two

actually the number two IRL

Thanks for playing, everyone. I'll see you around.


In my last post where I complained about Spoon 3's ranking system, I left off by saying that I planned to play this season caring less about the ranking system and just trying to enjoy myself. Of course I didn't do that at all, I went into this season even more judiciously calculating exactly how many points I'd get for each series and my mindset about it only got worse. Though I did recently start being more deliberate about taking a break whenever I felt like my performance was starting to slip, in order to prevent long losing streaks. I'm not sure that helped my rank at all but I did at least feel better about the game after I started doing that.


If anything it feels like I got here just by playing the game a lot. The slight upward bias of the rank system really becomes slight in S rank, so it takes a lot of games to get out of it without incredible luck or being genuinely more skilled than everyone in the rank, if such a thing is even possible. At one point I calculated that over 46 matches (a good two hours of gameplay or more), exactly even on wins and losses, I made a profit of just 100 points, and of course you need about 700 to rank up. I was definitely playing Spoon to the detriment of other games that I've been meaning to get back into instead.

I actually managed to pass the first rank-up battle I entered instead of failing like five of them as I did last season. I attribute this partly to picking a mode/weapon combination I feel confident in and partly to the octobrush user "DIO" who I played with three games in a row and who seemed pretty good. DIO, if you're out there, thanks for the help, I'm a big fan of your work.

Would I do this again next season? Maybe, but the X rank pose thing isn't in the game anymore, so what's even the point? It would make sense to at least play some more now just to see what X rank is like, but I should probably finish what I was doing in Noctis, first.


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in reply to @two's post:

eyyyyy congratz!!

I don't think it'll be this season for me, but this season does mark the first time I've hit the rank up battle for it. I really wanna get over the hump and see how the special X matchmaking feels with tristringer; it's significantly harder to advance with a backliner, imo (I've been progressing much steadier and faster in open with s-blast and a little dynamo)

So far it's a lot of "Not enough players. Try again!" lol. Hopefully that's just because I'm still in the "Calculating X power" phase for most modes (you'd think Takaroka division would have a lot of players on at UTC 11:00?). From what little I've played it does feel a bit better, though; I've been using the Jet Squelcher and haven't once been put against a Charger without another Charger on my team, and that happens all the time in Anarchy. I think it breaking up the teams after each game helps it construct matches that are more fair.