Well, I'm pretty confused, but I haven't read up on Arena as much as you have obviously. Are they still using the truskill ranking per playlist, but hiding the ranking? Is that what you're saying? Or are you saying that they're still using it in the arena playlists? I don't like the idea (if this is the case, again, I'm getting confused!) that ranks are being reset every season. That means that the playing field will be pretty uneven at the beginning of every month, doesn't it? I don't know. The whole thing sounds a lot more convoluted than what we already have in Halo 3, and I think the Halo 3 system works. Who cares if people want to go up in rank? It encourages you to play better! That's just motivation.

Right now, arena sounds like World of Warcraft to me, and that's sorta scary. Everyone, lets go get some honor!

I really don't get the point of the cR scoring either, or the commendations. The latter just appears to be extended rewards/medals, which is cool, but not really necessary. And cR? I really don't care how much I earn per game! Maybe there will be more motivation in the form of better things to spend you bungie bucks on in the retail game, but that stuff has never really motivated me in an FPS anyway. It's all about the actual gameplay. It's a good thing that's awesome.

Chillin'

Me, knifing you IN THE BACK!

I dunno if someone mentioned this allready;

I saw someone using the armor lock-ability just a bit in front of me, so I run up behind him and wait untill his armor lock drains.
Then I usually just melee him in the back. But this time the guy runs out of armor lock and when he gets up he is turned around facing me and melee's me in the face killing me instantly (I had full shields/health).......
Is this some bug related to the armor lock ability, because it happened a couple of times today?

My skills with the DMR are improving a bit since having played a couple of SWAT and Slayer pro rounds. But I've got a small problem with the pistol and DMR; I can get the shields down really easily, but if the crosshair is just a bit bigger (accuracy) I really have a problem getting the final headshot in...

And then there's the Covy weapons; I've got a big difficulty getting kills with most of them, the needler rifle is just a crap version of the DMR if you ask me...

That would explain it But the only thing is, how the hell can they turn around faster than me hitting the melee button :S

Yep, and whatever you do, don't shoot a rocket at them or it could fly back and kill you and your team.

How about SWAT last man standing and Team SWAT last man standing. That would be awesome..
People would play a bit more defensive.