If that's the case, stats shouldn't even be shown. They shouldn't even matter in ranked anyways as you should be playing people even to you and stats would even out, theoretically.
Wasn't saying you weren't a halo fan, I've just never heard anyone say that. I'm surprised more games haven't implemented custom menu and game music now that you mentioned this. I remember it being a feature dating all the way back to the original xbox with that snowboarding game, amped or 1080...
Definitely not. Party chat was introduced on xbox 360 which is the first issue and from 3 on everything started to slow down with joining games, setting lobby privacy, invites etc. It used to be almost instant.
Funny thing is that matchmaking in general for all games has gone downhill since halo 2. Halo 2 had super fast matchmaking, friends lists and join game features. This shyt nowadays is just dumb.
The game obviously has a shyt load of issues, but it's still amazing just to be able to play. Just stick with the unranked playlists, it's still the funnest game in history.
Matchmaking is horrid and I'm pretty disappointed with the playlists. There isn't even a dedicated H1 list and barely anyone votes for H1 under combined team slayer which is pretty dissapointing. Also just get H3 and H4 the f*** out of my way, I'm just going to quit everytime people vote for...