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EDIT 4/17 CREDIT TO P-NOOZI FOR THE PICTURE ADDITION.
We want UCRR
EDIT 3/17 *credit to xxshadyxx
OK. So slant 6 is trying to protect us...............they want a fair experience. Yet here we are.....the people they're trying to "protect" that just want the damn user created ranked rooms already.............I will keep this short, but you say, "hey, I don't want them, it leads to exploits"..............Oh ya? Like this farfetched stat page?
And don't even try and tell me that maybe the guy is just this or that.............we're not stupid
GIVE US USER CREATED RANKED ROOMS.
We get to:
- choose the map
- choose the mode
- choose the time limit (within certain paremeters)
Leave everything else to the default "ranked" settings................how hard is that?
I have to say that there are problems with the current rigid ranking system.
The developers point of view.
They seemed hell bent to protect the ranking system come hell or high water for this iteration of socom. Fine. I personally have never cared enough about rank that I felt a broken ranking system was that big of an issue. I have always played for the love of the game, and the love of the game alone, but I understand that there is a group of fans out there that need a ranking system to add that extra level of enjoyment to their game. I believe that he developers placed great importance on this ranking system for a highly addictive and competitive experience.
What they did:
They went one step further from their socom 3 strategy (yes i know its a different developer this time) and completely locked out players from being able to create ranked rooms. They felt that this would ensure that cherry picking and ranking up would be much much harder to do.
What this did to us and our experience.
- CREATED A MORE HOSTILE RANKED GAME ENVIRONMENT: since clans no longer had the ability to make a ranked "can room", they took to taking over your ordinary ranked games. That in and of itself would be fine, if that was all it entailed. But what it did was create an environment in which your lone wolf type players were never safe from being voted for absolutely no reason. NOw I'm not naive. I know that voting has always been abused to a certain extent, but what we have these days is just ridiculous. Your typical fringe player who is trying to decide if he likes the game will come away with a bad taste in his mouth if he keeps getting voted..........not a good way to build a fanbase (especially on top of the server issues.
- THE OLD VARIETY IS MISSING: No ranked pistols only, or freedom to choose time limits or playlists in order to play socom the way you want to play it. That was always one of socoms big draws. It was always very versatie. Want to play snipers only ranked? cool. Shotguns? no problem. 4 on 4 with a 3 minute time limit? Go for it.
- CLANS NO LONGER HAVE A HOME: It used to be that you could go to server x and find clan Y playing in their regular ranked room, spawning some great rivalries over time.
Now of course, all of this is missing and socom feels very confined. NOw if you don't want to play ranked, good for you, but I know that there is a huge portion of people that feel not playing ranked is a waste of time.
The solution.
Allow players to make ranked games with certain static paremters to ensure the best chance of keeping things above board.
Some examples of things that would be defaulted on no matter what could be:
- minimum round time
- minimum rounds
- minimum players (say 4 on 4)
- ranged explosives set to off
- friendly fire set to on
of course thhere could be more, but you get the point.
I don't see the harm in people creating ranked games as long as there were certain things that couldn't be changed. I feel that this is an important issue and needs to be addressed.
Now I can only speak for myself here, but if I am correct others agree and will show it.
BAsically, give us a little room to breathe here. You're suffocating the players by forcing them to play the same crap over and over again. Thanks.
EDIT:
Below is a quote from a post VOODOO-X- made in this thread. It sums up perfectly one of the growing problems in this game.
VOODOO-x- WROTE:
The SOCOM magic is gone for me... why?
For me it's mostly the lack of custom ranked games. It's not that I want to play ranked games per se. It's that no one will join a custom game because they all want to "get their rank on". I never played all the maps in SOCOM 1 or 2. In SOCOM 1 it was mostly "Alaska Medley or Thai Medley" and in SOCOM 2 our playlist was: Vigilance, Blizzard, Requiem, Frost Fire, The Mixer, Crossroads, and Night Stalker. We played what we liked. Now in confrontation you're forced to play maps you don't like (or even maps you do like but as a game types that doesn't work for that map well) just to be able to play with strangers. If you make a custom game, no one will join it because it's not ranked.... unless you make it a respawn game.... and respawn is getting old too because it just doesn't feel like SOCOM.
Custom ranked games are what I think is the biggest thing missing from the game right now. That's what's hurting the replay value for me personally. I just don't know if Slant 6 or Sony realizes how much it's sorely needed to make SOCOM be SOCOM again.
As long as they are not allowed to be "private" they will have no effect on rankup.
Mhmm.
And I don't see the big problem with ranking up, either (hey, let's play in a Japanese server, eh?). If Slant Six truely cared, they would ban all those with obvious exploited stats.
I mean, the ranking system is already screwed up as it is (with it being based off # games played). I'm still a rank 1 yet have something like 75 games played, with around 50 wins.
I agree 100%. I'm not a rank-obsessed player, but it would be nice to go into a public room and not have to feel run out of the room because some jackholes invade a room and now I have to decide what's less painful to me at the moment...the vote or the abort? Either way, it's an unacceptable choice to have to make.
Digitalblitz wrote:
so lets get this straight cause i want to understand. u feel if u make ur own rank room that a bunch of player from the same clan won't come in the room and take it over and vote people out to get more clan mate in. this is not a good argument for ur case. clan doesn't have a home is really stupid why do u need a rank room for your clan most clan make rooms to practice and recruit people why does it need to be ranked. created rank room just another way to exploit the gm that is my opinion i am happy they cut that out
Dude, have you ever played the previous Socoms online?
There will be plenty of clans that would resort to user created rooms than the default ones.
Digitalblitz wrote:I could not care less if people ranked up. I want custom ranked rooms.
It solves 2 problems, the clan takeovers and the bland playlists.
do u know that u can create your own room and playlist why does it have to be rank i think ur one of those people who exploit the gm that why it is the way it is now. it doesn't solve clan takeover because u make your own room please explain that theory. explain why me and my clan mate can't come in that room and take it over why because its rank. stop writing stuff if your not going to back it up
it was explained very well............and you boviously don't get it after that, so you aren't going to get it. any further attempts to clarify would be a waste of time in your case.
