So I've been playing the game for a week now, and my experience has went from loving it to death to just scratching my head and wondering what the hell Ubisoft was thinking. First of all, the matchmaking is totally broken if you try to play with a friend. It seriously takes me and a friend anywhere from 3-10 minutes to actually get into one, as the match making system likes to put us into two seperate games (even though we were in the same lobby), and it becomes even more frustrating when we try to add in another friend.
 
Secondly, the abilities ruin the game. That first night, release night, it was an absolute blast. Me and my friend were having a blast hunting people, trying to figure out who was real just based on behavior and such. Now that everyone has abilities, and those abilities recharge so damn fast, any crowd I morph just gets scouted out with a fast templar or a stupid firecracker. Sure, I can drop a smoke, but half the time they seem to be able to just leap through it regardless. I would love a game type that just took out all the perks and abilities, or if not that, make abilities like Templar Vision consist of a set amount of charges as opposed to having it on such a short cooldown. Another problem with these abilities is that higher level characters have such an overwhelming advantage over lower levels.  In Call of Duty, the game Ubisoft is clearly emulating, a lower level player can still do just fine against someone that is at whatever the max level is in that particular game. In this, when me (lvl 31) and my buddy (high 20's) play with our other friend who got the game a few days later, he is pretty much totally useless. He can't morph a crowd by himself, he can't reveal true targets with smoke or Templar Vision, all he can do is just chase.
 
Sorry to go on such a rant, but this is so infuriating for me, because the first two night I played I can't remember the last time I had so much fun, and now the game is quickly becoming very boring/frustrating.

Sounds like it could do with a 'barebones' no abilities pure hide and kill mode - hopefully ubisoft can make a playlist or mode based around that - tis a shame because even though the concept of the multiplayer is not original in itself it seems to be the first implementation of the style that A) makes sense and B) actually works

I love the multiplayer, the matchmaking has been slow at points but nothing frustrating for me. 
 
Sorry to hear that you don't like it.

I like the online when I can actually get into a match...
 
The matchmaking is severely broken for me. It takes me at least 20 minutes to find a game. It's fucking ridiculous that I can't play a significant portion of the game I payed for.

I agree about the matchmaking. Me and my boyfriend gave up on trying to join a game together which was pretty disappointing. =[
 
As for lower levels not having as much of an advantage due to higher levels with ability perks; although I can understand your point I still feel they have a good enough shot at killing their targets. 
 
Oh, and I find smoke totally useless since like you say, people seem to be able to fly through it anyway!

I disagree with that lower level people are worthless against leveled up people, I'm level 18 and I score better in rounds than level 40 people do all the time.  Obviously there are some abilities that they have and I don't, but nothing that I find overwhelming as long as you're playing smart.

" I agree about the matchmaking. Me and my boyfriend gave up on trying to join a game together which was pretty disappointing. =[  

Seems ok.

I find it the other way round. At the start everyone was just sprinting around and jumping up buildings, not caring about being stealthy, they just wanted to kill anything even if it meant 100 per kill. At the higher levels it's rare to see someone doing anything other than walk, everyone is being methodical and trying to trick their followers. If anything the abilities have made the game better, yes maybe once a game someone will see through your morph, but there are still 3-4 who will kill a civilian. Also you don't need an abilitiy to hide in a crowd and get a 600pt kill as someone walks past, the reason low levels don't do so well is they don't know the game, it takes a while before you know when to attack and when to wait. 
 
But yeah matchmaking can be annoying sometimes.

" I disagree with that lower level people are worthless against leveled up people, I'm level 18 and I score better in rounds than level 40 people do all the time.  Obviously there are some abilities that they have and I don't, but nothing that I find overwhelming as long as you're playing smart. "

Well so far I haven't experience any of those issues. I haven't tested playing with a friend to be fair but both myself and my flatmate are having a great time running around trying to assassinate people. High level or not. More game modes such as a no abilities mode would be good though. I'm looking forward to see how it will develop

The multi-player is broken compared to Modern Warfare 2's highly polished MP. 
 
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" tl;dr "  

 2. The freezing on online play has gotten horrible.