- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I think the Halo 3 system is the better of the three. I have played Call of Duty, Halo 2, and Halo 3 alot.
I find, contrary to most people's ideas of Halo 3 being easiest to rank up in, that Call of Duty is the one that is most (too) easy becasue it doesnt take much skill to rank up. You dont have to win so many games in a row; all you HAVE to do is run around and shoot and rank up, regardless if your team wins or loses, or how well you did.
Halo 2 wasn't hard to rank up, but it confuses me. I bought Halo 2 after i had played Halo 3 for a while, just to try out the old SWAT playlist. I got dragged into alot of Team Slayer games and we won most of them. Im not sure how many games I have won, or how many games I lost, but I made it to a skill level of 29. I know it was from the wins/losses, but Im not sure how weighted the wins or losses are.
Halo 3 is my favorite because it is simple. Not all the calculations and statistics that go into when you rank up and how weighted so and so ranks and wins are, but I enjoy the fact that it tells you when you are going to rank up, and if your skill level is above that of your experience, you will rank straight to the next level instead of getting to grade 3.
I play Team SWAT to rank up in Halo 3, and i made it to 45 on my first account. Though i started off in SWAT without much skill, I easily managed 10 skill in 7 games. I got better and better until i got to a skill of 22, and i hadnt lost any matches so far. I won 23 games in a row being MVP in each, and stayed a 22. The next game we lost by one point, but I was still MVP. I went all the way down to an 18, and no matter how many games i would win, i would hit 22 and stop. This acount had roughly 700-800 exp before i started playing SWAT.
I created a new account and started playing SWAT first, and made it to skill 30 in 27 games. After 30, I only ranked up once every two or three games, though I had still won every single match on that account. I got to 45 and won another game and went to a 47. It happened again to give me a 49. I then went on to win 10 or so more games and couldnt get my 50, but lost one game and went back to a 45. I won a total of 97 SWAT games with 1 loss, and I couldnt get my 50.
That is my best example of personal experience, to all those who say they get skill blocked that they DEFINITELY arent alone.
So I say Halo 3 system would be best, but please work on whatever in the system blocks you from going up. It is the only real flaw I see in this ranking system.
Thanks for taking the time to read all this, guys. Have a good day!