PUBG_Sword_Saint

The player pool at any time for a game like this needs to be pretty massive to actually separate out lobbies in the way you describe. China could do it, nowhere else really could to such precision or anything close.

Something similar to your suggestion that we have also discussed is to consider everyone in the premade group to be the same rank as the highest member for purposes of calculating RP changes. This also has its pros and cons, but would continue to limit the ability to be boosted.

I would imagine that the client side of the game reacts to the impact of the bullet with an animation and then sends off a message to the server, but then the server gets the message and says 'nope, you the person that shot you is dead already so you don't take any damage'.

This is just my guess since I don't work in this area.

As much as I'd like to drop a mysterious teaser comment on things like this, it really wouldn't be a cool thing to do to our guys who put their time into making promo materials since it would lower the surprise impact factor of such announcements. It's also kind of rough on our teams who work directly on big showy features for someone else who isn't on that team to publicly put pressure on them to release something that hasn't been announced yet.

All I can really say here is that these placeholders aren't for show, we are actively discussing, trying out, and building new stuff that could show up here. When that would be and what it would look like is something you'll just have to wait and see.

Yea we've received that feedback a lot. It's not really up to only me, but for what it's worth I'd like to move in that direction too.

The end goal is for sure to have Ranked eventually be as similar in game settings to SUPER as possible. The plan right now is to move in that direction over time - sometimes Ranked will change to get closer to SUPER, and sometimes SUPER will change to get closer to Ranked.