I took a break from Halo 4 for about three weeks and played Black Ops 2 due to family pressures claiming I really sucked at it and had to prove them wrong.
Since coming back a few days ago I find that all the matches I have been in the skill level of the players I’m up against has dropped in those matches. Is it True Skill reevaluation my skill or is it just the population.
In Reach, I remember consistently finding games where people would run around with AR’s, and when they had to fire, they would literally stand still since they were that bad at aiming. In Halo 4, I still get tons of games where teamates go
-20, so its still pretty bad. I think that it is a step up from Reach but it still doesn’t function well. Still, good players have been dropping out of Halo since Reach, so the overall population isn’t going to be very good at the game. In Forge Test, I’ve found that there are quite a few good players though. In the few times that ive dared to play another playlist, I’ve been finding myself getting matched with great teamates from time to time, so maybe news of what 343 is doing for CSR and Team Throwdown has caught wind.
The only playlist I can find competitive games in now is Forge Test, which seems to have a lot of tryhards. Either it’s the only playlist where TruSkill seems to be working properly, or it’s a weirdly consistent coincidence, but I frequently get matches where other teams are working together well, teamshotting, timing weapons, playing the objectives tactically, etc. It’s a nice change of pace, but I wish there was a way to play “classic” maps like Forge Test has in matchmaking without always having to put on my clutch tryhard pants to compete. haha
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> I took a break from Halo 4 for about three weeks and played Black Ops 2 due to family pressures claiming I really sucked at it and had to prove them wrong.
> Since coming back a few days ago I find that all the matches I have been in the skill level of the players I’m up against has dropped in those matches. Is it True Skill reevaluation my skill or is it just the population.
Everyone should be happy the halol 4 has found its target cunsumer: the 8 year old.
Playing in the forge community playlist, the only difference I see is the drop in occurance of people using the BR, LR or Covenant Carbine (truth be told I’ve not come across a single CC user in forge community playlists). I’d say about 90% of the players I go up against in forge community playlists use the DMR.
With all the threads complaining about the problems with this weapon I don’t need to tell you the quality of the majority of players who play on forge community playlist. I feel I’m the only CC user on that playlist lol. (Come to think of it I never see anyone use automatic weapons on it either, maybe the ar once or twice but never any of the others).
TLDR; it’s 90% DMR, 8% BR, 2% everything else.
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The skill of the Halo 4 population HAS dramatically decreased as a whole. I never play Halo 4 anymore without a team due to the randoms having no clue as to what they need to do.