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December 19 ,2007

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hey,

I was wondering if there is any way to play MLG pros on halo 3 because I'm pretty good right now, but I want to get better. my level in lone wolves is 45, and I feel as if I'm stuck. I'm going to try some of the things presented on your website. I was wondering if you had any kind of exercises that wouldn't require me to play online, but could improve my accuracy and tactics. Thanks!

Jon

Truthfully... it is not easy to just play with pros... i have only played with about 4 big name pros and they are Walshy, igoturpistola, karma, and lunchbox.... to play with them you have to start from the bottom... start playing MLG with the guys in your friends list...whenever you play with someone better than you send them i friend request...eventually your friends list will be full of good players...play MLG with them and whenever someone rapes send them a friend request...eventually you will be playing with players at the semi pro lvl (if your good enough) and get the occasional pro in your party.

--Seth

(December 19, 2007)

Hello,

I was hoping that someone who receives this e-mail would be able to answer me the following questions I have about the ranking system for Halo III. I read an article today on haloforever talking about the ranking system and how it is a tool, not an achievement. If that is the case, then why is that someone can be a 45 in lone wolves, yet be a 1 in team slayer? One thing I don't understand is why, for instance, if your playing team slayer does your skill not go up if you play well, but do not win the game? I have had several games where I am the MVP but lost the game and didn't rank up. I can see this happening after one game, but what about several in a row? I guess the main issue I have here is that a player on the winning team with 1 kill gets experience and may go up in skill, while a player on the losing team who is the MVP doesn't get experience and may go down a skill. How does the ranking system account for that? I really like team slayer, but it since "Trueskill" takes into account all of your games and averages your playing ability, its almost not worth it to play any team games. Is this something that
may be changed in the future? Or should I just start playing lone wolves?

Thanks,
-jsp1ns

Well jsp1ns, it's not whether you win or lose. That determines the expirience level. What matters is if your a lower level skill and kill a higher level skill, your going to rank a lot faster. Say if you were a 1 going in a game with all 30's and you kill them 19 times and they kill you 8 times. That's like triple the rank you get if you were to do that in a regular game with all 1's. Now if you get killed by a 30 and your a 1, than you lose less rank than you would if you were to get killed by a 1. Basicly you want to face better compotition if you want to rank faster. It has nothing to do with mvp or who wins. It just matters what your kill to death ratio and who you kill and who you get killed by.

Thanks for the question and keep visiting our site,

--Aaron

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