Concord players are offing themselves for XP in a last-ditch attempt to level up before servers close in just 2 days
This morning, 35 Steam players, myself included, started up Concord and decided to play a few games of Rivalry, a competitive mode in Concord that dishes out the most XP available. After waiting for five minutes (I'm queuing with PS players, too), I finally got into a match, if you can call it that.
Within a couple of seconds, the first round was over as the enemy team flung themselves into the sea just below the spawn point, killing them instantly. No, this isn't some weird glitch, or just a group of particularly sad players. Before Sony takes Concord offline in a couple of days, players are trying to get as much XP as possible, and the best way to do this is by killing themselves in Rivalry.
The enemy team continued to off themselves for each of the four rounds, meaning my team won with no elims, no damage, and no healing done at all. By the end of it, I got 15,000 XP for winning and managed to level up after just one game. It's actually a pretty smart idea. You get tons of XP and have to spend no more than a couple of minutes in-game—the queue times are actually longer than the matches.
This is literally every match of Rivalry in Concord rn because this is the fastest way to earn XP for the Platinum
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