My issue is this: when playing with my friend yesterday 5 times we had either he or another member of our fire team kicked from our group during matchmaking. We found ourselves in lobbies with 9 players which resulted in. One of our fire team members not being able to play while still being kept in the fire team. It was very strange, leaving one player in menus while others were forced to play in the game.
It's very frustrating when you're trying to play with friends and the fire team keeps getting split up due to some type of error in matchmaking. With that being said, the first DNF I had was pre-match because of being dropped from match matching, which is my purpose for posting. Obviously, some how my avatar suffered a death and stayed in the game even though I exited prior to the match starting to rejoin my fire team members. The other two we played and realized our third fire team member got booted from the match two games in a row. I was angry yesterday and my post quality suffered.
I'm trying to bring to the attention of a flaw in the system. I understand the DNF policy leading to bans because 343 promised to not put players in matches that have already started. But this situation is flawed two-fold: the first is that fire teams are being split up for whatever reason, and not between teams. The match making shouldn't be putting one or two members of a fire team In a game and one or two get left in the menus. Also, if that happens and a player tries to rejoin their friends in menus prior to a match starting, it should not count as a DNF (it might not but I think if you get to the point where the teams are locked in and the map is loading it does because that is the situation that accounted for my first DNF according to waypoint).
It may add time to the matchmaking process but players should be able to leave at any time prior to the match starting without penalty. Match making should just restart if a player leaves instead locking you in and forcing you to play or register a DNF and the issue with fire teams being broken up and players being left out of a game is an example of why that should be allowed. As I mentioned, it's extremely frustrating to want to play with your friends, then you get into a situation where your friends are left out of games, and then you're locked in to playing for 8-12 minutes without being able to play with them.
