> 2533274802220999;1:
> Good morning Waypoint!
>
> So, I’ve had a strange issue with Halo 5: Guardians for a few months now that I’m curious if anyone else has encountered.
>
> When I boot up my game and go to pick a playlist, I always get an error that pops up saying “Could not find dedicated server” on the first search. It doesn’t matter if I’m looking for a game in Social, Ranked or Warzone - this always appears and it kicks me back to the playlist selection screen.
>
> When I search again it will put me in a lobby but always displays a pop up saying “Connection Lost” or “Could not connect”, something along those lines, but when I press ‘A’ I’m in the lobby and loading the map fine.
>
> I don’t know what causes this but it happens every single time on both of my Xbox One X’s (Project Scorpio and Battlefield V versions).
>
> I’ve tested this while hardwired and on Wi-Fi and have been through 3 routers (soon to be a shiny new 4th!) but the problem persists every time I try to play.
>
> It’s more of a nuisance than anything but I’m curious if anyone else has experienced this.
>
> Since it’s been happening I’ve also had connection issues with some friends on Xbox Live exclusively on Halo 5. One friend will get dropped from the lobby where the map is loading every single time while another can’t connect to custom games. Both have open nats and high internet speeds (the one who gets dropped every time has gigabit fiber).
>
> It’s kind of frustrating because Halo 5 is one of my favorite games to play and these issues can cause such a headache that we end up hoping over to MCC, Smite, Apex or Gears of War 4 instead.
>
> If anyone has any feedback and maybe even a potential solution, I would greatly appreciate the help.
>
> Regardless, thank you for taking the time to read my post and I hope you have a wonderful day!
> 2533274843056602;2:
> Over the past few months, I’ve experienced the “connection lost” problem more than I would expect. But not at the frequency you describe, and certainly not every time I boot the game. Just a wild guess - maybe 10% of the time for me.
>
> I’m mostly a solo player, but every so often I’ll play with my brother. The second scenario happens frequently when we match together - seems like we can’t play more than a few games before it boots one of us as the map loads.
>
> Of course, last week everyone was having serious lag issues. I’m not sure when things stand with that problem.
I have also been experiencing this really badly since at least December initially just the first game of the day, but increasingly now ever time I open the game it’s the same. Last night just took the biscuit though:
Was playing in the social stream. During a break came out of the game to check on my Sea of Thieves update progress and accidentally tried to launch it (closing H5). I relaunched H5, tried to find a match: then in the stream they said they were going to do Super Fiesta, changed their mind to BTB Super Fiesta, then back to normal Super Fiesta. During the indecision I backed out of the queue I was in to try and make sure I was in the right one, then put myself into the right queue… this must have been about 21:40 or so GMT. TImestamp 1h 15m 50s in the stream: Halo is on Facebook Gaming.
I matched with them, looked forward to the game, celebrated the Unicorn Skin being mine… and yeah… then saw on the stream as my logo disappeared from the match while my screen still showed 4/4 Loading but with no progress in the final bar - then finally that dreaded error message because of precisely this issue. stckrboy confirmed that unfortunately they only award the skin to people who manage to complete matches with the team no matter what. More than understand that they’ve got to have rules around this, but if the above issue wasn’t annoying enough already this just makes it take the biscuit. Cannot understand how this issue is still so prevalent.
Here’s the kicker: I almost never get to play during the social steam times as 21:30 UK time tends to be when my partner gets in from running a local guides unit so she needs help in with all that stuff and, as it’s the first time I’ve seen her since the morning so spend time with her. Due to the clocks change and a work trip this was one of the few times I could actually play the social stream and try to match with them. Being an UK player I was always resigned to the fact that it would probably be unlikely I’d manage to. My very good friends are all fire and brimstone about it saying I should kick up a fuss, but I can totally understand that they’ve got to be fair and game completion is the criteria they use. I love Halo, 343i, and the entire waypoint team and I’m as gutted about losing what might be my only chance for quite some time to get the Unicorn skin because of this, now well-publicised, initial launch disconnect problem, as I am about missing the opportunity to play with the awesome due they had in the stream.
Whatever you need from the community though we’re rooting for this problem to be fixed: so if you need more data after Josh Menke’s call for some on twitter last month we are here for it.
RIP my precious skin… I’ll get you some day, but this issue is more annoying to a whole lot more people than just me! Praying I’m the last to get affected in this way.
