Profile of Budwise

Look at the SC2 ladder system and tell me its not important for the game...

The reason CoH's ladder sucked and meant nothing is:
1) Hacking
2) Relic refused to put it back to the original system where it actually took skill to get past lvl 10 and instead rewarded game spam. Anyone with enough time could get to lvl 16+. There was plenty of lvl 16+'s with negative ratios even!

If these two things can be fixed then the ladder is a great indicator of skill. What ladders give us that tournaments do not is spontaneous matchups and maps/positions. Every tournament was South Ango for Wehr for example whereas from the north its much more difficult and you get it plenty in automatch. At least CoH gave us the ability to look at streaks and win/loss ratios and based upon that you can determine pretty easily someone's skill level. At CoH2 launch you get to look at their list of medals lol. Relic shouldnt even consider launching the game until these systems are in place. Just extend beta and actually finish the game. I personally wont pay 100% of the price for 60% of the game.

Yes Stephenn, you are right, but ladder right now it's too much noob friendly, allowing people to climb by simply spamming games since you lose very few points when you lose a game and you gain a lot more points when you win (it's this change that caused people being able to climb multiple levels with 1 game or to get lvl16 with 12 wins, while before you needed around 40 wins to get level 8-10 ). This ladder lowered the quality of games at top level (having hundreds of lvl16 is just nonsense, especially because the high majority of them does not possess even the skills of an old lvl10), decreasing by a lot the importance of the ladder itself while increasing the one of tourneys (since people stopped taking ladder seriously)

Downplaying the importance of the ladder because the system implemented is shit is the wrong approach. They just need to fix the damn rating system, its not hard, they just didnt want to offend the noobs. The ultimate problem is Relic's ranking system, not the ladder itself.

Id recommend never going SLI or Crossfire honestly. Get the single most powerful GPU you can afford and thats it really.

If your dual 470's are working for the games you want at the settings you want then leave them alone for now. Wait until AMD releases their new 8000 series to make any moves.

All i'll say is take a look at all the leading RTS games out right now. If you dont have at least 90% of the features that players want then your launch will fizzle and sales will suffer. The peak level of excitement for a game is the week you launch, the month that your game is looked at by every gamer out there, the time that matters.

CoH1, 7 years ago launched with a superior system to what CoH2 will launch with next month. It is really a circle of fail when you push a game out the door due to money, and then lose sales due to the game not being finished, and then in turn you still have no money.

To launch with this list looming over the game is a tragedy.

No ladders
No chat lobby
No match history
No obs mode
No anti-cheat
No fixed positions for tournaments
No good maps

We are not tied to just coh1 so if you want to apply and hop in vent feel free.

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