Do you only play with people in your same rank unless you choose not to do so?

Yes, you have the ability to turn it off and play with higher ranks

They are broken into brackets. Unless you choose otherwise, you will play only in your bracket. If your a level 20 and choose to play in bracket 1, you can't use anything that requires you to be over level 5 to unlock. Like self-revive.

Bracket 1 is levels 0-5.
I forgot the others.

Thank god they give you the ability to opt out of that because I have a few friends who wont be able to put as much time in as me meaning I will out rank them quite fast nice to know they will still be able to play with me.

Yeah but isnt there an option to play with all ranks if u choose so?

No higher ranks cannot play with lower ranks unless those ranks opt to play with them.

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So lower ranks can play with higher ranks but higher ranks can only play with lower ranks if they use their lower rank stuff only. Will the higher rank guy still get XP though if he plays in lower ranks? I doubt it will level him up though.

I do not think higher ranks can even play with lower ranks anymore. I know at one point they said you could but would only have access to the lower rank abilities but I believe they changed that now and only lower ranks can opt to play with there higher ones because the abilities will not make that much a difference it is more about experience. If a lvl 20 who has triple the hours can join lower ranks even with only being able to use lower abilities it puts them at a disadvantage since he has spent alot more time playing the game and knows the maps, abilities and the smart system alot more.

The way I understand it is:

Lower ranks can join higher ranked lobbies if they want. No restrictions will be put on the higher ranks because the lower rank is opting to play at their level, though he may be somewhat disadvantaged.

Higher ranks can join lower ranked lobbies by joining a fire team with someone lower ranked. The higher ranked person will then only be able to use abilities available to players at that rank so he doesn't have an advantage. I honestly don't know if he can choose to join a lower level lobby by himself, and I doubt it because I don't think it would make much sense.

As for your XP question, the higher level player should still get XP. And I don't think XP received increases as you level - it probably just takes much more to do so. So he probably won't level any slower (or quicker for that matter) than he would normally.

EDIT: @gotcha - your characters level separately, meaning one may play in a rank 5 lobby by default while another plays in a rank 2. And if that's true, there's no reason a high level shouldn't be allowed to play in low level lobbies.

This makes sense and sounds about right considering what the devs have said.

Mmmkay then.

I belive the lower levels have to pick an option tgat allows higher levels to join.

I hope that the multiplayer ranks have a good system (hard to level up)

Being hard to level up does not make it a good system, i was jus pondering about this the other day, make it too hard and time consuming and people will get bored, make it to easy and fast and people will be making new characters to often and being level 20 will not be such an acomplishment.

You need tp find the perfect balance, which SD probably has.

Fixed :thumbsup:
We're even!

Brackets = Ranks


Rank 1: 1-4
Rank 2: 5-10
Rank 3: 11-14
Rank 4: 15-19
Rank 5: 20