Matches in progress so often?

Yeah, I’m a noob to the game. Thought I would give it a go. It seems like 1/2 the time that I start a firefight game it’s a match in progress.

Is this normal?

Unfortunately normal for Halo 5 yes. Not normal as in acceptable. I played for 3 days (not only firefight but still) until I got one game where I didn´t join in progress. If you play solo you run a great risk of joining in progress, especially in Warzone playlists.

Yeah, that is not a good sign. Previous games had people drop from losing matches to save k/d. What is there to lose if you fail a firefight mission? It doesn’t seem like it would ruin stats stats to finish the run.

Edit: by previous games I refer to not halo 5.

Well, there is a lot of involuntary disconnects from halo 5 matches. A lot of games start and there is already a player missing at the initial spawn.