I’ve never seen so much craziness. Using the “recon” controller settings often makes a person auto-crouch for absolutely no reason.
There are no filters for gameplay selection.
Gameplay favors those with weak connections.
Teamshot + camp is more prevalent than ever.
Radar is often worthless.
Secondary effects include 2 or 3-hit-kills, mid-game joining with spawn-kill (entering game directly behind opponent(s)), and host/player damage disparity (some folks can be shot 7-times in the head while avoiding death).
I’ve never experienced this on any other game; I have a low ping and a 70-down/ 30-up connection. No problems whatsoever in any previous Halo installation.
Nearly 30% of my games thus far have started with a team-players disparity (such as 4v2 or 8v5, with latent join-time); nearly 40% of games are noobs vs. “teams.”
I mean good grief, am I unlucky or what’s the deal here? I think the mechanics are rather sound and the campaign is pretty awesome, but I can’t seem to catch any breaks with matchmaking.
There’s bound to be hiccups when you implement a lot of new features into matchmaking for a game. You could also just be having a bout of bad luck. Either way, look for things to be cleared up. Sooner even, if it is only the latter.
Just played one more game. The entire opposing team crouched and sat in one area for the entire game. Was infinitely boring and game came down to peek-a-boo Team-DMR’ing. This is by far worse than Reach in spite of my preference for H4’s mechanics.
> There’s bound to be hiccups when you implement a lot of new features into matchmaking for a game. You could also just be having a bout of bad luck. Either way, look for things to be cleared up. Sooner even, if it is only the latter.
I hope it’s just bad luck, heh. I’m truly a Halo-junkie but I’ve seemed to hit the wall of crud. I will continue on though; I still find it fun regardless. 
same problem here, seems i keep getting thrown in to noob games where the little twerps are double pummel and rush shoot then beat downing. its fracking annoying. that and when i actually get good opponents my team is complete -Yoink-. its frustrating to be team shotted all to hell and being unable to do a damn thing about it. if you a good lone wolfer you have effectively been -Yoinked!- over. even in regicide, players group (no i dont just mean the king, i mean actual group shooting) and spawns that put people so damn close to you after you Finnish a fight makes it almost impossible to go on a streak; add in the grenade spamming and double pummel nubs and it isn’t any damn fun. serious decrease the over all grenade count from 2 to one. do something about the terrible respawn placement, and for the love of all that is holy find a way to EVEN OUT THE MATCH MAKING! im not a freaking try hard so why the hell is it i keep getting matched against try hard party’s?
annoyed and frustrated rant over/