Difference between Ranks and Grades?
5 grades with 4 categories which is equal to 20 Grades vs 20 Ranks we had. The only difference is Grades won't matter for MMR and they're just visual clarification on where you stand based on win/loss ratio. This would be an indication of MMR if you could actually deGrade but you can't so you can be high MMR for that Grade or low MMR for that Grade and you won't know, so being Iridescent 1 is still just as meaningless as being rank 1.
So what are Grades here for? They are not MMR thresholds so are they there just for the BP rewards on Reset?
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You get Bp every reset depending on your grade
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Yeah and that's it i guess... Bloodwebb RNG can make 250k BP mean nothing so let's say you worked your way to Iridescent 1, the highest Grade, and you get unlucky on Bloodwebb, is that really a Reward? And like i said you could be the lowest MMR Iridescent 1 player and not know it so again it's not worth for bragging rights.
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Yeah it’s pretty much nothing but it’s slightly less grind I guess?
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There's better ways to reduce grind, like removing Perk tiers. That alone saves you alot more than 250k BP every month.
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It's purely cosmetic. They exist to add a little flavour, a little colour to the game, to give people a goal and reward and so on. If you don't like them, you can easily ignore them. Ranks no longer affect matchmaking.
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Ranks actually meant something. Grades are simply a bp bonus, and an incredibly small one at that.
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A goal which is meaningless since the Lowest MMR Iridescent 1 player might have lower MMR than someone not in Iridescent 1 already, they got there cause they simply pipped more. It's not a measurement of skill whatsoever. SO treating it as a Grade is actually fooling people. You're Grade is meaningless. SO all that there is left is the 250k BP reward at reset but Bloodwebb RNG can make you waste those 250k BP and leave you feel you didn't get much of anything. For example a killer that is super reliant on 1 type of add-ons, like Ghostface is reliant on Recovery add-ons, 250k BP might not give you any of them since Bloodwebb is RNG.
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This is really no different to how Ranks worked before.
You could be rank 1 and still be worse than a rank 10 survivor, because you can be carried to rank 1 by SWF or sheer luck, and a highly skilled player could derank purposefully of through inactivity through rank resets.
A higher grade player will still be an indication that 'they have experience' in the game.
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Ranks mean you're winning, winning doesn't mean you're doing very good. Survivors control the matches, they can do 5 gens and screw up after, you're not changing that fact and counting it as omg i made a huge comeback i'm good killer. Same for the reverse scenario where you dominate or you feel like you dominated and then you end up with 1 kill for example. And you have a whole gigantic RNG problem to deal with so being whatever rank doesn't really mean it was a Balanced match and you're winning Balanced matches.
I'm pretty sure there's better killers than me who are lower ranked and higher ranked killers who are not better than me. It's simply a matter of who they faced, where they faced them, so RNG. Iv'e been facing ######### ton of SWF's since the 3rd MMR test, even yesterday i made Post here on Forum cause i faced 7 SWF's in 7 matches and i was pissed off, all in a row, why could i tell they were SWF's? Cause they acted like one and cause i can check people profiles on both console, PS in this case, and PC. I haven't gone beyond rank 3 cause literally i cannot do any freaking better than i have been doing already, keeping rank 3 is already hard AF for what i'm facing. I'm either extremely unlucky which it's unlikely since it has been happening for months now or for whatever reason i'm being put against SWF's. I could argue MMR is on and i'm facing MMR matches but then again MMR is supposed to be off so... the fact is i'm facing SWF's and there's nothing i can do about it, the only benefit is i can depip as much as i want and not lose my now Iridescent 3 Grade. however being unable to win a match is quite stressful.
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So basicly a Time Measure or a Luck Factor. completly Random.
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Problem is, if perks didn't have tiers every killer would run around with iridescent addons all the time (not that they don't already are but you get what I mean).
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If you don't like it, ignore it. The Devs had the choice of deleting the whole thing - would you be happier? If so, see above statement.
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Well you're still talkiing about Dev Time and Resources wasted on something that doesn't have a real purpose. Would that time and resources be better spent on making changes everyone actually asks for? Yes it would. It's a matter of doing something for no reason vs doing something useful. Grades server no use and are a waste of time and resources.
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