I like to bring up some points about the current matchmaking/level system which imo is flawed.
This post is intended as constructive criticism.
I made this post because I am sick of getting bad teamates, teamates who quit because your losing, teamates who are divisions lower than you or in their placement matches.
People playing placement matches should be matched up against other placements or lower tier brackets. It’s not fair playing in diamond/onyx brackets getting teamates who don’t even know the maps.
There needs to be some form of trueskill it’s not fair getting teamates who consistently go negative and cause you to lose.
Game shouldn’t count for you if your teamates quit, I know all the halos never did this but it’s not fair when someone quits plain and simple. (I just played a game where we were losing 9-4 and 2 of my teamates quit)
Premades of 3 or 4 should not get matched up against randoms.
You should only play against and with people in your own division, I played with bronze teamates in Diamond.
Something needs to be done, I have never gotten teamates this bad consistently out of all the halos I played, I guess I need to just go in as a team only
I know these points I made are most likely won’t be fixed but imo would make matchmaking even better. Placements seem cool and what not but we need a level ranking system. I miss going into MLG (50) in halo 3 having a team of randoms that actually know how to play.
This game seems to only reward premades and if you play solo or 2 s like me luck is the biggest factor to winning.
I agree that a player should play similar ranked people. I’m not quite convinced there is a rank system in the game even though we get placed into different tiers.
My teammates and my games have been wildly inconsistent. I’ve gone solo into all my games so far. Some games I’ve entered I have put up some great numbers while other games I struggle for some kills. I think one of the issues(if this is true) is you can’t drop to a lower rank. Since the rank is based on wins you are getting people that are being placed to high and to low. The people playing in a tier above their skill range are probably(were carried) going to be feeders in team-slayer variants and worthless in objectives. If they were placed below their actual skill they will probably be a good teammate if they are matched with you. The ability to drop to another tier needs to happen if you lose enough matches when you are silver 1, gold 1, plat 1, or diamond 1. I believe the drop from champion to onyx is possible so it needs to happen in the other tiers as well.
Also please allow us to search based on mic preference. I’m getting tired of having 1-3 teammates in party chat. If you hate the sound of communication please don’t play the playlists that require teamwork(arena). By being in party chat while some teammates are not you are putting everyone on the team at a disadvantage against the rival team.
a lot of these issues are here for the simple fact that 343 is concerned about the population of their game dropping, and putting such restrictions into their matchmaking, would in the future , make it impossible to find anyone to play against.
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> a lot of these issues are here for the simple fact that 343 is concerned about the population of their game dropping, and putting such restrictions into their matchmaking, would in the future , make it impossible to find anyone to play against.
If the rank system is to strict sure it could be hard to find a game. The game should be able to match people currently though since the game just released and an increase of holiday sales are coming. I doubt the population is dead currently(no pop counters make it difficult to guess though), but it will be if people feel the matches aren’t fair and if the playlists remain this limited. Ranking systems only work if they place people with similar skills otherwise the title/rank means nothing. In previous Halos such as 2 and 3 I felt as a whole the ranking system worked within an acceptable threshold.