Looks like I don’t have to care anymore anyway… game is completely dead in EU and diamond division. Tried to play the whole day, almost exclusively got US servers after 5-10 minutes wait time.
Plus, aiming and desync is terrible after the last update. Another classic 343. 
At least we got the CGB… which is completely broke. and non usable. xD
This has always been the experience of someone who solo queues multiplayer matches. Seems as though the other team either consists of squads of friends with sufficient gamesense, or outright clannies looking for a pub stomp while you get stuck with a mixed bag of people who have never played an FPS before, think every mode is slayer, or once in a while you get someone who actually plays well, but you still lose due the lack of team coordinaton. Ranked in infinite is a slog until you reach diamond, then the likelyhood of playing close matches increases.
Wait, so I still get -7 if a teammate quits affer the first round in oddball? And quitting means -15 and a ban. Wow… someone really put on their thinking cap when designing this. 
this game just makes one sick. Ranked in Halo Infinite is definitely the worst thing ever. 343 thought that sbmm was going to make fair matches, but it still puts 4 randoms against full squads. Makes no sense. Last time I play this joke.
Yup, playing against squads seems to be the new standard. Almost playing exclusively against 3 or 4 player parties. Plus the game plays terrible after the update… went from middle D1 to plat 5 today…
Waiting times from 3-10 minutes don’t make things better. Gonna put the game away for a few days. At least until they fix the M/K aimbot.
I don’t think half the community actually knows what an aimbot is.
I think some users don’t know what cynicism is.
Cynicism isn’t wisdom, it’s just a lazy way of saying you’ve been hurt.
They could try to prioritize having parties face other parties, but they should still allow randoms to face parties.
It’s astonishing how clearly you can miss the point. xD
Please, if you can only contribute some fortune cookie sayings, keep them to yourself
This should be common sense and I guess it was to a certain extend that way. But either the player count is too low or the algorithm changed.
Every rank reset I have less desire to play. Experiencing more instances of desync than when the game first launched, ping fluctuations that started months ago, more unbalanced teams due to lower player population. I don’t see the appeal of trying to play a competitive mode with an increasingly worse experience.
I agree, since the winter update the game feels slow, desynced, and generally like Spartans running through a ground of marshmallows. The BR nerfing was one of the worst decisions, now the aim feels loose, and close range fights turn into head bobbing because of the horrible winter update. Why nerf the BR and the shotgun? Zero sense. The idea is to be able to dominate at mid, long range or short range not to have nerfed guns superimposed on terrible desyncing high latency servers. Empyrean is the only map that plays smooth for some reason. Make this game feel like halo 3, and make the weapon mechanics and power the same as halo 3—that will earn your player base back. Keep the sprint. Make a stable networking experience. I get disconnected from PC during infinite matches at least twice per night . Never used to happen with halo 3 when bungee was running the show
I layed 2 games today. First game, one guy dropped out very early on in the match. The rest of us stuck around, lost obviously & dropped -9 points in rank.
Said| “eh that wont happen again” so i played another, this time STARTED with only 3 vs 4. Lost another -9 rank points.
I Said screw this and im done for the day. It’s not right.
Dont worry none of the AAA gaming companies respect our time anymore as a shield to just get away with generally unfinished products at best. When they start to recognizing they are giving away marketshare to free alternatives that respect their players time they will start addresing that problem too, in the way they starting fixing desync about a year after most players left the game because of it.