Resurrecting an age old issue that still has not been addressed.

[watusaytomepnk]

Dear DE, please remove the 24 hour timer on rank up attempts, it is obnoxious and serves no clear purpose as far as I can see other then to annoy and punish failure in the worst possible way. I could at least understand it if you could pay to skip it but as it is no i see 0 purpose to it at all.

[BoomyGordo]

you can practice the test ad infinitum in a relay before doing it for real. no real reason to fail

 

[Sean]

47 minutes ago, --Laughing-Soul-- said:

you can practice the test ad infinitum in a relay before doing it for real. no real reason to fail

 

Though the tests aren't exactly something obvious for newer players.

They really should just be an option for when a player chooses to rank up instead of forcing people to go out of their way and just "know" that there are practice tests at all.

[hellodownthere]

not an issue at all the only MR tests that i found to be hard was MR 9 and 19 (though when i did my MR 9 test abilities could be used, not sure if that's still the case)

[watusaytomepnk]

The issue is more for me that a massive amount of the tests are buggy (all the stealth ones when i did them had really buggy line of sight, and mr24 having weird hitboxes on the moving control points are examples of a couple) just letting us retry them until we get it instead of, having already earned the level by grinding a ton of weapons then having to practice a bunch of times for something you never need to do again if you succeed then still losing to a bug or the ancient code of the tests is obnoxious, time consuming, and unrewarding.

Not to say that any of these points against me above are irrelevant, but I feel like they are more bandages over the issue rather then actually making it better.

Edited September 29, 2018 by watusaytomepnk

[KeelLorentz]

As someone who failed rank up to mr10 3 times despite training in simulacrum before-please remove rank up attempt timer. Its frustrating enough to rank up, even more if you fail and have to wait days until you get it right.

[LazyRogue]

I kind of agree with this statement, i've had the issue where i failed an actual attempt and had to wait, and have gotten many friends into the game who got annoyed at the 24 hour timer because the first 2-3 MR goes very quickly, they all said the same thing that they thought is was stupid and didn't make any sense.
BUT that being said i do get the reason its suppose to be a challenge, something you DO NOT want to fail. While you can smash your head against the brick wall of practice mode (Bare in mind practice wasn't always a thing, so going in used to be a scary thing sometimes) Its a time gate, to stop players rushing through everything, for example the first 3ish levels could easily be done in the first day of play, and for those players with their parents credit card who buy thousands of platinum who can buy and/or rush every piece of equipment, could easily get up to 15+ using level maps.
So yes it is annoying but for once in a game i agree with the use of timegating, i wouldn't feel as 'accomplished' at MR25 if the time gating wasn't there.