I just played a game of big team slayer, the game started up normally but not 4 seconds in my team is getting destroyed by warthogs and drop weapons. I’m not exaggerating when I say 4 seconds in, our team spawned in and the other team had already been in the game for a while going around getting all of the warthogs and weapons and setting up around our base to spawn kill us.
Is this just a coincidence that everybody on my matchmaking team was lagging or something and just happened to join late because of it or is this a common bug with matchmaking?
feel free to check my fileshare if you want to see what I mean
It was probably caused in the following manner, from what I’ve seen so far…
The game of Big Team Battle was set up to start as it normally would, 8v8.
A huge amount of players (maybe it was a party) dropped on one team and, instead of evening the teams out to 4v5 or something like that, it kept everybody on the teams that they would’ve been on, meaning it started 1v8.
When you and your friends joined, the enemy had your base on lockdown because it was just one guy there trying to defend it and getting spawn killed.
That’s just my theory. I could be completely wrong.
Was there a black screen before the match started? The other team might’ve been lag switching (or whatever it’s called).
Yeah, there was a black screen but it didn’t last very long, maybe about 5 seconds. That actually makes a lot more sense than what I had in mind, I was all worried that they had been spawned in the middle of the map by all the drops or something giving them an advantage XD. If they were lag switching they’re probably banned by now, halo servers (or whoever takes care of this stuff) are usually good at keeping on top of cheaters. Thanks for the help :D.