Why Reach needs a 1-50 RANKING system

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Hello there ladies and gents. Let’s discuss ranking in Reach.

As I’ve recognized over the past few months, the Reach ranking system is flawed. No, not even even flawed; It’s to a level where it is unbearably noob-friendly.

For instance, take a game of infection I was playing sometime last week. In this game, there was a Hero with 4,265 kills and 13,108 deaths w/ maxed firefight commendations. Pretty sad, no? It gets better; this individual had logged 8 days worth of firefight matchmaking.

Now, how in hell should someone so horrific at a video game be such a high rank? One answer: credits.

Credits are disgraceful. They single-handidly ruin any type of true skill within the game.

If you win- Hooray! You get a payout for your hard work.
If you lose- Better luck next time. Here, we will give you the exact same amount of credits you would have gotten if you were winning because we want to make you feel better.

Do you see any epic 4-person flag runs any more like in Halo 3? No, because the desire to win isn’t there; what is the point of picking up deaths for your team if it doesn’t mean anything?

Bringing back the 1-50 will balance out all of this bs- It will put the players who want to be competitive in one section of the game and put the casuals who don’t take the game seriously in another section.

Sure, they’re will be some boosters; but with a few ingame reports, I’m sure they will be eliminated reasonably quickly.

So I beg of you 343; If you want to make Halo a competitive game again, and get back to the daily 200k - 300k we used to have on in Halo 3, please go through with the 1-50.

You’ve gotten a good start with Anniversary classic, ZB, and no AAs, now let’s see if you can real get the job done.

-Este

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“Rank” is not a representation of skill, just like “levels” in COD games are not. Everyone knows that.

Take a G.D. midol and sleep it off.

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Another one of these threads? lol

Halo 3 is still live on xbl if you really miss it that much :slight_smile:

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Once again, Halo: Reach will NEVER receive the 1-50 Ranking System as said by 343i a few weeks ago.

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Why even put 1-50 when Halo 4 is coming out in a year?
Repeat thread is a repeat thread. : /

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Let’s go ahead and move this discussion to this Ranking System Thread from here on out, okay?

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We all know that 1-50 needs to come back if Halo has any hope of keeping a steady population. I absolutely hate CoD yet I’m a 6th prestige in MW3 when It came out less than 2 months ago. Why? Because the ranking system is so addicting. Now I’m finally getting over the “addiction” to the ranking system and have come back to Reach a little, but there’s literally no incentive to play as I am a Nova and it will be at least a few months of daily playing to reach the next rank. I have been consistently prestiging about once a week in MW3.

I mean even w/o 1-50 what was Bungie thinking with a 1800+ hours needed to Reach inheritor, when it takes about 250 hours to Reach 10th prestige on Cod.

And Reach has how many ranks? 50. CoD has 80 ranks, multiplied by 11 sets (first time through plus the 10 prestiges), so a total of 880 ranks.

That’s an average of 36 hours per rank in Reach, vs 30 minutes per rank in CoD.

72 times longer, on average, per rank in Reach vs CoD. And Bungie expects people to stick around?

Not to mention that CoD poops out an unlock practically every game (whether it be a new skin for your gun, a new perk, attachment, whatever), while anyone above general has literally nothing but the Haunted helmet to look forward to.

honestly, I could have probably gone through 10 prestiges in the time it took me to get from eclipse to Nova.

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And this is all under the assumption that people like the game play, which many people do not, at all. And aside from the credit based ranks, there is ONE playlist with any sort of skill based rank, and literally even all the top 1% players, that I’ve seen at least, think Arena is a total joke. They just play it because it’s the only place for even remotely decent competition.

Reach was bound for an untimely death right out of the box.

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with that said though, don’t be getting your hopes up for 1-50 and I’m pretty sure even if 343 spent all their time on it, couldn’t modify the code that much to get a working 1-50. And even if they could it would take months, and by then why not just get ready for H4?

Reach is pretty much dead and I don’t see any amazing revival coming back soon no matter what 343 does.

Sorry bub.

> Another one of these threads? lol
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> Halo 3 is still live on xbl if you really miss it that much :slight_smile:

Must… not… flame…