It will say “Problem connecting to the dedicated servers” if you try to play right now
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Can confirm, thats why im here lol
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Im experiencing this issue as well.
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Same here, can’t get a game.
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Finally get into a game of btb after numerous attempts and crashes and then this happens. This game continues to be all kinds of broken. What a disgrace.
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Same here as well!
Need more characters!
Same. I just turn on the xbox to play and apparently its down. Wasted a double xp to.
Been watching down detector theres over 5k people saying their down to.
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Same on my end as well. Ranked Arena has actually vanished from my multiplayer menu.
https://forums.halowaypoint.com/t/playlists-dont-work/472906/17
Big team battle is not even showing up on my screen
Seems to be working again, just got into a game
Weird. I’m able to get games but my challenges are bugged to where it won’t progress anymore until I restart the game
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well try it now cause halo support just tweeted they fixed the issue and if you still have it just restart the game
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My friends and I just quit time 8:52 PST could not get on a server after 6 tries. 
THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE WHY WE NEED OUR OWN DAMN DEDICATED SERVER SOFTWARE!!!
For the past day before that, the servers have been SERIOUSLY LAGGY.
My K/D dropped down low in most matches because of this lag issue. I have slid behind cover and began to reload… only to die to bullets that are not able to reach me because the server is putting my Spartan on the field still in the line of fire of the enemy.
I even tried to go into bot matches and EVEN THE BOTS ARE LAGGING !
It is really fun to take a skewer and shoot down low because a Spartan drops down and all of a sudden they are six feet in the air because their imputs don’t register in time on my screen until whatever damage I send their way makes the system go “oh wait, those bullets that are going down to hit the spartan below shouldn’t register, because the Spartan is above! Here, let us update that for you.”
Or when you are running up to a Spartan for a melee fight, but in the time it takes for you to melee-strike at one guy; he is SUDDENLY able to double-whack you because on his screen you suddenly started to stand still while in reality you have moved and strafed to attempt another hit, only to hit a “Lag Ghost”.
Honestly, I am pretty sure they are having plenty of issues server-side and have them shut down for unannounced maintainance because it was a problem that breaks the game so hard that it is best to shut down and fix rather than announce THEN shutdown and fix.
I’d imagine their down to bring in a patch or hot fix maybe? Imagine if they were down for good reasons and everybody’s complaining
I think of anything it would be the lack of communication, people coming be ause they only have general assumptions to go off of.
However I’m rather worried for the update. So far they have a trend of breaking the game each time they do something to it