Swat is my favorite Halo gametype and has been for several games now but I’m getting frustrated with Halo 5 swat and it’s taking the fun out of the game for me.
First off I’m Plat 3 and constantly matched against Diamond/Onyx players. The last 3-4 matches I played I was the only Plat in the game. I’m aware I’m not a Swat god and if I’m going to climb to my true rank then why do I have to play with and against people who are clearly better than me.
Second, Swatnums are too much. With a BR I can compete with the D/O enemies mentioned above and go positive. I’m not as good with the magnum. Against the D/O level opponents above, I’m having games where I get destroyed. I can handle the whole “get better” aspect from my own perspective, but I feel like a jerk for bringing down teammates who are matched with the scrub in the game. It’s not fun to look at the scoreboard and know that I’m the reason my Diamond team just lost.
TL;DR: I’m getting placed outside of my division and so almost every time we roll Magnums I’m getting rocked and costing my team the game. Can we get better placement/less magnums
I couldn’t agree more. I am super frustrated with the ranking system. I don’t feel a lot of my games I am out matched but I am mad when I go positive 10 each game and still do not rank up because we still lost the game.
anyways. I am so sick of Magnums. this is a SWAT playlist, not a magnum playlist. why have they ruined SWAT. We counted last night and 13/15 games were magnums. I am all for throwing in the odd game of mags but this is ridiculous. this is not what swat is about. please add the DMR back in and make the magnum a secondary weapon in SWAT like it always has been. If 343 has such a love for its super duper magnum well make a magnum play list. I do not go into a swat playlist to play magnums every game. FIX THIS ASAP.
I had a game last night where I led my team in Kills and K/D but we lost a close game. I checked out ranks after the game. The opponents were all Diamonds 2-5, my team had two diamonds and an Onyx who went 4-14.
If I’m going to play at a Diamond/Onyx MMR, can I at least get the pleasure of stomping other Plats and earn the accompanying rank to go along with the gameplay?
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> I’ve stopped playing SWAT entirely until I see something from 343 stating they are fixing the balance of real SWAT and Swatnums.
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> The insane Magnum bias has made me lose all interest in trying to be competitive in the playlist.
it is so sad to see them destroy Swat. I really hope they do an update soon. My regular Swat friends are dropping like flies and I don’t blame them. The playlist isn’t called Magnums, its SWAT and should be DMR or BR start, with the ODD magnum game. It is just so sad to see what has always been my favourite playlist become such a negative gaming experience.
I find the ranking system extremely frustrating. I get its about team play to help increase your rank but you don’t always get a good team and I think there should still be a reward for doing well in a game despite losing. I can go positive 10 in a game and still go no where in my rank because we lost the game.
I totally agree I even get teamed up with players with really bad K/D even thought there Plat 1 and I’m plat 2/3, the win/loss ranking isn’t working as if these players play with good team who can hold there own with a lesser player. Then that player goes out on there own and spoils the game for others, it really does need looking into.
And regarding the Magnum is it me or is the turning axis faster then the BR? Some games I feel like I’m not in control of the Magnum.
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> Swat is my favorite Halo gametype and has been for several games now but I’m getting frustrated with Halo 5 swat and it’s taking the fun out of the game for me.
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> First off I’m Plat 3 and constantly matched against Diamond/Onyx players. The last 3-4 matches I played I was the only Plat in the game. I’m aware I’m not a Swat god and if I’m going to climb to my true rank then why do I have to play with and against people who are clearly better than me.
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> Second, Swatnums are too much. With a BR I can compete with the D/O enemies mentioned above and go positive. I’m not as good with the magnum. Against the D/O level opponents above, I’m having games where I get destroyed. I can handle the whole “get better” aspect from my own perspective, but I feel like a jerk for bringing down teammates who are matched with the scrub in the game. It’s not fun to look at the scoreboard and know that I’m the reason my Diamond team just lost.
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> TL;DR: I’m getting placed outside of my division and so almost every time we roll Magnums I’m getting rocked and costing my team the game. Can we get better placement/less magnums
apparently they are supposed to be fixing the spawn TIMES in swat to increase to 3 seconds I think the article said in their news update. If I am still spawning right where I just died the extra 2 seconds is not going to make a difference so I hope they also changed the spawn points. It was awful in halo 4 as well I don’t know why they can’t get this figured out. It isn’t this bad in other playlists (so far that I have seen).
I’ll say it on every post in regards to SWAT so 343 can see we need change ! Add the DMR back into Swat, less magnums !!! Add a secondary weapon if you like magnums so much. So sick of always playing magnums.
yea I agree the ranking system is ridiculous. I’m Diamond 3-5 (i cant tell you how much in one day I can go up and down between those because of teammates/bad games). I feel like matchmaking brings too many Tiers into a match and I see lots of Plats, Gold and Onyx but hardly enough DIamond players in my matches, but the idea is to even out the teams by doing it that way. its the same issue every Halo game has had imo as they’ve always tried to even out teams by adding lower ranks to a team to even out the higher ones
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> Yes we played 25 matches the other night. SWATnums was 20 of the 25 matches…
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> Also in every game get spawn killed 3 to 5 times a match…
yep. it is -Yoinking!- painful. such a -Yoinking!- fail.
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> > Yes we played 25 matches the other night. SWATnums was 20 of the 25 matches…
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> yep. it is -Yoinking!- painful. such a -Yoinking!- fail.
They’re fixing it - it’s going to be a 3 second respawn time i think. Also, I think it said they’re taking out friendly fire.
Some people get ranked in Diamond and Onyx based off of their first 10 games that really don’t belong there. So sometimes those diamond and onyx players are at your skill level. I am not saying this is always the case but it happens occasionally
I am definitely very yoinkin frustrated with the Swatnums fiasco. I have friends who won’t even play (a couple won’t even buy it) until it gets fixed. I’m almost at the point of just chalking the $59.99 up as a loss as I did with MCC and making my way back to COD
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> > > Yes we played 25 matches the other night. SWATnums was 20 of the 25 matches…
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> > yep. it is -Yoinking!- painful. such a -Yoinking!- fail.
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> They’re fixing it - it’s going to be a 3 second respawn time i think. Also, I think it said they’re taking out friendly fire.
yes I saw this too. my issue isn’t the re-spawn time, its the spawn points. when you are literally spawning in the game on your dead body with the enemy still staring in the same direction, adding another 2 seconds won’t make a difference if they don’t change the spawn points. however, i noticed last night and this morning I am spawning in different locations so perhaps they are already making the change. we shall see how it continues to go.
again, ill say it everytime. I HATE SO MANY MAGNUMS. this is SWAT not MAGNUMS 343 !!!
