I am aware that there are other threads about this already but this is an issue that needs to be brought to attention because it is obviously not being dealt with judging by the amount of people i have seen posting about this all around the web. Apparently this issue has been around since launch day and yet it still has not been fixed and that is unacceptable for a title as big as Halo 4. I am currently experiencing this problem with the fallback hopper. I have had the game since launch and I have not had a single problem with the matchmaking or spartan ops until today. I think that this issue may be tied to the fact that the new spartan ops episode was released today and that it some how screwed up my account because this morning, i was able to play 1 episode of spartan ops from week 3 without any trouble but then i started to experience weird glitches while playing the episode such as my armor resetting to default when i would die or not being able to access my load-outs at all between re-spawns. Once I finished the episode, i was kicked from the lobby and my rank was reset back to SR-1 and now i can’t play spartan ops at all and i am stuck in the back up hopper for matchmaking. I have a perfectly fine internet connection but just to verify that it was not the culprit, I reset it many times today and the issue still persists. I have open NAT so that is not an issue either so the issue has to be on 343i’s end. If you are experiencing this issue or have experienced it in the past and have resolved it, please comment below in order to help the rest of us that are stuck in this miserable fallback hopper! Thanks everyone!