Ok so after the recent controversy of SBMM in competitive and non-competitive multiplayer games I began to wonder how Halo Infinite will tackle its match-making systems. 343i might of already made a statement on the status of this but if that is the case I have obviously missed it. I don’t really see many people discussing match-making systems at all really when it comes to Halo and that quite frankly bothers me, so I thought I’d make a quick forum post.
I really hope 343i create a working match-making system that is very anti-smurfing. I doubt we will see this match-making system in place until the next few flights but here’s hoping its good ay.
I don’t really care much as long as it’s balanced but that seems to be an impossible task.
Whatever they decide to do for skilled based matchmaking I hope the hell we don’t return to that crappy onyx bronze crap. I miss levels one through 50. And I’m sure as hell hope it ain’t like call of duty matchmaking system where it goes off kill death and every single match that you’re put in if you have an 8 k/d. Is with other 8.0 k/d and up to 20k/d try hards. Don’t get me wrong I’m a sweat but if I’m playing social I’m going to play it the best of my abilities but I don’t want to sweat ever game. Sweaty tryhards still like to feel good about themselves too you know. 
No details yet. It will definitely use sbmm, every Halo has and pretty much every modern game does.
Hopefully it’s pretty tight for ranked and pretty loose for social. This way sometimes players will be stomped and sometimes they will get to do the stomping making them feel like a great player. Too strict and every game turns into a coin toss where you try your best to go somewhere in the region of -2 to +2. I’ve even gone as far to say on here I’d like it not to even be used for BTB and that be truly random. I’m not a fan of Trueskill2 for that reason, just because I’m a big sweaty boy in ranked, doesn’t mean I don’t want to mess around in social and play with the whole sandbox of weapons.
I’m okay with placement games determining the rank, although I’d rather the rank doesn’t reset every season or if it does then I hope we get longer seasons like H5 has now (3 months). I loved 1-50 back in the day but it seems a bit antiquated, it’s pretty harsh for everyone getting stomped as players rise up the ranks and as it’s free to paly it will probably be filled with smurfs so placement games do seem the more reasonable approach.