Is there going to be a Halo 4 Ranking System?

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Hey guys, not to sound like a redundant A-hole, but what’s the news on a Halo 4 Skill Ranking system?

I’m not trying to get flamed, or trolled or have jerks reply, i’m just honestly curious. I have heard so many different things and i just want to konw the facts and or truth of it all, i heard the Ranking system doesnt show, but there is a personal skill rank, and i heard there’s a ranking system being made right now thats supposed to be as good as Starcraft’s but its in development, and ive heard that there is none.

My main concerns are simple…

If its like Reach’s ranking, i will not be too happy, but play the game none-the-less.
But a few flaws to point out with Reach, you join a game and you can go 45-2 and still lose because of teammates, there was nothing to strive for. I played H3 for hours and hours and hours on end just to try and get my 50, which i never got. Rank locked. (A halo 3 flaw, won 12 games, no rank up to 46) But i would prefer almost any sort of rank.

The other terrible thing about Reach was it was 0 skill, just time. Time time time. I got more credits from the slot machine than i would going 55-6 or getting a perfection, i want to at least be rewarded for skill more. And also, Reach gave ABSOLUTELY NO incentive to win. The what, 100 cR bonus? oh snap.

There was a website called HaloCharts.com that made its own halo reach ranking system, but the site is shut down now, and are there going to be any leaderboards? Like who has the most wins, or who has most kills? is there going to be a separate playlist like H3 ranked and social? is there going to be the “arena” (soooooooo bad, but hey, better than nothing)

The only only only only thing that kept me playing Reach for so long was Commendations, and that was a poor replacement for Skill Rank. after i Onyx’ed them for the most part Reach was over for me.

So i guess, i’m just wondering what the ranking system is/will be, or if its in development or what the deal is.

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read the bulletin.

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yes, but you can’t see it.

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Yea! There is one, but it doesnt actually exist. You just play and you play better players or you play worse ones and you just think youre getting better. This game is going to be played for a couple of weeks! Maybe even a month if were lucky. Ill be so addicted for the first few hours. Man I cant wait to just pick it up and then put it right back in the case. Best 60 dollars I will ever spend. Waste my gas to go get it and waste my gas to trade it in. I cant wait!

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currently there are no ranks in halo 4 but there is the ever so smallest of chances that it will be added in the future.

for clarification, ranks is the visualization of true skill, it is there to show you how well you perform at the game compared to everyone else, this “ranks is there but invisible” is a play on words used to symbolise true skill, true skill is the game tracking rich skill data and then used to match you against other people of similair skill, this system has been used in each halo since halo 2.

what annoys me how ever is how ranks were handled, evertime someone brought up ranks and got a response it was either to completely divert away from the discussion or to simply state that the game will track skill data, but understanding that ranks is the visualization means that it doesn’t matter whther the game is going to track skill data because this is a requirment of XBL, it means that what matters is whether or not it is visual and because there was no response up untill very recently means that all this time they knew there wasn’t going to be ranks and yet they still strang along pontential customers in order to get more sales and to not make themselves look bad, now they’ve forced there hand because you can’t cancel pre-orders anymore, the money has gone through and the shops are getting ready to ship the game straight to peoples houses.

it is never a good idea for a company to force peoples hands in such a way.

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> Yea! There is one, but it doesnt actually exist. You just play and you play better players or you play worse ones and you just think youre getting better. This game is going to be played for a couple of weeks! Maybe even a month if were lucky. Ill be so addicted for the first few hours. Man I cant wait to just pick it up and then put it right back in the case. Best 60 dollars I will ever spend. Waste my gas to go get it and waste my gas to trade it in. I cant wait!

This comment made me laugh

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So in other words we have another halo that wont track rank and will be a measure of time > skill…

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http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/post/2012/11/02/Halo-4-Competitive-Skill-Rank-Announcement.aspx

Read that, the ranking system will be invisible to begin with, then be visible on Waypoint, early 2013.

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When i first posted this and everyone was like no skill rank i was truly bummed and even depressed, the replayability was ruined, but now, ohhh now, i am so happy!! To me it sounds like a really really bad-a…butt version of Halo Charts and the fact they delayed it to make it perfect makes me feel stupid for ever so much as questioning 343. Thank you, thanks 343 and i love everyone… :smiley:

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> When i first posted this and everyone was like no skill rank i was truly bummed and even depressed, the replayability was ruined, but now, ohhh now, i am so happy!! To me it sounds like a really really bad-a…butt version of Halo Charts and the fact they delayed it to make it perfect makes me feel stupid for ever so much as questioning 343. Thank you, thanks 343 and i love everyone… :smiley:

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