Ranked Mode

Ranked Mode is an upcoming mode on Defusal separate from the traditional Casual Mode.

Basics
Ranked is a solo-only, competitive Defusal experience. When you join for the first time, you will be required to play 10 placement matches to determine your rank.

Rank System & Skill Rating
Your rank is a visual representation of a number. This number is called the SR, or Skill Rating. During placement matches, your SR is very sensitive and winning and losing games will have a large impact on the value.

Placement games will make you defuse bombs from several ranks in order to determine which difficulty bombs you are capable of defusing.

After assessing your skill and getting a rank, your SR will become way less sensitive and the impact individual games will have on your rank will decrease drastically. Starting a match will generate a bomb designed to fit your skill level. Defusing it will increase your SR, and losing will decrease it.

Your SR is always hidden from you unless:


 * Your Rank is Legend
 * You are viewing the leaderboard

Gameplay & The Instruction Manual
Since Ranked is solo-only, the defuser must play the role of what would be both the defuser and the expert at once. The manual is easily accessible by the player at any time as a toggle UI.

To prevent Ranked from being a memory game, most modules have an instruction manual which changes each game. This forces the player to read the manual instead of memorizing everything inside of it.

Of course memory can still be applied to a certain extent, such as remembering which parts of the manual change in order to get information faster, however this is acceptable since it falls more into the category of experience and skill rather than memory.

Complete Explanation (Advanced)
Ranked is a solo-only, competitive Defusal experience. When you join on an account for the first time, or play in a new season for the first time, your rank will be set to Unranked. When unranked, you must play up to 10 games before the system decides your rank. The rank given can be anywhere from Bronze I to Platinum II.

Ranks, Rank System & Skill Rating.
Your rank is a visual representation of a number (SR). Each rank has 4 tiers. The number used is called your Skill Rating, or more commonly referred to as SR. Each rank and each rank tier has its own SR range, of which means that that rank with that tier will be shows if your rank falls between the range (inclusive)

Ranks
Each rank also has its difficulty and extra time. Difficulty is how modules are chosen to be added and how many are added, whilst extra time is the extra amount of time you receive to defuse the bomb after all module times have been added together. Below is a table to show both of these values.

Winning and losing a game affects your SR.

Winning can increase your SR, whilst losing decreases it. This increase and decrease can be amplified by a few things:


 * Gaining a win streak (+IPG, up to +40)
 * Gaining a lose streak (-DPG, up to -45)
 * Breaking a win streak (-IPG, up to +1)

You can also recieve an Ultimate rank by being #1-5, or being drawed with #5.