Radar doesn’t take skill tho. Why should it be in mode that’s about about showing your skill? What skill is there in a radar?
Lots of people loved the H2 and the H3 system.
Honestly, you just sound like one of the game devs giving a GDC talk. Out of touch with reality, solving a make believe problem (bad players will get beat) and ignoring the obvious reality (our game is bleeding out all its players and the ranked system is not working to retain them).
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Couldn’t careless if the ‘try-hards’ find it too easy. I couldn’t careless if you think it doesn’t take skill. Any player can be good/bad with radar so your logic is ridiculous. You can be skilful with a radar so don’t pretend skill magically vanishes with a radar. If people are that desperate to cater to their ego then they should make custom games. Bad enough with cheaters on PC. If I wanted no radar I’d go play a different game. Radar is a fundamental part of what makes Halo a Halo game. But sadly only people that 343i are focusing on ranked is the over-rated HCS crowd and ignoring the general fanbase. 
HCS ruined Halo ranked. 
I’ve always thought it was more about the skill gap of the team.
With no radar - you become more reliant on your team for help / callouts.
And I say that as a solo player - who plays better with radar.
But I see why they took it out of ranked team games. It puts the skill gap back onto the team.
Lmao. Full on stop. There is no way radar is ever coming back in ranked. That’s for sure.
Second. Doesn’t matter who is a bad or good player. The radar gives information that players shouldn’t have. Period. And for that it doesn’t belong in ranked.
You say it’s always been apart of Halo but not mlg tho. In halo 3 they also roved the radar for ranked. So no. It hasn’t been all radars all the time.
Most people don’t plug headsets in and radars are helpful. I’m not expecting to get 50’s but at the very least I want to be able to actually be allowed to enjoy ranked without worrying about HCS players that want to block random features because to fit their ego. It wouldn’t be as bad if 343i had separate HCS playlists but instead they ignored parts of the fanbase to cater to only HCS and it irritates me.
Other than the br and radar what would make a ranked playlist a ranked playlist? Because without those two things then it isn’t ranked. Imagine trying to get a rank in a ranked playlist with a radar in it. Makes no sense
You’re excuses make no sense whatsoever. The point of ranked is to feel like a spartan and use all the abilities you have learned and get better. The fact this doesn’t just proves how stupid current HCS ranked is and sadly only caters to the toxic HCS community that demands features be at the bare minimum and restricted to make it as pointless as possible so it caters to the elitist players instead of new/long term players that want to get better.
Ranked is now awful and utterly pointless. If I want to play a game like CoD I would just play CoD. 
If you were aurging over something fun then sure. But your aurging over a literal handicap. I don’t need a radar. If it there was no radar in the game I wouldn’t bat an eye. If the game is supposed to be about fun then why don’t we have spartan ablities back? Why is it limited?
Either way like I said. It’s not like your arguing for a fun thing. Just a handicap thing. It’s like arguing for outlines. We don’t need outlines but it serves a different purpose other than fun.
Finally the radar gives you information you shouldn’t have. Ranked will never have radar again because of this information.
That is uttter nonsense. Just because you don’t care does not mean that others shouldn’t be allowed to have ‘fun’. I couldn’t careless if you think it’s a handicap. Umm Spartan Abilities do exist but sounds like you don’t your pretending there isn’t.
Radar gives information that I should have because it’s a Halo game designed around it. If I want a CoD style game then I’d go play a CoD style game. Ranked may as well be dead if it only caters to the stupid HCS nonsense. Wouldn’t be as bad if it was optional playlists between HCS and non-HCS but sadly this is removed and catered to only 1 set of toxic gamer types that demand ranked only caters to them…
It’s equipment now. Not spartan ablities. Less time used. Less fun. Halo 5 was fun because you had it all the time. Not some of the time.
Anyways. How is radar adding fun to the game. It’s fun because you know where players are and thus have an easier time playing? Is that the fun to you? Because that isn’t the fun for me. If you put radar in ranked then your ruining the fun for me. You have many other playlists that have radar. Leave ranked alone
So basically you’re demanding people not be allowed to enjoy the game in the way they want so it only caters to you. Stuff like reminds me why Halo Infinite is failing insanely on Steam. God forbid if I’m allowed to enjoy ranked without being dictated what I’m allowed to do. I couldn’t careless if you find radar fun or not and I shouldn’t need to justify why I like something just because 343i took options away. Not fun for you? FINE and that’s why 343i should have had optional ranked playlists for different people so you can play your version and I can play my version without stupid HCS settings but sadly I’m not allowed to enjoy the game in the way I want.
Power Fantasy Vs Equal Opportunities.
Halo 5 offered a power fantasy, which was gradually built towards since reach
I do miss it though, I will admit.
We have literally one playlist it’s all we have. What do you mean. Demand? It was always like this. There was always a playlist with no radar. There were also always more than one ranked playlist so blame 343 for that
I think equal starts with the abilites IS the equal opportunity. I don’t really see someone having an ability and someone not having it as equal. I never come up to someone with the grapple and think to myself " ohh this is totally fair" it’s not.
There are very little times the equipment is in the middle as well. And I mean directly in the middle like the grapple on bazzar. To me anything equipment near a spawn is automatically RNG to me. You wouldn’t put a spawn near a power weapon right? It’s the same way I veiw equipment.
There’s also the issue of missing out on fun. If you go for an ability someone could just grab it before you this robbing you of fun. It’s like not having enough toys in the play room and you have to start sharing. Having your own toy feels better doesn’t it?
You guys debating radar and halo 5 in this thread have as much clue about staying on topic as 343 does about fixing their ranking system
Ranked is not good and won’t be good unless they reset the MMR along with the csr
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This thread gonna be infinitely long by the end of this games life cycle as 343 are clueless. Just hand the game off already. Y’all have good ideas, just not made for Halo.
They are helpful.
I prefer them.
And I don’t care about the distance as my main use of radar is in close quarters combat.
I don’t think it’s got anything to do with the HCS. It’s more that it adds a skill gap to team communication (which can make solo playing hard). Ranked needs skill gaps to allow good teams to shine.
Especially with markers in the game and the ability to see your team’s outlines (and what they are doing)
Nostalgia is the most rose coloured of the glasses.
And honestly you sound like one of those Bungie fans wearing a tin foil hat at a conspiracy conference. Fake problems and such. (tongue in cheek sarcasm).
TrueSkill2 is solid.
More than happy to debate a better way of expressing it (the CSR component). What 343 are currently doing is not working.