confused about H4 Commendations

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Is anyone else a bit confused about how Halo 4 Commendations are being tallied & recorded? It seems to me that some credits toward ranking up commendations are being lost.

For example, in the ‘Battle Rifle’ Weapon Commendation, I’m at 214/500 for the Distinguished rank … but I already have 643 kills with the Battle Rifle in Wargames Slayer matches.

And for the ‘Bullet in the Brain’ Player Commendation, I’m at 321/400 for the Expert rank … but I already have 667 headshots in Wargames Slayer matches.

Are credits toward Commendation rank-ups pro-rated or adjusted in some way? If so, is this documented someplace? Or are there stats being “lost” due to the back-end servers not being able to keep up with the flood (pun intended!) of data?

(I did notice that a game I played on Sunday afternoon did not show up on the Waypoint HTML app until Monday. This slow update included the delayed adjustment of stats like K/D for the performance in this game. Might this be a clue that the stats back-end is being slammed?)

Any help or insights would be appreciated. :slight_smile:

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I believe it is cumulative and you have to reach the number allocated to the commendation rank.

Example (since I don’t have the specifics in front of me):

BR Commendation 1/5: Kill 10 Spartans with a BR.

Once you have killed 10 Spartans - you reach level 2/5, but your previous 10 kills do not count toward your cumulative total. In other words, if commendation 2/5 on the BR was 20 kills, you’d have to kill 20 more Spartans. That would give you a total of 30 kills on the commendation, but only 20 kills on that commendation tier.

Go look at your Slayer gametype commendation list and it may make more sense. I have 3,780 kills overall in the Slayer hoppers, but I only have to reach 2,400 to max out the commendation. Those 2400 kills are for that tier of the commendation only.

Hope that made a bit of sense.

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Yes, that makes sense. :slight_smile:

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I noticed that many of them count also Spartan Ops (like the “Driver”)