Honestly, a better solution to this is to go back to the old system where the best player in your fireteam determines what level you will matchmake with.
Yes you will consistently get matched with people your sister and friend can’t handle. But at least you’d be able to play together in ranked.
Play custom games or co-op with those friends.
I think I worded my post incorrectly and I apologize for it… I’m 100% absolutely fine with fixing rank, so people can’t abuse the system. I just need a social playlist with BR starts. After that, then do whatever you want to do to Ranked.
My sister and our friend used to be pretty decent at Halo, like high 30’s, but they have husbands and kids, so their gaming time is limited. It sucks, because we really enjoy the game’s mechanics, but it’s not worth getting pissed at them, because we’re all fighting for the 1 BR spawn. Hell, I’d probably not complain about the rank fixes if Quickplay had several BR spawns and I wasn’t a madhouse to get there first.
As I said in my last post, you already have one. 
I find BR starts boring, but people like what they like. I prefer AR starts and having to scavenge on the map.
But now in most modes they have BR starts mixing with AR.
How about we have BR quickplay and AR quickplay if they are going to do this to ranked?
As for BTB I don’t like that AR for it nor the BR. The commando seems to fit perfectly if they fixed it already.
343 has never been good at ranked matchmaking. They did an awful job with it in MCC so I’m not shocked they have no idea how to handle it in Infinite…
Then the game randomly decides that you have to play ARs garbage 3-4 times in a row before you can play BR…
Precision BTBs is the answer obviously, duh.
As many players since FLIGHT, YES FRIGGIN FLIGHT, have suggested, BTB should start with BRs/Commandos and ARs.
Reason being that BTB simply doesn’t have enough weapons sitting around for 24 players to go and scavenge, especially since most players do want to swap out both their AR and SK due to them being close to mid weapons, especially for maps like Highpower where crossmapping is very powerful.
PS: Isn’t Team Slayer social now using Ranked BR start settings?
The commando is good if you know how to use it.
Sometimes is better than the AR and sometimes better than BR, and how?
The commando was meant to be shoot in burst mode so you can better handle the rifle.
Commando rifle deal more damage, but isn’t that fast as AR but sometimes Commando wins despite the speed of AR and Commando Accuracy is Insane!!
Imagine, high damage plus a good accuracy!!
The only issue is the aim UI the commando has, I would like 343 to add a different scope to the Commando, and I also wish tactical slayer with commando.
Basically, Commando is like the DMR 2.0, I could say is my favorite weapon, and those who deny its a good weapon is because they don’t know how to handle it.
I just wish 343 give more opportunities to weapons like the Commando to shine In the sandbox so people train with it and love it just as I do
I just cant wait until we get the rest of the Rakshasa helmets.
I’m going with your option 2. So I can still play with my friends.
I’m sitting at Diamond 3 and dont really care for my personal rank, I’d rather keep playing ranked on Sunday nights as I have been with my mates who get on generally once a week and are sitting at mid gold and plat.
Not sure who this change was for?
I thinkyour solution is to smurf and not do too well. If its truly a casual fun experience and the rank has nothing to do with it, the sure, smurf away.
Thanks to desync and no region lock, i couldn’t care less about rank as well. Another 130ping game of a game mode I don’t like? Im outta here… screw the -15 csr. 
The ranked change is a good step. Social is where the OPs way of playing belongs.
Agree that AR starts and BR starts need separated in social
I find weapons in the weapon racks about 95% of the time, are we playing different BTBs? people are just lazy
Right, so…
I’m not going to lie, I am a cynic, always looking for holes and inconsistancies in stories so in this pursuit I someitmes get things wrong. and as such…may in fact be wrong about this…
How often do you play with you sister who is gold and your friend who is silver?
At what ratio would you say do they play with you? 50% of the time? 40?..75?..
It just seems to me that if you an Onxy player played with players who are gold and silver and win games even semi regulalry they would be much higher ranked…
again, could be wrong…and if I am I’ll apologise and retract, but it just piqued my suspicions is all
That’s because some players are in vehicles. But if we are talking about the prospect of every player swapping out their default loadout, there are simply aren’t enough on maps like Deadlock for example.
On deadlock I count at least 10 weapon racks for each team off the top of my head, with 30 seconds respawn time, which is about the average life time of players in BTB. That’s plenty to equip everyone.
As I said, people are just lazy, they don’t bother going for weapon racks especially if it’s not a commando or a BR, which sucks because the whole point of having weapon racks is to have people with a specific weapon serving a specific role for the team, while the “regular” players with the default AR+SK do the heavy lifting.
You are also forgetting the fact the weapons also despawn insanely fast in Infinite. You take about 8s to respawn and your dropped weapon will despawn in that same time if not picked up by another player.
This means in rougher and high frequency combat maps like Deadlock and Highpower where deaths are traded very quickly, you have alot of these weapons disappearing off the face of the map while still in respawn cooldown.
Infinite in general still hasn’t gotten Weapon - Map balancing correct yet, and this is painfully obvious. In previous Halo maps, a map had X weapon because of the environment making sense to have it. For example, a map like Rat’s Nest has way more SMGs, Maulers and Plasma Rifles than larger BTB maps because you are expected to be in close combat alot, while larger maps had more BR spawns.
Infinite does not respect this and simply have racks spitting weapons out without considering the map design. For example, Highpower should come with Hydra spawns due to the overbearing presence of Wasps, but we still randomly get Ravagers instead. And Ravager in particular is poor vs Air units and open spaces, which make it a terrible weapon on that map. This along with the fact there are only so many “precision” weapon racks around and that not every precision weapon is equal, it really makes it a very unsatisfying experience.
I play with them 100% of the time. If they’re both offline, then I don’t play Halo at all. I’ll go play Fortnite or Apex if I’m playing alone. We’ve been playing Halo together since Halo 2, when we were teenagers.
I’ve considered finding people closer to my skill level to play with, when my sister and friend are busy with life, but I don’t really have that competitive mentality that high Diamond and Onyx players have. I just want BR starts for every single game mode that we play, so having a 50% chance of getting BR starts in only Team Slayer isn’t going to work.
I support rank changes that’ll help keep boosters from reaching Onyx. I’m perfectly fine never playing Ranked again. I just need a social BR start alternative to Ranked.