Drop in drop out will play out horrible in halo 4 for 3 reasons.
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Drop in drop out makes every match play like a uncompetitive custom game because nobody will care about winning.
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Drop in drop out is okay in Cod because so many people play that pile of poop game so that people will always keep joining. In halo drop in drop out will be just like quick matches in gears where nobody joins your match so you end up having a 1v1 with bots with somebody for an hour. The reason this happens in gears but not cod is because not that many people play gears compared to Camp of doody so not as many people will join your game. Halo 4 will have the same problem that gears has with drop in drop out but with out bots.
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When ever a game has drop in drop out you will constantly join matches late. I cant tell you how many times I have try searching for a tdm game in cod and joined the match late so I end up losing and I cant do anything about it. So when I join a match late I usually quit because I don’t wanna play that poop so then I search again and join the same match so I quit again and again and again and again the same thing happens until I feel like breaking the game.
Please 343i for the love of I don’t know the flying monster or something like that make drop in drop out only for social and have 1-50 for ranked.
They MIGHT have the gears 3 version only with no bots
Drop in-Drop out > limited Quit Ban
> Drop in drop out is okay in Cod because so many people play that pile of poop game so that people will always keep joining.
Biased, stopped reading right there.
> They MIGHT have the gears 3 version only with no bots
Im thinking the same thing but I dont know what 343i will do because I think all of us are shocked by the changes that 343i are doing with the halo series.
the reason it works for cod, bf, hf, gw, moh is they are all progressive. halo is not. i agree with u rookie but you have to be more educated on knowing these things. halo need to be competitive so 1-50 system with social playlist with drop in drop out but players choose whether to be in a dido game or start from lobby and also if it is dido have to choose when so you dont join a lossing team with 10 sec left of the game. i hated that about cod. but for rank there should not be any dido option.
Check my thread out it is very heavy on info. you dont have to read all just read about the drop in drop out problem. http://halo.xbox.com/Forums/yaf_postsm791799_My-View-and-Opinions-on-the-new-supposed-leak-INFO.aspx#post791799
I don’t like the abbreviation “dido” for drop-in-drop-out. It looks weird if you read it fast.
More on topic - if this feature is “poop” or not, and how "poop"y it may be largely depends on implementation. If there are ranked playlists, drop-in/out doesn’t belong there. The end.
If it’s just for more relaxed/social playlists, ideally there will be a search preference where you can say new games only please. Search takes longer, but you get the regular experience.
But what if you don’t check that? Maybe they can have restrictions, so you don’t join if the game is past 50% mark (in score or time), or if the score is separated by more than 20% (so that if you do join the losing team, you’ve got a decent shot of making a comeback).
Now onto the stats…don’t know what their system is like. But K/D shouldn’t be affected, since you’ll still be fighting the same regardless of when you join. But win/loss can change if you join late, already losing, and your team fails to make a comeback. I’d recommend that you get a fraction of a loss. If you joined when the winning team had 25, you get half a loss. If you joined when they had 40, you get 20% of a loss. If you joined when they only had 10, you get 80% of a loss. Same goes for wins, if you weren’t there for the whole game you don’t get the whole win counted in your stats. Since wins and losses are often shown as a win%, of a win/loss ratio; having a fraction of a win wouldn’t matter too much. Although thinking more about that now it might be trouble if you need to record 20% of a game played; where games are usually whole numbers.
Stats idea needs work. But ranked vs. social separation; and the user search restriction option and eligible game restriction would be things worth implementing, and they’ve probably already thought of most of these things. Hopefully clarification will arrive regular-person-“soon” rather than 343’s “coming soon”.