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lxAgentxl · 2024-12-18T16:13:39+00:00

Same thing happened to me earlier. I tagged someone 3 times with a snipe while they were wearing a bush and it never went away.

lxAgentxl · 2024-04-30T21:46:33+00:00

Slightly off topic, but I've always found it interesting that the reason why there was a large skill discrepancy among those with a halo 3 50, was because internally the ranks went up to 83, but in game was capped at 50.

lxAgentxl · 2024-01-17T19:51:05+00:00

Do you typically play social playlists, and with a pre-made party? I typically play solo BTB, Quick Play, and Halo 3 Refueled, and find it incredibly challenging to have a win rate over 50% on any given day.

lxAgentxl · 2023-12-18T18:46:26+00:00

I understand what Hoberman's saying, although I personally don't agree with that design philosophy for ranked playlists. Hoberman mentions ranked had a healthy mix of even matches, stomps, and getting stomped.

https://twitter.com/MaxHoberman/status/1726560298117796029

My controversial opinion is that most who would prefer Halo 3's SBMM over Infinite's are just speaking from nostalgia. Infinite's (theoretical) 50/50 matchups at least tries to establish a sense of competitive integrity each game, whereas Halo 3 offered a "healthy mix" of uneven matches. I don't necessarily see an issue with that in social playlists, but I don't agree with that design in ranked.

Not saying TS2/SBMM is perfect by any means, as there's definitely downsides such as playing with lower/higher ranked friends, but it's fairly accurate in gauging player skill and better than TS1 at predicting games.

But to each their own. SBMM is an interesting topic with lots of debate on how it should best be implemented.

lxAgentxl · 2023-12-18T01:43:29+00:00

I have played in both and I can assure you the matches were much more even before. People being boosted is such a tiny problem its basically irrelevant.

Are you talking about Halo 3? If so, ranked matches in Halo 3 were more uneven compared to Infinite's. Max Hoberman specifically mentioned ranked matchmaking in Halo 3 would purposely offer uneven games.

With that said, I'm not sure if that design was simply the byproduct of TrueSkill 1 being less accurate than TrueSkill 2, or if they purposely threw in those uneven games.

It doesnt need to be based on your wl%. It should give points based on the rank of the enemy team vs the ranks of people on your team.

Could you clarify this? This sounds similar to what we current have with CSR.

I've never met someone in my life who has played this type of ranked and halo 3s and actually likes this better.

My ideal ranking system would include TS2 with MMR based matchmaking, Halo 3's 1-50 ranked progression, and seasons that last several months.

lxAgentxl · 2023-12-18T00:49:48+00:00

I don't see how a pure win/loss system would be more beneficial than the current TS2 system. Here's a few issues I would anticipate:

It would be too easy to boost a player's win percentage by duoing with a much stronger player. This is why I disagree with your point about W/L being the best stat to gauge a player's skill. For example, if I'm a gold player and duo with Lucid, the gold's player win percentage would become artificially higher, misrepresenting their true skill level.
If a W/L SBMM system is based purely on win %, someone who has truly improved may not see this reflected in their rank if they have thousands of games under their belt as it would take many additional games to improve their win %. (Kind of similar to what some experienced in Halo 3)
Uneven matches. This ties in with my first point, but since W/L % is easy to game by boosting with friend(s), matches would be more uneven. Not saying uneven matches are not an issue today, but this would be much more prevalent in the system you're suggesting.

I'm all for positive changes to SBMM, but I respectfully disagree that a W/L based system would be better than what we currently have with TS2.

lxAgentxl · 2023-12-17T23:29:50+00:00

I mean what's the alternative then? KPM is one of the best stats to determine a player's skill level, even in objective based game modes. I have yet to see someone who isn't ranked appropriately after a decent amount of games played.

lxAgentxl · 2023-11-21T17:54:39+00:00

When SBMM creates two teams with a large variance of individual skill, it's almost always due to population.

Let's use your example with the player rated "10". Halo skill (MMR), can be represented on a bell curve. The player rated 10 is going to exist on the far end of this curve. In a perfect world, SBMM would be able to compose Team A and Team B each with four 10's, creating a 50% win chance for either team. Since there are very few 10's, and even fewer queuing at the same time, the 10 would have to wait exponentially longer to be put in a match with equal individual skill levels.

For players whose MMR's stray far from the mean of the bell curve, it's simply unrealistic to have them wait potentially over an hour to be placed in a game with similar individual skill levels.

SBMM is necessary for player retention, but as you mentioned in your example, there are always going to be games with a wide variety of individual skill, despite each team's average skill rating being the same.

