Just because you’re not playing people who act like bots does not make them “sweaty tryhards”. People have been playing Halo for two decades and the average player isn’t going to be completely stupid and doesn’t exist for you to farm.
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Plus just getting your party to stay together feels like an achievement
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Honestly outside of Forge and custom games coming in I don’t see an Age of casual play coming back.
I used to love going into Rumble with with a friend in Halo 3 and just mucking about. It’s always so sweaty now and the only time it isn’t is when I’m clearly matched against much newer players.
I agree with you that ranked seems more casual. I’ve found in QP people will play the objectives well but in ranked it can go a full minute into the game with the Oddball never being touched. The rank system rewards individual good performances and not actually winning the game.
With how many players there are, with f2p, Gold players shouldn’t be playing with Diamonds. That is a huge jump.
However players can matchmake with other players in any rank. I can queue with my Gold friend and crush players I really shouldn’t be allowed to play against. That needs to stop.
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The casual modes are firefight, spartan ops, and warzone. PvE, really.
Yeah, the matchmaking is tough for me. I consistently find myself in games where others have 10 or 20% higher accuracy (I sit around 35%).
PvE is what transitioned me over to Destiny and Halo 5 kept me around with warzone. Team objective matches are fun - if the team is playing the objective.
If they created a ‘casual’ playlist, non-casual would fill it up to have their ‘fun’ easy wins, but all I want are close matches.
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Without going into a rant the reason why Social is in such a sorry state is, because SBMM is also applied to it when it should only be in Ranked.
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You are very, very dense.
I’m sure glad you aren’t a developer but thanks for your input.
I hear what you are saying and I have a few thoughts
- Its toxic how you condescendingly classify other people as bots in such a snide manner. As if you are some how above having a moment of stupidity or a bad halo game.
- Its equally toxic that what you gather from my post is that I have a desire to farm people on halo.
- People playing halo for two decades doesn’t justify having a poor matchmaking system.
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That’s what I was wondering. And if they are the same SBMM algorithm, that’s a starting point for the developer right there.
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The argument for SBMM is if you’re a below average player, you’re matched to the system’s best effort to get people also below average.
Without SBMM, you get the shaft of the normal distribution curve, where if you’re bottom 30% player, you will on average face people 20% better than you, thus it is even further from a casual experience.
When you don’t have SBMM, other parameters have to be used such as location so the distribution isn’t normal.
and you are very, very salty my friend. get good.
Like I said several posts ago, you are in no way being constructive but thanks again for chiming in, in a completely useless way.
How will location help make even matches besides ping? Is there a secret location I should move to to get my boost into Onyx rank?