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Subject: Halo 3, really hard to level up your skill level!!!!
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It can´t be hard to rank up...I have guys on my friend list who are total NOOOBS and still have a very high skill level.

  • 10.22.2007 3:42 PM PDT
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i was teamed up with a friend last night in Team Doubles (ranked of course) When we started i was a 17, he was an 11. After 4 or 5 games (maybe more) he was at a 19, and I was still at 17. He was doing a lot better than I was so the level jump wasn't suprising to me.

  • 10.22.2007 3:47 PM PDT
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*Update fixed the links and made it neater*

Game 1
buddy 15.. places 2nd on winning team.. I wasnt playing with him this game.. but I was a 10..

Game 2
buddy 16.. places 2nd on winning team.. I am a 10, place first on winning team.

Game 3
buddy 17.. places 4th on the winning team.. I am a 10, place 2nd on the winning team.


Someone can look at the links above.. an explain to me why I didnt rank up.. but he did.. what he did better than me in any of those.. I'd like to figure this problem out.. I'm sick of being stuck for some unknown reason. :)

  • 10.22.2007 3:56 PM PDT
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The statement below is true.

The statement above is false.

The game is a fairly recent release so if you wait a little bit for most people to reach their skill peak you might not encounter as many tough teams.

  • 10.22.2007 4:00 PM PDT
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launch ranks are actually tougher to level up in. halo 2 post reset takes months for the ranks to get back to normal... example: playing level 15 double team a week after the reset doesn't mean you're playing legit level 15's... for all you know they could be level 40's. lone wolves with launch ranks: almost certain at least 2 legit 35's will be in the game. give it awhile and the ranks will level themselves out.

  • 10.22.2007 4:05 PM PDT
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*Update fixed the links and made it neater*

Game 1
buddy 15.. places 2nd on winning team.. I wasnt playing with him this game.. but I was a 10..

Game 2
buddy 16.. places 2nd on winning team.. I am a 10, place first on winning team.

Game 3
buddy 17.. places 4th on the winning team.. I am a 10, place 2nd on the winning team.


Someone can look at the links above.. an explain to me why I didnt rank up.. but he did.. what he did better than me in any of those.. I'd like to figure this problem out.. I'm sick of being stuck for some unknown reason. :)


I checked each one and it seems like you're using the assault rifle too often. So like I said, try showing the system that you improved. If you keep using that same weapon, then maybe you just reached your peak level. Try a few games and kill more with the battle rifle or score more kills with a grenade.

  • 10.22.2007 4:09 PM PDT
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Im a 35!!! was not that tough! get a good SLAYER TEAM and Own everyone! I get paired with 40's even though I am a 35!

  • 10.22.2007 4:12 PM PDT
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I have played Halo 3, kinda like the game at first, I find the promotion or leveling up interesting and kept me going. But after I hit officer level, I am stuck at skill level 12. No matter how hard I try, and how well I play, my team always meet a stronger team. Out of 250 games, I cannot level up. This is really difficult for players like myself, whose skills are only average. Why is the other team always stronger?? I may have to stop playing because my wife says my whole face turns red, and I get really angry when I play this game. I got high cholestrol and high blood, I am afraid I may 1 day get a stroke while playing this game. It is a good game, but a little too difficult. I consider this game a ''Love, Hate"" game. I see no purpose in playing the game already, kinda given up to level up to skill level 20 to get captain. So difficult to even get to skill level 13, ha ha ha. Thanks Bungie for creating a good not great game, alot of fun but also alot of stress!!!!


Your problem isn't with the leveling system being slow to credit wins to you...its due to the fact that there are ALOT of people better than you out there(no offense). You seem to be a casual player and you just started playing Halo, rite? You hopped on the Halo bandwagon at Halo3? Halo is a extremely competitve game....and most people that play it are competitve and most of these people have been playing Halo since day one and have tons more experience in it than you do...that's why the other team is almost always stronger than yours....especially when you play by yourself. This early in the online multiplayer can be hard for the lower skilled players because there's still a stampede of the more "skillful" players trying to rank up. Once these people have past you and settled in their respective ranks...the lower ranks, which youre in, will see more evenly matched games with people who are Legit 15-25s

Ohh yah..if you have a High BP and a your face turns red while you play...i suggest you play something else...if you die you can't respawn. LOL


READ THIS: its like a HALO 3: FOR DUMMIES

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  • 10.22.2007 4:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: ZeTH V
I checked each one and it seems like you're using the assault rifle too often. So like I said, try showing the system that you improved. If you keep using that same weapon, then maybe you just reached your peak level. Try a few games and kill more with the battle rifle or score more kills with a grenade.


Wouldn't that be a silly reason though?

Its not like all my kills were with the assault rifle.. but its not a bad weapon.. You may be right... but a lof of times you spawn (especially in TS) right next to people killing your friends.. and you need to use the AR to help them.. I don't believe this is the case.. but you do point out a difference, and I thank you for that..it would be pretty stupid to force someone to go find a better weapon on a small map when they are all taken, to prove that they are good, over just having the most kills in the game.. that just seems silly to me.

I just find it hard to believe that the weapon I spawn with, hurts me in skill for killing with it.. I mean.. wow.. and in ranked matches altogether, I only have like 11 more kills with the AR, than the BR.. and then comes melee's and grenades..

but again, you do point out a difference, I'll test this out and see if it helps... I guess I can try running away to find a weapon while my buddies die.. to prove that I'm 'skilled'?!?

