My experience with halo multiplayer is really summed up by the games I played tonight.
First game, thrown in with 3 guys with mics who stick together as a team. Roll the other guys. Everyone on our team had a K
spread of at least +3.
Second game, one player immediately quits out. A second calls it quits mere minutes later. For 30 more kills it's just me and one other guy. Quite a boring experience.
Third match, no one can be bothered to cap the objectives and we get obliterated in stronghold, literally 100-1.
Fourth match, capture the flag. I have the enemy flag and run it to our base. My 3 teammates start trying to assassinate me and shoot me. Meanwhile our flag is halfway across the map because none of these ****s will go try to return it.
Played two more stronghold matches, each one ended something ridiculous (won one, lost one) because only one team actually sticks together.
Fifth match, slayer. Player quits immediately. It proceeds as 3-4. Game ended 47-50. Literally the only balanced game I played was one that didn't even have balanced teams.
So much for skill based matchmaking. It's really frustrating because the gameplay is fun enough to make me want more, but the good games are literally so few and far in between that it makes me want to quit playing literally 3 matches in every time. Maybe the higher tiers are better and I'm just stuck with the ****wads because I'm not a great player, but damn, it's not hard to ****ing PTO.