Something seriously needs to be done about Arena matchmaking system. People keep quitting matches and causing 4v2 or even 4v1 situations I know you cannot prevent people from quitting however allowing new players to join would be a god send. As it at stands now at the point in time of me posting this we’ve just completed a 4v2 Slayer match on Colosseum which we lost 25-50 this is the fourth or fifth time this has happened in a week or so. Honestly it is deterring me from even bothering to play Arena since the frequency of this happening seems to be increasing, the easiest and most logical way to fix this is to simply add in the join in progress feature found in BTB and other modes. Feel free to let me know what you all think of this and if you are experiencing this as well.
But its ranked. Only option is find a team. Not what you want to hear but it would help.
Or just add in the option to forfeit after two players leave your team. Make it so the other team gets a win and the forfeiting team gets a loss but does not lose any csr. The people that quit would lose any xp and have their csr reset, like if you were gold 6 you would go back to gold 1.
I was abandoned by my teammates on Overgrowth leading to a 4 v 1 situation in which I did poorly. After that day, I stopped playing arena altogether. I played last season just to test how my skills had improved and after the placement matches, I stopped. Haven’t gone back since. It is unfair to have a game ranked when the other team has an obvious and significant advantage that is not grounded in their skills. I’d support a system where the results aren’t counted for games in which your teammate(s) quit.
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> I’d support a system where the results aren’t counted for games in which your teammate(s) quit.
Yeah but then you’d have guys in a team and when they are doing poorly one will quit to make it not count, I think there should just be a forfeit or auto-lose (IE losing 30-5? well you lose right away)
Just win…me and a buddy did it last night…but in all honesty we shouldn’t need too, and yes this needs to be fixed
Honestly I’m not sure how the ranking system works but I’ve been stuck at Gold 4/5 forever it seems like the only real way to judge your skill and not the skill of your teammates carrying you is to play FFA. At least there you will not have a team of guys chasing you down and killing you repeatedly. Oh and btw why am I matching Platinum and Onyx level players as a Gold 4 ? Is my CSR higher than Gold or are those the only available matches to make.?
Its definitely worth sending invs to anyone who went positive in the game with you if you really have no one to play with. I’ve noticed quitting seems to be less of a problem as it was say 3 months ago, but it is still frustrating. Strike up conversations. Psychologists say its harder to say no to someone who you view as a person, just as salesmen 
it would be nice if players searching alone were matched with other players searching alone, but I guess that would -Yoink- up partys of 3
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> Or just add in the option to forfeit after two players leave your team. Make it so the other team gets a win and the forfeiting team gets a loss but does not lose any csr. The people that quit would lose any xp and have their csr reset, like if you were gold 6 you would go back to gold 1.
I like this idea minus this part (Bold) Disconnects happen and in Halo 5 it happens a lot some days for whatever reason… and so does sometime someone HAS to quit for well life stuff. I think a fair compromise would be say you were gold 6 you go to go gold 5. Go down 1 full rank.
I was actually playing some BTB to use up some Arena boosts and believe it or not the same issue occurred. Players from both sides left and it didn’t bring in anymore players which is especially odd since BTB is a Social playlist so there should be no reason to not bring in more players since it’s not ranked. Maybe it’s just an issue with Slayer based modes ? Since earlier we were playing CTF and it cycled new players in just fine
Not going to lie, this happens SO much in Gold it is stupid. Your best bet is to grind out of it so next season you place in Plat. It still happens in plat, but with much less frequency, in my experience anyway.