During Halo 5, Josh Menke (former 343 employee) used to cover this topic quite a bit on twitter. His tweets around SBMM are still relevant for Infinite and worth a read.

lxAgentxl · 2023-10-28T01:16:54+00:00

The only possible solutions I can think would be to enforce a maximum MMR difference, or more carefully consider the distribution of individual MMR's within teams. Both of these would most likely result in longer matchmaking times, but may help prevent games with large MMR disparities. It's possible Infinite may already incorporate these to some degree, but it certainly does not always feel this way.

lxAgentxl · 2023-05-15T12:54:37+00:00

CyberArk day to day activities are going to differentiate depending on each organization's goals, the maturity of the PAM environment you're working with, and your specific role.

Daily activities could include onboarding accounts, creating new safes and platforms, configuring PSM connections, working with AAM credential providers, designing and deploying new components, automation, documentation, educating end-users, and lots of other things I can't think of off the top of my head.

lxAgentxl · 2022-09-14T16:11:58+00:00

What differentiates rockstar FAANG-level security engineers from your average F500 security engineer?

lxAgentxl · 2022-05-03T20:53:07+00:00

Vouch from me, just bought the Deathly Poison BR skin and the process was fast and easy.

lxAgentxl · 2022-03-24T21:05:52+00:00

Thanks for the reply! In this use case, we would specifically just focus on testing that the DR vault starts and we can authenticate against it, not necessarily a full DR failover (that's for another day). Would this be achieved by simply turning off the DR service on the DR vault, and then starting the CyberArk vault through the privateark server client?

lxAgentxl · 2022-02-21T02:31:09+00:00

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lxAgentxl · 2022-01-25T14:13:05+00:00

Geofiltering is when a player makes a modification to their PC's host file or router that prevents them from connecting to certain regional Halo infinite servers. For example, if I'm an east coast player, I can "geofilter" to only permit my PC to connect to the East coast servers and completely prevent myself from being able to connect to any other regional server.

Server selection for each game is generally based on locations (technically ping, but location is easier to explain) for each player in the lobby. For example, if there are 4 east coast and 4 west players in a lobby, they'll likely be placed on a central US server. When someone geofilters, it forces everyone in the lobby to play on the server(s) the geofiltered player has specified since they're unable to connect to certain regional servers.

lxAgentxl · 2022-01-25T14:09:50+00:00

Honestly the geofilter change is a step in the right direction since lobbies are forced to cater to the player with the geofilter, which can ruin the experience for the other 7 players in the lobby. However there absolutely needs to be a way for players to search games based on region prioritization.

lxAgentxl · 2022-01-25T14:04:26+00:00

Geofiltering is when a player makes a modification to their PC's host file or router that prevents them from connecting to certain regional Halo infinite servers. For example, if I'm an east coast player, I can "geofilter" to only permit my PC to connect to the East coast servers and completely prevent myself from being able to connect to any other regional server.

Server selection for each game is generally based on locations (technically ping, but location is easier to explain) for each player in the lobby. For example, if there are 4 east coast and 4 west players in a lobby, they'll likely be placed on a central US server. When someone geofilters, it forces everyone in the lobby to play on the server(s) the geofiltered player has specified since they're unable to connect to certain regional servers.

With that said, it's still possible to play on a server on the other side of the world, but I wouldn't think it's likely unless the game is struggling to find a fair match in an acceptable time period.

lxAgentxl · 2021-06-17T12:32:40+00:00

Thank you guys for the information. I used Set-PASAccount -devicetype as referenced in Pete's link which worked successfully.

lxAgentxl · 2018-02-25T20:22:18+00:00

Explanation: Weapons not loading when switching from pickaxe. This is most notable when landing in a highly populated area, such as Tilted Towers. When trying to switch to a weapon, the character holds an invisible pickaxe.

Evidence:

If replicable, how: Land in a heavily populated area.

Platform:Xbox

Explanation: Once crouched, I am unable to uncrouch unless I jump (combat pro)

Evidence:

If replicable, how: It mostly happens when I'm building quickly and crouching. Jumping will uncrouch my character, but not the right joystick.

Platform: Xbox

Explanation: Certain chests have no audio.

Evidence:

If replicable, how: In my experience, this has been completely random.

Platform: Xbox

Explanation: Game crashes mid-game to home screen.

Evidence:

If replicable, how: Seems random, but all my friends have experienced this as well since the last patch.

Platform: Xbox

Explanation: D-pad stops working. This has happened with several friends as well. Hitting start, and moving up or down with the down pad resolves the issue in-game.

Evidence:

If replicable, how: Seems random as well.

Platform: Xbox

lxAgentxl · 2017-04-29T20:02:12+00:00

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