I’m sure a lot if you have noticed that it has become harder to find games in ranked modes. Especially in countries like Australia and Europe where finding matches was already difficult. Americans may not notice the matchmaking times because they were already quick but some of my American friends have. As you all know many game modes have been added to social including team skirmish and shotty snipers. Team skirmish which is a social mode has many sweaty teams playing in it now.
These teams are win farming and stat farming as well as just getting pleasure out of stomping people that are playing the mode how it is meant to be played, socially. Too many games now have I seen full teams intentionally not capping flags or giving away free strongholds. Not just that but because search times are quicker in that playlist more competitive solo players such as myself go to that mode (even though I first try to search TA or snipers). Of course you are always going to get the players that want a social experience but I am having even more trouble than I usually do along with a lot of my friends in finding games in TA and basically all other ranked game modes.
I have noticed a population increase since the last update as well. Now that social offers what ranked did and more everyone is flocking to those playlists even if they don’t belong there. For people like me who despise farming and just plain stomping I try to find a game in team arena where any competitiveness goes but I simply can’t. A fix to all of these issues is to simply make social not count towards stats. It will mean that try hard teams will go back to team arena and people will find matches in that, people will play social more socially because they don’t have to worry about their stats and even if they do try hard it wont really matter because it wont affect the people being destroyed’s stats. It also means that people can actually just have fun for once. I challenge anyone to think of a negative towards this. Also I’m using skirmish as an example but this goes with other ranked and social playlists such as shotty snipers and snipers.
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not everyone will but I know that a lot do. Are you in the US?
It won’t fix anything. By all means, do it but players are coming to these playlists because they’re casual and becausev they’re new. They’re tired of playing the same, stressful ranks all the time.
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Yes I do live in the US. There have been a few gamemodes that have been slow like WZA and Triple Team that I’ve noticed.
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I’m targeting towards the sweaty players that I always seem to come against. If I coming up against all of these teams then the frequency tells me that there are definitely enough people to support the playlist easily and that they are just choosing to go to social to farm. They aren’t casual because they are playing like they do in ranked.
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I stated that people in the US probably wont notice these issues because they have more than enough people for it not to affect them. Did you even read the post?
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> I stated that people in the US probably wont notice these issues because they have more than enough people for it not to affect them. Did you even read the post?
Yes, but you didn’t say US guys weren’t allowed to post.
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SMH no you even said that some US players feel the same way. If you want accurate data, you need to here from the ones who are affected by it and the ones who aren’t. Plus, I saw no one had responded to your thread, so I thought it’d be nice to respond to it so just in case no one else did, your hard work wouldn’t go to waste.
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It they’re better than you, they’re just better than you. Them playing casually doesn’t mean you’ll automatically be on their level. In their party, they’re probably relaxing and I doubt they’re trying as hard as you think they are. Some players tend to forget that someone is going to lose every game; they never think it should be them.
Now, if there are a few who are stat farming, they’re idiots. Overall kda is unimportant in ranked modes, only the individual playlist kdas hold any kind of relevance to a players skill. This stat farming doesn’t affect the individual playlist kdas.
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> SMH no you even said that some US players feel the same way. If you want accurate data, you need to here from the ones who are affected by it and the ones who aren’t. Plus, I saw no one had responded to your thread, so I thought it’d be nice to respond to it so just in case no one else did, your hard work wouldn’t go to waste.
ok I’m sorry I misinterpreted your post my apologies. Thank you for responding in just fed up with not being to actually play halo 5.
Part of the problem is Stats. For people that are really good, they can use social to pad their stats. Stats need to be separated out between Ranked and Social. I don’t hardly play any social for that reason. I want to be social and not care if i lose or get beat really bad. But I can’t do that. I care about my stats, because it tells me if I’m getting worse or getting better. I would also like to know how good is the team balancing for skirmish. As at best a platinum player I don’t want to match a whole team of onyx or better players. good balance would be both teams have equal number of every rank whatever that rank is or at least as close as possible. Such as maybe 2 onyx, one platinum one gold, for both teams etc. It doesn’t have to be that mix, But the skill levels for both teams should be comparable.
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Agree tired of the tryhards as well
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Actually, he/she is semi-right from my point of view. I have more relaxing games in Ranked than in Social. Every time I jump into social it is fire teams of Onyx/Diamond+ players running over kids. I run solo a lot or generally have one or two buddies play but people are getting mowed down and quitting.
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I can assure you that its not that they are better than me because I seem to beat them each individualy in 1v1 battles. I’ll give you an example and I can assure you that this is happening a lot. I was on Orion and I had just killed someone with the sniper. I moved away because I knew the person who I took it from would come looking for it and next thing I know 2 people come from one entrance and 2 come from another completely trapping me and team shotting me. Then to drop weapons for each other. This could not happen if they were not communicating. This shows multiple bits of evidence that they were doing so.
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But that has nothing to do with what I said. The OP is mad because I don’t have his issues.
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I was just chiming in on how sweaty Social is since that’s how it somewhat originally started…that other stuff is out of my realm
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> Part of the problem is Stats. For people that are really good, they can use social to pad their stats. Stats need to be separated out between Ranked and Social. I don’t hardly play any social for that reason. I want to be social and not care if i lose or get beat really bad. But I can’t do that. I care about my stats, because it tells me if I’m getting worse or getting better. I would also like to know how good is the team balancing for skirmish. As at best a platinum player I don’t want to match a whole team of onyx or better players. good balance would be both teams have equal number of every rank whatever that rank is or at least as close as possible. Such as maybe 2 onyx, one platinum one gold, for both teams etc. It doesn’t have to be that mix, But the skill levels for both teams should be comparable.
I’m saying virtually the same thing. Make social not count towards stats. I’d prefer that over departing the stats because other people can still look at that and it most likely will count to your overall KD which is what I want to preserve.
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> ok I’m sorry I misinterpreted your post my apologies. Thank you for responding in just fed up with not being to actually play halo 5.
No worries. Online games can be frustrating at times.