It has happened to me a dozen times now, and I haven’t played over 40 FFA games. I can’t imagine what it’s like for people who has a lot of FFA games in. There’s nothing more frustrating that joining a game of Flood on the last round or a game of Regicide where the leader needs 30 points to win.
343, you promised us that the Join in Progress feature would not put us in games that have progressed too far past a certain point. I think that the leader being more than 80% of the way to win, or the total time / rounds elapsed being more than 50% (even 25%) is ridiculous, unfair and frustrating. At least you can counter Join in Progress by having a full team when you search in team games (then again, sometimes, the game splits up the group for no apparent reason whatsoever, so you end up facing your own teammates - FIX IT PLEASE), but in FFA, there’s no reasonable explanation for it to be active.
Just let people quit out of FFAs if they want to and leave the game at that amount of players. I played a lot of Lone Wolves in Halo 3, and people quitting were just like natural selection. They were not meant to be. It created more intense games among better players. And to be fair, it doesn’t matter at all if people quit until it becomes at 1v1. It’s part of the game, and it’s a FFA anyway. You are not at a disadvantage if your opponents quit, your placing has just better chances of being higher.
It’s a lot less frustrating to be in a long game because everyone quit out and to be guaranteed a win, than joining a game in which there’s no possible of winning, let alone placing top 50%.
Remove Join in Progress from FFA, 343. Please. There’s no reason for it to be there. Fix it for the release of the upcoming FFA playlist. I’m sure this whole situation won’t be any better when it comes to objective.
Thanks in advance.