Hello fellow Spartans. Just thought I’d post and help shed a little light to what is going on with the servers and a description or theory on some of them. Some of you may have seen the same or similar post from me on another topic but I have slightly edited this.
Currently the server problems right now are a wide spread issue. Everyone is having them so you are not alone. The Disconnect issues are frequent and numerous at the moment and have been happening off and on since the release of Halo 5 but more recently it has been a larger issue since the start of the February season. It seems Arena’s are the most Messed up the most along with the REQ system access. Below are a list of current problems other players and myself are experiencing.
- frequent and random lags and/or DC’s from multiplayer.
- Requisition packs inaccessible. Seems that when attempting to access the system wither in game or game menu one cannot view A. Saved Req points. B. Req store C. earned req pack waiting to be opened. and D. Current collections like load outs and items from req packs.
- Game stats after a game. I myself have experienced all day yesterday at least (probably more than just the last 24 hours for others) that after finishing an arena or warzone game, You see the stats screen with a circle thing saying retrieving data and for me it sits there for 3-5+ minutes without being able to back out using “B”.
- Random an unfair bans. Have read some posts where most of the time the player being banned has stayed the whole game and it appears that the other remaining players drop connection randomly and said player is the only one still in it. Hence still receiving an unfair ban as a result. This may be something I would call desync. In another PC related game, Desync is when one players game state becomes corrupted or the game virtually splits in two. While all players who had originally joined are present and still in the game, some players cannot see where they are or, in some games, what character they choose. They can still chat in most cases with other players. But it is as if they are playing two different versions of the same game. So in Halo 5, if it seems most or all of the players in your game have dropped, it may just be you and your network or console doesn’t know it yet. Hence because it would result in you being the one who Disconnected and receiving the ban.
This is currently all the information I have gathered as a Fellow player at the moment. Unknown if or when these problems will be addressed or fixed. Hope my explanation on some of these issues sheds some light. Also it seems more of these issues are related to arena matchmaking but warzones are working just without req access.
