343, we have a game-breaking problem.

I was playing with some friends and we ALL started getting massive lag. My PC was running, so I booted up OBS and recorded most of the game. Game audio is cut out (XB1 set to DVI output because HDMI washes out colors) but party chat is recorded on the video.
This looks and feels exactly like the Halo 2 “standby” exploit. Here’s a Youtube link from my perspective, then XboxDVR links from a teammate’s perspective.

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What happened? I’m on a gigabit fiber connection, direct wired. This was affecting our whole party/team at the same time. This was either server problems or an exploit, and it felt like the latter. The game only started lagging heavily for us in gunfights. I don’t know how or why this is happening with dedicated servers.

Dedicated servers were a mistake

They shouldn’t be able to cheat on dedicated servers. Cheating worked on P2P because host could effectively cut off everyone else from their game. So unless these guys actually had control of the MS dedicated server the game was being run on, it shouldn’t be cheating. Which would mean that the servers are just bad at running simple 4v4 games.

Either way, these dedicated servers are far from the solution to all lag and cheating they were hailed to be.

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That sucks, I’ve had that happen to me a couple times.

one more time.

dedicated servers do not fix lag they only fix what happened with p2p connections which is that it stops the host migrating.dropping out because the game couldnt find another host. those kind of problems

Wow. That was painful to watch. I understand your skepticism. You look like a really good player (way better than me) but you were losing one-on-ones that you had every right to win.

I guess it’s possible that their end had a connection issue that lagged their movements. But I don’t understand how that wouldn’t effect their aiming and kills too. It’s good that you captured it all on video. Hopefully somebody at 343 can get this and diagnose.

You should repost this in the support forum.

Hahaha it was so funny when you punched that terminal because you couldn’t crouch jump off of it

Its just bad server lag. It happens.