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Posted by: So Slick
Posted by: ToxicAcidsnake
Posted by: AZRAEL The Angel
"still though the fact that your highskill was 21 speaks volumes about your true skill level for H3, whereas you are the highest possible rank in halo reach, but that really says nothing about how 'Good' you are as a player."
Exacly! Thats the point! Ranks only proof the time I spend playing, not how! In Reach as in H3, with some twists...
Yah the true problem I have with time based ranks is not how it impairs my judgment on another players skill, but rather, the effect it has on the mindset of the player. As I said before, when it was 1-50, people actually tried hard to win, as a loss not only meant no experience, but your true-skill would go down meaning you would have to try even harder to get your rank up.
I miss the tension that this kind of mindset presents, how tough the matches can be, and how players reallly tried to work as a team and win.
I remember when I finalllly got my 50 in H3, it took FOREVER (I was a brig general with over 5000 xp before I got my 50) it took 13 wins in a row on my 49 to get a 50 in team slayer. The matches were tense (I was playing solo) but when I won that last match, and got my 50, that was such a good feeling, and the journey to 50 is something I never could replicate in reach, and is probably one of the reasons I've moved on to other games.
Exactly.
I just got my LW's 50 after 4 years. Every 1st placing made me so anxious to see if I would finally get that 50. When I did, like you said, that was a feeling that will never be replicated in Reach.
H3 still keeps my interest, mainly because if the ranking system.
Lone wolves I always found to be very tricky to rank up in, it felt like I would not be confident in my play style, and a lot of times would play sloppy out of fear of the other players outpacing me in terms of kills.
Still, sooooo much better then the nonsense we have in reach with rumble pit