Halo 2 matchmaking levels

So how exactly does the Halo 2 Anniversary matchmaking ranking work?

Halo 2 is a first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox console. Halo 2 is the second installment in the Halo franchise and the sequel to 's critically acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved. The game features new weapons, enemies, and vehicles, another player character, and shipped with online multiplayer via Microsoft's Xbox Live service. In Halo 2 ' s story mode, the player assumes the roles of the human Master Chief and alien Arbiter in a 26th-century conflict between the United Nations Space Command , the genocidal Covenant , and later, the parasitic Flood. After the success of Halo: Combat Evolved , a sequel was expected and highly anticipated.

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The ranking system in Halo 2 is the numeric representation of a player's multiplayer experience. Halo 2 uses a skill-based matchmaking system, informed by a numeric value of to represent a given player's skill level in any given playlist. When matching players for online games, the algorithms in question try and pair up similarly-skilled players to ensure roughly evenly-matched games. The displayed rank is an abstraction of an XP value, hidden to the player and calculated behind-the-scenes.

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Matchmaking is a multiplayer system, which allows players or teams to be matched with others for the purpose of playing an online multiplayer game via Xbox Live Gold Membership. Matchmaking is a multiplayer system that provides players the ability to enter into a game with less effort. Individuals or teams search for a game, and are matched by the system with other similar players. Once an appropriate number of players is found, the match is made and the game can begin.

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Former Bungie multiplayer lead Max Hoberman on Skill-Based Matchmaking

ARENA- The arena is for the best of the best, or at least people with the interest of playing their ass off. The whole layout is that there are seasons, which last about a month, and in each season, you get placed in a division matching your skill level. The better you are, the higher your rating. The thing is, at the end of every season, everything resets.

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