This is the first time I’ve noticed it happening, so I cannot say for sure it hasn’t happened before. I just got done with a game of Oddball and we won the match, only to see my rank go down about 1/8th of the bar. I also won the previous match as well… and those are the only games I’ve played today so there isn’t any weird stuff going on with prior games.
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Rankings increase or decrease based upon individual performance from what I’ve been hearing, not wins or losses, if you preform better than the game expected your rank goes up, and vice versa.
Yes I understand but your rank should never go down from a win, ever.
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I went negative KDA but I was focusing on carrying the ball, so that’s nothing unusual for that game mode. So I really don’t understand how I would lose rating period.
I know in Overwatch we had a similar problem once upon a time. But that was a LONG time ago, if it’s not just a visual glitch, then it might just be as someone else mentioned; personal performance based rather than team based. Which honestly kind of makes no sense in a team based game.
I’m willing to debate the first point, simply because, even if you won, it doesn’t mean you as an individual did anything, you could’ve gotten carried.
As for the second bit, I really don’t know what all the game takes into account and how it works as I’ve had some sketchy games myself, but I wouldn’t worry about it too much, hopefully 343 is willing to tell us more about it or someone else gives us some raw data to work with.
I carried the ball for like 1:30 and had like a -3 kda, so nothing justifies losing rating.
What rank tier are you in? It gets more strict the closer you get to onyx, and in onyx especially you can lose rank fast from game to game
diamond 4 about to be diamond 5
That’s probably it then, once you get to about diamond 2 you have to grind even harder, which includes going positive while you win while having obj time. That last few matches is a head slammer people say
You probably won 2 of the 3 rounds but I’m guessing the total ball time for the other team was higher overall.
It’s a quirk of the oddball gametype where it increases your rank based on who has higher total ball time, not who won 2 of 3 rounds.
I think it’s a bug but I saw someone mention this on here yesterday.
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A few people have posted this.
It happened to me yesterday. We won a game of oddball. I felt I contributed pretty well. Had the most ball time (got a medal for holding it for a minute)… KD nearly 1.
We had postulated if it was some sort of buffer to dropping a recently won rank. Other people noticed they dropped a rank. But I’m my case I was in the middle of the bar - it just went down.
The consistent theme seems to be oddball.
Yep. We won… But time was 238:276 in their favour.
Internally it must be counting that as a win for them… Because TrueSkill only goes up or down on the W/L.
It comes up as a win for us on Halotracker. But it also says we won a round, tied a round, and lost a round. The oddball data is… Well, odd.
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yes this seems to be the case then, because the enemy team did have more time overall, but we won 2/3 rounds.