Recently it’s been a pain just to play Reach Matchmaking Solo. I’ve been either matchmade with Noobs or against unfair teams such as Nobles and higher/Full Lobbies.The Daily/Weekly challenges are to blame, in both leveling noobs too quickly and making the Higher ranks team up in full lobbies and ruin the fun. It’s an issue I’ve have begun to see more and more often.
If you’ve had this problem be sure to sheed some light
Full lobby boosting is bad, and I hope they set it so only 4 people in a party can play it. Same for other playlists you can do this. Try changing search setting and maybe your experience will improve.
I remember that Bungie said the were going to match full teams with full teams. I don’t know what happened.
So what do you propose? The population isn’t high enough in many given playlists to support teams vs teams that are fair by true skill (AKA Squad Slayer)
There really isn’t much you can do. You could try making some friends of your own and searching together, just ignore it or move on.
Being serious about this. How many games do you actually find yourself being stomped on by full parties?
which is why we need ranks again. i like how halo 3 had social and ranked playlists. casuals were more than fine playing social and people who wanted fair competitive matches played in rank.
Rank means nothing. Anyone can boost and get a high rank, and still suck at slayer.
> How many games do you actually find yourself being stomped on by full parties?
This has been happening to me a lot lately. About 60-70% of the time I’ll get a team of randoms, with at least two of them having a negative k/d against a full team, all of which have a 2.0 k/d or better. I’ve never liked basing skill off of k/d but it’s all I have to go by in Reach seeing as there’s no ranks.
> I’ve been . . . matchmade . . . against unfair teams such as Nobles . . . The Daily/Weekly challenges are to blame, in both leveling noobs too quickly . . .
Rank != skill. MM attempts to match players based on skill; at no point is credit-based rank considered. A match against high-rankers isn’t automatically unfair, and challenges don’t cause or contribute to unfair matches.
The main issue is that the current Trueskill system rewards you for Games Played far too much. The first 3-4 months I played, I didn’t get matched up to A SINGLE party of more than 3 players. Then once I started getting some serious playtime in, I started seeing 5-6 parties. Now it’s a toss up between a full party and decent match.
It sucks. The current system is actually a pretty decent one, where a very good amount of my games were competitive and fun.
The only way they’ll be able to keep the current system is for party restrictions, whether they’re listed on the playlist or the matchmaking system ONLY matches parties against parties.
If not, well let’s just hope 343i’s knows what they’re doing.
TrueSkill is only used for Arena.
I Think the Solution is to Level the Playing field . If a Noble or Forerunner is against a Warrant Officer the Noble’s Armor Deteriorates quicker. Or Giv eht e Warrant Officer an Overshield.
> I Think the Solution is to Level the Playing field . If a Noble or Forerunner is against a Warrant Officer the Noble’s Armor Deteriorates quicker. Or Giv eht e Warrant Officer an Overshield.
Easily the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard.
> I Think the Solution is to Level the Playing field . If a Noble or Forerunner is against a Warrant Officer the Noble’s Armor Deteriorates quicker. Or Giv eht e Warrant Officer an Overshield.
ITT: people who give a damn about a rank that means nothing in a game that wont matter in the grand scheme of their lives.
There is no true-skill in competitive. You people think it is there because Bungie said so. Anyone who plays with eyes open will tell you it matches people randomly.
But if true-skill is there…it broke.
Even if I don’t play in months, when I come back I still find myself carrying my team to victory because strangely nobody know how to play in my team… I’m pretty sure Bungie -Yoink- us from the start anyway.
“I Think the Solution is to Level the Playing field . If a Noble or Forerunner is against a Warrant Officer the Noble’s Armor Deteriorates quicker. Or Giv eht e Warrant Officer an Overshield.”
I would totally destroy anybody if they do this XD