After passing 2000 hours on siege, I need to revamp this review. I still think that siege is kinda ♥♥♥♥ even though I "like" the game. There is just some things that are horrid about siege that they need to fix.

1. Casual Rankings
Did you know since operation neon dawn you can get a ranking is casual. This is obviously an integration of skilled based matchmaking. Who wanted this? Who in there right mind thought this was a good idea ON CASUAL. What smooth brain thought "You know what would make casual better, rankings." Truthfully, whoever wanted this please jump off a bridge. No one wants your opinion on anything and this is one reason why. Casual has gotten too sweaty after operation void edge and the last thing we need is ranks in casual. The worst part is that the casual ranks are not as fluid as actual ranked. You have to throw 17 matches in order to go from gold 3 to silver 3. In ranked, you would need half that. So since Ubisoft will probably have a stick up their ass and want to keep this, why don't we have a compromise; Skilled based matchmaking based on win rate. The goal is to get people a 50% win rate and a possible side goal of an average of 3 kills a match for the past 25 matches. This would be worse off then no skilled based matchmaking, but this is how Ubisoft would probably do this in the future when people start to complain about it.

2. No Friendly Fire in Casual
What's the point? There really shouldn't be any way of tking anyone in casual. But I think a compromise would be better here. Explosions can still kill team mates, but not bullets. The main reason is because fuze charges would become too over powered. For the people here who don't know what a fuze charge is, think of 5 grenades being thrown in a room through a breach-able wall.

3. Dealing with Sweats
Remember how I said that people got really sweaty after void edge. This is a very big problem that you really couldn't blame the devs for: what else could people do during quarantine? The main problem was how they handled it (kinda talked about in 1.) and solutions that are simpler and overall better then a hidden mmr system in casual. I just want to be clear on this, because this is the main problem with playing siege in casual now days. So I will be writing this very clear for everyone who reads this

Problem: New player or players who are bad get trampled on by people who have played for years or who are way better then them, making both parties inevitably toxic towards each other.

Possible solutions: Limit the interactions between these two groups, shatter toxic people's world view by showing them they are still kinda ♥♥♥♥ at the game *cough* GOLDS, and having better ways to teach people about operators and the mechanics of the game so that they can get better faster.

4. Speed Siege
This isn't my idea, but I forgot who made it, so that suck for him I guess. Think of being able to train yourself at siege with random strangers with a click of a button. Maybe these said matches are faster that casual and maybe attackers could spawn inside the building. Of course there would be complications, but speed siege sounds promising to the two major groups I talked about above. Worse players could get better at the game and experienced players can hone in their skills.

5. Monitors
For people who have the game, have you come across the 360 hz man? I'm talking about the guy who shoots you before you even see the guy. Simple solution to this is get people in with lobbies with similar refresh rates +/- 60 or less. And before people go say "But people will just make their frames less so that they will get people who are easier to kill" you are dead wrong. This isn't about the frames, it's about max frames a monitor can go, which is much more static then reducing your frames in-game. If you are one of these people, please follow the guide on how to kill yourself in #1. Simply, log the refresh rate of the monitor. If this number gets larger or smaller at anytime, switch it out. This would only affect CASUAL by the way, ranked wouldn't be any different.

6. Dealing with Cheaters and Toxic People
Demoralize them. With cheaters, it's a little bit hard, but you can do this for toxic people. Just put them in matches they are mostly guaranteed to loss. They then get bored of siege and leave.

7. Other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they need to do
A. Get Nvidia reflex to base game and not just vulkan (for those wondering, it's an alternative to directX12 that has the possibility of blue screening your pc. not joking it did that to me)

B. Integrate your test servers to base game or reuse the SAME ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CODE that the base game uses and then add some of the other stuff needed for the test server to work. Simply put it, require regular siege to be installed and use the engine and code from there to run the test server version. The test servers should generally be more like a free dlc then a different game in your library.

C. Cross progression for test servers. So that there is a reason for test servers to exist. Maybe even throw a free alpha pack if you play one match on the test servers when a new operation drops on them. Get creative.


UPDATE(this is basically a rant on the currecnt state of the game right before the 3.3 patch came out):
The dev updates are becoming worse and worse. None of the ♥♥♥♥ from above has been fixed. Not even attempted. Yet they are still adding content that a good portion of people such as myself hate. They made a more frustrating shield op (OSA) and though Osa has good utility, it's just frustrating to use when people can laser your feet with ease. I keep forgetting that Ubisoft is now the new Bethesda and the games they make aren't good anymore. Let me give you an example. Alibi is a character. She wasn't picked too much before the 2.2 patch about 3-ish months ago. And then Ubisoft had an idea; "Let's get her pick rate up" they said; "We will add a better sight and make her fun to play" they said. In the 3.3 update, she now has a stupid amount of recoil on that same gun. CAN YOU JUST MAKE UP YOUR MIND, UBI. Either make her good or bad so that I can finally get use to her. Then they made the already ♥♥♥♥♥ P10 worse by making it so that there is 16 bullets MAX in that thing. It wasn't that bad before this 3.3 update, but because of the recoil increase on that damned gun as well, you might as well throw is out. They had changed their minds about some of wamai and oryx's changes from just about 1 YEAR AGO. I still miss sledge's smg-11, so much so that I will go on strike with that character until he get's it back. And what's with all the recoil changes, ubi.

Do you want people to leave your game in the dust?

Sincerely,
canIplay100