Where are they? Why is my ping always above 150 at night, day time OK. Do they turn them off?
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There are Halo Infinite servers in Dublin and Amsterdam. I’m based in UK and very rarely ever connect to Dublin. Approx 50% of my games connect me to Amsterdam at approx 20ms and the rest are either connected to Washington (85ms), Dallas (120ms) or Los Angeles (185ms).
If they decided to ban geo filter then they needed to implement a system that provided region lock to overcome the issue with server selection…but they have failed badly. This is why I stopped playing the game because the game simply isn’t fun when playing at a huge disadvantage on high ping servers.
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Halo Infinite hosts it game servers on Azure PlayFab (that’s Microsoft Cloud Platform for gaming). They don’t turn servers on or off - the game tries to find a match and once it has a group it spins up an instance at the data center nearest to the majority of players in that match (unless that data center ran out of servers but that’s quite unlikely).
So the issue is not missing servers but rather how matchmaking groups players together. Location, MMR, wait times, playlist) all play into this. And in the eyes of many the weight given to those parameters leads to results that leave much to be desired. The likely easiest fix is as Konspiracy says: just allow people to region lock their search. That will of course lead to increased wait times but at least players then have some agency over whether or not they prefer high ping or long wait times.
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Region lock needs to be implemented ASAP then, I’d rather wait for a decent game than keep joining unplayable games
I’ll rather wait a few minutes extra than getting matched against NA-trash + 150ms ping.
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Corrected it for you.
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