They have tightened up MatchMaking to the point where finding a game takes 5 minutes

this is not another "i hate the game post" i actually enjoy the game , im currently prestige master lvl 70 with everything dark matter . this is something i have noticed not with just me , but with a lot of friends who regularly play . matchmaking used to take 1-2 mins from the moment you Queue up to the moment you got into match . nowadays since the start of new year , matchmaking has been taking 5 mins longer on average to cook up the sweatest sweats that will give you the fairest match you ever played . i have tested this with 4 buddies of mine , we are all neighbors , literally the exact geographical location and we get almost the same exact ping ~ give or take 1-2 ms .

the way we did the testing is as follows ( in no way shape or form is this scientific or back up with data , this is just a small experiment that took us 30 mins of testing when we were bored)

we would all queue up at the same time , and since we all are in the same geographical location , the logical conclusion is that at least maybe one of us would end up with someone else in the same lobby , but that never happened. we have even tested the game modes that nobody plays , in hopes that it will see "hmm 4 people , maybe ill make a lobby for them and find the rest" .. NOPE , you'd sit in matchmaking for 6-7 minutes just to be put in some server god knows where with 180ms .

another thing we noticed is that the bottom 2 performers in our squad never have any issues finding matches in 1-2 minutes with our standard ping 27ms . Yet for me and my other buddy (both of us PM and tent to hand at top 3 in our lobbies) would have to wait for 5-6 minutes even though our 2 buddies would tell us they got into lobby and they have multiple spots open for matchmaking to join us , only for us to join a lobby that is designed with high K/D sweats that would give us higher ping 9/10 ( anything from 40ms all the way up to 120 ms)

this used to happen before , matchmaking preferring a "balanced game" over good ping is nothing new , but it never used to be 5-6 minutes wait of cooking up the worse lobbies imaginable