Over the last week I’ve been playing a fair bit of ranked Team Slayer with my buddy, MacronX. Now Macron has played a lot more Lone Wolves than me, I like the team aspect and when I’m playing with Piggle I also play mainly in Social. This meant that both Macron and myself were at the beginning stages of the skill rankings on Team Slayer.
MacronX and myself are fairly well matched players of about the same skill level so I thought we’d rank up equally. Last week it wasn’t to be. Macron, for whatever reason was not playing to form and I was gaining MVP, 3 times as many medals as him, had a much higher k/d spread and was basically the best player in every 4 out of 5 matches we played. Over the course of 3 days I went up 3 skill levels, struggling to get past 8. Macron on the other hand went up 14 or so levels, many times on the matches where his performance was the worst and mine was the best. You can imagine my frustration upon looking at the stats to see I had out-classed everyone in the fight, let alone my team, only to have everyone I’m with go up skill levels whilst mine stayed stationary. Now this wouldn’t be so bad apart from the fact that often their skill level would increase past mine.
I’ve finally found an answer as to why I played better than everyone else and my skill level never increased: Macron, and the others had played well over 100 more ranked games than myself.
The method of determining skill level is done over many games, the simple fact is that MacronX has double the amount of data being anaylized for his skill level which is resulting in him going up leaps and bounds when our team wins whilst I languish at the lower levels despite being the best player in the match. I know that evetually my skill level ranking will increase to show it’s true figure, until then I’ll just tear my hair out watching others around me benefit from my skills.
#1 by Dave on November 1, 2007 - 2:37 pm
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well its not that at all i work at bungie and ive been asigned to find sites and adress problems like this our system isnt set up like that but fairly well. see it watches how you play not how good you do every match you could have got 10 kills and every one got like 20 and you might rank up depending on how you got those kills. if you some how got some freakish headshot skill out of nowere it will notice that and start to up your skill it basicly upgrades if you get better it gets bette as you do.
#2 by gothi on November 1, 2007 - 7:55 pm
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I seriously doubt that over the 2 days this issue became apparent to me that the rest of my team were doing freakish headhots and the like. In fact I was getting various awards for my kills, usually aiming for the head rather than the body and just generally playing well as was everyone else, just not as well as me. I’ll keep an eye on my future matches to compare how you say the system works to how my fellow gamers play when they rank up and I don’t despite the multitude of awards I get post game and being MVP
I’ll have to break Macron’s thumb or something to ensure he plays below par again
#3 by Joe on December 4, 2007 - 11:37 pm
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You don’t work for Bungie, if Bungie had any interest in dispelling rumors of this sort they’d post an explanation on there own website, furthermore your English is far less than what I would expect from a Bungie rep. and closer to that of a 12 year old.
I have the same problem, when playing with my friend, I started at 14 he started at 7, we are equal in skill, at the end of the night with near;y identical statistics he had reached level 40 while I was at 24.
#4 by David on January 1, 2008 - 11:06 pm
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This makes no sense whatsoever, most skill systems punish players with a large amount of history compared to those who have played relatively few games. I mean, think about it, if it were your first 20 games and you absolutely dominated, your skill would jump up high quickly. In contrast, if you had played over 300 very poorly, then had a streak of 20 good games, why would you get a larger benefit?
Bottom line, the skill system would make no sense to operate this way. I doubt Bungie would do this. In addition, my friend has over 700 games and I have just finished my first 100, my skill is much more variable than his.
#5 by gothi on January 6, 2008 - 1:58 am
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There’s a discussion on the skill system used here. It would appear I play consistantly whilst my friends do not :-/ On the plus side it means I will not rank down very fast at all if I do lose a match.
#6 by James on May 29, 2008 - 5:17 pm
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Wow only just noticed this little discussion going on (I was googling my Gamertag as I am particularly bored this afternoon).
Things have gone the other way now since Pete plays Halo 3 a lot more than I do these days, I really must get back into it.
I think the answer is clear though, my score went up faster because I rule, simple as.
Soon as I’m done moving house I’m going to dedicate some time to Halo 3 again so watch out!
#7 by gothi on May 30, 2008 - 8:33 pm
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I think the answer is clear though, my score went up faster because I rule, simple as.
Methinks someone is somewhat deluded