I'm getting incredibly sick of Halo 3 matching

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: mugs
You can't really judge based on one match. It's a continuum. Once you get closer to the threshold for the next rank, it doesn't take as much to go up or down. Sometimes when I'm borderline on a rank, I'll go up one match, down the next, up the next, and so on until I start doing consistently better. If I have 10 matches where I do well and get close to the threshold for the next rank, it'll take more than a few bad matches for me to go down.

I do think that they put too much emphasis on your team's performance. If I'm +5 but my team plays badly, I shouldn't go DOWN. I shouldn't go UP either, because team games do require teamwork.

BTW - it appears that your opponents in that game are French. That's like beating up a crippled kid. Of course you don't deserve to rank up! 😛

Ha, I didn't notice that; that explains it! 🙂 I understand it will take more than one match, but after playing for a while I would think a match like this would give a nice boost. Like I said, it took 3 more matches before I ranked up (and I went up 2, so I suppose all is right in the Halosphere), but these games were also fairly dominant on our part.

Also, as I mentioned before I played a bunch of matches in another party and everyone went up except me, even though I usually had a better performance. I don't understand it, but I guess it doesn't matter as long as I'm enjoying it. I've just accepted that the team-based ranking system is biased against me. 😉

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: CKDragon
I've never been much of an online FPS player. So early on, I was having this same problem in Halo 3 until I realized that the K/D ratio is a much bigger factor in how much you're helping your team compared to total kills. I was so happy to be getting 18 kills a match that I was completely ignoring that I was dying 20 times. 😛 I then focused more on teamwork and less on suicide missions and my teams started winning.

Anyway, point being: Is there any chance you're not helping your team as much as you think you are?

I get at least 3 killing sprees / game - I'm not big on dying

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
maybe you should stop caring about that little # next to your name and just play the damn game.

i wish ranks were hidden so people wouldn't worry about them.

Well if your rank keeps on going down you start to play crappy people instead of continuing up and up so you can supposedly play people who are on the same skill level as you

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: Xylitol

Originally posted by: CKDragon
I've never been much of an online FPS player. So early on, I was having this same problem in Halo 3 until I realized that the K/D ratio is a much bigger factor in how much you're helping your team compared to total kills. I was so happy to be getting 18 kills a match that I was completely ignoring that I was dying 20 times. 😛 I then focused more on teamwork and less on suicide missions and my teams started winning.

Anyway, point being: Is there any chance you're not helping your team as much as you think you are?

I get at least 3 killing sprees / game - I'm not big on dying

On three separate occasions in every game you get five straight kills? Wow, what's your gamertag?

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: Xylitol

Originally posted by: purbeast0
maybe you should stop caring about that little # next to your name and just play the damn game.

i wish ranks were hidden so people wouldn't worry about them.

Well if your rank keeps on going down you start to play crappy people instead of continuing up and up so you can supposedly play people who are on the same skill level as you

If you're rank goes down, then you should equally crappy with those crappy people. If you are better than those crappy people, then you'll hover in the same spot until you get better.

The only reason you'd continue "up and up" is if you get better. Every person has a peak. If you haven't moved off rank 20 for 3 weeks, then it's quite possible you will not get any better and your actual skill level of aiming and shooting and twitching has peaked, and therefore should always be playing against people of equal skill.

I think too many people expect to continue going up in rank the more and more they play, and sorry to burst your bubble, but it's quite possible that some of you simply are no better than the 12 rank you have at the moment, and you'll never get any better 🙂.

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I think too many people expect to continue going up in rank the more and more they play, and sorry to burst your bubble, but it's quite possible that some of you simply are no better than the 12 rank you have at the moment, and you'll never get any better 🙂.

But my mother always told me I was special!

 

[tatteredpotato]

I only play Team Slayer with friends. If I want a team game alone I just go into Social Slayer, the opponents are usually much easier too, although you have to carry the team a lot of the time.

 

[smb]

Originally posted by: ObscureCaucasian
I only play Team Slayer with friends. If I want a team game alone I just go into Social Slayer, the opponents are usually much easier too, although you have to carry the team a lot of the time.

that's the trick, you need to play with people you know and can communicate with, otherwise you could get on a team that won't talk for crap. I won't play team anything unless it's with my friends.

 

[mugs]

I got on a good team tonight. We tore it up in a 3 on 3 in The Pit. I had two killing sprees. With the turret. Which I did not detach. I had 13 kills with the turret. It was like shooting fish in a barrel.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Originally posted by: mugs
I got on a good team tonight. We tore it up in a 3 on 3 in The Pit. I had two killing sprees. With the turret. Which I did not detach. I had 13 kills with the turret. It was like shooting fish in a barrel.

I got a perfection on High Ground because the other team failed to try anything else to take me down. I camped the laser tower with a shotgun and would empty the laser into stragglers on the beach every time it spawned. Every once and awhile one or two would come charging up the stairs right into my shotgun, and they all died. They threw a grenade every once and awhile, but it didn't do much because I made sure the fusion coils stayed destroyed up there.

Point is there are some very slow people who play this game.

 

[mugs]

Another feature Bungie needs to add - the ability to boot a teammate who is not moving for a certain period of time. You can already boot a teammate who betrays someone, and it's just as bad when someone joins a game and then just stops playing. The least the fuckers could do is quit so the other team doesn't get a ton of free kills.

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: mugs
Another feature Bungie needs to add - the ability to boot a teammate who is not moving for a certain period of time. You can already boot a teammate who betrays someone, and it's just as bad when someone joins a game and then just stops playing. The least the fuckers could do is quit so the other team doesn't get a ton of free kills.

I played a 4 on 4 where two of the players on the other team were away the entire game, and I think the third was for a good portion as well. The absent two were by far the highest ranked as well, so that pretty much fucked up the match.

I had my entire team bail on me during a high ground CTF once, so I took refuge behind the rocks and managed to take a few out and only die once or twice before the round was over. Not fun.

 

[EvilComputer92]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: Xylitol

Originally posted by: purbeast0
maybe you should stop caring about that little # next to your name and just play the damn game.

i wish ranks were hidden so people wouldn't worry about them.

Well if your rank keeps on going down you start to play crappy people instead of continuing up and up so you can supposedly play people who are on the same skill level as you

If you're rank goes down, then you should equally crappy with those crappy people. If you are better than those crappy people, then you'll hover in the same spot until you get better.

The only reason you'd continue "up and up" is if you get better. Every person has a peak. If you haven't moved off rank 20 for 3 weeks, then it's quite possible you will not get any better and your actual skill level of aiming and shooting and twitching has peaked, and therefore should always be playing against people of equal skill.

I think too many people expect to continue going up in rank the more and more they play, and sorry to burst your bubble, but it's quite possible that some of you simply are no better than the 12 rank you have at the moment, and you'll never get any better 🙂.

This is not really true. Since I started playing the game, my k/d has gone down from +15 per game into the negatives. Now at level 42, I don't feel as if I actually gotten better, but the competition surely has. That doesn't mean I lose every game, because I usually have some skillful friends who help to win. So I wouldnt say rank is a good indicator of skill. Generally, the more you play the higher your rank goes.