Ranked Season 1 Update

RazielWarmonic

Let's cut to the chase - Ranked Season 1 starts today, and you should get involved. For honor, glory, and the dangly doodad you'll get at the end of it! All the grisly details on Ranked Season 1 and other additions lie ahead...

Ranked Season 1
After test-driving the Ranked Preseason for more than half a year, it's time $%#! got real - Today we're kicking off Ranked Season 1!

First off, if you qualified for a Preseason Trinket you'll find it in your inventory sometime in the next day or two. Slap it on your Primary and show the world how high you climbed.


Where Do I Sign Up?
To get a head start on the season, hit 'Ranked Match' in the Play menu. Remember, you have to be at Level 7 or higher to get stuck in.

When you enter the new season, you'll battle through ten placement matches to determine your starting Rank.

Your placement is affected by where you ended up in the Preseason, but if you're fresh to Ranked these ten games will be the proverbial sorting hat for where you begin.

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We've ditched the oft-confused numbering system from Pre-Season, and lovingly named the Ranks within each league from Recruit to Master. Icons have also been given a facelift to separate them further from each other.

What Else Has Changed?

• Skill Limit Update - We're significantly tightening up the maximum allowed skill difference between players for more evenly matched games. While we will always match the closest available players, you might occasionally come across a difference of 3-5 Ranks.
• Rank Bracket Update - We've updated the point at which new players enter the system to the top of Bronze, rather than the top of Silver.
• Leaver Penalty - To discourage players from leaving Ranked games, anyone who leaves will no longer receive ANY credits at the end of the match. Previously they would leave with anything they had earned up until that point.
• Solo/Duo Queue - For this first Season, we'll be limiting queues to Solo/Duo. This is to prevent the majority of players who join as Solo coming up against 5-Player pre-made Parties. We plan to re-introduce full 5vs5 Ranked play with a few improvements as soon as we can, as we consider organised teamplay the lifeblood of Dirty Bomb. For a greater breakdown on the change, check out this forum post.
• Disabled AU & Asia Regions - We will be disabling the AU and Asia regions in Ranked play for the time being, to avoid overly long queue times due to the smaller player counts in these regions

What Do I Get?
The chance to claw your way up through the unwashed masses, emerging in the golden glow of sweet, sweet victory...

Also, a healthy 50% Credit Bonus that's applied to your Credit total at the end of every match (as of January's Fine Tuning Update).

On top of that, you'll be rewarded an exclusive Season 1 Trinket for the highest Rank you attain during the Season when it wraps up. Moving down a Rank won't cost you the higher Rank Trinket, so don't be afraid to fight your way back to the top!

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Alright, time to prove your mettle - Get in there and start raising your Rank!

Balance Changes
Thunder

• Reduced the size of Thunder's body hitboxes by ~2%

Other Changes
Gameplay

• Team Shuffle Votes are now available in Execution Mode
• We're reducing the amount of Objective progress information freely given to the opposition, with the aim of encouraging more tactical play
• As a team is disarming C4, disarm progress is no-longer visible through walls to the opposing team
• CDA Defenders will now only see EV repair progress when a member of the team has line of sight on the EV
• CDA Defenders are no longer notified when a Carryable is dropped or picked up in the field, only when picked up from the starting location

These changes have been made to better allow more tactical play without players giving away their position so easily. For example, players could previously hide behind walls and wait to see a C4 disarm progress before popping out to kill the vulnerable defusing player. Now they'll need to keep eyes on the C4 at all times or else risk the sneaky defuse.


User Interface

• Added the improved Team HUD & Match Start elements found in Execution to all other game modes
• Refreshing the Server List in the Server Browser can now be cancelled
• Server List sorting order is now saved when leaving the Server Browser
• Friendly Merc selection is now visible in Ranked match lobbies
• Active players in your Friends list are now grouped and sorted by Server
• Added an Online Friends list to Party screens
• Updated Trade In to allow players to use Loadout Cards for the same Merc
• Added a warning message highlighting the possibility of receiving the same Loadout Card back
• Added a separate Spectator Control bindings screen
• Added minor visual improvements to the Merc and Weapon Stats pages

Audio

• Improved the BR-16 remote firing audio

Maps

• Fixed numerous visual and collision bugs on all maps

Notable Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where players were sometimes unable to fire their weapon
• Fixed bug where equipped Loadout Cards could sometimes accidentally be Traded Up
• Fixed bug where the Pylons on Dome could appear to be in the incorrect state to players
• Fixed bug where scoping in on very low sensitivity could result in mouse movements being lost
• Fixed bug where Bomb Squad would make grenades and other projectiles visible through walls
• Fixed bug where nearby grenade indicators were not visible
• Fixed bug where reloading would be cancelled if the player had the Double Time augment and began sprinting
• Fixed bug where Mercs with the Mechanic augment would not take priority over others at an Objective
• Fixed bug where destroyed Proximity Mines could still play the 'tripped' audio when running over the location
• Fixed bug where the respawn timer on the HUD and the scoreboard were de-synced by around 1s
• Fixed bug where Nader would often fire a Grenade Launcher Grenade upon death
• Fixed bug where all players could be put on one team for the second half of a Private Stopwatch Match

