Going back to Reach, one of my least favorite parts of matchmaking was that guests could join in any playlist. They could end up on your team and ruin your team, or be on the other team and really make it not much fun, because 90% of the time they’re terrible. In previous Halo games there was ranked and unranked playlists where you could ‘escape’ guests.
I know that there isn’t a lot known about a rank system, but what about playlists where guests are not allowed to join? Is this possibly the more competitive playlists that Frankie has talked about? That even if they don’t end up being ranked, they will be for only people with subscriptions.
> Going back to Reach, one of my least favorite parts of matchmaking was that guests could join in any playlist. They could end up on your team and ruin your team, or be on the other team and really make it not much fun, because 90% of the time they’re terrible. In previous Halo games there was ranked and unranked playlists where you could ‘escape’ guests.
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> I know that there isn’t a lot known about a rank system, but what about playlists where guests are not allowed to join? Is this possibly the more competitive playlists that Frankie has talked about? That even if they don’t end up being ranked, they will be for only people with subscriptions.
I really hope not. Guests have no place in ranked gametypes. Social, yes, infection, yes, but a definite NO in ranked. I also feel that if you do not have the DLC, you should be locked out of ranked. Reach really screwed that up. Guests get no reward in ranked, so what’s the point right. All that will happen is the guest is just going to screw with the team. The guest AND the player he is with get booted, now you are down 2 players. The thing about guests, they have no responsibility, or obligation to follow rules or play type. The owner of the account is held responsible, sometimes screwing them because the guest does something wrong.
Yeah I totally agree, guests should be limited to an un-ranked playlist.
I’ve pretty much only ever had bad experiences with guests; most often involving them and/or their buddy griefing/team-killing our team, destroying our vehicles at base, potty-mouthing etc.
Also, they usually turn out to be little kids, who shouldn’t even be playing the game due to it’s content, let alone ruining a ranked playlist for the rest of us.
A ranked playlist loses some of it’s integrity if un-ranked guests can just join in.