Comments on: Halo 3′s skill ranking vs my sanity

By: gothi

gothi — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:33:00 +0000

I think the answer is clear though, my score went up faster because I rule, simple as.

Methinks someone is somewhat deluded

By: James

James — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:17:00 +0000

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!

By: gothi

gothi — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:58:00 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:06:00 +0000

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.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:37:00 +0000

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.

By: gothi

gothi — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:55:00 +0000

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

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:37:00 +0000

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.