We have a free XBL weekend in Australia for Silver members so I loaded a local profile of mine. Played some H3 and then Regicide to do some testing of the playlist to see if 2nd equals a loss - and the answer is yes.
Found out in the most bizarre manner. I was King for most of the game but kept getting rushed by this guy constantly after I had max bonus as the King. He ended up winning the game by 10 points but in the post game stats I saw he only had 10 kills - I had 26.
https://app.halowaypoint.com/en-us/#Halo4/robobeast001/home/match-33c9b7d04f2e10a8
I play FFA a lot in H3, Reach and COD but have kept away from Regicide in H4. It doesn’t have enough of a mix of traditional FFA gametypes - Slayer, KOTH, Oddball, Juggernaut, ok add in Infinity Slayer if you want too.
I’m not going to play Halo 4 where the main FFA list is a Slayer game but allows someone to go 10 and 10 to win and 2nd place have 26 and 13. Honestly I’ll go back to COD where I am on a 17 win streak in FFA there. FFA Throwback isn’t the answer either - objectives just bring in the boosters.
Please bring back normal FFA, please allow the top half of players to be recorded as a win.