Lol are people still complaining about this?
Come on guys, it’s been like that since, well, always. On H3 if you went solo on Team Slayer being at skill 45-50 you could say goodbye to your rank level before the game even started.
Said that, do you really think that a filter based on party size will work in the actual situation?
Even now in some world zones has become nearly impossible to find games in certain playlists if you set, logically, Balanced/focused filter (expanded is like committing suicide) being high rank in the playlist. I’m not speaking about WZA, but also about Team Slayer, the supposed most populated one.
And do you really want to add another variable that potentially can prevent entirely people to find games at all, unless they’re living in the most “halo-populated” zones (US basically)?
It’s sad and very unpopular to say, i know, but if H5 wants to keep the few thousands players left the only thing that can do is get rid of the skill filter bounded directly in games searching instead of add even more complexity. Exactly like done with MCC where, due to skill filter, find a game became nearly impossible with its low population.
Maybe skill could become a search option, to use at your own risk.
Games like Titanfall or GOW or Battlefield doesn’t have skill/team filters; instead they focus entirely on providing quick, stable and lag free games through elements like Zone/server selection, population counters and stop: you choose a low ping server, enter in a playlists with some players and match is built very quicly without other filters or crap in between.
Titanfall is the best example of this: i choose a 31ms ping server, enter in a playlist with only 32 gamers and matches are built in 30 sec if not less.
I know i’m speaking about generalistic game, that skill in Halo is vital bla bla bla. But at the end of the day what matters is to find games, with a good and fair connection, and have fun.
If one isn’t able to find matches in a reasonable amount of time (and no, 5 to 10 minutes is not a reasonable time) then all the speeches about skill, teams etc. become completely unuseful and meaningless.