Halo 3 Forum
This topic has moved here: Poll [32 votes]: Do you want ranks to come back in Halo 3's Xbox Live multiplayer?
  • Poll [32 votes]: Do you want ranks to come back in Halo 3's Xbox Live multiplayer?
Subject: Do you want ranks to come back in Halo 3's Xbox Live multiplayer?

Come check out the The Christian Halo Union. Whether you’re looking for fellowship, intelligent discussion, positive gamers, or maybe you just want to have fun, you'll find it with us. With over 650 members and counting, we're the most active Christian group on Bungie.net.

Poll: Do you want ranks to come back in Halo 3's Xbox Live multiplayer?  [closed]
Yes, deffinately!:  72%
(23 Votes)
No.:  6%
(2 Votes)
Yes, but they should be hidden.:  22%
(7 Votes)
Total Votes: 32

Do you want ranks to come back in Halo 3's Xbox Live multiplayer?

I certainly do.

Because withought ranks, the online experience just wouldn't be as competitive as Halo 2's. My rank in Halo 2 is what keeps me playing! If it weren't for ranks... It would just seem boring to me.

I don't know, what do you think?

  • 07.20.2006 3:59 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Why wouldnt they?? if you had nothing to work for or nothing to "prove" your skill.. halo 3 would not last as long as halo 2 did. THe ranks help people push and try to better themselves. And besinds most people would just screw around because it wasnt ranked

  • 07.20.2006 4:01 PM PDT

Send me a group invite, and I shall return a harsh reply. Do not invite me to groups. I do not accept. Don't believe me? Look at the list of groups I'm in right now. Consider this your warning.

Definately. Cheating isn't that bad, and if they do Halo 3 on dedicated servers, then cheating will be all but gone. So I say keep ranks, have some playlists hidden, some not.
-GR01

  • 07.20.2006 4:02 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

I want them to change to ranking system to be a composite of all the ranked playlists. An Average if you will.

  • 07.20.2006 4:04 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

I want the ranks not to be by kills but by a score, if you kill some one with a shot gun versus a smg you get less skill points. This will not affecet the score just your rank

  • 07.20.2006 4:06 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Well, sure, why not. It's a good enough way to tell who's hot or who's not.

  • 07.20.2006 4:06 PM PDT

Come check out the The Christian Halo Union. Whether you’re looking for fellowship, intelligent discussion, positive gamers, or maybe you just want to have fun, you'll find it with us. With over 650 members and counting, we're the most active Christian group on Bungie.net.

I hope they keep the rankings exactly the same too, 1 through 50. Unless they wanted to do ranks that never ended. Like once you hit 50, you can just keep going up from there. (51, 52, 53, etc...)

  • 07.20.2006 4:19 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Violet Leopard
Well, sure, why not. It's a good enough way to tell who's hot or who's not.



Owned.

  • 07.20.2006 4:19 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

No...definately not....this was supposed to give healthy competition between halo gamers. Unfortunately it brought a rain of terror from modders and such. I dont even play ranked anymore, i know tons upon tons of people that either A) Quit halo 2 because of modders, cheaters, the feedback system not doing diddly-squat, etc. B) Dont play ranked because its cheaters territory now. My friend used to be a legit 40, and cheaters brought him down to a 34. No joke they did, say all u want to he was totally legit.

Back on topic....Halo 3 should not include any ranking system what so ever! Cheaters on the xbox 360 are upon us whether we like it or not. It has recently been modded for those of you that dont know, through a hole in the backwards compatibility emulator. There will be cheaters for halo 3. I can say right now as big of a fan of Halo that i am, if there are cheaters in halo 3 and bungie/microsoft dont do anything to help us like they did with halo 2, im selling all my xbox/halo stuff and going ps3/and wii. Im already going nintendo wii:)

So please bungie dont screw it up this time and incorporate a ranking system. Plz dont!

Im also probably one of the few people who dont care if your better than me at halo or not. You can say you are and i will probably believe you :) But that can be solved by a simple one on one game. The ranking system in halo 2 has also failed because of those damned two month free xbox live accounts. So you could have a legit 38 start fresh and own everyone in their path...

[Edited on 7/20/2006]

  • 07.20.2006 4:26 PM PDT

Come check out the The Christian Halo Union. Whether you’re looking for fellowship, intelligent discussion, positive gamers, or maybe you just want to have fun, you'll find it with us. With over 650 members and counting, we're the most active Christian group on Bungie.net.

I don't like cheaters either, but I still wouldn't want Bungie to take away ranks. Why should they take away ranks? That's like letting the cheaters win!

  • 07.20.2006 4:42 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Noble Heroic Member

if they were hidden no one would really want to play ranked

  • 07.20.2006 4:43 PM PDT

Come check out the The Christian Halo Union. Whether you’re looking for fellowship, intelligent discussion, positive gamers, or maybe you just want to have fun, you'll find it with us. With over 650 members and counting, we're the most active Christian group on Bungie.net.

Posted by: yup277
if they were hidden no one would really want to play ranked


That's what I've always though. What is the point in having a rank if you can't see it? The only reason I added it to the list was so that people wouldn't complain that it wasn't on there.

  • 07.20.2006 4:48 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

No they wouldn't be winning because there wouldnt be a point to mod or cheat in halo 3...you'd be starving them of their food in a sense.

  • 07.20.2006 4:48 PM PDT

Come check out the The Christian Halo Union. Whether you’re looking for fellowship, intelligent discussion, positive gamers, or maybe you just want to have fun, you'll find it with us. With over 650 members and counting, we're the most active Christian group on Bungie.net.

Posted by: halochimp1990
No they wouldn't be winning because there wouldnt be a point to mod or cheat in halo 3...you'd be starving them of their food in a sense.


True.

But why should we let modders ruin matchmaking? Bungie needs to come up with some sort of anti-cheating technology.

I've heard that if they would just get their own servers, that modding wouldn't be a problem. (Although I don't know why that is...)

[Edited on 7/20/2006]

  • 07.20.2006 4:52 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Keep the rank system cause without it barely any1 would be playing anymore on live.But your rank shouldnt go up on how well your team does but how well you do and if ur team does happen to win then it should help out ur rank a little more but if ur team loses it shouldnt be affected.

  • 07.20.2006 4:54 PM PDT

Sandswept Studios Design Director

Visit us and check out our games at Sandswept.net!

~~Pardon Our Dust.~~

As Crow said, an average of all your ranks should be displayed, and all of the individual ranks for each playlist should be hidden.. This would also encourage players to show their true skill in the overall game, not just one particular playlist. (Since that's really what ranks are for, correct?) As for the TrueSkill system, imho, I think it's a load of crap.

  • 07.20.2006 4:55 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

If bungie had their own servers they would be host of the game...rendering getting host boxes and such non-existant. And since you need host to mod...cheaters would be able to mod. You also need host to bridge, standby, mod, etc. All forms of cheating in halo 2 need host basically.

Secondly, Bungie could make it without ranked games and people would still play the hell out of it...its halo 3 baby! They could make a weapon that shoots out urine and people would still play it cuz its halo 3.

[Edited on 7/20/2006]

  • 07.20.2006 4:57 PM PDT

Come check out the The Christian Halo Union. Whether you’re looking for fellowship, intelligent discussion, positive gamers, or maybe you just want to have fun, you'll find it with us. With over 650 members and counting, we're the most active Christian group on Bungie.net.

Bungie should get their own servers then.

Then I could have my ranks, and everybody wouldbe happy!

  • 07.20.2006 5:07 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Regarding the 'cheaters'....

They would continue to cheat if ranks were taken away.

  • 07.20.2006 5:16 PM PDT