I live in Dubai, so the closest servers to me are in EU. I do sometimes get really good pings with hardly any delay but when I play ranked (because of being a slightly higher rank) or any playlist thats not highly populated I play on NA Severs and get over 200ms ping. I get why i have ping and theres nothing I can really say about that, however in CUSTOMS, even when playing with other people in dubai we always connect to EU Servers and sometimes even NA servers.
This baffles me because ive been connected to games with next to no lag before so I know there is servers in either East EU Or the Middle East but youre not able to choose the server in customs.
An option to either have the game auto select the server (like it does now) ALONGSIDE an option for u to choose a server for each custom game would be appreciated. Theres no reason for 5 people in dubai to connect to EU when theres a server close to home.
For Halo MCC Ive noticed the servers are a lot more laggy than they are for halo 5. Im not sure whether this is because of there only being 40k insider members or if the retail version will have better servers but an option to choose the server on MCC would also help, since the closest server on MCC has 140ms ping, i would prefer just having hosts at that point in time. (In fact hosts work better for me since u can get lucky and get an eastern EU host, u cant do the same for servers but whatever)