A skill based ranking system is essential to Halo for one simple reason: getting matched up against players much worse or much better than you sucks.
Here’s an example of the kind of matches Reach’s truskill system allows for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov2JwsL1ob8&feature=g-u-u
Just to clarify, I don’t think ALL playlists should be ranked. Social playlists are great too. But there need to be multiple ranked playlists in Halo 4 for the sake of fair play.
343i should look at Gears 3, Ranked and Social for each gamemode and with some tweaking it could work.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
We NEED ranks. 1-50 hopefully.
And before you try and argue. Yes, you can have your social playlists too. Halo 3 style.
While you’re at it 343, bring back clanmatch from Halo 2. Those matches were always intense.
How many times is this type of thread going to be remade?
> 343i should look at Gears 3, Ranked and Social for each gamemode and with some tweaking it could work.
this.
instead of copy from cod they need to start emulating things from gears 3. it’s an incredible sequel to the first 2 and its never talked about b/c it has a high learning curve.
> How many times is this type of thread going to be remade?
As many times as it takes before someone realizes “hey 343 i am over here!”.
It’a vicious cycle.
One thread dies, only for a similar one to take it’s place. Again and again, it never ends.
It’s true though; Reach’s trueskill is non existent. 
Halo 4 cannot afford to do what Reach did.
> How many times is this type of thread going to be remade?
Until 343 confirms a Ranking system and we all rejoice.
You cannot point to one game and say the entire system needs overhaul. If they could do that 25 times in a row, then it would be worth looking into changing it.
All I know is I have more even(match ends within 10 kills of ech other) games then not.
Agree 100%. 343i, you’ve just got to.
> You cannot point to one game and say the entire system needs overhaul. If they could do that 25 times in a row, then it would be worth looking into changing it.
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> All I know is I have more even(match ends within 10 kills of ech other) games then not.
If you actually watched the video you would have heard them talking about how they were doing it all night, each game they played they tried to beat their record and after each win they increased the goal by 5 kills. If this is how it was when they started then they were able to win 11 games like this.
> Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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> We NEED ranks. 1-50 hopefully.
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> And before you try and argue. Yes, you can have your social playlists too. Halo 3 style.
> While you’re at it 343, bring back clanmatch from Halo 2. Those matches were always intense.
How much more does it need to be said?
HALO FANS WANT 1-50 RANKING SYSTEM!!!
> How much more does it need to be said?
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> HALO FANS WANT 1-50 RANKING SYSTEM!!!
I’m a Halo fan and I don’t want it. Maybe try a new ranking system.
Yea, we need 1-50.
> Until 343 confirms a Ranking system and we all rejoice.
gameplay would also have to be good in order to rejoice though
numerical ranks akin to 2 or 3 wouldn’t have saved reach tbh
343i should just make a massive poll.
Visible 1-50 and unranked ‘social’
All ‘social’
Something different
If it’s going to be something different (I think this is the case) they should really explain the system well before the release. If it’s bad, there is no reason to not go back to 1-50.
The reason you get bad games in Reach is because there aren’t enough players in matchmaking. There is still truskill and some kind of ranking at work, so please stop with these threads. I’m a 33 in Halo 3 and I can go and play Halo 3 right now and get matched against bad players or super good players, aka players not equal to my skill, because there isn’t enough players online.
I got nothing against 1-50 or having ranked and casual playlists, I’m just pointing out that your point is stupid and wrong. cheerio
If they won’t do 1-50 then what else can they do? Go back to Arena? Helllll naaaaaaaa
> You cannot point to one game and say the entire system needs overhaul. If they could do that 25 times in a row, then it would be worth looking into changing it.
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> All I know is I have more even(match ends within 10 kills of ech other) games then not.
The point of the video is that matches like that shouldn’t happen AT ALL. Given that they are MLG pro’s they should be matching up against the next best players every game they search.
Like you said, most games do end within 10 kills of each other. But when more skilled players like those on Carbon and Classic play matchmaking the skill gap widens. And that’s where Reach’s truskill fails. I’ve had WAY more competitive games in H2 and H3 than I have in Reach. It’s a joke.
> You cannot point to one game and say the entire system needs overhaul. If they could do that 25 times in a row, then it would be worth looking into changing it.
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> All I know is I have more even(match ends within 10 kills of ech other) games then not.
What game are you playing?