I cannot believe this game has still not had any of the glaring sbmm and team balancing issues in socials addressed in over 2 years. This game is seriously flawed with its team balancing, punishment of afk players, and smurfs.
It is pretty much every single game is completely one-sided, with the majority of them being a 4-stack up against a team of fresh-installs, or brand new players. This sucks to play, no matter the side. I’ve had around 3 evenly balanced games, where the score went down to the wire, in the past week of playing the game. It’s absurd. People have talked about this a lot, myself included, but 343 refuse to acknowledge it in any regard.
The smurfing and afk issue is another god awful aspect about this game. Thanks to MCC being on gamepass, it’s easier than ever to create a smurf and dunk on people in any lobby you want. Once your MMR gets too high for your liking, just make a new account and pay the small first-time fee for gamepass and you’re back to square 1. AFK players just aren’t punished in any way, shape or form either. It isn’t hard to recognise when a player is afk, thats what afk detection/warning code within a game is for. But the game is both too lenient with the afk timer, and how being afk is avoided. It simply is not enough to have very small and infrequent movements be the counter to an afk timer. It ruins the gameplay for other players, and it’s taking over a significant majority of matches.
My one request to 343: Fix your priorities. Get your damn act together and start actually addressing concerns with the player experience as opposed to making armor nobody asked for (and doesn’t even look like part of the halo universe), or giving a roadmap for Infinite which is 80% content we already knew about. Flood fight is cool and all, but if I can’t have fun in a game (because I’m either matched with bots/afkers, or decimating a team who has had someone leave) your priorities are completely out of whack and NEED addressing.
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