The issue is players...You look at the enemy...see they are stacked...do not think your team can win so you play cheap or leave. Now Have 5 out of the 16 doing what you just did and that's why MM can feel off.

There is one documented and verified complaint, from a player that I can't remember who was. Basically a weird case of a 4 match unluck streak. Every other case, where I have checked, have been exaggerations like:

"I have had nothing but 5/12 matches all day", that have in fact been all 14v14+, and one battle where a 6 man squad dropped early and the player lost.

It is not worse or better to run solo before or after, and the facts are that battles overall are far more equal than before, at the cost of a little increased waiting time. If you ever go above 5 minutes waiting for pubs, you should either exit and try again, or sign up for more modes. Selecting a single mode, at low pcu times, may cause increased waiting.

There is still a problem with people massquitting matches. In some occasions i saw that 10 people left the match in the beginning and it didnt filled up neither which meant it was 15vs5. There needs to be a incentive or punishment against consequitive quitting to prevent "lobbyshopping". Those matches are just plain boring for all players who stayed cause the team with the advantage can just proceed to redline and the team with players down cant do anything due to the fact they are outnumbered 3:1.

Vesta, I will chart my games these next couple of days.

Tuesday night I did play a 6 vs 16 and another 9 vs 15 but both were players leaving the game...one was half my squad left. One went to bed...the other 2 afk'ed till kicked.

But many games had 12 to 16 as the starting numbers... I would say 90% of them. A 12 vs 12 is still MM working in my opinion.
But my memory may lie so I will chart.

I wonder if allowing no names to be seen on enemy team would curb and by how much players leaving in the 1st minute.

Trying to fool players into participating in poorly matched battles isn't the solution. Vesta's solution is better. Leave battle and give match making another chance.

I played about 5 hours last night and not a single game started with one team having more than double the other. The most mismatched start I saw was 14 vs 10 if I remember correctly and the game ended in 16 v 16. The player replacement has been doing its job.