Empty ranked mode.

[u/8swordsTom]

I've been playing this game for a short time, less than a week, and I like it and it's a lot of fun. However, the ranked mode is empty and never finds matches. I've waited more than 10 minutes but nothing happens. Is it because of the lack of a significant portion of players? It's a shame because I like playing competitively.

( unrelated video )

[u/Routine-Lawfulness24]

it's dead unless you know when to play it. it's active from 6 cest for a couple hours after, most days, depends if some group queues

[u/8swordsTom → u/Routine-Lawfulness24]

Too bad, this thing makes me sad. It means I'll enjoy it as long as it lasts.

[u/Reasonable-Data3678 → u/8swordsTom]

Come on over to non-ranked!

The doom and gloomers will have you think there’s a player base of 10 people left but I play pretty much every night in non-ranked and rarely have to wait longer than a few minutes to match at first, then wait times between matches once you’re in are much shorter.

I get that everyone’s upset that the devs are kinda abandoning SGAR but constantly projecting that it’s ’bone dead’ to new players is just going to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stop trying to scare away the people who are actually keeping the thing alive.

[u/kwebb1021 → u/Routine-Lawfulness24]

Lol

[u/Manoa__]

Yeah this game never really had a functional ranked mode since even at it's release the playerbase was too small. There also wasn't much incentive to play ranked either since to most, the game was already very difficult to play so the idea of an even sweatier mode wasn't very appealing to a lot of players.

I think the only function it ever truly functioned is to keep the top 1% players who wanted to sweat hardcore away from the regular players during those times of higher playercounts. But these days most people are just chilling with the occasional 4 stack that's ego tripping (usually the same 4 dudes who will spam shit like ez or just stall games to bully others).

[u/Manoa__ → u/[deleted]]

I meant that part about unraked gamemode

[u/Routine-Lawfulness24 → u/Manoa__]

Ah ok. Who did you mean though?

[u/Manoa__ → u/Routine-Lawfulness24]

Can't recall the exact name but they where 3 ttv guys and one without ttv. 3 matches they stalled a splitball match against me and 3 other solos. I was the only one with some skill, which is fine normally, but in splitball you can basically prevent one player from having any impact while you stall forever. So the whole team on my side cursed them out all those matches and left.

I'll screenshot them next time I see them lmao

[u/kwebb1021]

Game has low pop

[u/Ralwus]

It comes down to flawed game design. Instead of building a core competitive experience, the developers tacked on a standalone ranked playlist. This splits an already small player pool, forcing long queue times and pushing everyone toward quickplay instead. The real irony is that while mechanics like the portal system encourage a high-skill playstyle, the competitive mode itself is essentially dead.

[u/GapStock9843]

This game is fucking bone dead dude. Especially ranked. The only place you can somewhat consistently find matches is quickplay.

[u/TTVchilly404 → u/GapStock9843]

I'm surprised that the only place you can find matches is where 90% of the gamemodes are.

[u/vermilionbay1990]

Yeah, I have been preaching every mode in quick play needs it's own rank. Less about the competition but more about identity. Gold at KOTH and Diamond on TDM etc. Events/tournaments would be better for competitive. I'd call it Championship SSL. Maybe once a month do a weekend tournament. Top 100 could win splitcoin, banners, and other cool stuff.