Um yeah, I don’t think so. First off, why are 3 Onyx players even getting into a game with mostly platinums in the first place? Second of all, why doesn’t the game recognize this and at least try to make the team’s even based on skill? 3 Onyx players vs 3 platinums?! We got SLAUGHTERED this game.
I feel like this happens far too often in Halo 5. If the game is matching you up with others based on skill, this should never happen. And yes, my search parameters WERE on “focused” when I got into this game.
I agree 100%. I’m not even touching Halo 5 until they fix this horrible problem or until Firefight comes out… same goes for a lot of my friends as well. From the sounds of things, stuff like that happened almost every match of Arena with them.
The biggest mistake 343i made was having connection and skill connected together in the search preferences. That whole system is flawed! Those search preferences are a joke. Honestly if one could chose the server with the best ping you would notice that when you are teamed up against higher ranking you would be surprised at how well you would do against them… If your a serious gamer then your first priority should always be best connection/ping. As far as skill is concerned that should be something the game should have all by itself… These two should not be tied together… In its current state that is why you get what you get in this game…
Yeah I guess, but even if it is going to match you with players ranked far higher than you, it should at least TRY to make the teams even. This is about as lopsided as you can get.
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> Yeah I guess, but even if it is going to match you with players ranked far higher than you, it should at least TRY to make the teams even. This is about as lopsided as you can get.
Don’t get me wrong… I do totally agree with you. One would think that matching up players by there rank or closer to there rank wouldn’t be that hard to accomplish…
Yeah, this shouldn’t happen. Skill based matchmaking should put you with players of the same level of skill, and should not cross over 2 sub ranks (ie. A platinum 1 player should only get matches with Gold 5 - Platinum 3 or something…)
Matches like the one OP was in shouldn’t have happened. If anything the Platinum on their team should suffer by playing Obsidians and Diamonds. Otherwise what is the point of Ranked playlists?
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> Looks like stat padding to me. 3 Onyx teaming up with a platinum to get easier matches.
I don’t think it was stat padding. In the pre game lobby they were talking as if they didn’t know each other and were all asking who had mics.
But say this was a case of that, that’s just another issue with the matchmaking. If there’s a party of 4 containing 3 Onyx players and 1 Platinum, the 1 Platinum should be brought into games of Diamond and Onyx skill level, not vice versa. I remember in Halo 3 I was playing with a 50 in Slayer and I wasn’t even close to being ranked a 50 but my buddy was. It brought me into a game with all players ranked 50 or around it and I got absolutely wrecked, but that’s how it SHOULD have been. Bringing my buddy who was a 50 into a match with all 25’s or whatever I was would’ve been ridiculously unfair.
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> Is onyx a low or high rank?
Second highest, only under Champion rank.
By the way, you’re not the only one this happens to. I get this quite a bit. I was gold and was paired with Onyx while Focused searching, for example
Broken system! Why is this happening???! BAD Match
I faced a full Champion team as a Diamond rando last night. Absolutely ridiculous.
I also got farmed to hell in Warzone Assault by a full 12-man clan. They slaughtered us, and then in the last 20 seconds would let us take the base to keep the game going… Most of them had over 40 kills, no one on my team had more than 10.
Population isn’t big enough to make perfect matches every time. If they made it so only same ranked matched every time matchmaking times would be a lot longer.
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> Population isn’t big enough to make perfect matches every time. If they made it so only same ranked matched every time matchmaking times would be a lot longer.
That’s a very poor excuse. There are certainly enough onyx and diamond players playing at any given time to prevent a match with Platinum players. All you need is 8 players from each rank essentially and that covers it. In that situation, you’d be playing the same people every game, but it’s realistic nonetheless. There is never an excuse to have players matched with other players who are 7+ skill ranks below them.
Champions should never get matched with anyone lower than Onyx, Onyx should never be matched with anyone lower than Diamond. That system would work perfectly fine and I highly highly doubt the wait times would be drastically effected.
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> If they made it so only same ranked matched every time matchmaking times would be a lot longer.
Isn’t this the consent form I signed when I chose focused searching?!!!? I’ll wait longer for a FAIR game. But apparently that search setting is broken.