Came home from school to find a message about doing server updates in the morning, which made me happy. Until, I actually began searching for games. Nothing has changed. I still can’t find matches.
Very, very disappointed right now 343i. It is day 2, and I can’t play the game. Unacceptable. We’ll see how long this carries out, but for now I’m not too excited about buying any other products from this company.
For some of us it’s day 3 
343 metaphorically dropped the ball, so to speak.
expect bad matchmaking for at least a week. 343 dropped an update today but hasn’t made that much difference. 5-10min+ wait times and major lag. next update is the weekend so you can count the launch week multiplayer out the -Yoinking!- window.
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> expect bad matchmaking for at least a week. 343 dropped an update today but hasn’t made that much difference. 5-10min+ wait times and major lag. next update is the weekend so you can count the launch week multiplayer out the -Yoinking!- window.
Actually there is going to be a community update at 5pm today. Not sure if that will be a server side or client side patch though. But 343 will speak again and give us an update in 3 hours. Last time they were an hour late on their community update, though. So might end up being around 6 before they speak up.
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> expect bad matchmaking for at least a week. 343 dropped an update today but hasn’t made that much difference. 5-10min+ wait times and major lag. next update is the weekend so you can count the launch week multiplayer out the -Yoinking!- window.
At least it’s working at all, now. Before the update, I couldn’t join matches at all.
After the update, I can join matches after around 5 minutes.
I see a big improvement, there. Going from nothing to small wait time.
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> > 2586889071684737;4:
> > expect bad matchmaking for at least a week. 343 dropped an update today but hasn’t made that much difference. 5-10min+ wait times and major lag. next update is the weekend so you can count the launch week multiplayer out the -Yoinking!- window.
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> At least it’s working at all, now. Before the update, I couldn’t join matches at all.
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> After the update, I can join matches after around 5 minutes.
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> I see a big improvement, there. Going from nothing to small wait time.
Let’s not consider 5 minutes a short wait time for matchmaking lest 343 see this and deem it to be acceptable. let’s also remember that the original halo 2 multiplayer could place you in a match before you had time to scratch your balls. I knew this game would bring me nostalgia, I just didn’t think it would bring me back to a time when developers released games that were inherently broken.