Yep match making needs a very serious look at, I've lost count of the amount of times I've been put up against full teams and were a person down, its even more frustrating now you can't simply leave the match without being penalised for it

Ya, you shouldn’t be afk for 20 seconds after you spawn, let alone -blam!-ing 5 minutes And yes, increase portal spawn time after primeval spawns from 30 seconds to 1 minute

I'm not sure about the "matchmake people within their respected ranks" part. Given that you can reset your rank, what would this achieve? Someone in the Guardian 1 rank isn't necessarily an inexperienced player. They may be on the fourth time through the ranks for all we know. I agree that starting 4v3 sucks. I got sent back to orbit with a Beaver error the other night while loading in to a match. I've also had friends get errored out when we are loading in and ended up starting shorthanded. I think Bungie needs to figure out what is causing these errors when loading into Gambit and sort it out. I would also agree that the catch-up mechanics are a bit too much. There should be more of a benefit to summoning first. At the moment it almost feels like you want to drag your feet until the other team has summoned, then invade over and over while banking like mad to get a win. I've been playing a lot this week to take advantage of the bonus Infamy points and we've won several matches that early on we were well out of.

It's pathetic how many Times that portal opens when wet summon your Prime, so biased towards the losing team.

All of this. The number of people who have no clue what they're doing, or greedy people who let you do the work and snatch up your motes just to go lose them, makes the game frustrating if you're not in with a full team. Haven't had issues with people hanging back in spawn yet, thankfully, but a lot of times getting spawned in without a full team. Plenty of times where teammates leave and it takes too long to get others, too. Had one time where I got spawned into a match with a guy who was by himself with 4 Ogres on the pad, didn't get anyone else until a buddy jumped in at the last second, though it was already too late. The lag has been unreal as well, especially with this points event going on. People shooting from across the map through walls, not being able to pick up motes for several seconds, enemies dancing all over the place and not taking damage. I also feel like I keep seeing Heavy drop but there's none there, and my husband said the same thing. Normally I'd say it was our connection, but a buddy of ours in a different province saw the same issues, and they've never been so prevalent before. Not only this, but the "catch-up" mechanics have been seriously out of whack. We can summon a Primeval well before the other team, just finish killing the Wizards, and in that time they've summoned and burned theirs. I feel like I'm constantly getting punished for outperforming the other team. I get it, the Drifter's game isn't supposed to be fair, but that's just ridiculous. I really loved Gambit when it was introduced. It was probably one of my favorite things to do. Now, though, I feel like I can't even take advantage of this event to catch up because it's so much of a chore. Haven't even been able to search for the Malfeasance quest because I'm lucky if we get to summon our Primeval. Two wins in two days, after getting multiple streaks before. There's a problem here.