why Can I Level up in halo 3?

[idontknowyou22]

ok me and my friend are playin matchin making team slayer and i am a captin with like 120xp lvl 30 and my friend is a major grd2 with like 400 somthin xp and i overlapped him and got to a 43 b4 he even got it 34 is somthin wrong he never goes negitive and we playe dlike 15 games in a row and won all of them and he didnt go up

 

[cokeoriginaltaste]

its because level is determined by kill-death ratio, while exp is determined by win or lose, meaning your friend could have won many games but that could either be because his team does most of the work or that his win to lose ratio is poor

 

[whoawhoawoowa]

The more games you lose online, the harder it is to rank up. Bungie claims that their system should accurately put you at the level of actual skill. Once you reach that level it becomes harder to rank up, unless there is a dramatic improvement of performance.

I don't find what bungie says to be true though. I can easily make it to a 50, but playing with certain people makes it really hard to level up. I have found from experience that the worse record you have, the harder it is to rank up. So if you're only a 50% winner, you will find it very difficult to rank up.