When Assault was first released on to the playlist my friends and I all jumped in, we love some objective based games. Seeing as we’re all unranked we thought why the hell not. At first we were having a blast, won some, lost some but the games were close. Then a friend who is ranked onyx joined our team and almost immediately the games went from fun to sweaty try hard, we couldn’t understand why. Then we looked at the previous players list and saw the reason, before our friend joined we were playing against mid/high gold’s (we had ranked at mid gold when BTB was a ranked playlist) but when our friend joined all the players became onyx or high Platinum. How is this ranking fair? Why does the game decide that a team of 4 mid gold’s and 1 onyx be pitted against teams of 5 onyx or high Platinums? Is it to make the gold’s get better? Because I can tell you all it does is infuriate the players who were enjoying the fun, we don’t want to have to constantly play at a pro level to have fun. As a group of friends we loved BTB, but that is a poor shadow of what was once the second largest playlist in Halo, so we try and find a happy alternative to keep us smiling and lo and behold 343 ruin it with crappy matchmaking.
EDIT: some of the other players were diamonds not Platinum, sorry for any misunderstanding.
Actually going against Platinums makes sense since it’s the thing higher than gold. There is still Diamond between Platinum and Onyx so the Platinums aren’t really too far off your skill level. The game tries to average each team’s CSR, but it also understands that a team of 4/5 working together performs better than a team made of of solo players. So you have a team playing together, and one of your members is messing with your team’s average CSR and you are most likely going up against solo queue players which is why the ranks are the way they are.
Your Onyx friend boosted the average level of your team, therefore boosting the average level of the competition you played. Even more so if you were a team of 5. That’s all there is to it.
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> Your Onyx friend boosted the average level of your team, therefore boosting the average level of the competition you played. Even more so if you were a team of 5. That’s all there is to it.
So therefore you’re saying that playing in a team with one good player is our own fault? We were a team of 5 so tuff deal with it? I’m sorry I refuse to accept that as a viable argument, even if you were to take in to consideration there were 4 low/mid gold’s it still shouldn’t favor the one onyx in the team.
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> > Your Onyx friend boosted the average level of your team, therefore boosting the average level of the competition you played. Even more so if you were a team of 5. That’s all there is to it.
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> So therefore you’re saying that playing in a team with one good player is our own fault? We were a team of 5 so tuff deal with it? I’m sorry I refuse to accept that as a viable argument, even if you were to take in to consideration there were 4 low/mid gold’s it still shouldn’t favor the one onyx in the team.
That’s where you’re wrong. For 1, you haven’t even stated what playlist you’re even referring to. For 2, an Onyx 1500 is fairly different than an Onyx 1700 or 1800. His rank averages with yours and the system finds a match against a team who’s ranks average closest to yours. Golds and an Onyx vs a team of platinums is very sensible. You got lucky because it could’ve been much worse.
Just because you’re probably losing now or games are a bit tougher to win doesn’t mean matchmaking is ruined. I say learn from your mistakes, so you can get better or drop your friend.
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> > Your Onyx friend boosted the average level of your team, therefore boosting the average level of the competition you played. Even more so if you were a team of 5. That’s all there is to it.
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> So therefore you’re saying that playing in a team with one good player is our own fault? We were a team of 5 so tuff deal with it? I’m sorry I refuse to accept that as a viable argument, even if you were to take in to consideration there were 4 low/mid gold’s it still shouldn’t favor the one onyx in the team.
Well, yes. Because better players equals better competition. The game isn’t going to keep giving you a bunch of Golds to play if you add an Onyx to your team because he makes your team that much better. Better competition is the risk you run when you team with someone ranked so much higher than you. You don’t have to accept the argument, but it is very much viable.