Comments on: Confessions of a Staff Captain

By: some guy

some guy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:05:12 +0000

yeah, i am not quite a staff captain, but am getting there. it’s because i play a lot of social

i like the look of the rank, and i love to totally own people who are way higher, with a lot of tea bagging, just to show em who’s boss.

but soon i will be a 30 and then maybe a 35 but probabbly not a 40. it takes about 3 wins for me to go up, and i am currently a 28 in lone wolves and a 25 in doubles.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:24:19 +0000

I know how that feels.. I’m also a Staff Captain, and people just hate you for no reason.

By: Wolverette

Wolverette — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:38:10 +0000

I am a staff captain too. It’s pretty awful. I started off playing not so well, and cause I play with a bunch of friends who aren’t that good we usually play social. Lots of XP, which means it’s ten times more difficult to rank up. Usually I play alone on ranked which means it’s harder to win. To add to all this, factoring in the lag problem that Halo 3 has and all the rank 45′s who have created second accounts to play on, getting to level 30 on my account seems impossible.

These days I’ve gotten so good that I generally beat people who are much higher ranked than me (Brigadiers etc.).

I just take pleasure when I play and get insulted for being a staff captain, start the match and end up getting MVP.

Still.. I win game after game after game and don’t go up. Lose one and go down. It’s awful.

By: Gifa

Gifa — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:17:59 +0000

I am also stuck at Staff Captain. I don’t much care for campaign play, and thus, learned how to play in ranked team slayer. I also play split screen with my husband (who offline I like to sarcastically call Captain coordination due to his lack of coordination). In addition to that, very early on in the game we met up with a few people we love playing with. One of them is also a Staff Captain now, and the other is a Major.

So, how does Bungie matchmaking match for us? Lets see… 24 staff captain, 25 staff captain, 25 staff captain, 33 major…

Oh, lets match these guys up with a bunch of 40s. Or hey, how about a bunch of people who got up to level 50 and then started new accounts… so, their skill and rank do not reflect their skill and rank and then we get completely owned by “level 10s”.

Now factor in bad games (we’ve all had them), lag, dropped games, and lots and lots of alcohol (a.k.a. drunken Halo night with the regular crew), and you are going to be in Staff Captain purgatory forever.

But I love going into social and getting taunted in the pre-game lobby for my rank (they usually say, fucking staff captains and then laugh), only to completely own them in game, and then get back out into the post-game lobby and say “fucking staff captains” and then laugh.

One thing we did start doing though, was in response to someone taunting us for being staff captains, we’ll just submit a bad player review after the game for lacking skill or quitting early, because those piss them off more than trash talk or overly aggressive.

By: nowak

nowak — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:29:56 +0000

I can’t imagine that Bungie cares. Not this late into the lifecycle of a game. At this point, they’re more interested in keeping the “hard core” player entertained and the “tournament ready” types still playing. This is why most of the recent playlists that they’ve added emphasize so-called “tournament play” — including the Battle Rifle starts and the “Team Hardcore” and whatever.

This is, of course, to the detriment of the goofier game types that seem to only really come out on rare occasions. I *like* those game types because they’re less competitive and more, duh, fun. And when the likes of king of the hill and oddball, when they show up in the regular playlists, often get vetoed because they “lack skill.” Which is a shame cause I’d rather play those.

The “pro” tournaments, of which Halo is a big factor, really encourage this hypercompetitive asshattery. The best solution is to find some friends to play with, but this far removed from the release date it’s proving harder and harder.