So I drink a lot and play halo … have done so since college (halo ce days) … I’m not as good as y’all and I understand that, but please 343 give me a chance to rank up in HCS playlist … if I’m placed a silver then let me beat and play silvers … just because I play bad for a night doesn’t mean I need to play guys 12 levels ahead … I’ll start getting owned when I should get owned … MMR is silly more often than fair … just my thoughts and I’m not alone surly. IMG_0025.JPG.
Just realized I can’t get the link to work … here’s what I’m talking about:
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With the exception of the mystery man on team two, that looks like a very balanced match. And mystery man, at 7/10, is not a mystery to the system - odds are good he was in the mix because it was more or less where he belonged. So not sure how this applies to you “playing guys 12 levels ahead…”
The real question is: how can a match that appears so well-balanced on the surface then go on to produce such a horrendous gap in score? Bad game design? People cheating the ranking system? Broken skill-assessment? A little of each? This has always been the way of Halo ranks. The lower you go down the rank ladder, the more suspect are the players you face and the ranks they wear.
It would be worth knowing whether or not team two was a full fire team. It would also be interesting to look more closely at the service records of all seven individual players, but for the sake of your sanity: don’t. Once you start picking apart the game at that level then it’s no longer about the love of Halo - it’s about the long and lonesome road to misanthropy. Just move on to the next match and hope for a little more balance. It still does happen from time to time.
This more or less looks like an example of the unranked player probably being a diamond ranked player the previous season. Average his rank with the rest of your team puts it in a comparable skill gap. Also, there’s a chance that team of 4 had spent awhile searching depending on the time of day, and due to the new format for matching, threw a match together to get them rolling so they weren’t waiting forever.
If you read Menke’s feedback threads, you’ll know that there’s more going on under the surface than just the ranks being displayed. There could be multiple reasons why it turned out the way it did from wait times to maybe your teammates weren’t performing like the game expected them to perform.
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> The real question is: how can a match that appears so well-balanced on the surface then go on to produce such a horrendous gap in score? Bad game design? People cheating the ranking system? Broken skill-assessment? A little of each? This has always been the way of Halo ranks. The lower you go down the rank ladder, the more suspect are the players you face and the ranks they wear.
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> It would be worth knowing whether or not team two was a full fire team. It would also be interesting to look more closely at the service records of all seven individual players, but for the sake of your sanity: don’t.Once you start picking apart the game at that level then it’s no longer about the love of Halo - it’s about the long and lonesome road to misanthropy. Just move on to the next match and hope for a little more balance. It still does happen from time to time.
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> Best of luck.
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> Oh, and lay off the hooch.