Idea for making TDM more competitive (and suitable for Ranked)

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#1

TDM was recently taken out of Ranked rotation, because according to TC they didn’t feel it was competitive or in a good place right now.

I can see why this is, having experienced team-mates who die double digits in single rounds: A good group of 3-4 players could lose a match while they have high kills and very low deaths, simply because 1-2 players are hemmorhaging spawns. This is a problem in a few ways:

-good players being frustrated because they feel they did nothing wrong
-ganging up on the “bad” player and blaming them for the loss, sometimes getting on chat to insult them
-trolls will intentionally throw because they think it’s funny

I’ve been thinking about how to fix this problem, since I don’t have a 5-stack to run with these days and attempting to solo KoTH is more aneurysm-inducing than trying to do TDM was. Here is what I came up with:

-each player has an individual pool of 4 respawns per round
-when a player runs out of spawns, they’re unable to play
-an alive player could make a choice to “spend” one of their own spawns to bring an “out” player in, to make a push for example

This way, those players who are maybe not-so-good or intentionally trolling can’t sink the whole team, while still giving everyone a fair shot at playing. The spawn-donating aspect could bring a little strategy, maybe especially to the E-sports scene.

Please tell me what you think, and drop you own suggestions!

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#2

Sounds good… I like it.

I’ll add, the only thing I would be concerned about with this suggestion are the ‘try hards’ spamming “revive me” 100 times in global chat after all of their lives are depleted :joy: …or them quitting after the first round because you didn’t revive them :unamused:

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#3

Third point of your suggestion really looks great

#4

This sounds pretty solid. It gets that value your lives feel from single life modes while giving more opportunity for everyone to keep playing.

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#5

Yeah, I could see that happening. I actually had another idea that would handle this I was going to make a separate thread about: muting a player also mutes their character’s emotes and chat messages :smile:

#6

Probably a K/D ratio would help for this game mode and, imo should be considered for a ranked experience

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#7

Agreed… I think your total score at the end of the match should be dependent on how many times you died also, & not just how many kills you had. That way it would truly reflect who the best players are.

#8

I think everything TDM previously had was acceptable to a degree.

What I was against was the ranking system & “throwers”

I’d say a 4 live minimum with the same system Ranking king has. Maybe award for having less deaths or add that to the system.

Kinda far out, but I’d say give everyone 8 deaths each round & make it up to 50 kills to win the round.
Like Halo. That be interesting to me.

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#9

But…isn’t that how Escalation works? Sorry I may misunderstanding what your going for.

#10

It is but in escalation has rings, chosen power weapons, more complexity.

TDM is simple , just need to work a way for people who dies senselessly & sometimes intentionally.

#11

I think providing life pools n in tdm will only promote camping which is already a huge problem. Tdm is a casual playlist mode so I think it’s good where its at. It will eventually come back to ranked.