But on the issue of matchmaking, we are consistently finding games as a group without any split. Now, we have gone into Matchmaking, started to vote, then magically got split off into some random person's lobby who then started a search somehow that I couldn't back out of. I had to restart the game. Another of us managed to back out successfully but then his game crashed.

Overall, it looks like this thing is much more improved on all levels of stability. Congrats everyone, you paid money to Beta test and you'll get no compensation for it beyond, what's Korny say? A Flood pet for your avatar or whatever else 343 decides makes up for this.