For the past week or two, Halo 5’s matchmaking servers have been absolutely awful.
People are eating shots consistently, ghost melees are more common than ever, and games are repeatedly freezing in the middle of matches.
There’s been practically no updates to Halo 5 in a very long time, so no update could have magically started this poor connection. Is 343 just trying to save money but cutting down on the server budget or something?
odd, servers have actually been better for me this week than last which was when I was hitting my head against the wall. I think these things just come in waves, it might be a bit of confirmation bias playing into itself when we get frustrated as well. I also play at odd hours because of my graveyard shift so i’m not sure if that plays into it at all either.
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> odd, servers have actually been better for me this week than last which was when I was hitting my head against the wall. I think these things just come in waves, it might be a bit of confirmation bias playing into itself when we get frustrated as well. I also play at odd hours because of my graveyard shift so i’m not sure if that plays into it at all either.
Confirmation bias? I guess everyone that I know and have been talking to lately have this “confirmation bias” that just magically started when this season began, right?
This poor connection happens a large majority of games and all of my competitive friends and even streamers have been talking about it recently. Not really sure what you’ve been experiencing or what rock you’ve been living under, but many players are voicing the same issue as of late.
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> odd, servers have actually been better for me this week than last which was when I was hitting my head against the wall. I think these things just come in waves, it might be a bit of confirmation bias playing into itself when we get frustrated as well. I also play at odd hours because of my graveyard shift so i’m not sure if that plays into it at all either.
There is no possible way on this earth you’ve had decent connection at best the last week. It’s been absolutely horrible.
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> > odd, servers have actually been better for me this week than last which was when I was hitting my head against the wall. I think these things just come in waves, it might be a bit of confirmation bias playing into itself when we get frustrated as well. I also play at odd hours because of my graveyard shift so i’m not sure if that plays into it at all either.
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> There is no possible way on this earth you’ve had decent connection at best the last week. It’s been absolutely horrible.
Yeah dude, my connection isn’t actually freezing repeatedly, and I’m totally not getting ghost melees. It’s just my confirmation bias. My bad. LOL.
I don’t know any of you. But I can confirm that the servers have been worse more recently. The lag has been more severe, company members in my fireteam (who happen to live across town) have broken connection and have had to restart more that usual lately. All in all… it’s been getting worse as time goes by… It’s almost as if the game/servers could use a good updating or something…
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> I don’t know any of you. But I can confirm that the servers have been worse more recently. The lag has been more severe, company members in my fireteam (who happen to live across town) have broken connection and have had to restart more that usual lately. All in all… it’s been getting worse as time goes by… It’s almost as if the game/servers could use a good updating or something…
Yep, tons of streamers and competitive players are saying that too. I want an answer from 343.
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> > I don’t know any of you. But I can confirm that the servers have been worse more recently. The lag has been more severe, company members in my fireteam (who happen to live across town) have broken connection and have had to restart more that usual lately. All in all… it’s been getting worse as time goes by… It’s almost as if the game/servers could use a good updating or something…
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> Yep, tons of streamers and competitive players are saying that too. I want an answer from 343.
You won’t get one.
The answer is simple. 343 already announced they are no longer supporting this title quite a long time ago. That means no more updates. No more patches. No more server maintenance. Which is exactly why 343 won’t answer, because we already have the answer.
If your goal is 152 before Infinite. I advise getting it sooner than later. The servers will continue to get gradually worse. Even worse than that, the player count will be decimated once Infinite launches which means it could become impossible to match enough games to get 152 post Infinite launch.
The servers were down recently and since then they’ve been terrible for me and when you’re used to the normal connection being bad it’s pretty unbelievable they’ve actually got worse !
Someone who knows more than me could probably have a rebuttal to this or think I’m crazy. But I’m also wondering if the influx of population due to fortnite, the 152 reward announcement coupled with the double xp events last year is overtaxing what’s left of the system.
The whole “we’re not supporting this title anymore” simply infuriates me as a player. Aside from the Halo Wars series (I don’t play them so I don’t know their respective release dates), Halo 5 is the newest title in the franchise. MCC is nothing more than updated versions of games in the franchise that are up to 20 years old. The only thing they’re doing is giving us name plates, armors and other customization. These are all things they could have done all of that in Halo 5, and fixed all of the other problems that everyone knows about, but can’t be bothered to fix. It’s especially frustrating because they know there’s going to be a push to get to 152 now that they’ve announced a reward, and brought Master Chief to fortnite…
That’s why I whole heartedly agree with some of my comrades here, if you’re pushing for 152 and/or comms and achievements, I’d try to finish it sooner rather than later. I’d also find a company that still plays Halo 5 on a regular basis (hint hint check mine out).
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> > odd, servers have actually been better for me this week than last which was when I was hitting my head against the wall. I think these things just come in waves, it might be a bit of confirmation bias playing into itself when we get frustrated as well. I also play at odd hours because of my graveyard shift so i’m not sure if that plays into it at all either.
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> Confirmation bias? I guess everyone that I know and have been talking to lately have this “confirmation bias” that just magically started when this season began, right?
