I love the gunplay in this game, and I love playing ranked arena. I just don’t understand or even think its logical to play your pants off for several games, like 5 or 6 and win them all, then lose 1 game and go back down to where you nearly started. That makes it practically impossible to ever reach onyx. I even lose rank when a 4th quits or gets disconnected, and I put in more damage than any player in the game. 343, how is that even fair?
Yeah, I agree 100%. It’s awesome.
It’s a CSR issue.
The rules of the CSR are that you gain some for every win. Even wins that don’t raise your MMR.
The downside of that is you can have a couple of wins vs teams ranked the same or below you. Your CSR drifts up a bit - but your MMR doesn’t move. So when you lose that next game your CSR jumps at the opportunity to move back down where it is supposed to.
It’s not well explained by 343 - and that makes it frustrating.
You have to let go of those CSR points. Accept that your rank will oscillate a bit. But I agree it’s not easy in the heat of the moment.
But because you haven’t started to consistently beat teams ranked above you (and or perform better against them) - your MMR isn’t going up. You are not getting better at the game. So you don’t start to rank up.
Beat teams ranked above you.
Stop losing to teams ranked at or below you.
Improve your KPM (check Waypoint to see your current KPM via “expected kills”);
The ranking system has to penalise teams for quitters. Otherwise the mechanic would be abused. But while you lose CSR - you don’t tend to lose a lot of MMR - and your rank should be fairly easy to “recover”.
Damage as a metric doesn’t predict your rank. They tested it over millions of games.
Only kill and death rates are used. And they are only weightings. In effect they help you rank up faster, but not necessarily higher.
So, really it is fair.
- Start beating teams ranked above you.
- Stop losing to those ranked below you.
- Match the KPM of the rank you want to attain.
- Stop wasting emotional energy on small amounts of CSR gained and lost.
And after saying all that…
343 have now had a couple of mini-trials at CSR changes.
We don’t really know what they have been testing.
Hopefully it addresses some of the issues you’ve described.