This week(end)’s Bungie Weekly update brings details of some of the changes that will be made when Auto Update 2 lands for Halo 3 at some point in the future….
As you can see in the picture over there —–>
auto update 2 will make it so that you will have a rank for each playlist and it will introduce the bar of progress that others, and I have missed from Halo 2’s matchmaking system.
The bar shows how close you are to ranking up in that particular playlist. It is not currently clear as to whether the bar will show how close you are to ranking up (Recruit, General….) or how close you are to the next skill level (28,29,30…..).
Principally, it seems as though they are just showing how much EXP you have in each playlist (earned by winning, or tying a game).
Quite why this is being introduced, I don’t know. But, they’ve always said that they can’t make UI (User Interface) changes to the game — perhaps this will be a change that will only appear on Bungie.net? That would be very silly in my opinion. But if it does show up in the game, Bungie should be prepared for a fresh influx of people wanting changes to the interface of the game (like pressing X just after a game finishes to save that film – a la H3 Beta(woo!)).
Also detailed in this weeks Bungie Update is the changes to matchmaking that will occur in August (they may already be live – I don’t know!). It’s a fairly boring list for this month (but includes some changes to Team Doubles that I don’t like — the inclusion of Oddball, for instance).
But the last paragraph in the update suggests that there will be some bigger changes to matchmaking in Septembre!
“You may be thinking to yourself “Hey, that’s a pretty short change list.” While a lot of the changes done this month were backend things that players will never notice, you would be right to think that August’s changes feel very minimal. The reason for this is that we’ve been focused on preparing a larger series of changes to Matchmaking for September. Much larger.
Much, much larger.
No, really. It’s huge. You should see how giddy Luke gets when I talk about the tentative plan.”
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actaully the ”You may be thinking to yourself “Hey, that’s a pretty short change list.” While a lot of the changes done this month were backend things that players will never notice, you would be right to think that August’s changes feel very minimal. The reason for this is that we’ve been focused on preparing a larger series of changes to Matchmaking for September. Much larger.” part is referring to the monthly changes to the playlists. This being the adding of new maps and variants to each playlist and the tweaking of others. The list of these changes is also included in that update.
balls sorry i was liek going all mental angry mode at you for getting it wrong but you were talking about the right thing (Y) my bad 😀
eh, don’t worry about it lol.
when is this update starting?
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“when is this update starting?”
The playlist changes are [probably] already live; as for the auto update that will introduce the rank’s for each playlist: Bungie haven’t said when that will go out…. so, we don’t know yet!
And, there’s no clan support to answer the guy who posted on the forum in the above comment.
i love animal crackers
OK That’s…….. nice
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^Actually they stated you dont have to get a 50 to get a general in anything anymore. It depends on how many games you win within a playlist.
Yeah, as far as I understand it, to be a General in a certain playlist, you will have to have earnt a certain amount of EXP by winning or tying games (in that playlist).
To be a General overall though, I think the criteria is still the same as it is now.
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