Halo 4 Matchmaking Team Balancing

Games Other Halo
1

Is it just me, or are match-made teams in Halo 4 really unbalanced? It seems that they pair high levels with high levels and vice versa. For example, if I’m doing Team Doubles, these are the teams…

Blue Team
SR130
SR130

Red Team
SR1
SR1

I understand that it pairs you accordingly, so say if you and your friend are in a party you’ll be on the same team, but it seems really inefficient. Halo 4 is sort of a level-to-win type game. As you level, you’ll get better abilities and weapons. An SR1 has no chance against a SR130.

2

They’re mostly unbalanced, but sometimes they do get balance…I don’t know, it’s complicated.

3

It bugs me when a whole game is ruined just because of unfair advantages. And also when you’re playing Team Doubles or something and your teammate drops out before the game launches you’re stuck playing against two opponents at once alone. Halo 4 doesn’t bother to wait for another Spartan to join, or anything.

4

SR numbers are not a measure of skill. They’re a measure of time played. Odds are good that an SR1 is not very good (hasn’t been playing very long), but often an SR130 (like me) is not particularly good either - they’ve just put in some hours on the game. If you really want to know if the match was skill-balanced then your only option is to wait until it’s over and then go to waypoint and look up each individual player’s CSR, or Competitive Skill Rank. This is the number that was actually used to match you to other players, and it often bears very little resemblance to SRs.

5

Its because the population is embarrassingly low it happens in any game with such low populations.

6

OP, SR rank has NOTHING to do with skill, necessarily.

You can check the service records of the members in a lobby before the match starts, meaning if you match people with 30,000 kills and 12,000 deaths, they’re probably pretty good. I wish they’d delete the ability to back out before matches even start. The only thing you can do in doubles is hope that no one backs out, which unfortunately happens about half the time.

CSR rank is the way players are matched, and unfortunately for doubles and given the low population, it doesn’t work very tightly. You might be a CSR 10 but be matched with CSR 25s. You might also match CSR 1’s. The best thing is just to play as many games as possible for the law of averages to work it out. Have some fun along the way :slight_smile: