Arena Matchmaking Problems

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Fellow Spartan here,
Wishing to voice my opinion on the current status of matchmaking. Although there is plenty of time to improve the state of Arena especially, I’d like to voice my own opinion on how it could be improved.

First off, the map rotation seems very off, especially in Team Arena playlist or the Slayer playlist. I constantly get put on The Rig, and If i might be honest, It is probably the worst map of this game. There is so many maps and I’ve only cycled through four of them mainly in the previously mentioned playlists. The implementation of a Veto System like we had in previous Halo games would help a lot with this situation. It seems like a bulk of the maps are not implemented into Team Arena/Slayer.

Secondly, there are many playlists I wish to be permanently implemented in the future, this includes: CTF, Strongholds, Multi-Team, Doubles, Team Snipers, Grifball, Oddball. I wouldn’t mind Ricochet either as I personally enjoyed it in the rather short time i played Halo 4.

Don’t get me wrong, the game is absolutely fantastic so far, and I’m sure most of what I’ve said will be implemented sooner or later.

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Well said.

  • Add Social Slayer and Infection, ontop of what was already mentioned. - Allow players to easily view Spartans and Gamertags in lobbies. - Reduce the player count to 6 in FFA. - Fix spawns, especially in FFA. - Make it so that players are paired up and facing others of roughly the same rank. - I’m not sure the algorithm behind Halo 5’s ranking system, but it doesn’t seem to be that accurate. Someone with a K/D and W/L of 1:1 (if that) shouldn’t be able to achieve Onyx <insert number here> in a certain playlist. Especially if that person has only played 15 games there. - Reduce Commander Lochagos’ point value on Stormbreak.
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> Well said.
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> - Add Social Slayer and Infection, ontop of what was already mentioned.
> - Allow players to easily view Spartans and Gamertags in lobbies.
> - Reduce the player count to 6 in FFA.
> - Fix spawns, especially in FFA.
> - Make it so that players are paired up and facing others of roughly the same rank.
> - I’m not sure the algorithm behind Halo 5’s ranking system, but it doesn’t seem to be that accurate. Someone with a K/D and W/L of 1:1 (if that) shouldn’t be able to achieve Onyx <insert number here> in a certain playlist. Especially if that person has only played 15 games there.
> - Reduce Commander Lochagos’ point value on Stormbreak.

I agree, but instead of lowering Commander Lochagos’ point value on Storm break, I feel they should make him available to kill later on in the game, like they did for Apex 7 and ARC, because killing him ASAP is what secures the win on that map basically.

Also, they need to fix some spawn points, however, not just in FFA. There’s been times where I’ve gotten killed, and I spawn right by my killer so I could finish him off easily because his shields haven’t finished recharging in Slayer, or Team Arena. I’ve also had this happen to me as well, and on many occasions, it wasn’t just a fluke once or twice.