For the most part, I think the current truskill system works pretty well. I am facing people that are around my skill range.
However, when it comes to playing with groups of friends with different skill levels, the system seems to match you according to the player that has the highest truskill in the party.
In Halo 2, 3, and even somewhat in Reach, the matchmaking system would average the skill rating of all the players and try to find another stacked team that had a similar average.
No system can be perfect with matching mixed skilled teams but the current system in place makes it unbearable to play with lesser skilled players.
Most of my friends get absolutely dominated when they play with me. I can hold my own against the people we face but only barely. They go -10+ every match.
This is why we need ranked and social playlists. Social should have a looser true skill system so that groups of mixed skill can play together and have a good time.
Why am I complaining? The system worked better on an 8 year old game than it does on this game. As we move into the future, technology should improve, not degrade.
Please patch your system 343. If previous Halo games can get it right, so can yours.
> Um. Ranked and Social Playlists were confirmed long ago. I love how people don’t research things before they start crying.
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> They’ll be implemented next year.
it should have been implemented day 1. not “whenever we feel like we want to get around to it, so heres a broad general timeline so that we can continue milking the cow a little longer before the we save whatever mindless casual pop we have left 6 - 8 monhts from now and hope that the hardcore gamers will comeback even though we obviously have abandoned them for 6 year olds and CoD”
> Um. Ranked and Social Playlists were confirmed long ago. I love how people don’t research things before they start crying.
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> They’ll be implemented next year.
We don’t actually know the details of this system. Every playlist could get a 1-50 system or just 1 like in Reach. Regardless, there needs to be playlists that are specifically designated as “social”. Right now, every playlist is pretty much social but the invisible ranking system is too competitive.
If it is like Halo 3 where it is split half and half, Ill be extremely happy. But I suspect it will be like Reach where we get one ranked playlist, two at the most.
> I mean, this is Halo. Of course there needs to be some sort of visible ranking system. Halo 3 did it best, Reach’s BPR was a load of crap.
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> I play with my wife quite a bit, and there reallllly needs to be social playlists for this type of thing.
> I mean, this is Halo. Of course there needs to be some sort of visible ranking system. Halo 3 did it best, Reach’s BPR was a load of crap.
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> I play with my wife quite a bit, and there reallllly needs to be social playlists for this type of thing.
I bet 343 will come out with a huge update when they bring ranked/socials. There are a ton of complaints and problems with this game, and they didn’t have a Beta. Chances are they are working on all this stuff, so we just gotta be patient.
I completely agree with you. I wrote a critical article on Halo 4, 10 months before it was released. I wrote another one after playing the game for a decent amount of time. Almost all of the problems I predicted would happen, have happened.
The games popularity is falling less than a month after release. A new map pack coming 5 or 6 weeks after release? The game was released without being finished, and first the consumers pay the price. Next it will be the developers. Hopefully 343 listens to some people. With a heavy heart, I have to say I’m disappointed in Halo 4.