This game could get a whole lot more fun for everyone if 343i could just implement some basic team balancing so every game doesn’t turn out to be a 3v4 50-18.
I have played all of the beta solo and I still managed to get in the semi pro/onyx rank for the three playlists and when I can get in a match with 8 randoms I can do pretty well. But there’s the first problem. I can’t get into a single match with at least two of the enemy team being in a party communicating. As a solo player myself this extremely frustrating when I keep getting quadruple teamed from everywhere at once because while my teammates are aimlessly walking around (If they haven’t already quit), the enemy team is all constantly communicating and dominating with map control and all the power weapons.
The solution for this is to first of all make a team of 4 always only ever team up with another pair of 4 so no random ever has to endure such torture. Next for teams of 3 (probably the most common team number) I’m fine if I happen to get matched up against a pair of 3 as long as I get a second team of 3 on my own team to help combat them. This way it’d be like a 3v3 with 2 randoms on the side for each team. Then for teams of two the same rule could apply (a team of 2 on each team accompanied each by 2 randoms), or You could make it so teams of 2 can only match with other teams of 2 so there would be 4 separate parties communicating per match. If these were implemented it’d make it much more feasible for randoms to ever win and more challenging and intense for groups of players.
As I mentioned earlier I said I was a semi pro/onyx for the 3 playlists and with that (aside from groups) I have been matched with people pretty close to my own skill level. Normally I’d hardly ever match with anyone the silver rank or lower and that’s really good to see, but you know what’s worse than a silver player? Someone who’s never played before.
Why on earth do I as a semi pro keep matching with people playing their first ten matches? does 343 not understand that the majority of the time these players are even worse than irons? There should be a hard barrier separating everyone playing their first ten matches to any other tiers. I can’t even count the amount of times I get matched with 3 teammates on their first match and get put against a full squad of semipros and the final scores are 5-50 with my teammates all going -15. It’s discouraging for their first match and it certainly isn’t fun for me trying to carry them while fighting against 4 enemies constantly communicating.
If 343i can fix both these issues then I could see this game being a lot more even, and with that a lot more fun.