This game needs to add input based matchmaking by default not only in ranked but in casual and all of it’s gamemodes, when Halo MCC launched on crossplay the biggest complains that were heard was the massive amount of players complaining about the balance issues between both inputs, this also caused a lot of players on MCC to drop the game, specially on PC due to input unbalance between controller and mouse and keyboard.
You might be saying “Well they can always toggle input based matchmaking on” but the problem is that trying to find an input based on MCC is impossible because 343 had the great idea of hiding this option deep in the settings menu and not giving us that option on release but giving us that option on season 7 (If I’m not mistaken) and also not properly announcing that they added input based matchmaking which made it an unseen option in the game that barely anyone touched, my only hope is that 343 doesn’t make the same mistake for Halo Infinite.
They need to make it input based by default, add it on release and most importantly make this option really more visible to the player (preferably at plain sight at the matchmaking menu)
If 343 wants to keep a stable playerbase they need to make input based matchmaking default, the only exception for non input based matchmaking would be if you toggle it off or if you want to play with a friend using a controller wheter they’re on Xbox or PC so those would be the only ways to get paired into a hybrid lobby (Controller and M&Kb together).
Some of us want to only play with other players using controller like the old days, some of us want to play with other players using mouse and keyboard like we used to in Halo CE and Halo 2 back in the days but not all of us want to have to play ranked to be able to have a more balanced and fun experience, I don’t get why 343 is trying to force and push this hybrid matchmaking into us (maybe because they think they’ll split the playerbase? I don’t think that would be the case) , it’s not making most of us happy to play with someone with a different input method.
Edit: I’m not asking for crossplay to be removed, both PC and Xbox players can play together just fine as long as they are using the same input.