New Reach multiplayer info tomorrow

[nightsurge]

JaggedSac said:

nightsurge said:
Thank you Bungie! Looks like you won't be able to "level down" anymore from losing, which is good because you can't always have a team of pros and even if you are really good yourself you can lose with bad teammates. This way your individual efforts are still rewarded and you don't get setback by losses. I wonder if there will be a prestige system like CoD, or just a really high level cap with a long time to progress between levels like Gears 2.

Truskill is still being used to provide the matching of similar skilled players behind the scenes, however, the rank is not visible to the player.  In Halo 3 the Truskill rank was the numerical rank that was visible.  People, in Reach, can still quit or lose matches on purpose in order to get a lower Truskill ranking in order to play lower leveled people.  They just would not have any indication of how their quitting and losing is effecting their Truskill.

Well I don't think the Halo 3 rank was entirely TrueSkill linked.  Otherwise if I did good and my team still lost I wouldn't have been penalized as much.  I'm just saying I'm glad they have a ranking system where my "visible" level won't drop if I have bad teammates or have an off game or something.