> I hate to shoot you down like this, so don’t take this as a personal attack, but pretty much none of this was right.
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> > The majority of 3s party team 50s like notlegit,gcvelocity have 2 50s each legit, and search on them daily. Message either of them if you want to search them out.
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> Notlegit is hardly deserving of a 45, let alone a 50. Velocity boosted for his 50s, but doesn’t lose them now because he searches against players that don’t know how to defend a Brute rush. Remember, he’s the best mid-level player on the server currently, but not HL. He’s Justin 2.0, who was Domed 2.0. They get worse with every cycle. To be fair, Velocity never had a chance to get good (macro and micro-wise) because he never played when there was a high level of 3s competition. He’s currently a grinder who is locked into what he was taught by players who were better than him.
You’re right. Kinda.
Velocity, notlegit, and other people whom you consider “mid-level” are now the high level players. They have 50s because they are the dominant team searching. No doubt they’d lose to older top tier players, but they represent the top tier competition currently.
> Most 2s 50s are boosted. xlimitz and tensa are probably the only semi-legit 50s that search on their 50s. Either will search you out.
> Limitz boosts very regularly to keep his 50 because he looses it so much to beating bad players (remember, he’s the world’s biggest 2s grinder, so this happens regularly to him). Although he is among the best 2s players, he has to boost a lot to maintain that rank with that many games too. Fuzion, however, could not keep his 50 to save his life while he was going for it and started boosting when he was losing. That’s not to say Fuzion isn’t a good player, but he, just like every other player, has to boost in order to keep their 50. The only way to keep a 50 legit is to quick-search at a 45 all day and never lose. That’s no longer possible any more.
Again, this is pretty much right. No 50 currently is legit, because the halowars population isn’t great enough to support the trueskill system effectively. The range between 40 and 50 trueskill has maybe 4 % of the total semi-active halowars population, which ends up being like 100-200 people. Because of this, to get above a low 40 you have to search with people lower than you, ie, boosting. The only reason there are so many players between 44 and 50 trueskill is because of boosting.
The small amount of boosters then allow the general ts to rise, as legit 40s would be beating legit 40s who boosted to 45+. Basically it spreads out people who are legit 40s into the mid-high 40 range, worsening the ability to find a game.
The people who I listed were simply examples to inform the OP that there are decent-good players who search on a daily basis who have reasonably high ts.
> Boosting in 2s especially is super easy. People like johnny (guy above me) will simply boost right back to a 50 if there was a reset. If you really want a fresh chance, make a new account. Tons of people search 38-43 all the time, just learn to fast search.
> Actually, there are no active players in that TS range. I was on a week ago and I found teams in the upper 20s every 10 minutes or so while quick-searching at a 44. There isn’t a single game out there at almost any time of the day. The only way for players who want to improve to find a game is for them to all boost out of their range in hopes to find a player who actually owns their TS.
This just isn’t right.
Because you searching for 5-10 minutes resulted in no games, means almost nothing. Mid-day? Weekends? incompatible NAT? Time differences? Makes a huge difference.
Loaded/am.mob, tankrush/arbyrush, velocity/notlegit/olympians/oglegit, tensa/weights/notlegit, microing/tm, johnny/kenzbot, swatmerk/teammate, taylorside, runwars, zerosubset/smug/livin, blopped/donated, justin/tm, knifepro/hutzy, loaded ninja, aow, vsnipez, etc.
These are all mid-high level people who would at the very least give you a decent game that search on atleast a bi-weekly basis.
There are a ton, ton more players whom i cant bother to list. Just because last years high level players aren’t playing anymore doesn’t mean other mid-level players don’t rise to replace.
You seem to miss how the trueskill system works. Its representive of player-skill on comparison to other active players. A 42 from the first few months/year of release would smash todays mid/high level 40, simply because now there is less competition. Because of boosting, intentional or not, the 38-42 range floats up to the low/mid/high 40s, as I said earlier.