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Posted by: Yoozel
Because all you had to do was win so many times and you'd go up... thusly the influx of cheating and the "ease" of leveling in Halo 2. Sorry but it does not match evenly.
Posted by: snoozy9420
Probably around 20ish.
Halo 2s ranking system made it much more playable and challenging. I think you'll like it, but you probably would appreciate it more if you had Halo 2 before you got Halo 3.
Actually, although the system works completely different, it does kind of match evenly. When all you're watching if your number, you see trends that match both games.
In Halo 3 you played people of your rank, and when you win, you move up according to how well you did in that game. People who generally do pretty well move up fairly quickly. That being 2 ranks for every win. Eventually they reach a point where they sometimes lose, and the Trueskill system decides that you're reaching a point where your having trouble. Your ranking up slows down. Eventually, once you played enough games, you reached a point of locking where you can't go up. (This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of, because people do get better. There's no "sweet spot" when you're constantly practicing.)
Once you're locked, it becomes terribly difficult to reach any higher ranks because the system thinks you're still only as good as you were when it locked you. Hence the reason people use second accounts to get their 50, because their good playlist is stuck on their old selves. But you do end up with a skill that is around your level, assuming your lock was recent.
In Halo 2, you had a rank that moved up as you won. You played people that were at the same point were you, and you went up until you fought players that had a difficult time moving up because everyone was as good as them. If you were at that point too, than THAT should be your real TrueSkill rating. And since it's rare in Halo 2 to skip a rank, the player would move up slowly and need to win every time to keep moving up. Let's face it, if you're not as good as your opponents, you won't win. They'll move up and you won't.
Anyway, I kinda fell off topic.. but what I'm saying is that most Halo 3 players who have RECENTLY been rank locked would probably get a Halo 2 skill of roughly half that number. I'm a 46 in H3, and a 25 on H2. However, I think I could get higher than a 46 if I wasn't locked, because I usually beat the other players.