Gears of War 2's ranking system explained

so theres ranks for online multiplayer play, but it takes average 10 minutes just to get on to play. No thanks ill stick to good ol' COD ranks

Trueskill is not Elo. Elo was used in the previous ranking system used on halo 2 but was deemed not robust enough for the complexity of online gaming.

Cool. Now fix it.

About time they explained it.

Really though I don't think it really says anything about how good you are, if you're going by wins and losses all that matters is if you have teammates that actually play as a team...which most of the time is NOT the case. Very frustrating.

i'm just going crazy wondering when the hell ima move up from rank 1

Erm - has this article even been proof read? I've spotted 4 mistakes.

great. now im positive the rankings in gow2 are useless: no perks, no bonuses, no purpose at all.. im gonna go back to ignoring them..

Better if matchmaking liked to work most of the time.

I gave up after almost 15 min. just for some match game.

this is the lame ranking sys..ever in the history of gaming..i love gears but they are killing the fun by doing this..they never talked about this before the game came out,cause everyone would cry like i am..lol

Fix the damn lag. Tonight was horrible. It is so freaking stupid when one guy can run around lag free and get 25 kills lol.

Yeah people seem to forget that CoD4's ranking system is based on exp and not skill. I do prefer this system however, because you always feel like you are making progress. I will never feel like i'm making progress in Gears 2. I'm rank 3 already and can't see myself getting any higher despite the amount of wins i have.

Like a few people have said, this is actually a true ranking system based on skill. The Call of Duty World at War ranking system doesn't take skill into account at all. The only reason that skill makes a difference at all is how FAST you level up. A level 65-level 10 Prestige in COD5 could be a 8-year old with 2 left thumbs if he's played for 3 years...as well as an elite gamer who has played for 3 months...they are the same rank, totally different skill level.

At least in this system, it takes into account winning percentage (which, winning should be the most important thing, anyways) as well as your likelyhood to win the match. That just means, if you're favored to win, you get less of a bump up from winning, the bump up is still there, it's just less. And it also rewards players more heavily for overcoming the odds of being matched up against a team of superior skill players.

Why should anyone care about the ranking system anyway. The current matchmaking system sucks on GOW2.

Could careless about the Ranks....
(Not my fault the team I got put on SUCKS! There goes my rank) lol

Just FIX the Matchmaking already!!

*Really, I don't get it, This game was done months before it's release, So why Epic, Why...

I think this system is busted actually...I've been rank 2 since the first week yet im usually in first (or top 3) by the end of the match with a decent win/loss ratio
(n00bs + teammates = ; ;)
Despite all my destruction I'm still rank 2 which leads me to believe the system is based on co-operative performance (ability to win even with crap for teammates) making the win/loss factor the majority decider of your rank which is just so ridiculously iritating.

(I know this is about just the ranking system but since someone brought up the other problems in GOW2...)
GOW2 is an EPIC failure if you ask me...in comparison to GOW1. Sure they fixed all the annoyances from 1 such as *most* of the glitching, the sniper rifle, and the ability to choose hammerburst over lancer. But, they ruined just about everything else. Chainsaws were the n00b weapon in the last game and now they're over-used and can still grab u from a good distance (even farther now i think), shotguns were ruined at first (though ive kinda gotten used to them now), hammerburst is no longer hammer"burst", torque bows do too much dmg now, flamethrower needs to be adjusted (i dont understand why other people can run through mine but i cannot do the same), and the list goes on (sorry about the long response)

This Gears 2 is a good qulitiy game but the fact remains the lag and people finding the cheating way to kill people this game has way to many gliches you payed 60.00 or more for you to have a great time and all you get is wating in the match making process and people jumping out of the screen people figured out the way to cheat if you can't win without cheating you suck and the ? remains are they going to fix the problems or are they going to leave them go and have people get rid of the game they don't care cause they already made there money from this game.

the game is really laggy. it seems like people are cheating or something but it could just be a serious lag issue. ive got very fast fibre optic internet so it's got nothing to do with me. they expect people to pay 800 ms points for other maps then when the other one's dont even work properly. some people who you melee dont even flinch whether thats cheating or lag once again i dont know but the game has sooooo many bugs and gears dont wanna do anything about it. their a joke.

I had rank 2 and got back to 1 from losing ONE game... nice.

BTW

if you just start out
no rank
1 win = corp
2 win = sergant
3 win = staff sergant
4 win = master sergant

i got a guy and won 4 in a row in each

wingman
territories
and elimination

and i ranked up but if you lose its over for a while =\

1. you can only rank up from elimination and wingman
2. the matchmaking system shud put u up with only ur ranks because if u do well in 1 game u r put up against higher ranks that will easily beat u.

guy bellow me u fail COD is GAY gears FTW!!!!

the and the hole lowering your rank really sucks not even worth going for a rank cause u always fell like u not making any procress in the game so whats the point of even trying it if the game it self makes u a bad player from teh start need to chance the hole rank thing make it like halo our cod much better and not lower your rank really.