Halo 5 Guardians has the most mediocre Ranking Structure of all the Halo games ever made, and possibly of all games on the XBOX ONE so far.
It’s depressing to see myself Ranking in Onyx, but I’ve noticed most players in the Diamond division play equally as well as Onyx players.
Also I have heard a lot of rumors, that would explain, why players play bad their first 10 games each season to Rank in a lower skill level.
The reason is to break the skill system, and go to the very bottom of the skill table where player really are playing mediocre.
That way they have the advantage on the lower skill leveled players. This game is only going to press more and more people away from buying the next Halo game.
No wonder people have been complaining for so many Social Playlists! Shame on the head of the MP team for saying “to yoink” with Social Playlists.
The quantity of game types when this game first came out was very bad,
and 343 is just now bringing some of the best parts of Halo back that should have been here since the beginning.
I have been disappointed by this company for the very last time.
This game has been out for 4 months, and it will never be finished or corrected.
Agreed. Super imbalanced. What meaning is my rank to me if in reality the system is ranking the efforts of my team? A team that’s put together randomly at that. No, no…that’s not MY rank, that’s the compilation of previous random players efforts being applied to ME! Why do I earn a Gold rank when I carry the darn team to the end in the first place?? It’s not my fault theyre terrible and the other teams great! Load of BS. I come across a lot of platinum players that play like onyx, and onyx players that play like Gold. Eh.
TLDR: Rank system is broken.
I agree with this for sure.
i agree 100%
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> Agreed. Super imbalanced. What meaning is my rank to me if in reality the system is ranking the efforts of my team? A team that’s put together randomly at that. No, no…that’s not MY rank, that’s the compilation of previous random players efforts being applied to ME! Why do I earn a Gold rank when I carry the darn team to the end in the first place?? It’s not my fault theyre terrible and the other teams great! Load of BS. I come across a lot of platinum players that play like onyx, and onyx players that play like Gold. Eh.
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> TLDR: Rank system is broken.
In team playlist YOUR rank should be determined by your TEAMS outcome. That’s the whole point of a team playlist.
Agree with OP, the team performance is weighted too high. If you are the only player on your team going positive in slayer you should not get a negative CSR. Even worse when I have the best KDA and K/D of all players that game, but still is rewarded with a negative CSR due to terrible teammates (i.e. loss). On the other side, if you have a great team you can get a positive CSR despite being worse than every other player on the opposite team. When both teams are put randomly together team performance should count as much, at least when unranked. Onyx and champion players probably use to a large extent mics, but the vast majority don’t and hence there aren’t much teamwork or coordinated attacks. What may seem like good teamwork to the ranking algorithm is more down to randomness and hence should be as much rewarded.
I played on a match of slayer not too long ago. Got a K/D of around 1.8 and my team lost. My rank dropped because of that.
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> I played on a match of slayer not too long ago. Got a K/D of around 1.8 and my team lost. My rank dropped because of that.
As it should. In what world should a person be rewarded for a loss?
I hate being dropped. I understand that the rank system is a bit wack. Which is why I play warzone
Apart from ffa these are all team playlists. It happens in every team sport where a player may play really well but still lose, the team will still not get league points etc.
Basically the whole concept is broken…rank is an attribute associated to an individual player and should be based on individual performance not team performance.
In theory the current system is great if everyone played in teams of the same players all of the time, however in reality, there are lots of ppl that play solo or vary who they play with. The current system does not take into consideration these simple facts and as such the system is broken because you end up playing against teams of players who have inappropriate ranks based on their performance with other players, and this rank can be either lower than they should be (because their random team mates were crap) or higher (because they were carried by better players).
If the system was based on individual performance then it would be a fair representation per player, and the matchmaking should then be adjusted to take into consideration appropriate ranks when calculating who should be matched with whom. As we all know, the current matchmaking system is also broken and that is in large due to the lazy and small minded approach of the rankings associated to individuals being based of team performance not individual player performance.
I think the idea behind it is to promote team play and more communication, I’ll hold my hands up I need to do it more myself, people just need to plug in their mics and communicate more, no ones asking you to get pals with everyone or talk about the weather, but if you’re playing in Arena I assume you want to win ? Call outs can help facilitate that greatly.
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> Agreed. Super imbalanced. What meaning is my rank to me if in reality the system is ranking the efforts of my team? A team that’s put together randomly at that. No, no…that’s not MY rank, that’s the compilation of previous random players efforts being applied to ME! Why do I earn a Gold rank when I carry the darn team to the end in the first place?? It’s not my fault theyre terrible and the other teams great! Load of BS. I come across a lot of platinum players that play like onyx, and onyx players that play like Gold. Eh.
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> TLDR: Rank system is broken.
I agree with this. How can you be assigned a personal rank based on team wins/losses? Is this correct or is my understanding wrong?
If you want your individual rank play ffa. Everything else is team based. My god the stupidity.
Agree with you. They must replace with an individual rank system.
If they do that. You will guarantee to play with people with your same skill. And all the matchs will be awesome.
Agreed. Should have stuck with the ranking system that worked…H3
Agreed. Almost pointless. I’m beginning to think that they are purposely messing up social because they dont want to see it be more popular than their “super brilliant perfect can’t be done any better way” ranked playlist.
Just because a person goes negative does not mean they did not contribute. They could help you get that power weapon that lets you go on a 5 kill spree. ranking in team games should be based on winning and losing.
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> Agreed. Should have stuck with the ranking system that worked…H3
it did not wok in halo 3, people would login a tag and leave it searching over night so they could have a low ranked tag with a ton of games played and they used it to boost. When people got a level 50 they would stop playing because they did not want to lose their precious level 50. Halo 5’s ranking system keeps playlists alive and people playing.
the only thing i liked about halo 3 is that you could go up more than one rank at a time for beating people several levels above your rank.
The ranking system is fine. In fact I believe it is getting better, and tighter. I am an average player who plays solo mostly, and I do not agree that these team playlists should consider individual stats more than the overall team win or loss. They tried that with Halo Reach’s Arena playlist and it was a disaster.