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This playlist SERIOUSLY needs a ranking system / party filter. Half the time low level randoms get matched against full parties of high level players. And it’s not fun playing like that from either side. There are constantly games where an entire team of randoms will quit because they can’t get past the 5 kill mark. It’s not fun from the winning teams point of view either. People go into the MLG playlist for actual competition against people who know how to play. If they wanted to stomp on randoms they would be playing Big Team Battle with a full party.

This playlist isn’t fun like that. Whenever there are equal matches, the playlist is great, but as it is most of the time it’s terrible. Make MLG ranked, 343. Give it the Arena ranking system if you have to (1-50 is preferable).

There are MANY playlists that need a ranking system, but MLG needs it the most.

Seriously.

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it also needs to get updated to v6 settings. we have been at v4 for, what feels like, forever.

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That too.

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Though a ranking system would be nice it’d probably make it impossible to find games… especially with Reach’s division-percentile system.

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> Though a ranking system would be nice it’d probably make it impossible to find games… especially with Reach’s division-percentile system.

Eh, it’s better than what there is now though. It’s garbage without a ranking system.

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I have made a similar thread a few days ago, but put in a lot more information.

We would probably have better luck if we joined forces and kept it contained to a single thread, if you’re interested:
http://halo.xbox.com/forums/games/f/7/t/34689.aspx

> Though a ranking system would be nice it’d probably make it impossible to find games… especially with Reach’s division-percentile system.

No, this isn’t true. If you check my thread, I have already discussed the reasons why.

MLG has a much more competitive atmosphere, so there will always be someone at high levels to match.
Additionally, teams of 4 are FAR, FARRRRRR more common in MLG, so you will not come across the situation of not being able to find a team to go against.

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I think Arena should have never been created and Bungie should have worked pre-launch with MLG and made MLG their flagship competitive playlist.

Many other playlists should have been ranked or had ranked equivalents.

If you just want to quickly play a game by yourself in Reach 90% of the time you’re either stomping randoms or matching full parties and getting destroyed. Either way the game is simply not fun.

Add in the multitude of cheap tactics dominant in Reach which make the mitigation of skill possible and it’s no wonder people quit more often in Reach.

For all its failings The Arena is probably the most competitive playlist which is utterly pathetic as it has some of the worst competitive maps in Halo history.