.

But even serious e-sports competitions are also done publicly and by equipping players with the same software and hardware devices.

#11

You can’t have ranked system when random bugs can decide the course of the match.

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#12

Things don’t have to be the same I’m order to be balanced

As long as two maps are equally balanced they both can be used simultaneously in a ranked mode

Same with OBJ

As for loadouts, figuring out what is and isn’t a good build, either through practice or looking at the meta, is a skill on its own.

#13

I’m totally down for something like that!!

#14

The only ranked videogame competition I know are the public LAN tournaments.

#15

first thing iffonic should fix is the game. by the way is it too big a game on maps to fix?
So iffonic would take a decade because predator has many maps right?
= pitiful to see the predator locked in buggy trees after months of sales

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#16

Wait so a ranked mode is entirely dead?

Let’s just ignore Siege and Overwatch and CSGO and even DBD which all have ranked modes that are done online

#17

ranked in this game is bad idea for these reasons

1)the game is unbalanced (squads can destroy 99% of preds no matter what )
2)this game have low number of active players (waiting times for 2 different modes will skyrocket )
3) with crossplay disabled you just fucked pc players

#18

yeah no purpose in that

I mean: if I want to compete, I compete for money. And for that you need a public lan tournament (no cheating, no exploits, just pure sport)

#19

There’s no purpose for games in general

You need to practice and prove yourself first

And what about people not good enough?

Do they just not to be competitive?

I guess only the top 1% get the right of having a competitive match

#20

It’s impossibile to have proper competition if you can’t check the partecipants

#21

It’s called SBMM

And if your talking hacks it’s called anti cheat

There’s literally ranked modes that work

You have no basis in theory or practice

#22

There’s simply no professional competition outside LAN tournaments, period.

Every other “ranked” mode is a joke ;)

and what about macros

#23

Don’t do ranked playlists, do a trophy wall. Leveling isn’t content but challenges not only feed into the main gameplay loop but can be an avenue to gain rewards to entice players to come back and not split an already niche audience.

To further this I’d add prestige if we REALLY had to do something with leveling.

But in the event of a trophy wall you’d have a series of challenges the player can complete for a mixture of experience, currency, field lockers, or cosmetics. In doing so the player has more to do than just running dailies or going for trophies because the player needs something to chase. We need and want something to work towards.

For prestige if you really had to do it would be to reach level 150 but you have the option to start over. This locks classes and items until you return to that level but every time you prestige you unlock a new cosmetic. An idea is that this is how Master armors are unlocked where once you prestige players have a skin that flaunts that time spent.

Presitge 1 - Master armor
Prestige 2 - Master mask
Prestige 3 - Master shader
Prestige 4 - Cape accessory

You get the idea. You have something to chase which doesn’t split the player base.

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#24

Prove your point, period.

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Let’s take the pistol macro

Patch the pistol to have a maximum fire rate

Every macro that allows you to do things that you normally can’t can be patched out with changes like these.

#25

That’s great…