So the Search pref is meant to pick players closer to you and more suitable to ur skill right? BS…I’m in good playlist in team arena and get matched up with snuff accounts that don’t even have a rank!!! Get real come on fix ur -Yoink- and ur damn servers 343
It’s entirely fair for non ranks to play vs you if their previous rank was gold dude… Same with silvers and bronze being how I wouldn’t consider them to far of in the skill department. I’m Not ranked in any playlists at the moment simply cuz I havn’t had time to play, would I be a snuff account? My stats and playtime will say otherwise on that and I’m borderline play/diamond player. So pretty much I think you’re complaining about nothing or what I’d consider a small ordeal.
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> It’s entirely fair for non ranks to play vs you if their previous rank was gold dude… Same with silvers and bronze being how I wouldn’t consider them to far of in the skill department. I’m Not ranked in any playlists at the moment simply cuz I havn’t had time to play, would I be a snuff account? My stats and playtime will say otherwise on that and I’m borderline play/diamond player. So pretty much I think you’re complaining about nothing or what I’d consider a small ordeal.
Lol do you not realize what I’m talking about? Guess not I’ll elaborate…I’m 125 I’ve been absolutely murdered by accounts that are lvl10. Then I get paired with lvl 60s and lower hell even a 12 myself and get slaughtered… by people all in the 100s the teaming is backwards but hey what’s the point in a search preference when it’s just full of people from other countries and who have multple accounts to pick on the lower ranked that aren’t as good. And yes Mr. Perfect person I am complaining. I bought the piece of crap and just wann play with players my own skill…it’s not fun to play a game and just did 3seconds after u spawn each time
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> > It’s entirely fair for non ranks to play vs you if their previous rank was gold dude… Same with silvers and bronze being how I wouldn’t consider them to far of in the skill department. I’m Not ranked in any playlists at the moment simply cuz I havn’t had time to play, would I be a snuff account? My stats and playtime will say otherwise on that and I’m borderline play/diamond player. So pretty much I think you’re complaining about nothing or what I’d consider a small ordeal.
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> Lol do you not realize what I’m talking about? Guess not I’ll elaborate…I’m 125 I’ve been absolutely murdered by accounts that are lvl10. Then I get paired with lol 60s and lower he’ll even a 12 myself and get slaughtered… by people all in the 100s the teaming is backwards but hey what’s the point in a search preference when it’s just full of people from other countries and who have multple accounts to pick on the lower ranked that aren’t as good…
Your Spartan rank is irrelevant which is all you mentioned in this post, you’re a gold rank player, you’ll match with silvers, golds, and plats majority of the time. I’ll agree some have secondary accounts but I seriously think you people over exaggerate on there being so many of them. Not much I can tell you other than try having a pre-made team in place or ignore ranked play.
I’m just shelving this game. To many set Dr issues, lag and other carp to be even considered a halo title. I loved 3, odsg, reach no a single disconnect fro a game unless the host lost something. You seem very condescending to my posts. No empathy in the tone of ur words. I guess your to good for us casual players!!!
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> I’m just shelving this game. To many set Dr issues, lag and other carp to be even considered a halo title. I loved 3, odsg, reach no a single disconnect fro a game unless the host lost something. You seem very condescending to my posts. No empathy in the tone of ur words. I guess your to good for us casual players!!!
Hes not being condescending, your argument just doesn’t really make sense, a lvl 10 player can still have ranked platinum last season. I was diamond at level 5 (this was before they adjusted the ranking system) so therefore a lvl 10 player could have easily been around your skill level and since ranks reset it appears as if he is a scrub. Dont complain about anothers response when he brought up valid counter argument, there are issues with the game but this one in general is minor and or a misconception on the function of matchmaking and the ranking system. If you dont want to play the game thats fine, no one is going to care on the forums, do we want your issue resolved? ya sure but all we can do is give our opinion on it and in this case some disagree with you.
Have fun with whatever game you decide to play though, thats the main goal right
I don’t think you’re playing smurfs. Smurfs are very annoying, yes, but I just think you’re getting beaten and want an excuse. Here’s why I think this:
You’re level 100+. Spartan rank has NOTHING to do with how you are placed in Arena under the new matchmaking search preferences (it does in Warzone because of REQ availability, the only in-game aspect affected by your rank). Because you are a gold player, you will be matched against golds, silvers, and platinums almost always. You are saying you were being matched against those players, which is exactly what the system is supposed to do.
Smurfing, just to give an example using a friend I know who is Champ #12 currently in Team Arena, is when someone creates an alt account, deliberately gets themselves placed in bronze, silver, or gold even though they are better (which is very easy to do), and then plays on that account while their friends play on their main accounts all on one team. That team is forced into matches against people MUCH lower than they should play. The whole point of doing it is to boost CSR.
If you were not playing a handful of people with CSRs way out of your league (Diamond +) mixed with people at your level then you almost certainly were not playing smurf accounts. I’m not saying smurfing isn’t an issue, because people can still deliberately place low and match against people way below their skill level even with the new system, but most people don’t smurf just to play low levels on their smurf account with no other motive.
Well, to me search preference is nice, however it doesn’t work perfectly fine either.
The search preference is good in my opinion, I’m just not sure it’s always effective. The ‘Expanded’ setting definitely allows you to find games faster and it definitely takes longer to find games on ‘Focused’ however I’m not sure how effective they really are since the focused setting very often puts me in games with people much higher than me but in the last week or so I’ve put it on balanced and it has been better so.
Agreed. I have it on focused and I’m solo joining arena as a diamond 3 and matching champions. Lol.