250ms is not playable and the threshold for what is considered a good connection must be lowered.
Australia is not a small community, we have a huge community of players.
The MAJORITY of my games are 180-250ms.
I have accepted that I will never have an enjoyable BTB match with a ping under 100. It hasn’t happened a single time since launch. So I will not queue for it anymore.
80-90% of my quickplay matches are over 100ms.
I can reluctantly deal with 90ms, which are SEA servers, but anything more is atrocious and makes me want to stop playing.
I have no confidence it will ever be addressed, as the focus
of 343 is feedback from NA players, and their concerns.
Smaller regions simply won’t be heard, and the issue of region selection is not noticed whatsoever. Just look at the posts claiming to consolidate all major feedback. No mention of being forced into 250ms games in any of them.
We have to be loud about this or the oceanic region WILL die.
Please create threads about this, all day. Be loud about it and help us be heard.
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One hundred percent agree! Every halo game has had this problem at launch except Halo 3! Even that game you could prefer to search for games with better connection, simple but it worked.
I’ve had it with the consistent neglect for oceanic players in Halo games. It took them years to add server selection to MCC.
If this game is supposed to be competitive and match other “Free to Play” titles in popularity, you need to be able to select OCE. If it doesn’t get added it leads to people constantly leaving matches and eventually the game entirely.
All-in-all it really isn’t fair that this feature isn’t in the game with how simple it is. It is something that affects nearly every experience you have within the game. How is that not a priority that shouldn’t be addressed now? Furthermore, it’s quite sad to be ending up in servers across the globe and still have people from your own region complaining about not getting an OCE server. This has happened countless times, the community is indeed here and in numbers. 343 need to do something about it, now.