No one knows for sure but progressive system is going to play major in Halo 4 Matchmaking, BUT, if the progressive is a step in kind of thing, to hook up people on learning progressively the sandbox, and when reached the top-tier patent, to prevent they stay at the same patent (and not use some reused scheme as pretiges), the Rank should show up.
Let me ilustrate: the progressive, as seen in Reach, stop at the reclaimer, right? In H4 it MAY stop at some patent too, so as soon you receive that top-tier patent, you are now at the Ranking system, since your learning and unlocking phase are done, the next is Ranking!
So we got in the ranking variants patents. Poorly using Reclaimer as example, you may have the Reclaimer 50-1 (first reclaimer to so on) going up and down (as many levels as they see adequated, 50-1 is a hipotese), but the progressive unlocking system kind of should stop after everything is unlocked, and ranking system get its place.
Why not just make the Trueskill rank actually work, by prioritizing on getting people with the same skill, or similar, paired with you, and just make the SP ranks be something that goes up by playing?
You know, like the Reach system, except it actually works and keeps players with high skill levels away from players with low skill levels.
Yeah, except I dont play nearly enough to get close to getting the highest “progression” in halo. I want to be able to get right to the ranked matches so I can play competitively without playing 50 hours of practice games first.
Plus, unless you only have ranked players playing other ranked players, it doesn’t work. You cant have some dude who is running around just goofing off playing with a guy who is playing ranked.