I finally got a match after 10 minutes! Was a great time. Had a buddy hop on… Now I cannot search with him?? We played H5/MCC ranked altogether??
What is up with this? The population of this game is not large enough to prevent us from searching in ranked lol.
Have either of you obtained a rating for ranked?
Yes - D4, other unranked.
I am just confused - we go to open, unranked & our first match is with onyx hahaha.
Is your friend ranked in that same playlist?
Negative. He is not ranked in that playlist
There’s the issue. Your friend will need to play enough games to gain a rating, and your friend will need to be rated close to D2 (not sure how close) in order to play with you.
Why did they implement this?? Sad
If he is diamond 4, his friend needs at least platinum 3 to play.
August drop pod update. However, this is common practice in ranked playlists. Call of Duty and Apex both have similar requirements.
It’s to keep people from being boosted out of their actual personally maintainable ratings. It’s suppose to keep the competition fair.
To all your points - those two games referenced are popular games.
This population already suffers. I played for a few hours today and probably played with about 14 unique players?
Truly miss the old school ranking system.
Lately I’ve been “lost connection to server” mid match every other game. Only with infinite. My friend and I play MCC, Infinite, H5 and HWars and it only happens in infinite these last two weeks. I don’t know why. My internet setup hasn’t changed since 2020 and I’ve powered cycled. I just chalk it up to Infinite sucks *** at everything but core gameplay.
The old school rank system would function the same. Just with a different visual.
Old School: 1-50
Current: Bronze - Onyx
Either way the system would still operate in a way which keeps ranked matchmaking fair and relatively balanced with players skills.
There is no doubt the population is hurting at the moment, but there are only a few ways this changes. More engaging content and word of mouth. There are to many alternatives for people to invest their time in these days.
Even Halo 3 back in its days had over 1 million on launch night, but over time the daily average was about 2-300k.
Unless we are talking Halo 3… which was 1-70 vs Bronze to Onyx.
Bungie just hid the top 20 ranks to make everyone feel like a super soldier.
But Onyx is also a very big rank (without even a cap i think?), so isn’t that basicly functioning the same? (although you can check your CSR number., so perhaps not exactly the same…)
Wide is scope (eg. 1500-2000+) - but not in numbers. Should only be a few % of total population - but does expand given the open ended / grindy nature of the CSR.
Part of the reason we need Seasonal resets.
Yep. The number is the key.
In Halo 3 there is no difference between a D3 and an Onyx 2000. Both would be a ‘50’.
To all your points about Halo 3 being 1-50 vs Bronze - Onyx…
In Halo 3, I could play with a level 1 when I was level 50… In this game, it seems I cannot play with level 45 when I am a 50??? Anyone else agree?
People are quickly starting to disagree.
The problem is that you and your buddy are the only ones having fun.
You get to run around destroying the opposition lobby. And your buddy has a level 50 body guard.
If you try and match the opposition on skill level you end up with a level 50 who gets frustrated because they can’t carry their Level 1. And the Level 1 is miserable because it’s not their friend looking out for them.
If you match the opposition on team level you end up with a mid range team who spend their whole game trying to avoid you while scavenging kills against your team mates. It’s just not very fun.
So, in the end, you ruin the game for six people so you two can have a bit of fun.
And now people have worked out how to grind CSR by manipulating teams.
Did this have the effect people were hoping for? My friend group largely had to stop playing due to this implementation. Still wish they would implement a clan system with a raw rank for the entire group. Or treat the lowest ranked person as a higher rank within the threshold, similar to h2.
Good point! How about removing this limitation in team doubles at least??