Halo 5 Skill Ranking Should Make More Sense

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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First off, I want to say that I love the game. I am very satisfied with all aspects.

However, I have one complaint that probably plenty have experienced. So early today, I had a game in which my team won by a considerable amount and I got a k/d of like 16 to 5 or something like that. It was a pretty good performance all around. But strangely, i only was awarded 8 points to my rank after the match. The next game, my team lost but i kept a positive k/d. I was deducted 20 points.

From my example, it is easy to see how the ranking system seems random and does not quite make sense. I shouldn’t have been penalized by such a large amount when my personal performance was good but i had to work with a very shoddy team. Does anyone have an explanation for this?

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Yo

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Howdy do.

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There are already a couple topics open on this matter, hop in one of them :slight_smile:

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The game you won for only 8 points was because the system expected you to win based on the rank/skill of enemy team. The game you lost for 20 points the system also expected your team to win based on the rank/skill of enemy team, except they won & would have got a large point boost while you get a big loss.

In short the game looks at both teams on start & tips the likelihood of which team to be the stronger & likely winner. The xp points awarded or loss depend solely on how much the game scales the 2 teams in strength. The greater the difference between the 2 teams the more or less points given or taken depending on the final result

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Thankyou for the explanation