Notable Known Issues

• The Rank Icons displayed in the 'Performance Snapshot' section of the end game review screen are still using Pre-Season Ranks
• Players who join in the middle of the match will have a blank Merc portrait at the top of the HUD in Objective and Stopwatch games

neverplayserious

my sexy gold 2 trinket is almost here now i can finally do mm without having to worry about ranking up ^^

Watsyurdeal

RazielWarmonic wrote: »

[*] As a team is disarming C4, disarm progress is no-longer visible through walls to the opposing team
[*] CDA Defenders will now only see EV repair progress when a member of the team has line of sight on the EV
[*] CDA Defenders are no longer notified when a Carryable is dropped or picked up in the field, only when picked up from the starting location
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These changes have been made to better allow more tactical play without players giving away their position so easily. For example, players could previously hide behind walls and wait to see a C4 disarm progress before popping out to kill the vulnerable defusing player. Now they'll need to keep eyes on the C4 at all times or else risk the sneaky defuse.

Oh man......now if only we could get the Mechanic Augment buffed to allow people to interact with all objectives at a faster rate, and get that on a card for Phantom, my ninja plant dreams will finally come true.

Salsa

Look like nice bundle of changes.
Hopefully ranked becomes now more encouraging way to play in solo too.

Boerhae

Same merc trade-ins are back! This is good news!
Question, when will season one end?

p4v

Europe master continent!

Daga

RazielWarmonic wrote: »

[*] Leaver Penalty - To discourage players from leaving Ranked games, anyone who leaves will no longer receive ANY credits at the end of the match. Previously they would leave with anything they had earned up until that point.
[*] Solo/Duo Queue - For this first Season, we'll be limiting queues to Solo/Duo. This is to prevent the majority of players who join as Solo coming up against 5-Player pre-made Parties. We plan to re-introduce full 5vs5 Ranked play with a few improvements as soon as we can, as we consider organised teamplay the lifeblood of Dirty Bomb. For a greater breakdown on the change, check out this forum post.

• Is that if you dont rejoin?
• Rip friendship

Kirays

The competitive changes look sweet!
I really appreciate the gameplay changes as well.
Finally the Mechanic augment was fixed.
Oh, and the trade in change was reverted. Awesome!

This looks like a great patch to me.
Thank you!

SwegsterDragon

My shiny! My Precious!! Its Here!!!

sKy-e.AssimassI

Very nice, but without high fps cfg, there is no point in playing comp.

MatteMG

Damn Dirty Bomb! Back at it again with them nice Patches!

Helvian

So, does redeye smoke stop defenders seeing disarm/repair progress?

Black

• We're reducing the amount of Objective progress information freely given to the opposition, with the aim of encouraging more tactical play

Nice one.

Robtastic

Laughing at that two percent.

Blis

well done!!!!

Amerika

Robtastic wrote: »

Laughing at that two percent.

Yeah, I had a good chuckle at that myself. I do wonder how close that is to Fragger's hitbox though.

pumpkinmeerkat

RazielWarmonic wrote: »

[*] CDA Defenders will now only see EV repair progress when a member of the team has line of sight on the EV

How often does at least one defender NOT have line of sight on the EV?

DMaster2

Finally a decent patch. I'll give a shot to comp, before i just played it enough to get my pre-season trinket then i stayed far away from it.

Mc1412013

Yay no more dying because gun won't fire


Now if they could only fix Phoenix defibrillator and healing pulse getting stuck issues

Mc1412013

DMaster2 wrote: »

Finally a decent patch. I'll give a shot to comp, before i just played it enough to get my pre-season trinket then i stayed far away from it.

Yeah after 10 matches getting a 2/40 k/d and loosing every match kinda gets annoying after a while
Only thing that kept me in the top half of the score board is im pretty good with Phoenix, and using proxy and gunning get for objectives while the other team was buisy killing every one repeatedly

triteCherry

RazielWarmonic wrote: »

• Fixed bug where Nader would often fire a Grenade Launcher Grenade upon death

YUS.

BrazenXXGold

And no News on South AM servers, right? ;-;

diabolicalKeyboard

oh joy...defending is going to be a boatload more difficult now...



"CDA Defenders will now only see EV repair progress when a member of the team has line of sight on the EV"

does this include when the teammate is down or has died and still has visual of the ev?

Beryl

Very nice gameplay changes! I approve

FalC_16

spent few minutes searching for a ranked game..didn't find any...I guess I keep away from ranked as usual

DMaster2

FalC_16 wrote: »

spent few minutes searching for a ranked game..didn't find any...I guess I keep away from ranked as usual

Same...

BananaSlug

sooo... now we have pre season trinkets, we will have season one trinkets during 2nd season, and then during 3rd season trinkets from season one will be replaced with trinkets from season 2 ? is that right ?

diabolicalKeyboard

also, why is there no note about the change to proxie mines?

TheFoolArcana

BrazenXXGold wrote: »

And no News on South AM servers, right? ;-;

Waiting for feedback SD/Nexon...

Eddiethc

how come when i hit rank match it puts me in a room with just me with only option to invite friends? im level 8 am i missing something here?

FurryGagarin

no wonder eu on top as the most active region. i'm on asia play on eu too and bear with above 250ms ping. while on asia i never get match, either the player wasn't there or there was no open server at all so ppl didnt feel like to try find match on asia. just don't know.

please notify and make and announcement if you guys open the asia ranked server again, so player in asia can play ranked with better ping