Chat with Community: Week 1 of the Krunker Ranked Open Beta!
By: Faceit Pr
Tags: Krunker, Faceit, Esport

Hey everybody! We are back again for another Chat with Community blog to keep you informed about everything we are working on behind the scenes to improve your Ranked experience in Krunker.

In this blog, we will unpack the first week of open beta by addressing the state of ranked, the latest updates & improvements, and lastly, things we are working on to improve your experience next.

Let’s slide hop in!

Your survey responses were very positive with many of you telling us that Ranked is your preferred place to play Krunker right now and that you enjoy being able to play against good players, improve your skill and challenge yourself.

We are noticing steady growth of the Ranked player base indicating that many players are returning to play every day and some have started to play mostly Ranked matches.

Unbalanced match complaints have dropped significantly in the past few days, most likely due to having more players in the queue and more players settling into the skill bracket they belong to. The result is fewer matches against players who are much higher or lower-skilled than you. This positive shift in feedback is a bit slower in regions with fewer players where we need to be patient and let them grow the number of players who are playing ranked.

Anti-Cheat improvements - We tweaked the Anti-Cheat to be more aggressive and we are going to start flagging 3x more players than we are doing now. Your feedback is appreciated and we’ll closely keep monitoring the number of cheater reports and cheater bans in the coming days.

- We tweaked the Anti-Cheat to be more aggressive and we are going to start flagging 3x more players than we are doing now. Your feedback is appreciated and we’ll closely keep monitoring the number of cheater reports and cheater bans in the coming days. More cheater bans - Yesterday we issued a large ban wave to players who have been found cheating. We’ll share more information below in the blog about our next steps to tackle cheaters and continue providing a fair environment for all players.

- Yesterday we issued a large ban wave to players who have been found cheating. We’ll share more information below in the blog about our next steps to tackle cheaters and continue providing a fair environment for all players. Free 1,000 FACEIT Points Mission - All players will receive a one-off free mission that grants 1000 FACEIT Points as a welcome to the very first Krunker Ranked Season and a thank you for providing us with important feedback every day. To get your 1000 FACEIT Points, just select the mission and play 5 Ranked matches.

- All players will receive a one-off free mission that grants 1000 FACEIT Points as a welcome to the very first Krunker Ranked Season and a thank you for providing us with important feedback every day. To get your 1000 FACEIT Points, just select the mission and play 5 Ranked matches. Leaver penalty notification - A leaver penalty warning message has been added above the queue button to increase awareness about leaver penalties. This should help educate players about the commitment they make when entering a ranked match. We’re also looking into other ways to help players understand that leaving matches makes the experience less fun for other players and results in penalties

- A leaver penalty warning message has been added above the queue button to increase awareness about leaver penalties. This should help educate players about the commitment they make when entering a ranked match. We’re also looking into other ways to help players understand that leaving matches makes the experience less fun for other players and results in penalties 1.4 Million FACEIT Points dropping on Twitch this weekend - We are going live with FACEIT Points Drops this weekend on Twitch starting from 15:00 UTC with more than 15 streamers taking part. There will be over 1.4 million FACEIT Points up for grabs! Make sure to check out Krunker on Twitch over the weekend, watch and support the streamers as they grind through Ranked. All you have to do is to connect your FACEIT account to the drops extension under the partnered streams:

kashy, syctis, Navid, Breme, MoonJuice, ChecheG, Mommys, CODE_barrybee, RiotAlexis, ThiccChemist, heyimzed, Bryaa, wingmanmlg, NizzQ, saladacchi, Kaarson, Quacky, SwixieThinks

Krunker tournaments - We are actively testing Krunker tournament experiences and we can’t wait to share our plans for both the competitive scene and for more casual Krunker players who want to jump into a quick daily cup to challenge themselves and win extra FACEIT Points. We will also offer our tournament creation tools soon to partnered communities and third-party organizers who wish to start running krunker events on FACEIT. If this is you, reach out to us at: [email protected]

- We are actively testing Krunker tournament experiences and we can’t wait to share our plans for both the competitive scene and for more casual Krunker players who want to jump into a quick daily cup to challenge themselves and win extra FACEIT Points. We will also offer our tournament creation tools soon to partnered communities and third-party organizers who wish to start running krunker events on FACEIT. If this is you, reach out to us at: Leavers - Improved messaging is one step that we are taking to attack this problem. We also received the first results from a survey asking players why they leave matches: the majority told us that 1) They simply did not know they were not allowed to leave, 2) They ran out of time and had to go elsewhere, or 3) They had an issue with the match. We’re confident that we can use these insights to continue improving the experience and reducing the number of leavers in Ranked mode.

- Improved messaging is one step that we are taking to attack this problem. We also received the first results from a survey asking players why they leave matches: the majority told us that 1) They simply did not know they were not allowed to leave, 2) They ran out of time and had to go elsewhere, or 3) They had an issue with the match. We’re confident that we can use these insights to continue improving the experience and reducing the number of leavers in Ranked mode. Match balance - We are closely monitoring matches across all regions, especially in those with fewer players. We are exploring new improvements to reduce higher-level players’ queue times and prevent very long waits.

- We are closely monitoring matches across all regions, especially in those with fewer players. We are exploring new improvements to reduce higher-level players’ queue times and prevent very long waits. Higher tick rate servers - We plan to deliver this during Season 1 as promised in our official Ranked announcement. For players who are out of the loop, higher tick rate servers create a better overall experience when it comes to gameplay. (better hit registration, better sync between client/server, better physics, and smoother gameplay in terms of animations/movement)

Our next blog will be around Christmas time where we will reveal a few surprises for you! Thank you for reading and as usual, keep the feedback coming!