I played games where my team got absolutely steamrolled by people with much higher k/d ratio and experience, yet quitting such pointless games only leads to temporary ban. What’s the point of this?
Please, either balance the teams (more) or remove the temporary ban penalty.
There is a big problem here of low population. I am slowly approaching max rank, and my queue times are long - up to 10-15 minutes on Rumble Pit for example, no filters applied.
I think that there are attempts made to balance games, but the population is too low to do it successfully.
I don’t know, in January 2021 I had the same issue. Also team games playlists don’t actually have to match every player against similarly experienced opponents, but for example only to somehow consider overall team strength (for example k/d, hours played), is there evidence something like this is being done at the moment? But anyway, I’d much rather wait 15 more seconds and play more entertaining games, than having instant queues and having to wait 12 minutes (or having to quit) for pointless games to end. Since you mentioned low population, I imagine the current matchmaking also doesn’t help with player retention, especially new players.
Player counts have fallen since January 2021 (approximately half) by what we can see on Steam charts. This doesnt include everyone obviously but yes, the game definitely has a low population, even back then.
https://i.imgur.com/b0DFVg4.png
Shouldn’t get a ban for quitting against obvious one sided matches. Groups of people and the same people over and over and over again it’s tiring.
Halo 3 has been deselcted on my composer for awhile now. Too often you match against a whole party where in the first minute have all power weapons and are already spawn trapping your team.
Yes exactly. And I imagine that pretty much any change would be better than having players not playing the game altogether (what I end up doing), which leads to a decreasing population and even worse matchmaking situation.
It’s not for me to evaluate what change is better, but there are many alternative or combined possibilities, for example removing the quitting temporary ban or allowing it in some cases, matching parties against parties, reducing max party size, matching parties against strong players, allowing the team to withdraw, and so on.
same issue when u get in a 3v4 or 2v4. this happens extremely often and i always get steamrolled and its never fun. either fix the matchmaking or let me quit.