Go ahead and take a look at the last few matches I played today on this account on my warlock. I believe this account has around a 1.5 - 1.6 k/d overall currently (nothing special at all but I used to hold over a 2.0 on my warlock back in year one) and over a 3 million medal score. Anyway, red bars everywhere and I could barely hold a 1.0... it was crazy (except for the my last game I think). It's not my connection either... I don't believe (at least I can't recall) that I've ever red barred and I have quite a few crucible matches played. Also, I have a Netduma and I was monitoring the connections and I was getting matched all over the world. One game even had a player with an 800ms ping. That's a bit ridiculous. Now, take a look at the match I just played on my father's account here (he has a 0.6 k/d): https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR?instanceId=4671980485&characterId=2305843009222408063 It's night and day. I also got my first "We Ran Out Of Medals" in this game. I don't believe I even have that on my account. I pretty much never complain but I gotta say, I do not notice any change that leads me to believe that connection is being favored more than skill. In fact, if I were to never read these updates I would never know that anything even changed (if it even did). Edit: Screen cap of matchmaking this morning... http://i65.tinypic.com/2s9cacx.jpg