Scump & Formal explain how Cold War League Play could be fixed YouTube, heczTVReactions to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War\u2019s League Play have been unenthused, but OpTic Chicago\u2019s Scump and FormaL have singled out some ways to fix the unpopular system. [jwplayer HTC4QIpT] League Play did not exist at all in Modern Warfare 2019, although the game did have some Call of Duty League ruleset options. Understandably, the CoD community was very excited for Treyarch\u2019s return and hoped that the competitive mode would be available to play in BOCW. When discussing how the ranked system should best be implemented, fans of the franchise had specified CoD WWII\u2019s as the optimal version, with some noting Black Ops 2\u2019s. Instead, not only did League Play launch months after the game\u2019s release, but when it did, it was essentially a clone of the widely disliked Black Ops 4 system. During an OpTic Gaming roundtable, brand forces Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez and Davis \u2018Hitch\u2019 Edwards discussed the League Play problem with the team\u2019s renowned veterans, Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner and Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper. Together, they raised some interesting solutions. Incentivize casuals with League Play rewards As the group discussed the players invested in League Play, they all agreed that the mode catered to the competitive base and does little to interest casuals. While Scump said he\u2019s been enjoying it, it became clear that no one thinks it provides many incentives to less-competitive players. As an example, Hitch brings up \u201ccool ranks,\u201d which FormaL exemplified with Valorant\u2019s Radiant and Immortal ranks \u2014 part of an Elo system he says \u201cpeople are grinding for.\u201d Past that, FormaL elaborates that cosmetic and in-game rewards like \u201cgear\u201d and \u201cdouble XP\u201d could make casuals more interested in the grind. Introducing a refined Elo system The running theme for the conversation is fixing the Elo system, with critiques ranging from the placement system to ranking and de-ranking opportunities. FormaL and Scump brought up early Halo and CoD: WWII as better options, with the latter proved by how valuable earning a top rank was for visibility in the community. Noting that WWII had a clearer system that changed your rank depending on wins and losses while weighing strength of opponent, Scump expressed obvious confusion: \u201cI don\u2019t understand. Everyone was saying like, \u2018this is how it needs to be or it\u2019s not going to be a ranked playlist\u2019 and then they just dropped Black Ops 4 copy\/paste.\u201d In general, the group agrees that the current placement and ranking system fails to incentivize grinding as team success and strength of opponent are discounted and the mode doesn\u2019t dynamically reward players with exciting ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump & Formal explain how Cold War League Play could be fixed YouTube, heczTVReactions to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War\u2019s League Play have been unenthused, but OpTic Chicago\u2019s Scump and FormaL have singled out some ways to fix the unpopular system. [jwplayer HTC4QIpT] League Play did not exist at all in Modern Warfare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}