My Bpr

Games Other Halo
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I have a question. When I started out on XBOX LIVE in October 2010, I was freakin’ terrible at the game. (Before I had XBOX LIVE, I didn’t even have an XBOX, so I hung out at my friend’s house after school on Friday’s and we would just play Halo 3 from 4:00 PM to around 2 A.M., of course with breaks, but I still sucked really bad. Anyways…) I went really negative for almost every game from October 2010 to around January 2011. My K/D was sunken to around -4500 until February 2011. Then I got better. Now I go at around -3000 to -3500 (I’m too lazy to actually do kills-deaths :p). Even though my K/D is likely incurable past this point, (at least for me) I am still REALLY good at the game. Ever since July 2011, I’ve been an original member (one of the founding members) of a local MLG clan (The MLG Tards) with my best friend PR0 DYNAMITE (who has a BPR of 35) and the leader iiMLGT RageQuit (who has a BPR of 98). I usually stick to gametypes that improve my K/D, like SWAT or Infection (only if I’m NOT infected).

So here’s my question. I have a BPR of 37, but I’m certainly not below average in any way. I try to stay away from that horrible number plastered on my profile, but I keep coming back to it. I cannot get it to raise, and it won’t lower no matter how negative I get (I tried a game of Team Slayer where I basically committed suicide a lot to test my BPR and see if it would lower, and it didn’t do anything to lower my BPR whatsoever). I REALLY WANT TO MAKE THIS NUMBER HIGHER. Now I’m always getting positive, and I even went 25 kills 2 deaths on a game of SWAT about two weeks ago. How do I make this number higher so that I can prove to people that haven’t seen me that I am actually good at the game?

Thank you!

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Well, you have two options if you want that number to go up.

Option 1: Keep playing and doing well. Try to make it your main goal to go positive. Play a lot. It will go up very slowly if you do this.

Option 2: Make a new account. Start from scratch, and your BPR will represent your skill more accurately.

I’m glad my BPR is 100 lol

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Oh yeah, and also, some info on the MLG Tards:

Like I said in my question, the MLG Tards is a local clan (city-only at the moment, but I want to expand). We are led by iiMLGT RageQuit (feel free to look up his gamertag). I am one of the original members of it, which means that I go into MLG matches with him. We all know each other in real life, with the exception of Hells Breaking and stat wrecker (though I believe iiMLGT RageQuit personally knows both of them). The reason for our name: we like to make fun of the MLGs (not the ones who make craploads of money, but the ones who are fat and sit around all day playing Halo: Reach without any break). So far we consist of Team A, Team B, and Team C.

Team A: Handles true MLG battles between more widely-known clans. Led by iiMLGT RageQuit and is governed by the original members (yes, led and governed are two different things, just check the president and the government :p).

Team B: Handles the more local MLG battles and steps in for Team A when one member is offline. Led by PR0 DYNAMITE and for a lesser part, Jamen Namen.

Team C: Handles new recruits and trains them to be better at Halo: Reach. This team is in beta, due to a lack of recruits. Led by Jamen Namen when launched.

Due to the fact that I am more inactive on the weekends, I don’t take part in a WHOLE lot of battles. When I usually step in is during the summer.

Yes, we do require a test in order join Team B. You have to beat one original member (PR0 DYNAMITE, Jamen Namen, stat wrecker, Hells Breaking) in a 1v1 on Slayer Pro or Snipers Pro. First to 25 wins.

Any more information, send me an XBOX LIVE message to my account, Jamen Namen.

Back to the question. I would really love this answered.

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So I looked at your stats on B.net, and I would like to add you really should try to win more of your games as well as going positive. I believe win/loss effects BPR.

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Haha I made that last post before I saw this reply.

Hmm… A new account. I don’t know about it. I mean, my BPR doesn’t always tell skill accurately (like in my case lol).

Plus, when I started out on XBOX LIVE, my goal was to hit the high ranks and have the cool armor (even if it was just for looks).

