Thread: Season 2

If you don't have the time to watch, here is a bit of a rundown.

-Instead of 1-100 skill ratings, it will be 1-5000
-There will be seven skill tiers you will be placed in(for example 1-500 skill rating will be bronze). Kaplan mentioned the names of some of the skill tiers, they will most likely be Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, and Grand Master
-Ranks will now go up/down by whole numbers instead of fractions of numbers.
-At Diamond, Master, and Grand Master, there is skill decay. If you haven't been playing competitive for 7 days at those tiers then you will lose 50 skill rating every 24 hours you don't play. This will prevent people who get lucky after their placement matches and then just sitting there for the rest of the season.
-Sudden death is gone, finally! It felt bad to be 3 - 3 on a payload map where you pushed it in a minute and the enemy team barely got it in overtime, then you lost to a coin flip. KOTH maps are unchanged, but payload maps will have a time bank and assault maps are going to be changed also, but it's complicated. Also, if it still ends in a tie (which it rarely will) there will be a tie and both teams' rankings will go up slightly.
-The limit at which you can group is now determined by skill level of 500 difference. This makes it so the games aren't so off balance with a few friends helping out low skill levels climb faster than they should be. This equates to roughly 10 skill rating in the current system.
-Competitive points will be multiplied by 10 and golden gun costs will reflect this. This is to give even the losing team a small amount of competitive points to eventually get a golden gun and reward the players for playing.


I don't agree with the competitive points change... though I do understand it can be frustrating to not get them due to not playing much. It seems like it SHOULD take a long time to get the golden gun for a few characters of choice. Winning should be rewarded in a competitive style mode. Participation ribbons, basically... bah.

Unless it's like the golden gun in 007 golden eye meh

I agree winning should be rewarded, but there are a metric fuckton of asshats playing this game. I hate losing a game when I play well, but my Reinhardt thinks his job is launch himself right into the middle of the enemy team every time he can as opposed to shielding his team that is defending.

The new patch just dropped and with it Season 2 is Live.