PLEASE create a social lobby for Invasion and other 6v6

Games Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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I was hesitant to post because I fear this will fall on deaf ears.

I’ve gotten ONE match of Invasion in the last two weeks. I’m not sure if this is a server issue, or from a lack of players (I doubt this because Invasion playerbase tends to spike up in the spring/summer), but this is unacceptable.

This is arguably one of the most exciting gametypes of the Halo series and it’s dry either because:

  1. High ranking players group together and take advantage of randoms
  2. Quitters
  3. Lack of games

There are countless people on my friends list who say they’ve been searching for HOURS to find a game, so I cannot accept the belief that this gametype is dead.

I’ve said numerous times that including this gametype in social lobbies can and will benefit both the competitive and casual parties. Allow the competitive players to group together and rank up against other higher skilled players - you know, sort of the point of a ranked lobby. Include it in social with other 6v6 game types (like dominion from H4 and other 6v6 slayer and objective games from H2/3) to create a much larger playlist which will benefit from the social community alone, but also gives some variety as well.

Invasion alone has different gametypes (Invasion Skirmish, Invasion Slayer) that allows for some variety.

PLEASE 343, commit to your fan base and fix this issue; you’re letting a lot of dedicated players down. This has been a general issue for what seems like MORE THAN A YEAR. The lack of support tells me you’re better off just shutting down the gametype altogether, but I don’t think that’s part of the plan, right?

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Agreed - hate having 4s and 8s being the only selections when playing with friends.

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I was actually going to make a separate topic regarding this issue. I am glad that you noticed it as well. I have been in love with Invasion since I participated in the Halo Reach Beta and very few game modes since have really succeeded in keeping me engaged as well as Invasion has. It is truly a unique and standout mode in the entirety of Halo’s game mode lineup.

So… Imagine my surprise and irritation when I try to hop into the playlist this week and fail to find any lobbies after over two hours of non-stop player searching. While this may have been an issue for much longer, I only just started getting back into MCC’s Matchmaking recently. Eventually, I just gave up and went back to tinkering with my own Invasion map in Forge.

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While I do think invasion should be in the composer there isn’t much you can do about players grouping together and dominating games. Not sure if an additional 6v6 playlist is a good idea being the population is low and spread pretty thin already. What could work is add a game type to BTB that is 6v6 so players could search for it along with regular BTB games. That would work well I think…that would be awesome for FFA as well. That way players who are willing to play with a few less players could maybe get faster match making.

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I’ve literally played more invasion in the CGB than matchmaking just due to the fact that ranked is dead.

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I want to play Invasion to get the achievement for winning in the first phase, but I don’t want to play ranked. I’m too tired for that right now.