Okay, so we all know about the ridiculous search times in Arena but what I want to know is why we can’t play 3v3.
In both Halo 2 and Halo 3 you were allowed to play a game as soon as 6 people were found. In Halo Reach the system makes a team of 4 through any combination of players and then matches them up against a similar team. Why can’t the minimum number of players for a team be 3 people instead of 4?
This way 3s searching as 3s can play other 3s instead of worrying about bad randoms. If 2s searching as 2s pick up a random instead of another 2, they don’t have to worry about two bad randoms. And finally, randoms searching as randoms would only need two other randoms or a 2.
This would speed up search times from Reach and put everyone at ease when they’re not searching as a full party.