For months now, the competitive community has been strung along by 343i, with no real, 100% commitment to what they would be doing with ranks, or a system to facilitate competitive gameplay.
From the very start they said they’d have SOMETHING for competitive players. Even just a few weeks ago we saw posts from Frankie on neogaf that stated they were working on something. Frankie said they hadnt revealed it because it was still in flux.
So is there SOMETHING still out there coming? A league system perhaps? Something at least similar to Arena?
Or was Frankie just flat out lying when he said they were working on something?
Everyone is wondering why people are so upset about no ranks, and for this is about 80% of my anger. They said multiple times they’re working on something. Flat out lies are for EA smarten up 343i.
They’ve improved the trueskill ranking system. You know that thing that was represented visibly in Halo 2 and 3, you just can’t see it now. It’s like the air.
he was just trolling us. he thought he would get us stoked by describing a great new system and then tell us that its non visible ranks just to -Yoink- with us
Invisible ranking system IS NOTHING. Its a default. It HAS TO EXIST on xbox live.
A competitive system is something for players to “COMPETE” for. A “matchmaking system” to get closer skilled players together is NOT a “competitive” system, its just an absolute bare minimum for an online game to exist. You cant have the new players or the bad players losing 50-0 every game. Everyone KNEW an inivisible rank would be there for matchmaking purposes. This is a give-in.
Something else was promised. If there IS something, 343 should speak up, now would be the time. But it looks like there is nothing. Which would mean Frankie was lying.
> > Ok lets break it down. YOU HAVE A MOTHERTRUCCKING RANKING SYSTEM. IS JUST NOT VISIBLE. YOU WILL BE PAIRED WE PEOPLE OF YOUR SAME “SKILL”.
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> You have a Lamborghini
> It’s fast clean and perfect
> IT’S ALSO INVISIBLE ENJOY!!!
You breath air, is invisible. Gonna get mad on god now?
> > Ok lets break it down. YOU HAVE A MOTHERTRUCCKING RANKING SYSTEM. IS JUST NOT VISIBLE. YOU WILL BE PAIRED WE PEOPLE OF YOUR SAME “SKILL”.
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> You have a Lamborghini
> It’s fast clean and perfect
> IT’S ALSO INVISIBLE ENJOY!!!
> > Ok lets break it down. YOU HAVE A MOTHERTRUCCKING RANKING SYSTEM. IS JUST NOT VISIBLE. YOU WILL BE PAIRED WE PEOPLE OF YOUR SAME “SKILL”.
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> You have a Lamborghini
> It’s fast clean and perfect
> IT’S ALSO INVISIBLE ENJOY!!!
Good. Now we don’t have to see you flashing it around like a jerk.
OT: Bungie claimed to have invisible ranking for Reach, but I still question whether or not is was actually there. I would like a visible rank in H4 just so I know 343 isn’t lying like Bungie most likely was.
> > Ok lets break it down. YOU HAVE A MOTHERTRUCCKING RANKING SYSTEM. IS JUST NOT VISIBLE. YOU WILL BE PAIRED WE PEOPLE OF YOUR SAME “SKILL”.
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> You have a Lamborghini
> It’s fast clean and perfect
> IT’S ALSO INVISIBLE ENJOY!!!
This would be cool because it would look like im moving really fast while sitting down!
> Ok lets break it down. YOU HAVE A MOTHERTRUCCKING RANKING SYSTEM. IS JUST NOT VISIBLE. YOU WILL BE PAIRED WE PEOPLE OF YOUR SAME “SKILL”.
The sucking sound would be your head dislodging itself from your -Yoink-.
That’s not the problem for most.
Long story short (I wrote like a novel on this but hit ‘cancel’ by accident) is that many don’t bother to try without it. It ruins the system for those of us trying and custom games are our only salvation.
We’re sad that they didn’t just make one ranked playlist with visible ranks (that would have no affect on those who avoided it).
That and the whole breaking of CTF with no option to fix it.
FU, 343, why? POR QUE?!?!?!
manly tears well, back to play 343 on XBC with Mexicans…
While im not 100% on this, i do believe that someone at 343 stated that the rank system will pair you up with similarly skilled players, its just an under-the-hood mechanic now, as opposed to Halo 3.
