- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Jay120171
Posted by: II Epyc II
Yeah. Trueskill really really sucks. There should definitely be a ranking system geared more towards individuals, rather than team oriented. If I have 25 kills on Team Slayer, and the rest of my team has 6,4 and 2, and we lose, I should not rank down. I should rank up. I did good, my team did bad.
Plus, Lone Wolves completely sucks. 7 first places in a row to go up one rank. Yeah, that definitely is my true skill...
I don't see why there has to be some mathematical equation to figure out my rank. COD4's ranking system makes so much more sense.
Well, team games are about the team, not your individual performance. I guess it is a matter of opinion on whether you should go up for losing a team game but I think you should not. I mean, do we really want people gaining skill for losing games?!?! That would make the skill levels even more meaningless and harm match quality a ton. The way TrueSkill works for H3 is the best possible solution for matching people based on skill that is available right now. Is it perfect, no but it is fairly good at setting up even matches IMO.
COD gives you credit for playing. You can lose, win, go negative, go positive and even be AFK for the whole game and gain "levels". That is not better than H3 MM. The only thing you can tell by your COD skill level is how many games someone has played. It gives you very little indication of how good someone is and COD matches and normally very unbalanced.
It shouldn't matter whether my team loses or not. It should matter what I individually do. If I do really good and the rest of my team does really bad, I should not be penalized because my teammates performed poorly. I should be rewarded for playing a good game.
And COD does give you an indication of how good someone is. Infinity Ward made the smart decision to have in-game Leaderboards. That way you can see how long someone has played and how high their score, kills, wins, and accuracy is.
Now, If there was a game in the future that focused on individual performance as well as making it a challenge to rank up, then that would get rid of many of the flaws in either of these systems.