I saw a post on Xbox Wire that said, "DON'T get too obsessive about maxing out your character before jumping in [to the Crucible]... the game removes level bonuses in order to ensure as equitable a playing field as possible." Ha! Well, my character had completed all of the content in the beta, had all uncommon gear, and was at the max level 8... but when I jumped into the Crucible multiplayer it still seemed really unbalanced. In match after match, it seemed like whichever team had the best weapons were the ones who dominated... and they [i]really[/i] dominated. Even at max level with decent (I thought) gear from campaign mode, I was getting one-shot killed by weapons I hadn't even heard of... over and over. Now, I'll admit I'm not the most skilled competitive FPS player in the world, but if there's one game I felt I could hold my own at, it was Halo multiplayer... but this sure ain't Halo multiplayer any more, eh?