The first time playing after the most recent update launched, it felt like I was playing on lan using focused search. Of course, the community was heavy for the first couple days after the last update. Today we were back to high latency even using focused searches. The search options do not replace Region Lock. It doesn’t guarantee you a local server with a good ping. It still balances out other aspects and if your region has low population, you’ll probably play on another region’s servers so that low search time and pairing you with even skill can be achieved.
This game needs region lock to be enjoyable in certain regions. This includes regions in the US. Playing someone on the other side of the country who is playing on their local server still makes playing this game frustrating. I’d be willing to wait twice as long as play people much better if it meant playing on a local server. This most recent solution is still barely a band-aid in some areas. I know that the only chance of playing on local servers is if I’m playing at absolute peak population times…and that’s not right.
Hit and miss for me also… But strange thing is I have never been disconnected once until last night. And I thought for sure it was going to give me a DNF. But instead I got a TIE… And didn’t even play one second in the game. You can check it out in my arena stats… There seems to be some bugs rearing there ugly head in the servers for me. :-/
The first night after the update the connection was insanely good on focused. I never had so many perfect kills in a short span. I had back to back games of 20 and 22 headshots. Today I couldn’t get in double digit kills and 6 headshots with a BR wouldn’t take people down.
We might need to conclude that 343 just has a poor netcode. Starting with MCC, their games have performed the most inconsistent of any Xbox shooter from a large studio. With Halo 6, they’ll need to go back to the drawing board on matchmaking and netcode. Matchmaking and connection issues have kept Halo 5 from being the classic it should’ve been.
I totally useless it makes no difference if i use balanced or focused. I get guys twice my rank, balanced my butt. Region lock is the answer! 343 needs to wake up and fast.
Guys, it just alters how the match making starts it’s initial search for other players. It’s not like the system was made to not start a match until every player is a perfect match for each other…
Heres the thing with this matchmaking preference… If you pick “focused” that doesn’t guarantee you will automatically ping to the best server. For some reason this is very strange concept they gave us. Almost to the point I feel they are hiding something…lol… If they would just give us “server selection” and show us our ping numbers then we can pick the server accordingly. And once we knew what our ping numbers were we would know what to expect in the game and play to our connection or ping. Other games have this feature and is nothing new… I hate bashing 343 for things like this but its not like they are coping from other games… This is just a basic building block that makes games great or better for players.
I had some good games today, but a pop counter and data centre selection would be ideal don’t know why people on here defend 343 over very basic features