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Subject: Halo 2 vs Halo 3 Rank
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I am a Halo 3 lvl 42. I just bought Halo 2, and am going to try out playing it online. What level do you guys think I will be able to get to?
Is it easy to rank up or is it impossible because everyone that still plays it is awesome?

  • 11.27.2008 9:03 PM PDT

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Highest ever, I think a 32. Averaged around 24 - 26 most of the time.

Halo 3, pretty much set at 45.

  • 11.27.2008 10:33 PM PDT

18. A 50 in halo 3 is the equivalent of a 30 in halo 2.

[Edited on 11.28.2008 8:57 AM PST]

  • 11.28.2008 8:56 AM PDT
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50 in H3 is equivalent to a level 20-25 :D

  • 11.28.2008 12:46 PM PDT

In h2 I have a legit 42, if you don't believe check but anyways my h3 is a 50, but I would say you might reach 28 , which currently if you look up my h2 games it won't show because some reason its not showing them. You will have to look up my oo sirki11a1ot name which was before I changed it

[Edited on 12.01.2008 9:24 AM PST]

  • 12.01.2008 9:19 AM PDT
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You will maybe get past 30. Halo 2 is very different, and the ranking system is harsher. A legit 40+ in Halo 2 back in the day would have easily gotten to 50 in Halo 3. The ranking system in Halo 3 is just dumb.

  • 12.01.2008 10:23 AM PDT
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i was a legit 50 in team slayer in halo 2

  • 12.03.2008 11:47 AM PDT

Posted by: bLuNT 2 mY LiPz
i was a legit 50 in team slayer in halo 2


Pics or it didn't happen.

  • 12.03.2008 11:55 AM PDT
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Posted by: bLuNT 2 mY LiPz
i was a legit 50 in team slayer in halo 2


Pics or it didn't happen.


or gamertag

and I don't believe anybody can get a legit 50 in slayer, but I know you can in snipers but if I don't know you then I won't believe you anyway

  • 12.03.2008 4:54 PM PDT

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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.

  • 12.03.2008 5:11 PM PDT

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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.

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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.

  • 12.06.2008 6:57 PM PDT
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i was a 35 in halo2 before my name change but im a 50 in halo3

  • 12.06.2008 7:04 PM PDT

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50 in Halo 3, and like mainly about a 27 in Halo 2.

  • 12.07.2008 12:38 PM PDT
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Id say around 30 , just because the lack of people playing the game , but i do remember ranking up past 35 w in TS WAS REDICULOUS back in 2005 , and before the update and rank reset the first time i couldnt even get past a 14 ! but then again halo 2 was my first FPS and online game

  • 12.07.2008 6:57 PM PDT

True enough, but the common sence still lies within the Halo 2 ranking system, you would never win a game and rank down in Halo 2, as for that happening in Halo 3, no fancy explanation or reasoning can justify that out come. Its like coming in first and getting bronze. It just doesn't work

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.

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Back when halo 2 was LEGIT, a 50 in h3 would be of equivalence to a level 40 in h2 HARDCORE. maybe 39 give or take. but now a level 50 in MLG h3 is eqv of level 28+/- in h2 hardcore. the ranking systems in halo 3 are totally diff, if you win a game of halo 2 you go up, simple. halo 3 freaking level locks you after you loose in succession, what they claim is a "sweet spot". buy another account play halo, hey jesus presto you're a 50 in 30 games.

  • 12.08.2008 10:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: BOWSERMADIUS
Back when halo 2 was LEGIT, a 50 in h3 would be of equivalence to a level 40 in h2 HARDCORE. maybe 39 give or take. but now a level 50 in MLG h3 is eqv of level 28+/- in h2 hardcore. the ranking systems in halo 3 are totally diff, if you win a game of halo 2 you go up, simple. halo 3 freaking level locks you after you loose in succession, what they claim is a "sweet spot". buy another account play halo, hey jesus presto you're a 50 in 30 games.


Winning a game in Halo 2 and you level up :D

try 4-8 wins in a row and if you lose you might have to do 1-7 games in a row

  • 12.09.2008 1:41 PM PDT

Ranks in general i find to be stupid, but if I had to choose I would say I enjoyed H2 ranking system more, just because it didn't have any of this "secondary" ranking crap.

[Edited on 12.09.2008 2:48 PM PST]

  • 12.09.2008 2:46 PM PDT

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I think Bungie should have just kept their ranking system rather than switch to the one developed by Microsoft.

  • 12.09.2008 4:42 PM PDT

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I blame stosh.


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Damn, only 14 in H2 apparently...
Highest skill in H3 is 46 though ^^

  • 12.10.2008 7:15 AM PDT
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well, im a 50 in H3 and that was rediculously easy. Look me up for H3 i got the 50 in about 23 games. And im a 39 in halo 2 legit. If your only able to get to a 43 in h3, which is pretty pathetic, not trying to be mean but i think you will only be able to get to a 15 or so on h2. Good luck tho

  • 12.12.2008 7:48 AM PDT
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mlg fear is wat we call a booster and that is the most unlegit 50 in h3

  • 12.12.2008 10:14 AM PDT

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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.

  • 12.12.2008 4:24 PM PDT
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when I played alot of Halo 2 I had a 48 slayer 43 skirmish 43 snipers 43 double team 37 rumble pit 41 hardcore and a 36 BTB and the leveling system I prefer on halo 2 but now when I play halo 2 there is mostly cheaters on the game which sucks :(

  • 12.16.2008 11:51 PM PDT

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