Losing motivation to play Ranked, but not because of cheaters.
Hard to take the Rank games seriously when there’s basic and fundamental problems with the game:
Inconsistent melee
Magic bullets that curve around walls, or shoot through concrete
Winning games give <10 CSR, while losing games take away >10 CSR
Rockets that don’t explode, or explode in the wrong spot
No rewards for playing the objective. You get rewarded for a win overall and your KD.
… just to name a few.
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Yup. Last 4 games I played: Won 3 Lost 1
I gained a total of 3 CSR in the three wins (1 CSR for each win) and lost 10 CSR for the one loss.
75% win ratio with a 7 CSR loss. WTF?
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Yeah,that and the many other conectivity, lack of content and progression helped me decide not to play ranked. I only played this mode when you had to do the challenges, haven’t touched it ever since . Why would I when there is literally NO reason to play it?
Actually, I have reports from over a month ago now that have yet to be looked at. I dont think they are taking any reports seriously.
Tickets still marked as open. They are not even reading them as a placebo effect.
You got off lightly.
I was diamond 5, placed against a full High Onyx squad earlier, got absolutely steamrolled and lost 33 CSR.
Ive talked to a few people, and the consensus seems to be there are only those heavily invested left playing ranked. Steam alone is reporting a 40% drop in players in the last 30 days.
Infinite is on its last legs… 2 months after coming out of a 6 year development cycle. Microsoft must be fuming… Unless its just a massive tax write off?
Well, to be fair, I haven’t played this game in 2 weeks lol. No reason to play it, it’s an absolute dumpster fire.
I loose the will to play from leavers and people lagging out
Honestly its probably not even leavers. Look around the internet, the game is kicking people off left and right. This last “Hotfix” has seemed to just make the connection issues spread from BTB to the rest of the playlists.
And they claim it was thoroughly tested. Its time to master chief to rest it seems.
It’s definitely leavers. If the leavers are leaving mostly when we are loosing then it’s leaving. Especially if it’s right after a flag cap
There are a lot of issues with ranked:
- high ping
- cheaters
- desync
- ranking system that doesnt work for objective gameplay
- stacked teams playing with smurf account
- people lagging out
- only 1 playlist
- problem with hit registration
- input lag
So the legit question is: “Why should i play ranked?”
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You left out:
- Extremely punishing CSR losses, and +1 CSR gains.
- Almost no one using a microphone to communicate with their teammates.
- Confusion after matches on what causes rank gains and losses, with hidden MMR apparently being a huge factor
- Behemoth still in ranked playlist rotation
- 3v4 start glitch
- Quitters
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Definitely the case. I’ve seen fewer and fewer people playing Halo Infinite in my friends list, and I seem to be matching with the same people over and over. I’m D5 as well, and the skill levels across both my teammates and opponents vary so much it’s almost not worth playing ranked anymore. Too unpredictable.
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I’m pretty much done with the game now. Constant hackers in ranked, my teammates are 12 ranks lower than me and don’t appear to have hands to play the game with. It’s the worst expereience I’ve had in Halo ranked for a very long time.
I made the mistake of letting my eight year old play some of my rank placing matches (she was very excited for Halo and wouldn’t let up). So I started at gold one. Now that I’m bouncing around mid platinum it’s pretty much made it unbearable to play ranked.
Yeah ive play 4 games of ranked tonight. Every match was against Onyx players. Had a few games of Attrition and the difference is night and day.
If you cant match me against people of my own rank level, just tell me you cant find a match… putting me in as fodder for onyx is just terrible, terrible matchmaking. Ive lost 46 CSR cause matchmaking doesn’t work, not because im a bad player… another feature that is just broken in infinite.
Honestly though, this game is a dumpster fire. It will be dead soon.
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I don’t feel that I have run into many cheaters per say, but I am getting tired of my platinum team getting stomped by Gold 1 alt accounts
I haven’t played ranked since week 2 of this game, and im thinking about playing some here in a few mins, is it really that bad?
Very unfortunate. You’re right though. I have an open ticket as well. When I played h5 it took about a week to get the resolved email confirmation. Maybe less …Thought that games population was very low when I submitted a ticket. I’d like to believe that the reason why is the amount of cases. Perhaps being overwhelmed by it. However I have no idea. I dont know the size of their team. I do know that the times I’ve used the support site worked every single time in the past halo tho. In this one idk maybe there’s just so much back log since it’s new and the player count was very high at the start…with many problems as well.
No, support is there.
I got banned for trying to play BTB. I didn’t realise it was for 5 mins so obviously raised a ticket appealing it, that has been answered and Ive had back and forth with a rep regarding the fact that ban will forever be on my record.
The ones Ive submitted regarding cheating are just sat stagnating, they are over a month old. If they were overwhelmed then and still not through to those, I can only imagine the backlog now.
They are not interested. They just want you to suck it up and go buy some coatings or an armor effect.
Those reports are different though. They’re sorted. Like the type of problem you are having goes to different sections, and some would be easier to resolve than others. I’ve seen players banned that were on the lead boards while many of us were talking about the cheater that got banned so it does work. It’s not a wasted effort, but to see it open for over a month I agree is definitely not good.
When using the report tool though, you have to select report a player, and that gets handled differently than submitting a ticket for something else. I accidentally submitted a ticket without selecting report player and the agent emailed me and said to submit another ticket and select report player, otherwise it will not be seen by the right people.
got ya.
They must be overwhelmed then. Shame they didn’t implement an actual anti cheat to do the heavy lifting automatically.
I’m largely over the game now to be honest, so for all I care they can just delete the tickets Ive raised.