Matchmaking Tricks

On this page, I will share with you some tricks I've learned that are exploits and glitches in the Matchmaking System of Halo 3.

The Tricks
Here is a list I've compiled of exploits and glitches in the Matchmaking System of Halo 3:
 * If, while searching in a playlist, the minimum number of players have been found (ex. 6 players out of 8 in Team Slayer), if you hold down X, it will stop searching for other players and play with the minimum number of players.
 * If, while playing in a team game, if you quit out, and your team wins, your skill will go up, but you will lose EXP for quitting
 * If you quit out to the Xbox Dashboard, you don't lose EXP or Skill
 * If you get host-booted, you will not lose EXP, but you won't gain skill level, so basically, if you lag out or get host-booted, Bungie's Matchmaking System pretty much pretends that that game never happened and you don't benefit from it or get penalized for it
 * If you have a memory card for your Xbox, you can force skip DLC maps. What you do is make sure none of the maps are on the memory card, and right as soon as the DLC map starts to load, plug in the memory card, and select it as the save device. The map should then change, and then you unplug the memory card.