I’ve found the source of my frustration and it has been very clear but I have not spoken out about as it will probably never be fixed but I am here today to let it be known. Halo 5’s matchmaking placement/ranking is broken. Simple as that. Before I thought I was just terrible at the game but then I remembered that there are 7 ranks to be placed in accordingly to skill. This is not the case for halo 5. It is based purely off wins and losses which is completely wrong. Not everyone plays with their friends. I have one friend I play the game with and that is not very often. Even then that’s only half a team so no telling how a game will go. I am the perfect example. I am lone wolf most the time I play halo but want my team to win. Duh. I have been placed in 3 game modes so far. Slayer: platinum 1. Definitely wrong. I got slaughtered and maybe a game or two I broke even in KD. I am a Silver player Gold at best. Free For All: platinum 5 and I have no idea how that happened. I placed 6th and 5th every game with a double negative KD almost every game. Again Silver or Gold at best. Swat: platinum 1, with this it was close to getting it right, I am a Gold player probably at best for this. To me the 10 qualifying matches mean nothing and just place you in a random rank. Great for those that got placed accordingly to their skill, not everyone does. The current placement and ranks system need to be trashed and a new one needs to be implemented before this game becomes unplayable for some. They need to take into account a players actual skill, based off deaths, kills and assists. Not your team performance. Halo 3 and Reach from what I’ve heard did all that. Please read this and try to understand. That includes you 343. But I’d like to hear everyone’s opinions on the current system with what you like, don’t like and what changes you would be interested in seeing in the future, if ever any. Git gud comments are a waste of your breath as their are a bronze, silver, and gold rank for average and under average players. Maybe letting people drop ranks would fix this as like I said, people get placed way higher than their actually skill at the game.
Dude, bullet points or paragraphs. That’s a -Yoinking!- essay you wrote
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> Dude, bullet points or paragraphs. That’s a -Yoinking!- essay you wrote
Yeah…
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> Dude, bullet points or paragraphs. That’s a -Yoinking!- essay you wrote
Just letting the problem be known and there is no reason to formal on here with paragraphs or bullets lol
Seriously, this problem needs to be fixed
Nothing to do with formality mate, I’m just too lazy to read all of that in one go lol
Okay short version. The ranking system is broken and is need of a new one based off individual skill to make the game playable and fair
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> Seriously, this problem needs to be fixed
Completely agree
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> Okay short version. The ranking system is broken and is need of a new one based off individual skill to make the game playable and fair
I keep saying the Halo 2 ranking system needs to be brought back. Best of an shooter I’ve ever played.
Every game mode for me is unplayable as I absolutely get -Yoink- rapped every game. I will rejoin the arena playing field once it has been balanced and people are ranked accordingly to their skill
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> Okay short version. The ranking system is broken and is need of a new one based off individual skill to make the game playable and fair
Seconded.
I feel the same way. I had a couple of good games and got placed in Platinum 5 and got some additional good games to move me up to Diamond 1. In the first season I was placed in Gold 4 which I felt gave a decent amount of challenge for my skill level, but now I feel out classed in every match I play in Arena Slayer. I’ll probably wait play till the next season begins and who knows how long that’ll be…especially since the January 2016 season just started
I just started a new topic called return my old rank. I too was doing just fine before they decided to shake it up. This is total bs as far as I’m concerned and you feel the same it seems. I’m totally the lonewolf also. I don’t play with teams. Wish it would go back to the old rank I had at gold.
The idea of Divisions isn’t too bad, but in it’s current state it is awful. Nobody should be put in Onyx/Champion after their 10 placement games. Also, Divisions need to face their own Divisions. Seriously, the whole point of Divisions is that you face equal skill, and if you prove your might, advance to the next “Tier”. This game routinely makes me face Onyx people when I am in Diamond 1. Thus, I get “stuck” in my original placed tier. I’ll win a game, then get matched against a team of 4 with Oynx people, over and over. Even more infuriating is I’ll face a team with Onyx peeps, yet the game gives me Platinum or unrated teammates which is just beyond ridiculous.
There really needs to be a mechanism to where if you go positive, or are at the top of the leaderboard of the losing team, you don’t go down as much. But I do think overall progression should be Win/Loss only, otherwise people just stat boost like in Reach.
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> The idea of Divisions isn’t too bad, but in it’s current state it is awful. Nobody should be put in Onyx/Champion after their 10 placement games. Also, Divisions need to face their own Divisions. Seriously, the whole point of Divisions is that you face equal skill, and if you prove your might, advance to the next “Tier”. This game routinely makes me face Onyx people when I am in Diamond 1. Thus, I get “stuck” in my original placed tier. I’ll win a game, then get matched against a team of 4 with Oynx people, over and over. Even more infuriating is I’ll face a team with Onyx peeps, yet the game gives me Platinum or unrated teammates which is just beyond ridiculous.
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> There really needs to be a mechanism to where if you go positive, or are at the top of the leaderboard of the losing team, you don’t go down as much. But I do think overall progression should be Win/Loss only, otherwise people just stat boost like in Reach.
Hit the nail on the head