Tomorrow is going to be yet another huge day for Killer Instinct fans! The big 2.4 update will arrive and with it comes a slew of new patches, game balances, additional character colors and skins, the next character Aganos (Season 2 Ultra owners only!), and even a new game mode called Leagues, which is the primary focus of this report. Iron Galaxy Studios’ very own Kraig Kujawa has taken to Xbox Wire to detail exactly what Leagues is, how it works, and its importance to the game. Here’s a portion of his article…
Ranked Leagues is the monthly battle to climb up the ranks and become a feared and renowned Top-32 “Killer.” Like any professional event, Ranked Leagues begin with qualifiers. The first time you enter the Ranked Leagues landing page, you qualify by playing 10 matches that determine where you are initially placed in the League’s tiered ladder system. Based on your performance, you’ll be grouped with players of a similar skill level in the Bronze, Silver or Gold Tiers. Then the battle is on to reach KILLER status!
Every Tier game matches players up with similar skill levels. Bronzes play Bronzes, Silvers play Silver, and so on. A shiny, new Player Card banner will show everyone the status you’ve reached. As the battles rage on, you can gain or lose Ladder points and Rank Titles, but once you’ve made to a Tier, you can’t fall out of it. No need to stress out about flubbing a match or two! Occasionally, you’ll even match up with someone outside of your Tier, but bonus Tier Points make it well worth your while for you and your opponent to take the risk. After you reach a certain threshold of Tier points, you graduate to the next Tier. And once you’ve progressed to the KILLER Tier, everything changes!
KILLER Rules
•Killer vs. Killer Ranked Matches are now BEST two out of three, a staple of tournament fighting.
•Unlike Tournament fighting, you cannot counter-pick between rounds, keeping matches as brisk as possible.
•The Killer Tier is reset every month and the Top 32 Killer players at the end of the month are rewarded PRO Status, immortalizing them in that month’s Leaderboards, in addition to unlocking special Player Card PRO stars.
For additional information, visit News.Xbox.com!
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This new system is trash and not equal the have qualifiers fright gold and killer ranks how is that fair and it should be qualifiers against qualifiers gold against gold and so forth
Why didn’t omen get any colors or accessories, I know he’s a “bonus” character but come on he still deserves as much work put into him as all the other characters.
It said 17 mb but this update is slow and eating up my gb.
lmao at the guy down there in his feelings!!!
Great i just got the update know with a message from iron galaxy / microsoft saying sorry for the inconvenience. now iam happly playing with aganos. great fast responce on Xbox one. Ki fan always.
ugh…… fanboys and MKX slaves…… they make me puke with “MK is better, butralities” (retarded laugh)…. or….. “Killer instinct keeps crashing
like this guys……. just shut up and buy the game that you want….. no comment
P.D: i won’t reply at idiots
whats going on with the update. its it down. where is Aganos. are they having issues. somebody told me they are pushing aganos back. and KI keeps crashing. help.
Yoop neXT fatality ultimate humiliation new dead stages ki one orchid spinal cinder dead stages
Ki 2 gold dead stages tusk kim.wu sabrewolf jago spinal good
Stage destructibles Plus the destruction fx ring out
New mode death match, ???????????
Im not impressed. In other news……..that MKX Brutality trailer tho……..
Those are not brutalities …those were wack
LOL, I’m pretty sure the trailers said brutalities……I thought they were cool, better than seeing a player explode into 4 rib cages, 8 arms and legs and other ridiculous crap a la the old brutalities…
Please update boss shadow jago now son of a bitch
They are not releasing a playable boss Shadow Jago. He is not tournament viable and this game is big on tournaments. He has zero hit stun, block stun and recovery frames. It’s not going to happen.
Does your current online rank reset after this update?
Yup; they were saying that although the rank resets, everyone gets 10 matches in which you prove yourself. After those 10 matches we will be placed in one of three tiers: low, medium, high. Each of those tiers has its own ranking ladder, so, if you start in low tier, you fight to the top and graduate to medium (and so on). Once you graduate to a new tier, you can never go back down to a lower tier; you just keep fighting until you can make it to the next highest.