A Question on CSR

Games Other Halo
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So after reading the weekly bulletin’s Q@A section and coming across iapplefanatic’s question on how CSR rankings will be based and seeing Quinn’s answer, it got me thinking on how guests fit in.

Quinn said that in the mainstream playlists, it is based on your individual performance and the CSR of those you play against.

For select playlists, it is based on both Win/Loss and the CSR of your opponents.

So where do guests come in? Are they given a ranking the same as the main account they’re playing off, given a 0 or 1 in all playlists that can never go up or down or are they not ranked at all?

The problem with this is if the CSR comparison rate is the same.as Halo 3 (dont quote me on this or flame me if this is wrong, its merely the most common thing I’ve read), playing players of a much lower rank will result in a slower rise in rank.

The other thing is how will having a guest affect the matchmaking search system? Are they ignored to make it more strict and only taking the main account’s rank into consideration or the only weighting they get is just adding one to the party size you search for?

I have my doubts about guest support in a ranked environment, but mostly confused as to how a temporary stat will affect CSR.

I’m also not bagging on the skill levels of guests, this is purely a few things that have me a little puzzled.

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Good question.

I’m sure 343i will dance around the question and be as vague as possible in their explanation of how this will work out.

My speculation would be that, as you said, guests will essentially count as the same rank as the main account that they are with.

However.

That would mean that you could run into a team of 1 main and 3 guests, all represented as 35s, and after beating them as a 25 rank up a lot more because of playing a full team of 35s instead of mixed ranks. Which wouldn’t be fair and would give you plenty of unfair matchups.

Also, this would completely negate the idea of a strict trueskill because it wouldn’t produce good matches anymore, since it is making an incorrect assumption on how to match you up.

I don’t know man. I’m going to make a forum post giving all the question I find and hope that 343i can answer them for us.