Playing solo in arena ranked is hopeless. Regardless of how well you do, there is always a 4-15 player. The rank system considers wins as criteria… so i get stuck at a lower level regardless of a positive K/D and respectable accuracy %… BS. Can not support this game any longer. Too many hours playing to get better to deal with the frustration.
Yo I agree 100%. Halo just needs to go the COD ranking route and be done with it. At least in COD, you rank up according to how you play solely, no matter what your teammates do, and that to me is the most fair way to do it.
I can go like 20-3 in H5 arena ranked and still lose every time and never rank up only because of 1-40 morons who can’t even figure out how to walk forward. Not fair that these morons can keep our rank and stats down due to the dumb ranking system that Halo has had online since H2.
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> Playing solo in arena ranked is hopeless. Regardless of how well you do, there is always a 4-15 player. The rank system considers wins as criteria… so i get stuck at a lower level regardless of a positive K/D and respectable accuracy %… BS. Can not support this game any longer. Too many hours playing to get better to deal with the frustration.
Ranking system is total BS…
343i: “Oh we take a lot of data in consideration, blah blah etc.”
Congratulations you manage to turn an avid fan and hopeful into yet another hateful voice… good on you 343 Industries yet again you make a flawed game with flawed aspects and “your view” is the only way… seriously just revise your entire developer team and structure.
team up?
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I had a win in a placement match of CTF Arena, sent a bunch of invites to players, 1 joined me and then quit within 30 seconds of the next Slayer games starting - 2 v 4 within the first 60 seconds. Sad Face.
FFA FTW
I do feel your pain OP, back in H2, H3, Reach, it seemed like everyone mic’ed up, so solo queuing wasn’t so bad.
What happened?
I’m tired of losing in the ranked playlists because of worthless teammates. I’m not perfect but I get the objectives like for instance in strongholds my teammates will play like it’s slayer. Like I said I’m not the best player. I’m a at least a platinum player but since I don’t win many games I’m stuck in gold.
I agree with you. It seems like I get pulled down by players who either don’t do the objectives, or die 15 times more than they kill. If we are supposed to be matched with others like our skill level, then why don’t their stats or actions reflect that? I mean I have bad games too, but I at least try not too die and go for objectives.
Same, I’m getting tired carrying randoms who just always charge head first into battle and right where its sudden death and i lose because of the randoms makes all that effort worthless
Does anyone know how hard it would be to add a feature that will not let you join ranked playlists unless Halo detects that you are using a mic? If that is a bit difficult, then what about a simple message that comes up before you join a ranked playlist that says something along the lines of “TIP: Playing with a mic is important, we strongly recommend plugging in a mic to help improve your gameplay experience as well as others.” I have tried using a mic, but it never seems to get me anywhere because no one is using them. Maybe some type of PSA could help. I have even thought about the idea of a “Useful tips” message that shows during the matchmaking and loading process. I know some will ignore it, but it could help quite a bit.
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> Does anyone know how hard it would be to add a feature that will not let you join ranked playlists unless Halo detects that you are using a mic? If that is a bit difficult, then what about a simple message that comes up before you join a ranked playlist that says something along the lines of “TIP: Playing with a mic is important, we strongly recommend plugging in a mic to help improve your gameplay experience as well as others.” I have tried using a mic, but it never seems to get me anywhere because no one is using them. Maybe some type of PSA could help. I have even thought about the idea of a “Useful tips” message that shows during the matchmaking and loading process. I know some will ignore it, but it could help quite a bit.
They have the tips as you leave matchmaking and go back to the main menu, and one does mention communicating.
In terms of adding a feature, they should have a matching making preference you select which designates you as a mic user looking to be joined with other mic users.
Yeah I’ve never really like the idea of how winning or losing with 3 other people on your team determines your personal rank.
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> I’m tired of losing in the ranked playlists because of worthless teammates. I’m not perfect but I get the objectives like for instance in strongholds my teammates will play like it’s slayer. Like I said I’m not the best player. I’m a at least a platinum player but since I don’t win many games I’m stuck in gold.
I want to note, that slaying is a huge part about objective… I see alot of lower tier and classed players say they play the objective yet just run constantly attempting to gain a point. The idea of objective is that it requires some significant map control and for that you need to slay the enemy team, so you have a numbers advantage to allow yourselves to push out. Now having stated that, players can maybe “over” slay but potentially always playing the objective always rectifies a situation will be a 3v4 as you are “technically” out of any forseeable battles.
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> I want to note, that slaying is a huge part about objective… I see alot of lower tier and classed players say they play the objective yet just run constantly attempting to gain a point. The idea of objective is that it requires some significant map control and for that you need to slay the enemy team, so you have a numbers advantage to allow yourselves to push out. Now having stated that, players can maybe “over” slay but potentially always playing the objective always rectifies a situation will be a 3v4 as you are “technically” out of any forseeable battles.
I tell trash onyx players this all the time…They don’t seem to understand why in a strongholds game i’ll have 20+ kills and only 3 captures when my whole team is negative with like 6+ captures. If you don’t keep up the slays you capturing that objective is pointless and them telling me i’m not playing enough objective is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. I’m not jumping into an objective to take it, so I can die and have them take it right back just because my teammates can’t win their 1v1’s or get kills on the board. I play amazing objective work when I have teammates that can get kills and won’t die on me.
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> > > I’m tired of losing in the ranked playlists because of worthless teammates. I’m not perfect but I get the objectives like for instance in strongholds my teammates will play like it’s slayer. Like I said I’m not the best player. I’m a at least a platinum player but since I don’t win many games I’m stuck in gold.
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> > I want to note, that slaying is a huge part about objective… I see alot of lower tier and classed players say they play the objective yet just run constantly attempting to gain a point. The idea of objective is that it requires some significant map control and for that you need to slay the enemy team, so you have a numbers advantage to allow yourselves to push out. Now having stated that, players can maybe “over” slay but potentially always playing the objective always rectifies a situation will be a 3v4 as you are “technically” out of any forseeable battles.
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> I tell trash onyx players this all the time…They don’t seem to understand why in a strongholds game i’ll have 20+ kills and only 3 captures when my whole team is negative with like 6+ captures. If you don’t keep up the slays you capturing that objective is pointless and them telling me i’m not playing enough objective is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. I’m not jumping into an objective to take it, so I can die and have them take it right back just because my teammates can’t win their 1v1’s or get kills on the board. I play amazing objective work when I have teammates that can get kills and won’t die on me.
Also the point is if your maintaining your slaying power, your teams captures should be minimal, as control is maintained… players with like 8+ captures just don’t understand this. 
You want more secures and defends, however occasionally you have to rotate.