So, basically everything that I expected this game would be on launch is here now.
Searching for games is still slow, most of the time its 2-5 mins, I can cope with a 5 minute wait. Whatever.
Having dedicated servers would be nice but it’s still alright without them, matches arn’t too laggy and the game is fun to play.
There’s still bugs with joining friends etc, but when has that ever worked 100% with xbox live(NAT settings etc)
The ranking system is great. Back to 1-50 after having 2 halos without it. Maybe apply it to more playlists(a FFA ranked playlist please?)
THE ONLY THING that is killing the game for me at this moment is team balancing. I played for about 6 hours today in ranked anniversary team slayer. In only TWO GAMES out of about 50 the teams were balanced at 4v4 or 5v5. Every other game was either 4v5, 3v5, 1v2, 1v4, etc, etc
It would be almost fine if it was a social game, but losing ranks because you get put on a team of 2 up against 5 is very frustrating and I really hope you can find a way to fix this in the next patch.
Other than team balancing, looks like you are on the right track, keep it up.