It’s completely stupid. I just joined a game on Adrift, where their team had 4 and we had 1. I held off the flag carrier and his buddy, but my two teammates just sat in camo and let the carrier walk by.
THIS CAN’T BE DIFFICULT! Just get one of your freakin’ programmers to go in to the “rules” or whatever you’ve got, and change a few figures so that people can’t join if their team’s gonna be winning, or losing by more than 2 caps. I don’t know how you’d do other game types, but I’ll let other complain about that. I like CTF, and would actually like to get a 50 in it, but I can’t do that due to this botched system.
JIP simply makes no sense in any ranked playlist and is not fair. This all goes back to the design of H4 matchmaking. It was not designed to be competitive at all, more of a social, have fun and don’t care what happens game type. Weapons are random, jumping into matches half over is random, armor abilities are random, ordnance is random, results are random. Basically H4 matchmaking was designed to be totally random and they succeeded.
The community hated it so much they have spent the year trying to fix it and have done a fair job given time/resource constraints. I’m sure 343 would rather just work on H5 than fix H4. All we can do now is hope that they have listened and will give us a truly competitive non random matchmaking in H5. H4 is as good as it’s going to get.