What is the point of playing social if there’s a hidden rank with each player… its makes its ranked but without the emblem… my first few games was it players of different rank. Now a just macth people with 5.0 KDA dimaond onyx players like wtf is the point of a social playlist… the games are all with sweety players… -Yoinking!- boring… If I want to go play rank, I’ll go play team arena
Even if there was no hidden ranking, you’d still play against those players if they wanted to play the playlist too. You think they’d play any less sweaty? Come on.
Its to keep high skilled players from picking on those with low skill. A bronze player could basically never win against a champions player and social games could actually put them against each other, which yeah its fun for the champion player who just destroyed the bronze player but its never fun for the bronze player to just get destroyed every game.
Ya, I don’t really get it.
I play the exact same level of players in “social” as I do in ranked. Utterly pointless.
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> Its to keep high skilled players from picking on those with low skill. A bronze player could basically never win against a champions player and social games could actually put them against each other, which yeah its fun for the champion player who just destroyed the bronze player but its never fun for the bronze player to just get destroyed every game.
If that bronze player doesn’t like it he can just played ranked. That was the beauty of having ranked and social. It gave people a choice of preference. Now there is no choice.
What does that champion do if he wants to relax and play? He can’t play arena.
Removing the hidden ranks won’t do anything lol. You add ranks then they’re to sweaty, you remove ranks and then you have people complain that ranked players are playing to pub stomp, there’s no way around it other than hiding the ranks to attempt to even it out.
Not interested in being used for target practice so a high-level player can “relax.”
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> Not interested in being used for target practice so a high-level player can “relax.”
What if while relaxing that high level ranked player was playing at a level equivalent to you?
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Unlikely and not in my experience.
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But they don’t. THEY NEVER DO.
They loosened the skill matching in social, but it will catch up to your skill over time and you’ll eventually be playing the same people as if it was a visible ranked playlist.
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> > Its to keep high skilled players from picking on those with low skill. A bronze player could basically never win against a champions player and social games could actually put them against each other, which yeah its fun for the champion player who just destroyed the bronze player but its never fun for the bronze player to just get destroyed every game.
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Simple he relaxes, that champion is choosing to go stay on edge, the game is not forcing him, that inside and outside arena. I could play champions only or bronze only either way I will choose to play for fun that goes for a lot of players they can choose whether to have fun and relax or go tryhard and stay on edge. If the only way for someone to relax is picking on those less skilled with no effort they need to find another way to relax because that is just getting joy out of other peoples suffering.
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> Even if there was no hidden ranking, you’d still play against those players if they wanted to play the playlist too. You think they’d play any less sweaty? Come on.
Which is why social slayer in Halo 5 is flawed. The point is to get away from the sweaties. Anyone who plays sweaty in social slayer is defeating the purpose of the playlist.
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Really?
You never heard the stories of all the “bad and bought 50s” in h3 that came from people who had 50s relaxing in social?
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> > > Its to keep high skilled players from picking on those with low skill. A bronze player could basically never win against a champions player and social games could actually put them against each other, which yeah its fun for the champion player who just destroyed the bronze player but its never fun for the bronze player to just get destroyed every game.
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Tight MM breeds competition in the same way visible ranks do. Removing visible ranks but keeping tight MM is literally pointless.
It’s not about “picking on lesser skilled players”. It’s about being able to relax and let your skill level drop without being killed every 0.4 seconds.
There’s a reason that the most played list in every halo game(including h5 with warzone) has used loose skill MM. Hell there’s a reason every popular console shooter uses loose skill MM.
looks at h5’s putrid population
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> What is the point of playing social if there’s a hidden rank with each player… its makes its ranked but without the emblem… my first few games was it players of different rank. Now a just macth people with 5.0 KDA dimaond onyx players like wtf is the point of a social playlist… the games are all with sweety players… -Yoinking!- boring… If I want to go play rank, I’ll go play team arena
Completely agree with everything you said.
he’s not saying he doesnt want to play sweaty kids “ever”. But playing them every single game?! It gets old. I was a platinum one season and matched up against champs in arena. Why? Cuz i was onyx two seasons ago? The rank system is garbage in this game. So what did I do? Went to a social list for the afternoon. Still played against sweaties. Same as xElite. Theres no casual halo experience any more. Every one wants to go pro.
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> he’s not saying he doesnt want to play sweaty kids “ever”. But playing them every single game?! It gets old. I was a platinum one season and matched up against champs in arena. Why? Cuz i was onyx two seasons ago? The rank system is garbage in this game. So what did I do? Went to a social list for the afternoon. Still played against sweaties. Same as xElite. Theres no casual halo experience any more. Every one wants to go pro.
I agree, the casual experience in Halo 5 is near nonexistent. With the exception of infection, no other game type is free from overly-competitive players.
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> Its to keep high skilled players from picking on those with low skill. A bronze player could basically never win against a champions player and social games could actually put them against each other, which yeah its fun for the champion player who just destroyed the bronze player but its never fun for the bronze player to just get destroyed every game.
Then what’s the point of hiding the rank? If it’s gonna be ranked, show the ranks, but they shouldn’t try to create the illusion that we’re playing a social playlist because we clearly are not.
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> > Even if there was no hidden ranking, you’d still play against those players if they wanted to play the playlist too. You think they’d play any less sweaty? Come on.
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So good players should play beneath their skill level and not try to win because the playlist demands it? That’s absurd and not the point of social at all. Social was a playlist to bring your guests into, nothing more.