Was wondering due to a lowering population if these options have been turned off.???
I’m a uk based player get LOADS of isssues with halo 5 stopped playing ranked and arena in general because of it . So I became exclusively a social playlist guy. But I’ve noticed that in warzone lately I’m still on balanced but I am now playing Americans , Mexicans and rest of the world players . Before I would recognise gamer tags in pretty much every game due to the amount I play I now don’t recognise any of the players I’m playing and the servers are pure trash . ( sorry to say but that’s the experience I’m receiving) I would NEVER play expanded because that made lag and hit detection awful but now every single game is like that . For example one case yesterday I hit someone square in the face with a splinter grenede then fired 4 shots on them and they ran over to me and meeled me once in the face and I died . Ok annoying if it happens every now and again and tbh I can live with that no experience is perfect. But now every single gun battle and game is not right it feels like mcc . I’ve played a lot I know when something is wrong . I know some of the match making perimeters were changed recently and players that were once blocked are now not so I was wondering if this has been changed ? Unfortunately for me now the game is being killed of as I am left without any playlists that I can play so if I can’t find some way of playing fair matches I’ll have to stop playing because it’s just not fun to struggle to go more than 10 kills and go even in a game of warzone especially when your used to regular hitting high amount of kills and kill streaks . I’m not the best player by far but I know when it’s working and when it’s not working and I certainly know how to get kills. The experience I’m getting is awful and it’s such a shame I love halo and halo is awesome if they could take away the bugs , glitches and randomness then this would be a very good game indeed. Thanks for reading.
I think it’s just down to a low player population. As a U.S player I am frequently matched with others all over the globe, often resulting in really poor quality matches. I stopped playing competitively several months ago because it was happening so consistently.
I seriously think that we should be able to block players though. I don’t care what the consequences are for super high level MMR, if I run into a guy with an open mic and a screeching child, they’re blocked because I don’t want to ever see them again. Same if I run into a teabagging ping-elemental from Mexico. Blocked, because I don’t want to play with that ever again. If that means players get to block ultra-sweats in ranked ladder so they don’t get matched with them, it’s a worthwhile consequence. 343 needs to stop making the social community make sacrifices for the sweats, it’s out of control.
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> I think it’s just down to a low player population. As a U.S player I am frequently matched with others all over the globe, often resulting in really poor quality matches. I stopped playing competitively several months ago because it was happening so consistently.
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> I seriously think that we should be able to block players though. I don’t care what the consequences are for super high level MMR, if I run into a guy with an open mic and a screeching child, they’re blocked because I don’t want to ever see them again. Same if I run into a teabagging ping-elemental from Mexico. Blocked, because I don’t want to play with that ever again. If that means players get to block ultra-sweats in ranked ladder so they don’t get matched with them, it’s a worthwhile consequence. 343 needs to stop making the social community make sacrifices for the sweats, it’s out of control.
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> Was wondering due to a lowering population if these options have been turned off.???
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> I’m a uk based player get LOADS of isssues with halo 5 stopped playing ranked and arena in general because of it . So I became exclusively a social playlist guy. But I’ve noticed that in warzone lately I’m still on balanced but I am now playing Americans , Mexicans and rest of the world players . Before I would recognise gamer tags in pretty much every game due to the amount I play I now don’t recognise any of the players I’m playing and the servers are pure trash . ( sorry to say but that’s the experience I’m receiving) I would NEVER play expanded because that made lag and hit detection awful but now every single game is like that . For example one case yesterday I hit someone square in the face with a splinter grenede then fired 4 shots on them and they ran over to me and meeled me once in the face and I died . Ok annoying if it happens every now and again and tbh I can live with that no experience is perfect. But now every single gun battle and game is not right it feels like mcc . I’ve played a lot I know when something is wrong . I know some of the match making perimeters were changed recently and players that were once blocked are now not so I was wondering if this has been changed ? Unfortunately for me now the game is being killed of as I am left without any playlists that I can play so if I can’t find some way of playing fair matches I’ll have to stop playing because it’s just not fun to struggle to go more than 10 kills and go even in a game of warzone especially when your used to regular hitting high amount of kills and kill streaks . I’m not the best player by far but I know when it’s working and when it’s not working and I certainly know how to get kills. The experience I’m getting is awful and it’s such a shame I love halo and halo is awesome if they could take away the bugs , glitches and randomness then this would be a very good game indeed. Thanks for reading.
This seems to be a common complaint at this point. I am in the mid-west US and have been consistently dealing with the same issues, even in “focused” matchmaking.
If you are in the UK, then it would make sense that you would experience lag and be at a bit of a disadvantage while playing on US-based servers against US-based players.
What doesn’t add up is when you are experiencing the issues you described while connected to a server in your region, yet the laggy players that obviously are not from your region seem to have super powers. Something is happening behind the scenes on the servers in those instances to give the poor connections an advantage because, if strictly based on ping/connection quality, the opposite would be the norm.
(I obviously don’t have inside info, but I tend to agree with the others that the likelihood is these issues have become more pronounced of late due to a combination of whatever 343 is doing to try to do smooth connection imbalances + player attrition. I’d imagine it is really difficult for 343 to triage and test for this in their QA sandboxes due to the variety of conditions that make it difficult to recreate in a small, controlled setting.)
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> > I think it’s just down to a low player population. As a U.S player I am frequently matched with others all over the globe, often resulting in really poor quality matches. I stopped playing competitively several months ago because it was happening so consistently.
