The game is awesome when played with friends. But sometimes I’m the only one from my friend circle that is online. I look for others with headsets but I only run into one person using game chat once every five matches or so.
It is really disheartening to be teamed up with 3 other individuals who do not use miss and being pitted against a team of 4 friends who use teamwork and callouts to their advantage.
Reach and Halo 3 showed us when other players were in a party together. The games typically put teams against teams and individuals against individuals.
343 has obviously decided that this feature was not important and thus removed the ability to see if others were in a party or playing solo to cover up the fact that matchmaking does not consider whether you play solo or in a group.
It’s frustrating and I know the 12 year old fans will probably tell me to only play with friends or make new ones (FYI, easier said than done in the era of party chat).
Instead, matchmaking should at least give you an option to search for matches full of individuals. This would create more fair and even matches.
This really does ruin ranked play. There’s no way teams of 4 should match kids who are searching alone.
Halo 5’s schtick is team-driven gameplay, so adding in options to undercut that focus wouldn’t make sense on 343’s side. However, I totally understand where you’re coming from. It can be annoying to hop online and try to grind a match with other people who seem to be operating in a different world. That being said, I’m thankful for the fact that the game does reward those who work together rather than it being a glorified solo stat fest. It’s a nice change of pace from the FPS market as of late.
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> Halo 5’s schtick is team-driven gameplay, so adding in options to undercut that focus wouldn’t make sense on 343’s side. However, I totally understand where you’re coming from. It can be annoying to hop online and try to grind a match with other people who seem to be operating in a different world. That being said, I’m thankful for the fact that the game does reward those who work together rather than it being a glorified solo stat fest. It’s a nice change of pace from the FPS market as of late.
It’s nice but makes the game even more unfair when one team is stacked and the others are random players.
> It’s nice but makes the game even more unfair when one team is stacked and the others are random players.
The thing that people fail to realise in these threads is that matchmaking does try to match teams against other teams. I play in parties in warzone and yes we do get matched against randoms and get some easy wins but that isn’t always the case.
We often run into other stacked teams and it is a hard fought struggle to get a win at times. We were going along quite nicely yesterday afternoon and then ran into one of the best Warzone teams in our region and got destroyed.
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Basically every other game has a solution to this party problem. In Battlefront, I believe the party limit is two players. In CS:GO, if you are in a party/queue with friends, you are placed against enemies who are also in a party/queue. I don’t get why 343i didn’t do this.