How to Rank Up in GRAW
While playing Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, I hear a lot of questions about rank. My bud Jimmy888 suggested I make a post about it, and I also got a question in email over the weekend, so here goes.
To rank up in GRAW, win. That’s it.
Most of us play team games in GRAW, so that’s what my focus is.
When playing a team game, it’s all about the win. It doesn’t matter if you got 47 kills and 2 deaths, 44,700 points for seige or domination, or if you won by 1 point. A win is a win is a win.
The win and who is on each team are the only factors in rank scoring for team games.
Here it is straight from the horse’s mouth:
“Q: Does the TrueSkill ranking system reward individual players in a team game?
A: The only information the TrueSkill ranking system will process is
1. Which team won.
2. Who were the members of the participating teams.
The TrueSkill ranking system takes neither the underlying exact scores (flag captures, kills, time etc.) for each team into account nor which particular team member performed how well. As a consequence, the only way players can influence their skill updates is by promoting the probability that their team wins. Hence, “ball &*%@#”, “hill &*%^”, “flag fruits”, “territory twits”, and “bomb &^$$#@” will hurt their individual TrueSkill ranks unless what they are doing helps their team. Obviously, it is difficult to update individual players’ skills from team results only. To understand the difficulty and the solution consider the following analogy: Suppose you have four objects (players), each having an unknown weight (skill). Suppose further that you have a balance scale (game) to measure weight (skill) but are always only allowed to put two objects on each side of the balance. If you always combine the same pair of objects, the only information you can get is which pair of objects is heavier. But if you recombine the players into different pairs you can find out about their individual skills. As a consequence, the TrueSkill ranking system will be able to find out about individual players’ skills from team outcomes given that players not only play in one and the same team all the time but in varying team combinations.”
Microsoft TrueSkill Ranking FAQ
So, in a team game, does it matter if you’re a 3 and you kill a 12? Nope, unless you win. And then it doesn’t matter who you killed or who killed you, it just matters who won. However, a team full of low ranks beating a team full of high ranks will gain much more rank than vice versa.
55 Responses to “How to Rank Up in GRAW”
Dinglis101 said,
Comment • September 26, 2006 @ 4:43 pm
what gets on my ticket is the fuds who spawn kill should be some kind of programming in the game that you dont get a upgrade in true rank if you make a certian amount of kills in a certian distance of players spawn areas
Wheazy said,
Comment • November 20, 2006 @ 12:51 pm
I just wanted to let people know that it does matter who you kill. I have heard many things and decided to find out, so, one day my friend, who was a level 1, killed me in about 10 matches (I was level 4) and he got to rank 3 by the end of it, didnt take long at all and was just the 2 of us.
The reason that people dont like the lower ranks in high ranked matches (I know I dont) is due to the scoring system. Lets say a rank 1 and a rank 10 go into battle, the rank 10 will score 1pt for every kill and the rank 1 will score 10pts for every kill. so for the rank 10 to rank up or even move in the table it would take 10 more games than the rank 1. If 2 rank 10’s go up against each other they go pt for pt. Im talking theoretically because i dont know the exact numbers but I do know that kills do matter and yeah winning games is really the best thing you can do, think about the army - the general must see that his troops win, but we need the general to survive because he commands the troops, and isnt that what we are all trying to achieve? rank 25 the general?
Spawn killing is a touchy subject, just like camping. I guess really its a matter of opinion but what you need to do is learn to play the game so that neither occurs, and yeah sometimes its unavoidable. Believe me, Ive had my share of spawn rapings and i’ve been the one to spawn kill. Now, in ranked games, I try to get my team to win with me having the least number of deaths possible. I found that I got to level 7 by doing this.
Oh no! My secret is out…
McDoogers said,
Comment • December 9, 2006 @ 2:28 pm
Im a level 2 lance corporal and im ranked 1088 for some reason on the universal l’boards when the other day i was around 150,000th. Can any1 explain? Ive never leveled higher than a 2 or lance corporal. :S
naka said,
Comment • January 9, 2007 @ 7:06 pm
Hey I’m a level 2 but im still only a private. i was just wondering how i get higher ranks? like ive seen ’specialists’ and ‘pfc’s’ but i cant seem to rank up at all. Can you tell me why?
JRSampson said,
Comment • January 26, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
I wouldnt mind knowing how to check my rank? Where exactly do I go? Where do I find the “Leaderboards”???
murray816 said,
Comment • February 18, 2007 @ 12:58 am
i was a level 5 but all the sudden after one match i was a level 1. . WTF! so how can i go back to my level 5?
ian123 said,
Comment • February 25, 2007 @ 5:43 pm
They reset the ranks. You have to win games to get your rank back.
DaveLCD said,
Comment • September 19, 2006 @ 2:04 am
I’m new to GRAW and have only been playing for a week. I haven’t played a single ranked match and don’t intend to. I downloaded the new content today and noticed the players I’m up against now are often level 10+.
Even as a novice I can spot the players that are a “true” rank 10 and the ones that cheated their way there. It doesn’t bother me that these people have used cheap tactics to get their ranks, at the end of the day, if I keep playing I’ll get better and better and my rank will still be 1, then they’ll look like idiots when Private Noob is standing over their motionless rank 10 corpses!