Those Golden weapons are tacky as hell...Do Blizzard have a 12 year old CoD fan working for them?
(I usually find CoD related insults tacky themselves, but my lord, that is definitely the demographic for those ugly as sin things)
I hate the ranking system. I was doing good in nearly all of my games and people would leave the game I was in on my team. It said I wouldn't get penalized for leaving, but I clearly did. I had to do this 2-3 times because my team left.
Edit: Alright, this mode sucks as it is right now. If people leave your team it's pretty much over. You get penalized with a loss if you leave when it says you can "without penalty" or stay and be outmatched by the other team. Nobody fills in your empty team slots. Matches take a very long time. Completely dependent on how well your new random team does every time you find a match.
People who keep leaving will get banned until next season, so in theory the problem should sort itself out as 'those people' get banned...But yea, even assuming the 'in theory' works, it's gonna suck until they've all gotten themselves banned...
But nobody filling the slots is pretty much there to stop other players from entering a losing game and unfairly harming their rank, which would be just as unfair for them
(or undeservedly gaining rank I suppose). That's pretty much the standard thing that happens in the ranked mode for most games. The only real way around it has always been to play with friends/a group.
Though if somebody leaves, there's at least like a 30-60 second window to account for unintentional disconnections giving them a chance to come back into the match, which is at least better than other games tend to do in ranked if somebody leaves.
[edit] It's also usually like that so people can't boost ranks by joining winning games at the end, as well as to stop pre-formed groups harassing 'a randomer' into leaving either so they an leave a losing game themselves without a penelty once the random has been made to leave or harassing them to leave so their friend can join and get a win.
Regardless, I tried it out and I despise the scoring system. It should go by time taken to capture a payload rather than # of points capped with payload. On some maps, such as Volskaya, the sudden death system can feel more like a death sentence considering how hard it is to defend the first point on that map
So far I don't mind the scoring system for the matches themselves, but I've only been getting the same two maps that are the same damn match type...So I can't really judge it properly.
The sudden deaths are utter bullcrap though. I don't see why at the very least they can't just shove you on a 'king of the hill' map for those. Sure, it's probably a totally different match type to what you've just played, but at least there isn't an instant handicap against one team.
They say they're gonna change that after the first season...But that just makes me question why they've done it in the first place if they evidently know it's a crap system.
We also won at the first point, they didn't have enough justice to give.
