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”
gunnerman747 said,
Comment • April 24, 2007 @ 5:33 pm
omg its not fair…..everytime i get the most kills on my team 3 game sin a row i had most kills and my team keeps losing…dont u get any points for getting kills!!!
not a noob said,
Comment • April 30, 2007 @ 1:29 am
Well I got to my 6 in about 12 hours of play now my % goes to %70 to my 7 and thats ass high as it will go this has been going on for 2 months now you need to set up a bogas accout then keep 1 guy on that side then keep grabing the bace in blind seige some 14’s and 15’s told me thats what they were doing I got in on one of there rooms as the timer went to 1 then gAME STARTED AND we all ran to the other base when we came back to the lobby I said what are we doing in here and they said thats how they ranked up then I was kicked
wish they wound not of kicked me o well there are many ways to rank up and playing the game right is usally the slowest but maybe you will get lucky and bump in to some boosters and they will let you in on it mostly happens in 10 and over rooms seen many so far
DB said,
Comment • June 4, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
Disclaimer: These are my observations. I have no insider knowledge of how the ranking works.
These are the 3 factors that I have observed and examples that show why I think so. There could be other factors.
ONE: win or lose. You gain or lose rank progress percentage based on your whether your team wins or loses. This one seems to be the biggest factor.
TWO: rank of others in the room. When you play with a room full of equal or higher rank, wins count more and losses hurt less.
THREE: kill ratio. Kill more, advance more. Get massacred, get ready to take a hit on the rank.
Here are my observations:
–I have won games but lost percentage points when mostly lower-ranked players were in the room.
–I also gained points once when I lost but had mostly higher-ranked players in the room.
–Win or lose, it seems my progress percentage is better (or losses are less) when I have a good kill ratio.
–I lost major points in a few games when my team lost and I got hammered. On the other hand, I lost very few points when my team lost and my kill ratio was good.
As I wrote before, this has not been proved scientifically, but watching my percentage progess and these factors seem consistent over two rank advancements (from 5 to 7).
For what it’s worth……..
HMBCAT said,
Comment • June 12, 2007 @ 5:34 pm
it is seriusl taking for ever to get to lvl 2, i got to lvl 1 in a couple hours, graw makes me want to juts cry…
I heimlich I said,
Comment • June 24, 2007 @ 2:08 pm
what do they mean with “top of the leaderboard” does it mean like top 5??
xxNUTExx said,
Comment • July 6, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
I was a level 4 then I start playing 2 Players in player match I went to log off then I was a Level 1 why is that??
xWELSHx said,
Comment • July 15, 2007 @ 8:33 am
I was a lvl 7 in ranked matches then played a unranked match, went back into ranked and i was a lvl one.. But does playing with a level 7 showing a level 1 affect toher palyers rank as if they were a lvl 1?
I mean would a lvl 7 playing a level 7 (with a one from the player match) be different froma a lvl 7 playing a lvl 7?
SASASASAm said,
Comment • July 23, 2007 @ 2:41 am
I lost allot of matches and im a level 6 with 0% but even wen i win a match it doesnt go up?
Jared said,
Comment • April 14, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
How often do they reset ranks? and I have been busting my @$$ to reach the 5th rank of Sergeant, I will be pissed if they reset it. and how the hell do people have Marine Ranks, like Lance Corporal?