JSchwartz

I disagree about the DMR being too powerful, it is not. I somewhat agree that getting the first shot is a little over rewarding. I think a solution to this would be to reduce the auto aim of all weapons and/or increase the movement speed slightly so that aiming is more difficult, this would result in you having more ability to out shoot someone who gets the first shot providing you are accurate enough.

Agreed, this would be much better. The only negative to a csr is that people will attempt to cheat to increase theirs. People already cheat in order to progress through the sr's more quickly anyway and should be a motivation to 343 to develop solutions to cheating rather than give up and leave out one of the core aspects of halo. A true skill system does not work properly unless players are motivated to WIN and not LOSE every game. If there is not a visible in game csr a lot of players become apathetic or they will focus on padding their own stats whether or not their team loses. For example it is relatively easy to sit back in most games and not die often in order to maximise your k/d ratio not assisting your team mates, instead letting them die and picking off easy kills. This is not fun for your team mates and does not result in those adrenaline inducing close games where you know your rank is on the line. If players are not motivated to WIN games then their true skill for the purposes of matchmaking will not be accurately realised also negatively affecting the matchmaking experience. Obviously social playlists are fantastic too and allow for a more relaxed varied experience and perfectly balance the inclusion of ranked playlists.