  • 10.22.2007 4:21 PM PDT
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I know what yo mean, I played 7 games the other day and won all of them with no level up. I then finnaly lose my 8th game and go down 2 levels.
TrueSkill system my ass!

  • 10.22.2007 4:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: soslick22 is HOT
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Posted by: soslick22 is HOT
You're bad...stop playing...I hate noobs and Bungie for loving them.


Get out much?....

No I'm a loser, because you know, I can't be both good at Halo and have a social life.
Jealous much?


Hmm, lets take a quick look at your recent games list, see exactly how social your weekend was...

Friday the 19th: Played from 12:10 in the morning till 10:40 at night.
Saturday the 20th: Played from 2:30 in the morning until 10:40 at night. [4 hours not spent on Halo]
Sunday the 21st: Played from 1:40 in the morning till 10:15 at night. [after a whopping 3 hours of what I'm assuming is sleep]












Wow. You sure are social.

[Edited on 10.22.2007 4:28 PM PDT]

  • 10.22.2007 4:26 PM PDT
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wow.. Don't your eyes hurt?.. Jesus..

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play with a party of lieutenants and captains or higher and most of the time your team wins so your skill goes up. you dont need your kills to outnumber your deaths or vice verser. you could all have 20 kills each but have died 30 times but as long as your team wins your skill goes up and vice verser. even if you got 1 kill and died 30 times your skill will still go up as long as your team wins. sometimes this doesnt work out and you skill stays the same but it will never go down unless you dont win.

Edit: i cant spell anymore

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  • 10.22.2007 4:29 PM PDT

Meh, I find gaining levels in Halo 3 to actually be much easier than in Halo 2.

*Nibbles on kitten*

  • 10.22.2007 4:31 PM PDT
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nevermind... lol

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  • 10.22.2007 4:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: ReCLaIM
wow.. Don't your eyes hurt?.. Jesus..


I don't get it :P

  • 10.22.2007 4:37 PM PDT

Posted by: ATILA
Posted by: ReCLaIM
wow.. Don't your eyes hurt?.. Jesus..


I don't get it :P


I believe he was talking about the ehhh... "social" soslick, and the amount of time he was on Halo 3.

  • 10.22.2007 4:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: SnapSpArTaN117
Posted by: ATILA
Posted by: ReCLaIM
wow.. Don't your eyes hurt?.. Jesus..


I don't get it :P


I believe he was talking about the ehhh... "social" soslick, and the amount of time he was on Halo 3.


Hah yea I suppose. I find it funny he hasn't responded yet. [No comeback soslick? Stats don't lie.]

[Edited on 10.22.2007 4:42 PM PDT]

  • 10.22.2007 4:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: l l I l l
launch ranks are actually tougher to level up in. halo 2 post reset takes months for the ranks to get back to normal... example: playing level 15 double team a week after the reset doesn't mean you're playing legit level 15's... for all you know they could be level 40's. lone wolves with launch ranks: almost certain at least 2 legit 35's will be in the game. give it awhile and the ranks will level themselves out.

I got your PM but i might as well reply here instead. I disagree and i base that on my old halo friends current halo 3 stats. Most of the people i know from halo 2 straight up sucks but in halo 3 theyre in the 40´s range, thats people that couldnt even reach 30 in slayer in halo 2. All of them have been playing the game like crazy since launch and eventhough they might have encountered some ace´s every now and then theyve encountered just as many bad players that has happened to rank up by just playing al lot. It hasnt been that " you reach your max and then evens out there" since everybody has been ranking at the same time and some have had the luck to get some more wins than others. Matter of fact is that the real 40-50´s are a minority so bumbing in to them on the way up wont happen too often which results in that those that are playing the most also are ranking faster although theyre just mediocre skill-wise. Thats what i think atleast....i might be wrong.

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  • 10.22.2007 4:42 PM PDT

kinda hit that mark at 32 for slayer. 43 in lone wolves and still goin.

  • 10.22.2007 4:43 PM PDT
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I read in one update that theres some formula that fiqueres out how you level up. I think it mainly has to do with how many games you have been winning in a row or in clumps. I won 6 or 7 games in a row at one point and leveled up twice in one game and other times where i might of lost three times in a row it might of took me 4 or 5 games just to reach the next level.

  • 10.22.2007 4:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: ATILA
Posted by: soslick22 is HOT
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Posted by: soslick22 is HOT
You're bad...stop playing...I hate noobs and Bungie for loving them.


Get out much?....

No I'm a loser, because you know, I can't be both good at Halo and have a social life.
Jealous much?


Hmm, lets take a quick look at your recent games list, see exactly how social your weekend was...

Friday the 19th: Played from 12:10 in the morning till 10:40 at night.
Saturday the 20th: Played from 2:30 in the morning until 10:40 at night. [4 hours not spent on Halo]
Sunday the 21st: Played from 1:40 in the morning till 10:15 at night. [after a whopping 3 hours of what I'm assuming is sleep]




Wow. You sure are social.


Best laugh I've had in a while...

Well, who knows... maybe with advancements in technology soslick could eventually integrate himself completely with his 360 and not have to live at all. At least it's given me something to talk to my 'real-life' friends about and laugh @.

  • 10.22.2007 4:51 PM PDT
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I don't know what is going on but last night i played 13 ts games and won 11 of them. I was a 24 when i started and still a 24 now. WTF

  • 10.22.2007 4:54 PM PDT

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