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> > I seriously think that we should be able to block players though. I don’t care what the consequences are for super high level MMR, if I run into a guy with an open mic and a screeching child, they’re blocked because I don’t want to ever see them again. Same if I run into a teabagging ping-elemental from Mexico. Blocked, because I don’t want to play with that ever again. If that means players get to block ultra-sweats in ranked ladder so they don’t get matched with them, it’s a worthwhile consequence. 343 needs to stop making the social community make sacrifices for the sweats, it’s out of control.
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> You can always mute people.
I could, but then I can’t exactly talk to them and give callouts etc. Best case scenario for me is just to not match them anymore.
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> > Was wondering due to a lowering population if these options have been turned off.???
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> > I’m a uk based player get LOADS of isssues with halo 5 stopped playing ranked and arena in general because of it . So I became exclusively a social playlist guy. But I’ve noticed that in warzone lately I’m still on balanced but I am now playing Americans , Mexicans and rest of the world players . Before I would recognise gamer tags in pretty much every game due to the amount I play I now don’t recognise any of the players I’m playing and the servers are pure trash . ( sorry to say but that’s the experience I’m receiving) I would NEVER play expanded because that made lag and hit detection awful but now every single game is like that . For example one case yesterday I hit someone square in the face with a splinter grenede then fired 4 shots on them and they ran over to me and meeled me once in the face and I died . Ok annoying if it happens every now and again and tbh I can live with that no experience is perfect. But now every single gun battle and game is not right it feels like mcc . I’ve played a lot I know when something is wrong . I know some of the match making perimeters were changed recently and players that were once blocked are now not so I was wondering if this has been changed ? Unfortunately for me now the game is being killed of as I am left without any playlists that I can play so if I can’t find some way of playing fair matches I’ll have to stop playing because it’s just not fun to struggle to go more than 10 kills and go even in a game of warzone especially when your used to regular hitting high amount of kills and kill streaks . I’m not the best player by far but I know when it’s working and when it’s not working and I certainly know how to get kills. The experience I’m getting is awful and it’s such a shame I love halo and halo is awesome if they could take away the bugs , glitches and randomness then this would be a very good game indeed. Thanks for reading.
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> This seems to be a common complaint at this point. I am in the mid-west US and have been consistently dealing with the same issues, even in “focused” matchmaking.
>
> If you are in the UK, then it would make sense that you would experience lag and be at a bit of a disadvantage while playing on US-based servers against US-based players.
>
> What doesn’t add up is when you are experiencing the issues you described while connected to a server in your region, yet the laggy players that obviously are not from your region seem to have super powers. Something is happening behind the scenes on the servers in those instances to give the poor connections an advantage because, if strictly based on ping/connection quality, the opposite would be the norm.
>
> (I obviously don’t have inside info, but I tend to agree with the others that the likelihood is these issues have become more pronounced of late due to a combination of whatever 343 is doing to try to do smooth connection imbalances + player attrition. I’d imagine it is really difficult for 343 to triage and test for this in their QA sandboxes due to the variety of conditions that make it difficult to recreate in a small, controlled setting.)
I live in the North Central US and am getting very strange performance issues. So much so Ive started to keep track of all the IP addresses my router logs in for Halo5. I can confidently say Focus does very little in the connection side of things. I get very few games that play consistent back to back. There is some behind the scenes going on and imo this is killing the game and population all at once… Those sweaty games players are talking about are really from how poorly this game plays from one game to the next. Not so much skill based but performance based. This is a major reason why it is so hard to rank up. Its because of these roller coaster performance issues that is going on behind the scenes. When I search on FOCUS I’m still bouncing all over the US and even at times outside the US. Last week I had 3 games back to back that were not even in the US! At about 9pm cst I had game number one connect me to Sydney Australia. Game number two was in Melbourne Australia. And to top it off game number three was in Hong Kong! You tell me how in the world is this possible searching on FOCUS that I would end up there! And you can only imagine how well those games played… After the Hong Kong game I said the hell with this crap and quit for the night! Now I want to post the IP addresses but I’m not totally sure that is allowed. It is something I may ask Josh about. But what I want to clearly point out is there is something wrong. Or 343i is not totally being honest to its players on how exactly these search preferences work. Because on my end they are clearly broke! I have a very high end gaming router and it gives me very detailed info. So much info I can clearly see why this game plays like it does… This issue really starts back to when region lock was removed. It rarely was seen as a issue because the population kept it hidden and it effected a smaller number of players. Now as the population drops you will really see how bad this really is. And also lets not forget the adjustments that 343i has made to get players into a game faster. That’s really where we are at. And I don’t see it getting better… Even though I am very disappointed at where we are at this is not meant to bash 343. Under the circumstances I’m not sure there is much they can change now or even help at this point. But I would bet they have learned a lot with H5…
Man I can’t agree more with all of your comments as I’ve been banging on about this in posts since I’m having horrible connectivity resulting in just plain bad gameplay exactly like OP has experienced. Now I play from the West Coast of Australia and more than likely the Aussie Halo population is minimal so no doubt I’m connected to OS servers. I love Halo, I really do but the frustration is really getting to me to the point I went out yesterday and bought Titanfall 2 just to have a break from Halo and before I uninstall Halo 5 and hand back all the other Halo games to my local gameshop… ok I’m not going to do this but man it’s tempting sometimes… 343i please fix this if possible!