The ranking system/MMR in Halo 5 is absolutely awful. The mmr system is so strict that players have a hard time finding matches in social and alot of players dont have fun because theyre just trying to relax and have a fun time and they end up in a sweatfest. It also makes it 100x harder for EU, AU, etc. Players to even find matches in social and ranked. The ranked playlists are also bad because for some reason i have an easier time matching actual gold and no ranked players as an onyx than i do in social. I know its not population because i can look at my roster at those times and see 30 friends around or barely above my level on searching mm at the same time. Whats even worse is ive beat a to4 of champs as a d6 while going positive multiple times and have only gone up 1 csr. a match i won against 1 gold and 3 no ranks and won 50-16 on with like 22 kills for myself, i went up 15 csr. This system makes 0 sense. Its not W/L based because i have a higher win loss than 75% of the champs and all the pros who are champ. I have a 66% W/L and I’m teatering between D6 and onyx but I literally go on 8 Hour win streaks and only go up 1 csr for each game. Then i Lose all the progress i made IN 8 HOURS OF GRINDING AND ONLY GETTING WS to 2 WHOLE Ls. approximately 30 games, lost because of 2 games. This ranking system is literally unaccaptable. I have tweeted at Joshua Menke so many times about it and with facts, and games, etc. Its so bad we have memes about his ranking/mm system is actually a meme now within the competitive and social community. No other game does this. Older halos didnt do this. They were purely off W/Ls, League and Overwatch after you get your placements, are purely off of W/Ls that point on. So why is this system like this especially when nobody likes it and it clearly doesnt work. The fact that i can beat a Full team that placed t16 at nola and are all Champs/onyxs in mm as a to3 and only get 1 csr for it is insane. I’m literally hardstuck at diamond with a higher W/L than half the Champs in the playlist. Also the fact that half the time i have a teammate quit out of a game, i can still lose full csr for quitting out or for just losing a 3v4. Stress literally lost 55 champ ranks for quitting out of a 3v4. ALSO the fact i still only gain 1 csr for winning a 3v4 is also insane. Nothing about this system is good. Nothing about grinding and getting around 50 Ws in a day just to only move down further than where you were started because of 5 Ls. I’m hardstuck in diamond right now, just lost 4 hours worth of W’s from quitting out of a 3v4, and i just lost 15 csr after for losing a game full of diamonds where i had most obj on my team, 2nd most damage in the game, went 23-14 with 2 teammates going 9-20 and 4-12.1 of my teammates was a no rank as well. its not fun. It doesnt make sense. No other game makes you deal with so much -Yoink-. Please change the ranking system W/Ls only. Thats all that should matter after your 10 placement matches. I dont even understand how this ranking system works because i consistantly put up bigger stats in all categories in a to3 with friends while winning constantly, and 1 of my friends lower ranked than me shot up to onyx faster than i did while i kept just getting 1 csr. I literally dont understand this system and its complete garbage. No popular game has this ranking system nor did any past halo. It doesnt work clearly, and it doesnt make sense. The fact that joshua Menke argues it so much and even slanders people in the community wondering why this ranking system is so bad is baffiling. we’ve had pros like Jimbo and Mikwen make constant complaints about how bad this ranking system is. If you guys want to bring people into this game or any other game, dont make them go through this garbage. They will want to leave instantly.
If you want to understand the ranking system; read through zaedynfel’s matchmaking feedback threads. Constructive comments can be made in the most recent one.