343 fix your completely terrible servers. Not only can I not play slayer ranked with friends but my friend and myself found 1 playlist that we could actually play and during a “balanced” and then “focused” set of games we played countless onyx rank players or higher. Mind you our online rank was only a silver. This did not happen once. It happened every match of our night which was somewheres around 12 or more games. You guys not only ruined one of my favorite series of games but ruined mine and my friends favorite online be game to play together. Congrats.
Share your pain - the matchmaking totally sucks!
But hey be grateful, you actually got a game using “balanced” and “focused”, nowadays i can only get a game on “extended”, believe me it can hurt much worse 
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> 343 fix your completely terrible servers. Not only can I not play slayer ranked with friends but my friend and myself found 1 playlist that we could actually play and during a “balanced” and then “focused” set of games we played countless onyx rank players or higher. Mind you our online rank was only a silver. This did not happen once. It happened every match of our night which was somewheres around 12 or more games. You guys not only ruined one of my favorite series of games but ruined mine and my friends favorite online be game to play together. Congrats.
It’s not the servers it’s the matchmaking. Searching focused gives you games closer to where you live, balanced goes out further searching for players and extended your searching everywhere. With low population it seems like the majority of the players still hanging around are high ranked. The low ranked players get the snot kicked out them… lol. Most of the matches are so lopsided it’s ridiculous.
Feel free to leave any constructive feedback in the Matchmaking feedback thread in the Matchmaking forums.