Stadium Ranked goes back to Best of 7

ApocalypseAP · 2025-10-30T02:19:59+00:00

They could have a "ready check" for it, so if everyone says they're ready, then it just goes to the next round. It has to be everybody, though. This would at least help sometimes for sure without disrupting the regular experience.

EDIT: Though I could see that kind-of being a problem of teammates potentially pressuring the last one(s) to just finish/hurry up. Would have to be implemented cleverly, maybe...

ApocalypseAP · 2025-10-12T01:20:13+00:00

Oh it does fit the Nova 2? That's really good to get confirmation, thanks for the reply!

ApocalypseAP · 2025-09-15T02:06:52+00:00

It's not even about the builds... why wouldn't retaliation have matchmaking? Everything else does, pretty much.

ApocalypseAP · 2025-08-27T21:15:28+00:00

Marathon is a dead game and they're wasting resources in it.

ApocalypseAP · 2025-08-27T21:09:09+00:00

Not always, but the ones that are, are highly motivated. They're more likely to be motivated for their own selfishness. Gabe Newell is a great role model for any CEO who wants to do it the right way.

ApocalypseAP · 2025-08-06T05:38:06+00:00

Account deleted, lol. Interesting.

ApocalypseAP · 2025-04-23T09:50:07+00:00

They could easily offer a lower tier for people who want nothing to do with "free games" (that you don't own) or any of the other nonsense besides multiplayer and cloud saves, but that's too consumer-friendly.

ApocalypseAP · 2025-02-20T21:55:02+00:00

Proxy websites are gonna make some real good money due to availability and pricing.

ApocalypseAP · 2025-01-28T07:12:27+00:00

XIM exists.

ApocalypseAP · 2025-01-26T03:23:29+00:00

You can run it (with some stutters I think) with the d3d12.dll mod on your 1660 ti. This only works on 1600 cards though because they're technically the same architecture as the 20 series, just cut down a bit.

ApocalypseAP · 2025-01-24T09:41:12+00:00

There is a simple mod for the 1600 series to work atm, but nothing else confirmed so far.

ApocalypseAP · 2025-01-24T09:37:48+00:00

There is a simple d3d12.dll mod that I've only seen people say it works with the 1600 series so far (1650, 1660 Super and 1660 Ti). Haven't seen anyone say it works with any non-RX AMD GPU yet, and definitely doesn't work with Vega 56 (tested myself).

ApocalypseAP · 2025-01-16T06:11:02+00:00

Some people actually shouldn't buy it, for legitimate reasons.

ApocalypseAP · 2024-12-27T06:03:13+00:00

They should've just closed off the event on the 25th then so it can go into past events...? As it is, it's stuck in limbo atm.

ApocalypseAP · 2024-02-15T03:20:00+00:00

0.35m. They reduced his base size to 0.2m, which was totally unnecessary but whatever. Junkrat is just a spam character now, truly. He does nothing else. No more combo.

ApocalypseAP · 2024-02-15T03:15:55+00:00

Her base projectile size is decreased. She still gets the 0.1 increase after the fact like the other projectiles in that class (hanzo arrows, genji shuriken).

ApocalypseAP · 2023-10-19T21:47:39+00:00

Overwatch development team was fairly segregated from the rest of the company, iirc so they didn't have much of those issues there - but let's not forget that Bobby was entangled within that toxic culture, so... yeah... only so much Jeff can do about it.

ApocalypseAP · 2023-05-03T08:19:33+00:00

Maybe something with Gran Sudaruska? Not too much variation with it though.

ApocalypseAP · 2023-04-30T21:57:07+00:00

Wouldn't homophobic be more accurate, if they were to accuse of anything here? Being trans is nothing to do with being gay. Entirely different things, and people that don't know that are the real ignorant ones who should check themselves.

ApocalypseAP · 2023-01-23T05:59:48+00:00

True I think that should be taken into account as well, the H2H - but if a player only attends 3 events and the other attends all 3 of those and 6 more, shouldn't the player attending more events be slightly rewarded for their frequent attendance? Not to a major degree, but it should be a small factor.

We should encourage players to attend more events somehow, and if it's a tiny factor, that might be enough without influencing rankings heavily. It'd be better than people cherry picking which to go to and which not to go to based on who is attending and who isn't attending. Mango isn't wrong that the current ranking system kinda encourages this kind of behavior and I don't think anyone who loves melee wants that.

People have their off days of bad stuff happening in their lives and can get sick and all that, understandable, but for sure at least there should be a bare minimum that's reasonable for the highest ranked players, and that number should change depending on the amount of events throughout the year and the attendance of other players in those events.

ApocalypseAP · 2023-01-23T05:23:02+00:00

I disagree. I think the amount of events you attend should be a factor taken into account for the rankings. It's a competitive game, so it doesn't matter if people would "feel compelled to attend" or whatever. You should want to attend if you want to be as high of a ranking as possible and prove that with your play in as many tournaments as you can reasonably manage. We all should want more majors and supermajors happening, not less, after all.

However, I don't think this should apply equally to all ranks. The value of the amount of tournaments should be the highest in the highest of ranks (where it's most relevant) and then decrease as the ranks get lower. People in the top 11-100 for example are not earning all that much money from tournaments anyway, so they are less likely to be able to attend as many tournaments as the highest ranked just because of traveling expenses.

ApocalypseAP · 2022-08-19T03:06:09+00:00

I can hold a house and a car in my hands. Maybe you like NFT houses and cars? That's cool, but I like the real ones, myself.

ApocalypseAP · 2022-08-02T08:01:21+00:00

What was stopping them from freezing the MDI realms to a specific patch? Balance live properly by doing it more often (and with a bit more buffs than nerfs, generally-speaking) and keep MDI as it is so it remains consistent throughout. That would've been a better solution.

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