How is the game running for you guys? Any significant improvements on your end?
(* crickets chirping *)
Honestly I don’t know the answer though… as of two weeks ago the best ping I can obtain from Australia is 150ms to West US servers.
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Main menu, Easter long weekend.
School holidays, should have more people playing like.
Search in quick play, average wait time 3 minutes 42 seconds.
Game tells me there’s no one playing while searching before getting to that search time.
Close game. Open MCC.
Search slayer across all the halo’s
Finds game in matter of seconds.
Plays halo.
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This is the only way to play Halo.
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I was getting games pretty quickly yesterday. In Tasmania, Australia.
But only a couple were 25ms, and the rest around the 200ms mark.
Somewhat ironically I played a handful of games at 200ms and it really didn’t feel like it. The game was crisp and responsive. If it wasn’t for the number on the screen I would have thought I was at 25ms. But then, the one game I played at 120ms, was a dog’s -Yoink!- of a breakfast.
honestly a 200ms game isn’t always THAT bad. But because even social slayer is too aggressively skill matched it means you just lose every encounter because they have a 200ms one up on you. Hello bullets through walls… not to mention the d’sync problems being amplified by the lag.
This game is hell if you don’t play it in the US since it loves to suck you into NA lobbies
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East coast Canada.
Games working fine, most of my games are 70-80 ping, but sometimes they got 100-120 and then I start having issues
Austraia here
Haven’t played in a while but before I stopped playing I couldn’t find a game with less than 120ms ping which means I was pinging (probably) US west servers
To be fair, this is the same for MCC
At least it was before I stopped playing that as well
I’m in EU. It’s generally okay with exception of BTB.
EU BTB feels utterly frustrating and unfair, I am constantly having matches where I die with no time to react. I have good internet connection and gaming PC. When we win it doesn’t feel like it was because I had a hand in it. It is just a consequence of matchmaking adjusting after losing 1-2 BTB matches.
I tried using a VPN to the US and match wait times improved. 17-20 seconds wait for BTB vs. 50-60 seconds in EU. But more notable was how combat with other players felt like other modes. Engagements feel fairer and based on performance. I can understand why I died and learn from it, for example, rather than being killed without even seeing the enemy.
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Uninstalled couldnt finish many matches got dropped consistently
A big part of the issue with BTB is the server tick rate is much lower than Arena. If I recall correctly, 343i confirmed Arena servers are at 60 and BTB is 30.
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Anyone outside of the US is disregarded by 343 in general. I’ve geoblocked all servers outside of EU because the latency is terrible and the game doesn’t seem to be able to handle anything over 20ms without wild netcode and rubberbanding issues. That leaves the EU servers which contain what feels like 25 people max at any given time, with 5 minute queues for a match which places you with a team of AFKers, leavers or against a team which is significantly worse than yours, so the game isn’t even satisfying to win. It’s the general disregard for the entire playerbase and the requests that the players make (to improve the damn game) that made me quit playing. I’ll play again as soon as, if ever, they fix the dumpster fire of issues that plague the game.
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Basically impossible and stopped playing, theres 0 point in playing when youre so out of sync…
Halo infinite apparently isnt infinite, call it halo US and be done with it
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21/23ms all night no issues… didn’t play any BTB though just 4v4 - based in the U.K. - Series S.