Is there any word or any possibility of a 1-50 or similar ranking system returning? Just curious have not heard anything about it and personally kinda wanted a new ranking system since arena is broke.
Unfortunately, no new ranking system has been announced for this TU.
I wish they even acknowledged adding a ranking system to Halo Reach. This game is failing because of the lack of ranked playlists.
Thankfully, that will never happen.
> I wish they even acknowledged adding a ranking system to Halo Reach. This game is failing because of the lack of ranked playlists.
Yes. It’s the same reason that the Social playlists in Halo 3 were so underpopulated, and the same reason why the most played XBL game (Black Ops) has a ranking system similar to 1-50.
If only Arena ranked based on Trueskill, scaled the ranks relative to the rest of the population, and provided more details as to your ranking within each division…
Oh…wait…
> > I wish they even acknowledged adding a ranking system to Halo Reach. This game is failing because of the lack of ranked playlists.
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> Yes. It’s the same reason that the Social playlists in Halo 3 were so underpopulated, and the same reason why the most played XBL game (Black Ops) has a ranking system similar to 1-50.
> If only Arena ranked based on Trueskill, scaled the ranks relative to the rest of the population, and provided more details as to your ranking within each division…
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> Oh…wait…
Where are the competitive players in Reach? Yeah thats right, nowhere to be seen. Halo Reach tried to be like COD, look what happened to the population.
I don’t mind going plus 20 every game because I know tru-skill must be working in its own magical way. Besides there were too many hurt butts when we had a working ranking system. Arena works great a mean you have to play every day, yes every day or you go down. You still get bad match ups and the population sucks but hey this game is fresh and new.
> Thankfully, that will never happen.
I don’t understand why having a playlist you can choose to play is a bad thing. Not one competitive player prefers arena. It serves no purpose. It sucks thats why it only supports 4v4. Face it Ranked got cut because people were butt hurt. THATS IT.
Halo was unique in that it had social and ranked. Now it is like everything else.
> > > I wish they even acknowledged adding a ranking system to Halo Reach. This game is failing because of the lack of ranked playlists.
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> > Yes. It’s the same reason that the Social playlists in Halo 3 were so underpopulated, and the same reason why the most played XBL game (Black Ops) has a ranking system similar to 1-50.
> > If only Arena ranked based on Trueskill, scaled the ranks relative to the rest of the population, and provided more details as to your ranking within each division…
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> > Oh…wait…
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> Where are the competitive players in Reach? Yeah thats right, nowhere to be seen. Halo Reach tried to be like COD, look what happened to the population.
^ Exactly this. Reach has become a armour lock fest, with no ranked play for all but one playlist. All but one. Halo is more than that! Just shows what a failure Reach has been for competitive players who want ranked objective, FFA, Swat, Snipers, BTB, Doubles, etc. Ranked Team only doesn’t cut it and therefore neither does Reach’s pitiful ranking system
> > Thankfully, that will never happen.
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> I don’t understand why having a playlist you can choose to play is a bad thing. Not one competitive player prefers arena. It serves no purpose. It sucks thats why it only supports 4v4. Face it Ranked got cut because people were butt hurt. THATS IT.
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> Halo was unique in that it had social and ranked. Now it is like everything else.
Very well put. You could choose to rank your skill or or go for xp, that was what made ranking is Halo 3 awesome!
I miss ranked BTB and Ranked Objective ;(
if Reach had a ranking system, i’d think diferently about it.
Yet it doesnt, and I hate it.
> Thankfully, that will never happen.
> > Thankfully, that will never happen.
You better hope it happens. How can you honestly like taking -Yoink- beatings every day because of reach’s poor match-making?
If they brought back ranked playlist there might be better games. (not this lopsided mess we have now)
Again the ranked playlist was just to honest, and people were to butt-hurt.
Last time I checked arena existed… but that is OBVIOUSLY not ranked… in any way… shifty eyes
> Last time I checked arena existed… but that is OBVIOUSLY not ranked… in any way… shifty eyes
Yeah and it is “flawless”, “popular”, and represents many gametypes (objective, 2v2, ffa) "shifty eyes*
> > Last time I checked arena existed… but that is OBVIOUSLY not ranked… in any way… shifty eyes
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> Yeah and it is “flawless”, “popular”, and represents many gametypes (objective, 2v2, ffa) "shifty eyes*
True, however I was pretty sure the last time I played arena it put me where i should be ranking wise. It isn’t popular because of the fact you have to work at a rank imo… you can’t just snag a 50 through whatever means necessary and sit it up on a pedestal.
> > > Last time I checked arena existed… but that is OBVIOUSLY not ranked… in any way… shifty eyes
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> > Yeah and it is “flawless”, “popular”, and represents many gametypes (objective, 2v2, ffa) "shifty eyes*
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> True, however I was pretty sure the last time I played arena it put me where i should be ranking wise. It isn’t popular because of the fact you have to work at a rank imo… you can’t just snag a 50 through whatever means necessary and sit it up on a pedestal.
Yeah but you can play on that 50 and get good games every time. Instead I have to beat up on randoms for 5 days every 3 months. On top of that Arena is so underpopulated that I still get bad games. Also My favorite is 2v2 and I am stuck destroying bad players over and over again because it is unranked.
Ranked was un-popular because it was honest.
You can say there were cheaters or boosters but the real hate comes from the butt hurt of bad players.
This game is boring without rank playlist.
> > > > Last time I checked arena existed… but that is OBVIOUSLY not ranked… in any way… shifty eyes
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> > > Yeah and it is “flawless”, “popular”, and represents many gametypes (objective, 2v2, ffa) "shifty eyes*
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> > True, however I was pretty sure the last time I played arena it put me where i should be ranking wise. It isn’t popular because of the fact you have to work at a rank imo… you can’t just snag a 50 through whatever means necessary and sit it up on a pedestal.
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> Yeah but you can play on that 50 and get good games every time. Instead I have to beat up on randoms for 5 days every 3 months. On top of that Arena is so underpopulated that I still get bad games. Also My favorite is 2v2 and I am stuck destroying bad players over and over again because it is unranked.
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> Ranked was un-popular because it was honest.
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> You can say there were cheaters or boosters but the real hate comes from the butt hurt of bad players.
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> This game is boring without rank playlist.
Okay. Play the bad people, and move on. You’ve played 100 games of doubles… while reach’s skill system is slow at realizing skill imo, and you add the fact that playlists are underpopulated, of course you’ll get bad matches. Keep playing, and at some point you’ll play better people. Not 100% of the time no, but that’s life. Just because you were a 50 in H3 ment you played GOOD 50s, half of them were terrible too.
Also I agree alot of the complaining was from butt-hurt people. That doesn’t mean we get ranked because we demand it. The ranking is truely there, it is just hidden, and works terribly with reach’s population count.
> Also I agree alot of the complaining was from butt-hurt people. That doesn’t mean we get ranked because we demand it. The ranking is truely there, it is just hidden, and works terribly with reach’s population count.
If it is hidden it is hidden very well =). On my secondary I have played 800 doubles matches and I still get the same bad games. All I know is that it rarely happened in H3 and H2. I just miss the challenge. Even Arena does not feel competitive. Most of the 4v4 maps are campy. You have to play every day or you lose rank even with a good record. And it will still put silvers on your team sometimes (I’m currently 20% onyx).
I have given Arena many chances, I just don’t like it. Arena doubles was my favorite, then they took that away.