Tallgeese Posted November 2, 2012 Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 (edited) So accrding to BS Angel, the competitive skill system will be visible to you on Halo Waypoint. Read below for more details Source: Halo Waypoint We are pleased to announce, just days away from the worldwide Halo 4 launch and the first MLG Halo 4 tournament in Dallas, the Competitive Skill Rank system in Halo 4. The CSR will appear post-launch in an update to Halo Waypoint and associated Smartglass applications. When will it launch? The short version is CSR will launch early next year when it’s ready. We have an extensive post-launch plan for Halo 4, including DLC, playlist updates, and title updates. As soon as we have a confirmed launch date for the Waypoint update that includes CSR, we’ll make an announcement. Set your expectations for release timing appropriately since this will require delicate tuning, testing and implementation for Waypoint Web, Waypoint Console and Smartglass integration and is a feature designed specifically for the competitive community. What is it? At Halo 4’s launch, the competitive skill system will measure your performance against other players in Halo 4 War Games and use this information to match you up against opponents of comparable skill ranks. When the CSR system is fully implemented post-launch, Waypoint will assign each player a visible and detailed Skill Rank, viewable in the player profile section of Halo Waypoint. How will it rank me? All players will be ranked on a per-hopper basis, so, for example, you will have a unique CSR for your Slayer Pro games vs. your CTF games. CSR is currently planned to use a familiar and easy to understand 1-50 scale (subject to change or alteration). Your CSR will go up and down based on match outcomes. Which playlists will support CSR? All competitive playlists will support and track CSR. As the playlists will continuously change post-launch, the exact list of playlists that will support CSR will be determined when the system is ready to drop. Will a CSR be ‘assigned to me’ once the system launches? Or do I need to start fresh? Matchmaking and hoppers will be tracking and analyzing data from Day 1, and when the final settings for CSR are in place, we’ll make the call on whether to use existing data as a baseline for your CSR, or to start everyone fresh in new playlists. Why the delay? We know how important skill rank is, and we take skill integrity very seriously – we want to make sure we’ve taken the time to test, tune, and balance the CSR system in a live environment, and identify problems and potential exploits before launching the system publically. Taking the time to test and tune the system ensures we can deliver a very accurate and meaningful skill rank, and gives our competitive playlists time to mature to for optimize a wide range of playlist and game settings. Enjoy the launch! We’re incredibly excited for Halo 4 to launch, and to see you at one of our worldwide events, or online November 6th. We see this announcement as just one of many new experiences and features coming post-launch to Halo 4 and are excited to share more with you in the future. This post has been promoted to an article Edited November 2, 2012 by Archangel Tyrael Added a teaser image, made it look better and organized. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ventus Posted November 2, 2012 Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 I guess this is what we've all been waiting for. Now there's no reason to complain anymore guys! (Some of you always find something to complain about though...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallgeese Posted November 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 I guess this is what we've all been waiting for. Now there's no reason to complain anymore guys! (Some of you always find something to complain about though...) Yeah I suppose this will appease those looking for a "visible" ranking system...though not visible in Halo 4. lol sly 343i sly lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ventus Posted November 2, 2012 Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 Yeah I suppose this will appease those looking for a "visible" ranking system...though not visible in Halo 4. lol sly 343i sly lol As The Rolling Stones once said: "You can't always get what you want!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hᴜᴍᴘsᴛʏʟᴇs Posted November 2, 2012 Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 Okay. Wow. I just have to say that I really haven't been concerned about the ranking system as compared to the progression system. All I've wanted this ENTIRE time was for 343i to address the situation or at least shed a little bit of light on the shroud of darkness that is the ranking system. Thank you bs angel, and yes, you can have my babies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallgeese Posted November 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 Okay. Wow. I just have to say that I really haven't been concerned about the ranking system as compared to the progression system. All I've wanted this ENTIRE time was for 343i to address the situation or at least shed a little bit of light on the shroud of darkness that is the ranking system. Thank you bs angel, and yes, you can have my babies. Haha gotta get in line man, she is having my babies first lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Magnus Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 I knew they would end up doing something about this. Finally the madness can end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sova Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 I'm good with this, it stays true to the Halo competitiveness. It is bringing it back from Halo 2 and 3 and scrubbin Reach of that Arena crap we were fed. The only difference is it is now on Waypoint as opposed to the game UI itself. This is fine with me. It's just like Halocharts (if any of you are aware). Which to me isn't a big deal to log on to my computer to see. I did that with Halo 2 and I can do it again with Halo 4. Thank you 343i. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatWood™ Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 Just hope it works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stompdown Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 Finally a sigh of relief! I'll definitely take this over nothing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfspector Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 Awesome! Now no one can complain about any features in this game.. Who am I kidding? They'll find a way. But seriously, this is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upton889 Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 For me, this is the greatest news 343 has released thus far. If you're a casual player you're not forced to view your rank and if you enjoy the ranks you can just log on to Halo Waypoint. This was one of the main factors Halo has been missing in recent years and now that it's coming back, it feels like a weight has been lifted. It's great that 343 has responded to the community and satisfied both parties of players. My wish list is now complete for Halo 4 and I am extremely pleased. Shouts out to Tallgeese for delivering this! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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