Is Ranked Dead?

[Dicerz]

I've been trying to play ranked games but can't seem to find more than 2 or 3 per session.

I queue up to play ranked, usually find a game within 5 minutes (despite the estimated wait time saying ~1 mintue). That happens twice or so, then all of a sudden I can find no ranked games.

Currently sitting in Diamond 1/2, and been having this issue for over a year now. Search Region is on Expanded. Playing on PC but with a controller.

[Orb]

I've had this issue for over a year

[Dicerz]

Originally posted by Orb:

I've had this issue for over a year

Yeah it is odd, the easy answer that the playlist is just dead, but if it is that dead, how come I can find the first 2 or 3 games within a few minutes, then all of a sudden not.

My theory is that something is going wrong with how it calculates MMR and how that dictates finding other players.

If it is just a case of the dead playlists, why is there 4 different ranked playlists, if they are all low population? My suggestion would be to make Ranked Arena the only constant ranked playlist, while having slayer and doubles in the rotational playlists with snipers. So have 2 ranked playlists instead of 4, that way more people will play ranked arena... hopefully.

Perhaps they can loosen the matchmaking to make games easier to find?

[Damnzilla]

Thought I'd come back to playing Halo after more than a year, maybe two on hiatus but having this same issue, not finding Ranked matches. Add to that the insane load time just to get the game going, I think I will uninstall this waste of time.

[itsalltaxus]

Lots of people switched over from Arena to Ranked Slayer after it became a permanent playlist.

[Dicerz]

Originally posted by itsalltaxus:

Lots of people switched over from Arena to Ranked Slayer after it became a permanent playlist.

Yeah splitting up the already not so popular ranked playlists was not a good idea i think. If it were my decision, I would only have ranked arena, or ranked slayer, depending on which one has most players.

[travo Clu]

i find that the queue can glitch pretty often, and is simply fixed by just canceling and restarting the queue..but yea its always been a thing

i have never had a problem finding a match ever, for the people saying theres no population, the queue glitches..im east coast US so that may have something to do with it

[Dicerz]

Originally posted by travo Clu:

i find that the queue can glitch pretty often, and is simply fixed by just canceling and restarting the queue..but yea its always been a thing

i have never had a problem finding a match ever, for the people saying theres no population, the queue glitches..im east coast US so that may have something to do with it

I figured that there must be some bug like you suggest and do cancel or reload the game if it seems to be taking forever. Doesn't often work though.

I believe there are more Halo players in the USA than there is in the UK/EU. I see streamers not having issues finding ranked games and they are all USA based. Perhaps that is why I can't find games, there are just not much ranked players close enough to my server? But then why would the game tell me estimated wait time is just a few minutes.

This game has something wrong with it, either the estimate thing is bugged and there are no players, or something is bugged with the skill based matchmaking and it is making it very very difficult to find a match