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No because not everybody wants to get ultra sweaty when playing duel. Sometimes you just want to chill or take a character out for a test run. You shouldn't ever be forcing a game mode onto a player, the player should have the freedom to choose the mode they want to play.
First the foremost they need to stop calling it Ranked Duel "BETA". The beta period for this ended a long, long time ago and Ubi need to stop hiding behind the "but it's just beta" tagline as an automatic excuse for the poor state of this mode. Secondly, and probably most importantly, they need to disable bots in ranked duel. As of Season 10 myself and a few people I know have been put into a match against a bot more times than we have been put against a human player. And it actually counts a bot match as part of your ranking calculation, which is ridiculous for a PvP ranked mode.
There is no reason that bots should even exist in a ranked mode. And every time the game puts a player in with a bot match that's one less player in the matchmaking pool thus increasing the already long wait times. Remove bot matches in ranked and you'll improve wait times as well as the credibility of your ranking system, which tbh is a joke right now.
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They can play relaxed and just don't think about rank. Also there can be rank for every character and you choose character before searching, it will be good thing because you won't lose your rank if took new character.Originally Posted by Vakris_One Go to original post
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So long as you slap the word "ranked" in the title of any game mode in any game people will always try their hardest to win and will never "play relaxed". Ranked is a playlist for people who want to play competitively and see where they stand in skill against the rest of the community. Regular and ranked duels should remain separate. At the very least its in the best interest of the game itself that regular duels never be removed. There are some players who only ever play duels and it would only burden them further to constantly worry about having to win.
Now you might say "well if they dont care about the rank then who does it hurt?" To which I say it hurts the players that do. Think about it: a player who plays competitively being matched up with someone who couldn't care less. The player who doesn't care isn't motivated to try and as a result doesn't give their 100% to the match. Not only is that unfair to the player looking to win and have that intense match up, it also hurts them. They're essentially being given a free win, which will reflect on their rank. For the better? No, their rank may go up but their experience and skill wont, then when they get matched up with someone significantly better than them, all because of a percentile difference, they wont be having a very fun time.
If you want to duel for the fun of it there is a regular duel mode that has been there since day one and it works just fine.
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As an avid duelist, I would love this change. Much better matchmaking times, more chance for those seasonal ornaments, a feeling of actual progress in a PvP game. However, that is ignoring the fact that the current ranking system is completely broken and you can pretty much only regress. First and foremost they'd need to fix it, which is iffy teritory for Ubisoft, and then make it so it's an actually rewarding experience without it being too lenient or too harsh on your rank. I honestly don't think this dev team can do that.
But anyway, this just another thing that will never be looked at or considered to be implemented.
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Disagree. Ranked is garbage and needs to be fixed first and foremost. Second you're taking away the capability for someone to play casually in duels. SBMM is a plague upon games as is and this already hampers enjoyment for people who just want to play. Doubling down on that by forcing all duels to be ranked is essentially taking both bad parts of duels currently and nuking them to make it worse just to "maybe" help matchmaking times.
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Of course ranked needs to be fixed, but after fix it will be really good idea to make all duels ranked. If you want to play casually then who forbids you?Originally Posted by Knight_Raime Go to original post
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No thank you, I'd rather not have to calm down after every match because of the cheese all 'ranked' opponents pull. I don't play PVP duels often but after having played ranked duels for an entire evening (I really wanted that yellow/red palette for Nuxia) I can say that casual duel and ranked duel are a night and day difference. One is basically a normal duel and the other is a bash spam fest filled with cheese, salt and players with extremely high latency that 'light spam'.
Playing ranked duel for an evening made me realise that I wouldn't want to touch it ever again. The heroes I hate fighting most are Aramusha and Shaolin yet somehow fighting them that day gave me the most pleasure I had that evening because neither of them were spamming while having a high latency or were trying to pull out cheesy tactics. In hindsight none of the rewards I got were worth having to face the personification of the devil in shiny armor EVERY match. My first ever ranked match was against a Tiandi with around 100 ping that kept doing dodge lights. It was REALLY fun seeing him teleport all over my screen... Even though I still managed to win (40 dmg deflects ftw), I nearly threw my controller into a wall out of anger. I've never broken anything before (on purpose), it takes a lot to anger me but that was literally hell.
Casual duels are more laid back and fun. Players don't fish for ledges or pull out some BS tactic like that "kiting strat" from a while back. I don't want the casual and competitive scenes to collide.
Sorry for the rant...
- Season 8 "Master" Nuxia signing off...
