I don’t think I can play Halo 4 anymore, and apart from the fact that I’m frankly revolted and disgusted that I have still never played a single DLC map (I have them all) outside of the DLC playlists (which are -Yoink-), CSR has pretty much rendered this game entirely unplayable.
My problem is that no matter how badly I do on online matches, I keep getting put in matches where I’m playing against people with tens of thousands more kills than deaths, whereas I myself have more deaths than kills. Before CSR there seemed to be a decent mix, and in my experience, matches generally ended with people in a much more even footing in terms of score and kills/objective points. Now though, I check the K/D ratio of the people I’m playing against and yesterday all 7 people other than me in Infinity Slayer had more than 15,000 kills above deaths. What the hell am I supposed to do against this? I’m alright at Halo but by no means am I anywhere near that good, yet ever since CSR came out every playlist has been the same 
I physically can’t bring myself to play this game anymore, 99 matches out of 100 I’ve played since CSR was released (I’ve played A LOT of matches in this time) has just been me getting slaughtered mercilessly, regardless of game mode. I don’t stand a cat in hells chance of ever doing well on this game anymore, so unless anyone here has any suggestions its TTFE for me.
The way I see it, CSR does nothing.
I still get put against bad players.
those people aren’t that good, a lot of people farm kills in big team, dominion or flood. I’m only +600 or so but i whooped on a kid that was +16,000 last night in doubles. Don’t be scared of them, just play them and you’ll get better.
Then you must be incredible at the game. Ever since CSR I’ve been put against people who were so good I wasn’t even aware of their existence until that point. Before CSR I had assumed that I was pretty good at Halo, but now its just die die die die die die kill die die die die die die die in every match and I’m sick of it. Things changed VERY noticeably the day that pile of -Yoink- was released
> those people aren’t that good, a lot of people farm kills in big team, dominion or flood. I’m only +600 or so but i whooped on a kid that was +16,000 last night in doubles. Don’t be scared of them, just play them and you’ll get better.
I’ve been trying that, I keep playing it despite how badly I keep getting beaten, and my CSR just won’t go down, it actually is rising steadily despite me doing worse and worse as time goes on
The only change I noticed when CSR was put into play was that I instantly got paired up with people WELL below my skill level. I believe I won something like 20-30 games in a row.
Then after I ‘rose in rank’ it sort of remained the same but on occasion I’d get beaten. Which is fine of course, it’d be boring if I won every single game.
But I haven’t noticed anything other than that since they released CSR. I tried looking at my stats after a couple of games to try getting into it. Couldn’t. I stopped using/caring for CSR a while ago. D:
CSR hold little weight when deciding who you match. I match guest all the time still.
It was a nice idea, and it would be great if it actually worked. We don’t get matched up with people our skill level. It usually matches us up with people that are way above or below our skill.
In my opinion, yes. I’m not gonna use the “It sucks because it’s not visible in-game” argument, as that is an invalid argument, since adding visible CSR ranks in-game would require a lot of work and retooling of the user interface. My reason is that I haven’t really noticed any impact on my matchmaking experience. For example, I’m CSR 31 in Big Team Battle, and I still get paired with people who have CSR ranks of 15 and lower. If it actually made a difference, then yes, I’d consider it a worthwhile addition, but as of right now, I feel that it’s more or less completely useless.
I’ve hardly noticed anything. the only CSR-induced thing I’ve noticed is a large influx of partied Sr130’s in Infinity Slayer/BTIS.
Otherwise, I will get put against people with CSR way higher than 17 in BTB or CSR<10, just as before CSR I would get put up against the XXXPROXXX guys, or the guy with more Kinect Games than Xbox Games, never in the middle or rarely on my level.
My KD isn’t bad, its about 1.6 last time I looked (who cares?!), but I have a low CSR: I am not the type to bulrush and try hard every match, as I believe CSR it’s based on point earned in a match.
They screwed up by not making CSR visible in-game. They screwed up by not having you search by CSR but rather by trueskill. CSR is a joke.
I still think it’s an improvement from BPR in Reach. What the hell was that anyways?
it’s not CSR that’s making the matchmamking inconsistent. There are 2 primary issues
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They reset everybodys “true-skill” level when they came out with CSR, this means low skilled players get matched up with pros until the system can determine your skill again.
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Low population. When there just aren’t that many people to match you up with you will often be paired with people either way above or below your skill level.
I definately have noticed that since they reset everybodys trueskill that I will either dominate everybody else I am playing against or get absolutely crushed by people better than me. Hopefully over time as peoples skill level get known it will get better however low population is going to be an on going problem.
Well… CSR has nothing to do with who you are matched up with… It’s just a physical representation of your TrueSkill (which is and always has been what matches you up) along with some other factors. The CSR system has no impact on who you are matched up with. Sorry for your bad luck though… But look on the bright side, the only way to improve at Halo is to play against tougher players!
What Shadowstrike1 said. On the plus side, those players OP quoted were likely farmers. I don’t think it’s possible to have 15,000 more kills than deaths without some kind of erm, assistance.
All I don’t understand is why put in CSR before you fix the weapons, most people I see that have 40-50 across all gametypes all use the DMR, no BR, AR, or light-rifle.
just makes no sense to have CSR and 2/3 of the weapons aren’t balanced, and if they reset everyone after the june 3rd patch then people are going to be upset
I run into 7 or 8 SR130’s a game in BTB now because of it … some with upwards of 100k kills.
Which is cool. Can’t sit in the same spot and snipe 10 dudes anymore … I actually have to play smarter.