Halo is a competitive, e-sport, ranked game, there are some obvious things/rules to follow to not loose your entire competitive players population, Halo 4 is almost perfect, the game is awesome, even better than Halo 2, but there are so many flaws in matchmaking right now and most of them, since day 1, either 343 dont listen at all to the community or they don’t care about competitive players.
Why can I still get matched in a mid-game ? You said it was going to be fixed when CSR came out. (I joined two mid-games and dropped 6 levels even though I played like a god for the entire 30 seconds left to the game and I only played a total of like 10 games since the CSR is out)
Why can I press B and simply back up any game (now ranked) after seeing my opponents ? I even have the time to check people CSR, ratio, if he is playing as a team or not and backup whenever I feel like I can loose, literally everyone is doing this.
Why are the playlists not split in half to have competitive and social playlists like in every halo ?
Why can I get matched against team of 5s when i’m playing alone or with 1 friend ? I wouldn’t mind in social, but in ranked competitive… no one in their right mind will do a team slayer at level 45+ alone when they know they will be matched against a team of 4.
Why can I play rumble pit with 5 of my “friends”, or even with 3 “guests” ? I can already smell fake level 50s
Why is Halo 4 out of MLG even though there was a pre release MLG tournament ?, a lot of people wouldn’t have bought the game if they knew this before the game was released.
Why is the CSR hidden and only shown on halowaypoint ?
That’s all I have in mind for now, please don’t let this thread die, if 343 listen to their community like they say they are, they will see this thread and fix the game once and for all.
> Halo is a competitive, e-sport, ranked game, there are some obvious things/rules to follow to not loose your entire competitive players population, Halo 4 is almost perfect, the game is awesome, even better than Halo 2, but there are so many flaws in matchmaking right now and most of them, since day 1, either 343 dont listen at all to the community or they don’t care about competitive players.
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> - Why can I still get matched in a mid-game ? You said it was going to be fixed when CSR came out. (I joined two mid-games and dropped 6 levels even though I played like a god for the entire 30 seconds left to the game and I only played a total of like 10 games since the CSR is out)
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> <mark>They never said it would be fixed by the time CSR came out, but that they’d try their best to get it fixed by the time CSR released.</mark>
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> - Why can I press B and simply back up any game (now ranked) after seeing my opponents ? I even have the time to check people CSR, ratio, if he is playing as a team or not and backup whenever I feel like I can loose, literally everyone is doing this.
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> - Why are the playlists not split in half to have competitive and social playlists like in every halo ?
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> - Why can I get matched against team of 5s when i’m playing alone or with 1 friend ? I wouldn’t mind in social, but in ranked competitive… no one in their right mind will do a team slayer at level 45+ alone when they know they will be matched against a team of 4.
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> - Why can I play rumble pit with 5 of my “friends”, or even with 3 “guests” ? I can already smell fake level 50s
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> <mark>Rumble Pit is based off of individual scoring, not win/loss. In many peoples eyes, it is still a ‘social’ playlist.</mark>
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> - Why is Halo 4 out of MLG even though there was a pre release MLG tournament ?, a lot of people wouldn’t have bought the game if they knew this before the game was released.
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> <mark>That was MLG’s choice and they made it due to the lack of developer support for post-launch events.</mark>
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> - Why is the CSR hidden and only shown on halowaypoint ?
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> <mark>To discourage cheaters apparently, as well as the in-game UI being too messy and complex to even think about modifying post launch. It is possible, just extremely difficult.</mark>
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> That’s all I have in mind for now, please don’t let this thread die, if 343 listen to their community like they say they are, they will see this thread and fix the game once and for all.
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> BTW, this list is in order of importance, imo
Finally some decent posts, @ The Little Moa, when I said rumble pit, it was just an example, you can queu with guests in all playlists I think, now all playlists are ranked and competitive, if they want social playlists, then put them in a social category. Lack of developper support, you said it yourself, and i’d bet that it have something to do with -Yoink!- mobile. CSR not being shown in game is really my last concern, i’d prefer it ingame, but I dont mind really, I was just wondering why, thanks for your answers.
Joining midgame is not what is bad, the bad thing is that you are severely punished once you join one and will likely drop rank, it is a major problem and I would like some updates from 343 about that. Not only that they said they will try to fix it by the time CSR comes out, but they also said that if you join a game midfight, their CSR algorithm will consider like if you were there the entire game, is it something that have not been implemented yet ?
> All of these things were a problem before they decided to shows the ranks. Get over it. You ought to be happy they show them all.
My thread isnt related directly to CSR, I just thought that maybe, since the playlists are now ranked, they would make them competitive and fix these obvious flaws.
Also, sry for bumping, but I wouldnt have to bump at all if the forums werent flooded with useless threads.
> MLG dropped Halo 4 because of the terrible video lag on local play.
Where do people come up with this stuff? Cite? I’ve seen plenty of AGL games and no one is complaining about lag. The most likely reason MLG doesn’t have Halo is because of the contract w/ -Yoink!- Gaming - read Sundance’s twitter feed for the last couple of months. But, it’s all speculation. Only the insiders really know. The rest of us simply guess, or worse, make stuff up.
> > MLG dropped Halo 4 because of the terrible video lag on local play.
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> Where do people come up with this stuff? Cite? I’ve seen plenty of AGL games and no one is complaining about lag. The most likely reason MLG doesn’t have Halo is because of the contract w/ -Yoink!- Gaming - read Sundance’s twitter feed for the last couple of months. But, it’s all speculation. Only the insiders really know. The rest of us simply guess, or worse, make stuff up.
no one really know, it definately have something to do with -Yoink!-, but I dont mind much, I just think its sad that they used MLG to promote Halo 4 pre release.
Now I understand why my threads die one after the other, the other competitive players have gave up already, soon it will be my turn.