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Halo 4, unlike Halo Reach, allows you to progress through the levels very quickly.
I made it to the rank of Nova after playing over 18 solid days of MM for a total of 3175 multiplayer games. GT: PFC CBSCOTT
BUT for Halo 4, A game thats only been out for 10 days, and I’m already halfway through the ranks? with less than 2 days of Matchmaking play (258 games)? Come on 343i, you had to know this long in advance… What comes after SR-130? Why did you make the shelf-life of the Spartans Ranks so brief? I’m sure many people will be at the MAX rank of 130 by the end of the year.
This new “visual ranking system” hopefully counts for something we can look at. An actual measure of skill, unlike the current level system that only measures how much free time I have.
Im sure 343i will continue to add ranks and specializations, Probably MidEarly to End of next year. (MidEarly Meaning January - May End meaning every other month. They did say their giving us weekly updates, Who knows?)
Anyone remember back in the day when you didn’t get a damn thing for playing, other than the experience of playing the game, and you played, and tried to win anyway?
According to BS Angel, there might be a reward or two for maxing out to SR-130 (she said might to get people wondering about what “reward” that is).
Raising through the ranks seems rather easy if you grind Spartan OPs. You play MP and it goes up much slower. I kept playing when i hit the cap tonight though; i play for the game alone
> According to BS Angel, there might be a reward or two for maxing out to SR-130 (she said might to get people wondering about what “reward” that is).
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> Raising through the ranks seems rather easy if you grind Spartan OPs. You play MP and it goes up much slower. I kept playing when i hit the cap tonight though; i play for the game alone
SR-130 is the max rank i believe… So surely there’s a reward. I would probably be at level 67 if i had Double xp. So, anyone knwos how i can get 6k of xp in Spartan Ops?
If any player has a SR of 130 right now, they need to get outside and live a little. After all, all the time they spent playing Halo 4 could have been put to better use elsewhere…
> According to BS Angel, there might be a reward or two for maxing out to SR-130 (she said might to get people wondering about what “reward” that is).
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> Raising through the ranks seems rather easy if you grind Spartan OPs. You play MP and it goes up much slower. I kept playing when i hit the cap tonight though; i play for the game alone
Pretty much that is all Spartan Ops is. Most games I’m in 50 percent of the team is AFK boosting. They need to fix that as well as get rid of unlimited lives. All the mode is an XP death crawl grindfest.
> If any player has a SR of 130 right now, they need to get outside and live a little. After all, all the time they spent playing Halo 4 could have been put to better use elsewhere…
It’s pretty obvious that the only people who could have reached SR130 by now would be people who got the limited edition at least one week before release and hit the XP cap every single day since then. Well, and people who modded their profile and went online, but those people would be banned.
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> Halo 4, unlike Halo Reach, allows you to progress through the levels very quickly.
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> I made it to the rank of Nova after playing over 18 solid days of MM for a total of 3175 multiplayer games. GT: PFC CBSCOTT
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> BUT for Halo 4, A game thats only been out for 10 days, and I’m already halfway through the ranks? with less than 2 days of Matchmaking play (258 games)? Come on 343i, you had to know this long in advance… What comes after SR-130? Why did you make the shelf-life of the Spartans Ranks so brief? I’m sure many people will be at the MAX rank of 130 by the end of the year.
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> This new “visual ranking system” hopefully counts for something we can look at. An actual measure of skill, unlike the current level system that only measures how much free time I have.
> Anyone remember back in the day when you didn’t get a damn thing for playing, other than the experience of playing the game, and you played, and tried to win anyway?
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> Whatever happened to that?
Call of Duty happened.
The older people of Halo 2 grew up, stopped gaming.
The younger crowd got all fangirlish for Call of Duty, and the younger crowd honestly would HATE the Halo 2 system because it punishes you.
So for some of us who remember and loved the Halo 2 system and how well it worked, it simply wouldn’t work in today’s target demographic: the 15 year olds who are used to Call of Duty.
It’s a sad truth, MOST people playing shooters? They’re playing CoD, so if you want to attract a large population from CoD, you have to find a common ground in something important.
A ranking system is the CORE of online gaming. (Hypothetically) if you’re soo incredibly used to the CoD system, and you jumped into a Halo 2 esque system, you would think it is absolute garbage.
I’m an older brother, so I’ve been very close to the “worst” of the CoD demographic.
I’m not saying the Halo 2 system is worse or better, and we may miss it, but that system wouldn’t work anymore. CoD did something right. CoD invented a matchmaking system that keeps people invested, and ranking is important, the fact that Halo adopted the CoD system was inevitable.
i like the idea of specializations but this ranking system is poor its too easy to hit SR130 as the op says and with no visible skill ranking as of yet how do they expect to keep people interested in this game ? why could’nt they of looked at what worked in other halos and used a mixture of the systems, something like the halo 3 ranking with slight adjustments would of worked great
If the rumors are true, SR-140 will be added in time, and I am sorry but if anyone already has SR-130 then something is seriously wrong. I am currently at SR-45 and enjoying the game and taking my time to progress, while I also live outdoors, and enjoy something called life O.o.
> > If any player has a SR of 130 right now, they need to get outside and live a little. After all, all the time they spent playing Halo 4 could have been put to better use elsewhere…
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> It’s pretty obvious that the only people who could have reached SR130 by now would be people who got the limited edition at least one week before release and hit the XP cap every single day since then. Well, and people who modded their profile and went online, but those people would be banned.
SR 130 would take one month even hitting the cap every day. Even at SR 47 i wasn’t able to reach the cap. It’s pretty high.