Now I have stuff like the Mjolnir Mark VI helmet and, my personal favorite, the Recon helmet, the Shotgun Shells wrist, Gold Visor, Security Shoulders, Heart Attack (working on Lightning at the moment), and the Master Chief Firefight Voice (very recently).

I know looks aren’t everything, but I’ve been spending a large amount of time just building the “tower” on my Spartan.

I don’t think so. Even if I have a BPR of 37 and a -3000 K/D, if people think I’m crappy, I’ll just challenge 'em to a 1v1 on SWAT or Slayer Pro (preferably something with no radars and no power weapons), and prove them wrong (unless they are better than me, than that would be embarrassing :p).

However, I will just keep goin’ positive on every game (I already do) and slowly build those two sections back up.

Thank you for your suggestions though! :slight_smile:

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Yeah, usually I spend most of my weekends away from the console (with the exception of Saturday night), so when I begin playing on Monday, I try to adjust back to Halo: Reach (I’m just a teenager so homework always comes before playing, and I always have a lot of homework). The first couple games, I might go negative, but after that, it gets better.

I tend to be more of a “lone wolf” (even says so on my preferences). That might be why I don’t get a lot of wins. I’m not the biggest fan of teamwork. However, I do firmly entrust that it is a primary element in victory on almost any game. I used to be a big team worker. However, it changed when my K/D suffered 36 heart attacks a year ago.

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That’s my only flaw currently, as a gamer.

I tend to lose my skill very quickly while away from the console. But that, in no way, will keep me from going through my real life, like my friends and my schoolwork. I always put that first, no matter how much my skill deteriorates over that period of time.
It doesn’t necessarily mean that I always start off really horrible, getting really negative scores. It just means that it might hit 0 or -1 the first couple matches. However, I gain that skill back very quickly, within a matter of around 2 or 3 games, depending on how long I’ve been away.

As a teenager, I have to remember a LOT of things, including my tactics on Halo. And since my real life comes first, my “console” life goes “backstage.” And so I may forget some tactics over a certain time period of inactivity on the XBOX.

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Also, I’d like to add that I’m not very good at objective-based games (with the exception of Invasion).

I am mainly good at Slayer, different forms of Slayer, Campaign, Invasion, and Forge. (So none of that Oddball, or Race, or CTF, or Stockpile, or anything like that. However, I am open to playing them, as they are pretty fun.)

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if you are that interested in BPR (a statistic that means literally nothing, and takes very little to achieve), cant you just play zombies and firefight to boost it?

i think that works, actually. if you care that much i’d just farm those playlists. again, not that it matters because the statistic means literally nothing.

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Well, on Infection, I don’t enjoy taking risks on that. If I’m a Zombie all three rounds, my K/D suffers a major hit, as well as my BPR. And, as luck would have it, I am a Zombie very often.

Firefight? I didn’t know Firefight was included. I thought BPR was based on competitive matchmaking. I already do farm Firefight, but I’ve been sticking a little more to SWAT lately.

I do agree with you. I think BPR is purely distasteful. It’s a highly inaccurate record of skill for those who may have been bad in the past but are good now (like me), due to the fact that it seems to be a pretty rock-solid number, unless you really get down to improving your skill, or somebody really bad takes over for you during your vacation.

Thank you!

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If you are more of a “Lone Wolf” player (As am I) you really should try playing more FFA/Rumble Pit.

Also, everyone is bad their first couple of games. What I recommend is playing some warm up custom games with your friends before going into Matchmaking.

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I do agree with you. I used to play Rumble Pit ALL THE TIME. Not so much now. On Rumble Pit, I am always in first or second place. My K/D is always positive. Haha, thank you for reminding me. I’m excited to play tomorrow now!

Also, thank you for the custom games suggestion. Our MLGT clan leader Drake (iiMLGT RageQuit) always preps in custom games, usually using Christian (PR0 DYNAMITE) and me (Jamen Namen, of course) for target dummies, considering how good he is. He doesn’t even need those, but they are useful, it seems. I’ll do that more often.

Thank you!!!