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Subject: What if Commendations/ToD Determined Truskill?

If so, a casual like me would never be ranked up against people with Gold/Onyx One Shot/Crack Shots. I never played online until Reach came out, and I had to claw to get to my measly 1.23 K/D. A few months ago I got my DMR K/D positive, and I'm trying to get my Pistol positive, too. Its just frustrating that just because I'm a Nova with Firefight commendations that I get paired up with people who's commendations are the ones listed above. :-/

  • 02.27.2012 9:13 PM PDT


Posted by: Kensei Mizuchi
If so, a casual like me would never be ranked up against people with Gold/Onyx One Shot/Crack Shots. I never played online until Reach came out, and I had to claw to get to my measly 1.23 K/D. A few months ago I got my DMR K/D positive, and I'm trying to get my Pistol positive, too. Its just frustrating that just because I'm a Nova with Firefight commendations that I get paired up with people who's commendations are the ones listed above. :-/
if you are trying to get the pistol positive to, then just do anniversary classic

  • 02.27.2012 9:15 PM PDT
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I play games for gameplay, not silly gimmicks

H3 MM warrior

Reach S7, 8 and 9 arena warrior.

H4 MM legend

commendations have nothing to do with skill.........

  • 02.27.2012 9:16 PM PDT


Posted by: meagsIZbeast
commendations have nothing to do with skill.........

So if I went up against a group who's ToD was primarily the Sniper Rifle and ended up on Hemmorhage...I wouldn't be -blam!-? Makes sense to me.

And yes, I know commendations can be boosted and all that, but whenever I look at the winning team is filled with Generals on down and their highest commendations are Onyxed One Shot and they have ZERO campaign commendations, I tend to think they do nothing but do matchmaking.

I don't. I play campaign and firefight combined 60% of my gameplay. Those people just do matchmaking. Probably means they're better at it than I am.

  • 02.27.2012 9:33 PM PDT
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I play games for gameplay, not silly gimmicks

H3 MM warrior

Reach S7, 8 and 9 arena warrior.

H4 MM legend

people get those commendations through playing a lot. If you simply played more MM then you would see how easy it is.

You cant be upset that you dont play much MM and end up losing to people that do. Remember all of reach is social outside arena.

If there were actually ranked playlists (besides arena) in reach then you would be able to match people your own skill all the time.

  • 02.27.2012 9:37 PM PDT

What if TrueSkill was actually implemented properly in playlists outside of Arena?

Commendations have nothing to do with skill. They're only indicative of how much someone plays the game. Someone who has played 50,000 games and maxed out all of their commendations can still be terrible at the game.

[Edited on 02.27.2012 9:58 PM PST]

  • 02.27.2012 9:46 PM PDT
  • gamertag: Meagss
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I play games for gameplay, not silly gimmicks

H3 MM warrior

Reach S7, 8 and 9 arena warrior.

H4 MM legend

The idea of making everything social in reach was to lower elitism... I assume.

It didnt work. Now you just have all the good kids running train on the majority of retards that will always inhabit the social playlsits. And lets face it, having a team of 4-8 highly organized players matched against 4 totally random players looking to have a little fun, really isnt fun for anyone.

That is why there should always be at least a few ranked playlists.

  • 02.27.2012 9:53 PM PDT

Welcome to the internet. Joy dies here.

*envisions a BTB match where both teams spawn and immediately proceed to betray amongst themselves over their respective sniper rifles for 12 minutes*

  • 02.27.2012 9:57 PM PDT
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commendation progress is just another pretty number. the more mm you play the more you have to gold or onyx. i played against players w/ high commendations in the 90% aisle and they were terrible players who played to much FF

  • 02.27.2012 10:06 PM PDT


Posted by: meagsIZbeast
commendations have nothing to do with skill.........

they actually do in some cases.

If you meet a forerunner or above who has one shot in gold, but has mobile asset maxed you can tell what they're good at.

Also if you meet a hero or legend with crackshot onyx or maxed then you know they're going to be good.

  • 02.27.2012 10:40 PM PDT

Why even bother, really?
I rage.

There have been countless times that I've been the only person with a positive kd (and probably W/L > 50%) on my team while the entire opposing team was made up of decent people.
To win as a random in reach sometimes require you to pull out the biggest bagpack you have and carry everyone on your team.
After a while it gets really annoying to have a sergent on your team who's been unable to get a kill in MM and goes neg 20.

/rant

  • 02.27.2012 10:52 PM PDT