
The biggest thing is your skill level but there’s a subsidiary component that looks at your experience level and what you’ve achieved in the game, and both of those things are factored together when the game tries to figure out who to match you up with. In matchmaking we take both of those things into account. So if you lose a bunch of matches, your skill level might go down but your experience level is something that will always go up. Redditor Pickledscones took to the Zelda forums to share the two-teamed recreation, showing off some progress shots of what an experience in a Hyrule-ified Minecraft looks like.

So you can never go back in the level system, where you could go back in the skill system. How does the online player ranking system in 3SO function?ĭN: “There’s a skill system which keeps track of your individual player skill level, and separate from that there’s an experience progression where by winning matches online and completing difficult challenges, you gain experience and level up. So if you’re new and starting off in the game it’s unlikely that you will be able to progress as quickly as with a character that has a lot more options and flexibility like Ken.” You have to take a lot of advantage of Third Strike’s systems in order to play those characters well.


Any characters that new players should avoid?ĭN: “Q and Twelve are probably bad starting points, both of them are weaker characters in the Third Strike universe, they’re not unplayable or anything, but you really need to know what you’re doing and play really smart.
