I hope not. A rankings board in ANYTHING video game related always breeds an atmosphere of abusing exploits & bugs, min/maxing to the nth degree, and flat-out cheating.
There was on old, free game for the Xbox 360. It was basically Wipeout/MXC sponsored by Doritos; run the courses as fast as possible. Times went on a leaderboard.
Within a week, the top 1,000 times were 00:00:00.03 seconds.
None of the courses had any way to finish them that fast.
And that was a leaderboard for a free game sponsored by Doritos.
Imagine how much worse exploits & cheating would be in a leaderboard for a mainstream game.
sooooo, one more exploit or bug in what’s an already endless sea of those things would be bad? c’mon buddy, life ain’t perfect and things will no matter what, get f*ed up. i don’t care about min/max and im not going to exploit a bug. i just wanna get as high as possible and if cheaters are gunna cheat then as far as im concerned, let them cheat. im not the devs so i dont care and it’s not going to stop me from hitting that que button. i play CS:GO and i feel my rank is accurate despite the cheaters in that game. that’s enough for me
I personally would enjoy Ranked Arenas. 2v2 no heals, or 3v3 with 1 healer would be okay maybe. The only reason I played wow for years was only for Arena gameplay
This game needs a good combat system before it gets ranked imo, it’s missing key features like DR or other skill-based combat mechanics from other MMOs with ranked PvP.
At it’s current state if they shipped out ranked, it would be incredibly be exploited and filled with GA/WH who just spam stun for 5+ seconds because there’s zero protection against CC.
They need to add ranked ladders for OPR so you can queue as a team and it means something.
I think they should add 2 to 3 more OPR like maps which are akin to 3 capture point one team defends/one team attacks.
A castle siege style event akin to invasions.
Push the payload/bomb to enemy gates to blow it up. Once it blows up the attacking team wins.
I think it will be beneficial because it offers more pvp game modes/increases longevity of the game and allows companies to form strategy and compositions so wars/invasions are more competitive and fun.
With that said they should also allow groups to queue up beyond just 5 man squads and go for max cap so if the game is 30v30 allow companies to form 30 man groups.
There should be queue for full or allow flex pugs to join. If a 30 man team is queued they should search for other 30 man teams and if the matchmaking can’t it should fill in smaller groups ie groups of multiple 5s ect to face off against the 30 man team.
Perhaps someday it will be. But it will not be very soon. The game has so many problems that need to be solved immediately. Developers simply don’t have enough hands to deal with ratings.
Because healers in this game is impossible to kill in 2v2 or 3v3 for that matter. Even in games like WoW healers break the game and make pvp unfun. I can see healers being ok if they have a 70-80% healing debuff for Arena(potion/berserk included).
This game does little to rank utility in any fashion and their weapons balancing is atrocious. Address the game problems and that before I would ask for something that would be end up being massively skewed.
