Dev Update : Season 2 Changes

[Demoncrash]

Summary from fizzlefabble on Reddit.

Competitive Tiers

• Competitive skill ratings are moving to a 1-5000 number rating.
• Will be separated into 7 tiers (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum?, Diamond, Master, Grand Master).
• When you achieve a tier for the season, you will remain for the season. Your skill rating can drop below the tier mark but you will remain in the same tier. The exception is for the top tiers of Grandmaster and Master.
• Skill Rating decay will occur for Grandmaster, Master, and Diamond tier players after the player is absent in competitive for 7 days. You will lose points every 24 hours starting then. You can only drop to the bottom of Diamond through decay.
• In order to be a Top 500 player, you must have played a minimum of 50 matches. Placement matches will not be enough.

Ranked Points

• Guns cost 10x as much, however you will earn Ranked Points faster.
• Each time you earned 1 Ranked Point, you will now earn 10.
• Any accumulated Ranked Points will now be multiplied by 10.

General Map Changes

• Assemble your heroes time will be slightly reduced in later rounds
• No more coin flips. Ties can occur, if rarely they hope. Points will be awarded to both teams.

Grouping in Competitive

• Players can only be within 500 skill rating of each other to group together (this number to potentially change during PTR)

Assault Map Time Bank Changes

• The Final Attempt time has now been changed to 1:00 (down from 2:00)
• When capturing the first point while in Final Overtime, you will be credited an additional 30 seconds to your time. The other team will also receive 30 seconds in the interest of fairness.

Cart Pushing Maps

• In the event that teams have additional time at the end of their push, the map will reset and they will be allowed to push the cart as far as the can within the remaining time.

[Tharkkun]

I love it.

[Ausr]

I'm happy just for the fact they added divisions and you can't go below and derank.

[Daws001]

I'm happy just for the fact they added divisions and you can't go below and derank.

Same. It gives you something to push for (e.g., going from silver to gold tier) w/o feeling totally deflated because you lost a string of matches in silver.

I wonder if there will be new awards for season 2? The golden guns are kind of gross :/

[Ausr]

Same. It gives you something to push for (e.g., going from silver to gold tier) w/o feeling totally deflated because you lost a string of matches in silver.

I wonder if there will be new awards for season 2? The golden guns are kind of gross :/

I think they're ok but only some heroes can you really see their weapon (Rein, Reaper and like one or two more)

[Tharkkun]

Same. It gives you something to push for (e.g., going from silver to gold tier) w/o feeling totally deflated because you lost a string of matches in silver.

I wonder if there will be new awards for season 2? The golden guns are kind of gross :/

At the same time good players won't be able to really tank their ratings like some did just to get easy wins. Once they are in a certain bracket they have to compete against people their skill.

I have a feeling new rewards will be added. Maybe not season 2 but we only have a glimpse into the changes so far.

[Spl4sh3r]

I don't get the change to the Currency. Why make it ten times higher if everything cost ten times as much.

[minteK917]

I don't get the change to the Currency. Why make it ten times higher if everything cost ten times as much.

Because they can make it so losing gives you a little still.


I love how people on this forum would argue with me removing all the stupid sudden stuff was wrong and how time based would never work!!!! Oh wait blizzard doing exactly all everyone with common competitive back ground TOLD THEM TO DO.

[Ealyssa]

I don't get the change to the Currency. Why make it ten times higher if everything cost ten times as much.

Certainly to be able to give less or more in specific situation.

Maybe loosing in a very close match may give some CP ? Like domination map when ending 3-2

[Temp name]

Am I misunderstanding something, or does it say that if you get put into bronze league, you'll be stuck there for the entire season? Specifically it says "When you achieve a tier for the season, you will remain for the season. Your skill rating can drop below the tier mark but you will remain in the same tier."
Am I just misunderstanding that?

[Goldielocks]

I don't get the change to the Currency. Why make it ten times higher if everything cost ten times as much.

Tieing is going to give half a point to both sides instead of nothing. Half a point is weird, so they multiplied everything by 10. You'd get 10 points for winning, lose 10 for losing and gain 5 for Tieing. It's the same line of thinking as to why being in rank 60 would feel weird to call the top 6% of players, when that number is basically a D grade.

[Twen]

Am I misunderstanding something, or does it say that if you get put into bronze league, you'll be stuck there for the entire season? Specifically it says "When you achieve a tier for the season, you will remain for the season. Your skill rating can drop below the tier mark but you will remain in the same tier."
Am I just misunderstanding that?

You can go above, just not below.

[Sky High]

Am I misunderstanding something, or does it say that if you get put into bronze league, you'll be stuck there for the entire season? Specifically it says "When you achieve a tier for the season, you will remain for the season. Your skill rating can drop below the tier mark but you will remain in the same tier."
Am I just misunderstanding that?

no that's so you don't fall back into your last league.

[Jessicka]

Because they can make it so losing gives you a little still.


I love how people on this forum would argue with me removing all the stupid sudden stuff was wrong and how time based would never work!!!! Oh wait blizzard doing exactly all everyone with common competitive back ground TOLD THEM TO DO.

I think it has more to do with ties happening, wouldn't expect anything for a loss, but maybe 5 for a draw.

[Thelxi]

The emotional support is real in this game xD

[Jessicka]

The emotional support is real in this game xD

Seems weird. Current system has 86% of players within 40-60; so it's only using 20 points of a 100 granular scale; no idea what the hell they hope to achieve by increasing it to a 5000 point system when the distribution within that system is just going to be the same.

[Temp name]

no that's so you don't fall back into your last league.

You can go above, just not below.

So I can get stupidly lucky and queue up with smurfs for 10 games and go from Bronze to gold league, and then I'll be stuck in gold league, dragging my team down?

[Very Tired]

No one really mentioned this yet, but they are starting to roll out 60 tick severs to everyone. Not just the untouched custom games.

[Temp name]

No one really mentioned this yet, but they are starting to roll out 60 tick severs to everyone. Not just the untouched custom games.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Though it will give me one less excuse to dying to Hanzo.

[Very Tired]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Though it will give me one less excuse to dying to Hanzo.

It's mostly Roadhog's hock everyone's complaining about. It's completely broken on both sides.

You get stuff like this https://gfycat.com/LiquidWillingDairycow
Then on the other side, legitimate hooks on people pull them towards you but they end up to the side, behind, or above Roadhog.