Skill levels and the Ranked playlist
Reading over forums, blog comments and Tweets, we wanted to talk a bit about Skill level and the Ranked playlist.
Reading over forums, blog comments and Tweets, we wanted to talk a bit about Skill level and the Ranked playlist.
Skill is only counted for games played in the specific Ranked playlist. Your performance in the other playlists has no effect whatsoever on your Skill level. Another thing to be aware of – the only thing that the Skill level takes into account is wins and losses. The number of headshots you got, or even kill to death ratio doesn’t affect the Skill level. The game tries to create balanced teams based on the Skills of the players placed in the game. The game also tries to keep parties together, so it will not split up players that are in a party together no matter what their Skill levels are.
It isn’t fun to play in games that are complete blow outs, both for the winners and the losers, thus the Skill system is designed such that it moves excellent players out of the lower Skill levels quickly in order to get them into more interesting games against players that are closer to their actual Skill.
It is important to note, Level and Skill are completely separate. While Skill is a measure of how good someone is at the game, Level is a better measure of how long they have been playing. It is entirely possible for someone with a high Level to have a relatively low Skill level. Also note that unlike your Level which never goes down – unless you start amassing quit penalties – losing in the Skilled playlist can result in your Skill level dropping. The take away from all of this is that more games played in the Ranked playlist, the better the game is at figuring out how you stack up against the other players, and it is able to create matches that are exciting to play. Also the more games you win, the faster you’ll move up in Skill!
Have fun!
Justin
Posted by: Takk_For_Maten on 11-13-2009
I kind of agree with you here. I don’t agree with you that “Everybody sucks at uncharted 2” <--- This just makes you sound like an idiot and makes you deserve the long wait.
However I do agree that as you rank up it takes longer and longer time to match up and usually you have to go 3 vs. 3 or something. I usually play in a team of 3-5 and we’re from rank 25-50. Lately, 9/10 times we only find one more if we’re 5 and then two of us get split up with the random guy. So we’ve gone back to normal ‘unranked’ play to meet 5 others.
Things were much better when I was low in level and rank, getting a 5 vs. 5 match took a couple of seconds. But all in all a sweet game, only game that cured my trophy addiction, although it only lasted for about a week 
Posted by: Takk_For_Maten on 11-13-2009
I agree with phug on this.
When I play ranked we are usually a team of 5. We are all over level 30 and we are all between 25-50 in rank. We have good teamplay and we barely loose to people of identical level/rank. It is much harder for a random team of 5 with the same level/rank. Should be a dedicated server for this. Since I have a pretty high rank now I don’t wanna play ranked without at least a couple of good teammates in fear of getting on a crappy team. If none of them are on, I’ll play unranked most of the time
Posted by: John-Paul-Jones on 11-14-2009
C’mon, don’t call Naughty Dog pathetic because there aren’t any online trophies. I think they’ve already considered it and their stance on the subject at hand. Modern Warfare 2, a game that is highly online based doesn’t even have online trophies, too. What I think we do need, though, are more maps, especially more online co-op missions. I was somewhat disappointed when there were only three co-op missions to be played. I know Naughty Dog doesn’t accept game ideas and such, but how about a co-op and multi-player Shambhala map? It could be the hardest Uncharted 2 co-op map if you add those big blue things to fight us!
Posted by: arne on 11-13-2009
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve passed it along. 
Posted by: Panayot-74 on 11-13-2009
Sorry for my poor English. I am from Russia.
I don’t know where are i may ask about coop objective mode. And i ask you here
Would you add a new level in this mode?
Thank you.
Posted by: no0Bruno on 11-14-2009
Well, they have those extras because they have the Steel Box version..
I have it too.
Posted by: demonsgalore on 11-14-2009
still ive got some problems with the grp system. i cant join my friend his grp and he cant join mine.
the multiplayer is well balanced uc2 > biger then all thx for this dmn great game.
its just a bit to casual for my taste with much massive mp potential.whats about some more features i would buy it
greetings from germany
demonsgalore
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Posted by: braindead1981 on 11-12-2009
Thanks for letting us know, I was really wondering if the kill/death ratio (which would be a good way to determine someone’s skill level) was taken into consideration or not, now I know that this is not the case… Still makes for a lot of unbalanced matches I must say…
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Takk_For_Maten on 11-13-2009
Yeah I was wondering about this as well. I knew that Win/Loss was the most important factor, but it seemed as though I didn’t drop levels when I got a really good Kill/Death ratio on the losing team and I always dropped levels if I got a negative Kill/Death ratio on the losing team. Guess it was just coincidence…
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: mad4tit on 11-14-2009
lost connection and was informed i’d been deducted 40,000 and not been able to get on since says cannot sync player data anyone else had this and know how to get back on ??????????
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: shottascoobbuz on 11-14-2009
i had a similar issue, it happen like 4 times i was sick.
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