The earlier halos never had a SBMM in social. It was meant to be what its called…social…not sweaty.
Why is every game meant to be an HCS final and not just chill with your friends?
No wonder no one plays this game.
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Because most people would rather be paired up with people of similar skill and not people who will easily curb stomp them into the ground on a regular basis.
It’s much more easier to play more casually in that situation then it is to play with someone who will kill you seconds after you spawn every time.
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But thats not always the case.
If i want to play sweaty I’ll go into ranked.
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not always the case, but depending on skill settings some people will definitely get it way more with ssmb off then with it left on. More so those brand new players that you want to keep so the community can actually grow and expand.
If you want an actual social experience with this game, you need to push for server browsers where people can create their own servers. That’s the only way it’s ever going to happen.
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Nah imma go have fun in mcc.
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He is right mcc is the way to go you get a match could be a stomp could be balanced…… it’s social not ranked so it doesn’t matter. I remember getting stomped on halo 2 wayyyyy back in the day and figured out what I was doing wrong… than you start pub stomping it’s a natural cycle
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I don’t understand this. You don’t have to play sweaty in social for multiple reasons.
Losses don’t affect your rank so there’s far less on the line.
The games are balanced differently so you literally don’t have to play as hard as ranked. In ranked, if I miss too many shots, don’t play play meta strategies then I will lose almost every game.
In social I do challenges, play freely and barely ever focus on map control and still win half my games. I literally don’t try in most games of BTB, I just have fun doing whatever I want in the game, vehicles, going for weird kills, and I still win half of them.
Halo MCC is awful unless you love pub stomping. I cannot enjoy playing that game because the players are so radically spread in skill.
Make friends it’s more fun when you party up you don’t lose. I don’t see the issue parting up using teamwork racking up kills and getting wins. Isn’t that the point of the game ?
I’m pretty sure I have like a 70% win ratio in MCC and I get MVP In about 2/3 of all games I play.
It’s not fun for me to play against people who aren’t very good. There’s no satisfaction in beating them for me. I want then to be at least moderately good at the game.
I’m pretty sure Halo MCC only feels more casual due to less players. Higher population would mean “sweatier games”.
It’s better than long search times in h5 for sweaty game after sweaty game after sweaty game. Wait 5 mins for btb on main account or make a Smurf you get a game in 30 seconds. Mcc you get a gsme in 30 seconds anyways
I’m not looking to circumnavigate the matchmaking system. I’m saying this is why I like sbmm.
At least the games are somewhat appropriate most of the time.
How do you think I play cod I reverse boost. I modulate my good games to my bad games otherwise I get campers and Meta classes 99.99% of the time. Sbmm needs to be in ranked no social you want balance play ranked
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Oh so you just play games to beat new players?
MCC has SBMM for Social as well but have fun I guess
You must feel like a God.
This is false. Ever since trueskill (SBMM) was developed (halo 3), it has been in social.
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshua_menke/status/1307900870697218049
If you think playing against players your own skill is sweaty, how immensly sweaty would it be for everyone in the lower 50% (probebly even lower 75%, since the higher skilled players play way more) without SBMM since then the fast majority of the matches would be against way way more skilled players.
The least sweaty games overall are games with a strict SBMM (both between teams as between individual players).
And social means that everybody get to play, not just the players with high skills.
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Yeah, I’ve always found this definition of “sweaty” a bit amusing.
That player is beating me. They are so “sweaty”. Yet I have no idea if they are a Platinum player sweating through their eyeballs, or an Onxy 2000 player chilling by playing on an Atari 2600 joystick.
Sweat or chill is just a mindset on how you approach the game. How you are going to play - win, loss, or draw.
Some players are happy “chill” around until the score board starts to suffer. And then they feel compelled to “sweat” the game to glorious victory. Only then to whinge incessantly how they had to carry the team.
Stop assassinating my character.
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