I’ve been playing halo for a long time and have always felt like the pairing in the ranked games is awful. It seems that players way better than myself will sometimes be ranked lower than me or visa versa. And why am I playing against champion level players when I’m not that level at all. Completely unfair and sometimes makes me question ever buying anything else you produce… competitive play is what keeps this alive and is highly in favor of team play and seems to handicap solo que players…
I’m mean, if you’re going to put me up against platinum 6 and above players, at least award me with a way to climb up there too… or just stop putting low ranking players in que with higher ones…
I would really just like Social playlist versions of the Ranked gametypes. Life without Social Slayer sucks. 
I suppose I like the gratification of seeing a medal for your efforts. I still play all the game types from war zone to husky raid. The ranked system needs work though… I’m not sure how hard it is to write the software program necessary for gathering the stats for matches but maybe it should be more extensive and factor in how much a player is actually contributing to the victory as a whole… some games I can get up to 30 kills and die less than 10 and others I only get 7 kills and maybe die 7 times but those specific kills maybe have been late game clutch kills or incredibly placed shots and well timed or executed but the current stats we see in the carnage reports may not reflect that…
Yeah there is an inherent problem with ranked play in that sometimes, it maybe more often than not, you will be playing against someone way better. It’s like that in sports like football as well. There are some players on here that know a lot more than me on how ranked scoring works. I would hope that a loss to a higher ranked player would result in less points deducted, and a loss to a lower ranked player would result in a higher number of points deducted. Since the ranking system resets every so often, your going to get players with a low rank, that are better and the current rank would not reflect their skill level. Not sure there is a better way to do it unfortunately. If there were more Halo players playing rank, it would be less noticable.
Yeah, I don’t like being ranked, it makes the game feel too serious to me. I don’t normally play competitively; Halo is basically the only game I PvP in.
What you’re saying about “contributing to the victory as a whole” sounds kind of like how Warzone calculates player rankings, so I think they could reasonably work that in. Honestly, I played the Battlefield 3 Beta way back in the day and noticed they had a system like that for its players, and as someone who loves playing medic, I really appreciated it.
But calculating your contributions in a non-objective-type game would be bananas. I don’t even know how exactly you could do that.
I feel your pain man, sometimes you lead the team meanwhile the people on your team can’t seem to coordinate or stay alive. It is indeed frustrating dude.
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> I’m mean, if you’re going to put me up against platinum 6 and above players, at least award me with a way to climb up there too… or just stop putting low ranking players in que with higher ones…
Same with me in Arena, I’m trying to qualify for the new season and a Platinum player goes 27-0 and wipes us all out. How is that a fair ranking system?
Feel welcome to add me guys. I play all types of halo play modes
I’m kinda having the opposite effect I’m usually verses a low rank team when I do face against a diamond team I don’t mind it I enjoy it. Only issue I’m moving up the ranks so slow I recently just got back on this game so I’ve been grinding my way to oynx. Today I played maybe 15 games went from plat 2-4 lost one dropped to 3 and stopped playing before I end up in a losing streak.Its not fun solo carrying a team cause Im always in a team of golds vs golds and barely moving up I much rather be placed against high ranks so I can move up my kda of the season is 4 always top player I dunno why my skills match with some new people. and dropping a whole division from a full bar a game away to plat 5 to all the down to low 3 just cause a teammate decided to troll and go negative 20
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> I’m kinda having the opposite effect I’m usually verses a low rank team when I do face against a diamond team I don’t mind it I enjoy it. Only issue I’m moving up the ranks so slow I recently just got back on this game so I’ve been grinding my way to oynx. Today I played maybe 15 games went from plat 2-4 lost one dropped to 3 and stopped playing before I end up in a losing streak.Its not fun solo carrying a team cause Im always in a team of golds vs golds and barely moving up I much rather be placed against high ranks so I can move up my kda of the season is 4 always top player I dunno why my skills match with some new people. and dropping a whole division from a full bar a game away to plat 5 to all the down to low 3 just cause a teammate decided to troll and go negative 20
I feel this is more accurate to how I feel than my original complaint
It’s funny, though. Since I made this post, I have climbed from gold 3 to platinum 3 and I’m still cruising. I think I found my groove again but I could really use some more friends to link up with online
I’m barely a gold and I fight people with platinum positions, but they are doing very terribly and are losing their rank, I dont know how they got to platinum but they do. I never find someone lower than silver or higher than platinum. I think it just depends on your rank and how fast or slow they are falling or growing.
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> I’m barely a gold and I fight people with platinum positions, but they are doing very terribly and are losing their rank, I dont know how they got to platinum but they do. I never find someone lower than silver or higher than platinum. I think it just depends on your rank and how fast or slow they are falling or growing.
I think you’re correct. It still is a little imperfect but nothing is perfect… I’m platinum 3 and climbing pretty quick now… but sometimes, upon first logging in the next morning after a good evening run the day before, I get stacked up against champion 60 and higher… or onyx 1600 and higher… I can’t compete with some of those guys even on their sick days… even if I am adapting quickly or moving ups the ranks. It seems like I’m beat into submission and told to stay in platinum by these significantly better players… I feel like I’ve been playing at a diamond 1 skill level but can’t climb up there if I’m not given a real chance to make it there.
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> I feel your pain man, sometimes you lead the team meanwhile the people on your team can’t seem to coordinate or stay alive. It is indeed frustrating dude.
Agreed. I hate doing extremely well in a game but my team is letting me down cause they cant pull it together. It’s very frustrating. Match making in ranked is broken in my opinion.
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> > I feel your pain man, sometimes you lead the team meanwhile the people on your team can’t seem to coordinate or stay alive. It is indeed frustrating dude.
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> Agreed. I hate doing extremely well in a game but my team is letting me down cause they cant pull it together. It’s very frustrating. Match making in ranked is broken in my opinion.
While we all agree that the system is not catered to please those who go into this solo… it is really nice when you have a group of guys who know how to watch your back and have good call outs. My gamer tag is the same as my username. I’m on daily and open to playing with people of all skill levels when it’s a group of us. When I’m playing solo I do take it more seriously.
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> > I feel your pain man, sometimes you lead the team meanwhile the people on your team can’t seem to coordinate or stay alive. It is indeed frustrating dude.
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> Agreed. I hate doing extremely well in a game but my team is letting me down cause they cant pull it together. It’s very frustrating. Match making in ranked is broken in my opinion.
As long as I’m not the only one, and Halo Reach seems to have more people that just do nothing. I think that’s the part that grinds me.
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> > Agreed. I hate doing extremely well in a game but my team is letting me down cause they cant pull it together. It’s very frustrating. Match making in ranked is broken in my opinion.
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> As long as I’m not the only one, and Halo Reach seems to have more people that just do nothing. I think that’s the part that grinds me.
I understand people try and suck, but the people that do basically nothing is DEFINITELY the worst part of the grind.
I’m sure it’s a population/too many playlists problem. I think there are like 17-18 ranked and social playlists not including warzone which is way too many. I played team arena last night and played 8 games. 7 of them were against the same team. Im ranked diamond 3 and had 2 diamond team mates and a platinum. We played against 3 champs and an onyx. 6 games in a row. Definitly wasn’t fun. I’m assuming just not enough players available to find a decent match.
Why I have up with Halo 5 for good, I’m Plat 6 but I’m get matched against Onyx & Champions which makes it unbalanced to play