Alright, I am not here to start a rant but I cant stand searching for an hour and not finding any games for FFA.
This is an issue for me and I believe others living in AUS. Not to mention BTB servers are terrible also.
Pls Fix This 343!
They know about the issue. They just don’t care. I live in New Zealand and can only get games of Team Arena or Slayer and even then only at certain times.
i suggest searching google for a Halo 5 LFG (Looking for Game) website. I’m gonna try doing this.
I’m in NZ and same issue as above. I don’t think I’ve been able to play a game of anything other than slayer or arena since December 
Slayer, Team Arena and Warzone are pretty much the only reliable playlists in peak hours 5-midnight.
I woke up early this morning (4am) and could not find a game in Warzone, Slayer or Team Arena - let the search happen then received the message ‘There are not enough players in the list’ - over a period of 15 minutes. Went to play Pool Nation FX instead.
I understand the search criteria is limiting to Australian servers but I could handle Halo 3 with bad lag - expand the server regions. Titanfall did it best - you could choose your server region.
There just isn’t a critical mass of population in this game in Australia.
I feel for you OP, but you’re not the only one, majority if not all AUS/NZ players get this.
Team Arena, Slayer, Griftball, Assault and Warzone are the only playlists that seem to find games any more in this regions.
You ever jumped in with an American Fireteam? Holy… Search times are no more then 0.5 seconds, seriously they click ‘Start’ and Bam, game.
Even with a 1 man or 12 man Fireteam, attempting to find games still can have up to a 5 minute delay.
It’s really sad some regions are just left in the dark when it comes to this, but it’s just something you have to deal with in your region.