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> This poor connection happens a large majority of games and all of my competitive friends and even streamers have been talking about it recently. Not really sure what you’ve been experiencing or what rock you’ve been living under, but many players are voicing the same issue as of late.
I had no intention of invalidating your experience, and I am sorry if it came across as such as I was only offering what has personally been true for me in the past when I have become frustrated, and what can be true for a sociological point of view (groupthink and confirmation bias can certainly play into each other, but if you are certain of your experiences you don’t need me to tell you to consider any of that, I was only spitballing here.). I don’t play competitively or follow competitive discords so yea If I am out of the loop; I am out of the loop.
All I can contribute is my own experience: I have personally not been having problems with the server this week, last week it was worse for me and the issues seems to come in waves for me. weeks/days with no problem and weeks/days filled with them. I also was on hiatus for the past 6 months so I cant properly compare before/after the season either, I don’t ever remember H5 servers being perfect but they haven’t seemed that much worse, to me personally, since I have returned.
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> Someone who knows more than me could probably have a rebuttal to this or think I’m crazy. But I’m also wondering if the influx of population due to fortnite, the 152 reward announcement coupled with the double xp events last year is overtaxing what’s left of the system.
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> The whole “we’re not supporting this title anymore” simply infuriates me as a player. Aside from the Halo Wars series (I don’t play them so I don’t know their respective release dates), Halo 5 is the newest title in the franchise. MCC is nothing more than updated versions of games in the franchise that are up to 20 years old. The only thing they’re doing is giving us name plates, armors and other customization. These are all things they could have done all of that in Halo 5, and fixed all of the other problems that everyone knows about, but can’t be bothered to fix. It’s especially frustrating because they know there’s going to be a push to get to 152 now that they’ve announced a reward, and brought Master Chief to fortnite…
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> That’s why I whole heartedly agree with some of my comrades here, if you’re pushing for 152 and/or comms and achievements, I’d try to finish it sooner rather than later. I’d also find a company that still plays Halo 5 on a regular basis (hint hint check mine out).
343 abandoning H5 after just 2 short years also disappoints me and Halo 5 was already my least favorite halo. It still had a dedicated fanbase that didn’t deserve to be forgotten and just because they aren’t going to be making hand over fist in cash from req packs like they may have expected that is just no good reason to abandon a project you released to your community. So many improvements that could still be made and the game could be better than it is still with very minor tweaks here and there.
I think that Influx from other gaming communities is a fair theory, it would also line up with why my servers are better considering that I play between 12-8am PST as I work overnight shifts so my schedule is reversed from nearly all the american highschoolers who play Fortnite, although the technical answer is unlikely to be as simple as we would like to be honest.
Servers are a severe hit or miss. When you have team mates lagging out of matches but remaining in the party chat and still on xbox live all while telling you they just lagged out…you know it ain’t their internet connection. I’ve also experienced all the above. Once in awhile there will be a healthy string of matches…but the bad ones are just unbearable at times. I’ll jump up to clamber something and suddenly my game teleports me somewhere else all while I thought I was traveling top level of map somewhere only to be running straight into a wall. It’s worse when it happens when you’re engaging someone.
Throw in ghost shots, ghost melee , no aim assist at times with RR not even activating with a dude standing right in front of you all equals a horrible experience for anyone going through these bad matches.
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> For the past week or two, Halo 5’s matchmaking servers have been absolutely awful.
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> People are eating shots consistently, ghost melees are more common than ever, and games are repeatedly freezing in the middle of matches.
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> There’s been practically no updates to Halo 5 in a very long time, so no update could have magically started this poor connection. Is 343 just trying to save money but cutting down on the server budget or something?
Hey man I dont know if you were there on release, but there was problems then too. From matchmaking to buying a REQ pack, connection issues were common. So this doesn’t surprise me one bit.
Been having server spikes once or twice a game now where it’ll either teleport you somewhere else or it’ll freeze for like 3 seconds. Along with a daily disconnect now. (While staying in the party and continuing to talk) so it’s not internet problems. Me and everyone I’ve talked to have been having these problems for the past month.
Agreed straight garbage servers for about 2 weeks in a row. Try and engage an enemy and guns wont shoot. Actions delayed. Not even fun to try to play.
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> Agreed straight garbage servers for about 2 weeks in a row. Try and engage an enemy and guns wont shoot. Actions delayed. Not even fun to try to play.
It’s almost like 343 is trying to kill off the Halo Population or something.
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> > Agreed straight garbage servers for about 2 weeks in a row. Try and engage an enemy and guns wont shoot. Actions delayed. Not even fun to try to play.
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> It’s almost like 343 is trying to kill off the Halo Population or something.
I dunno, but this is pretty much the same thing that happened to the old Reach Servers. Slow decline to unplayable. 343 insisted they were not manipulating anything to get people to switch to mcc reach…
It’s been pretty tricky, I’ve had issues finding matches, but switched the preset to “expanded” so it’ll get players worse/better ranked than I. That seemed to fix quite a few of them and I find matches within a minute now
The connection has been seriously bad, and on top of that the game crashes more frequently than it ever has in a few years. It blows me away that 343 doesn’t do occasional tweaking to the code and other parts of the game and servers to make the connection better.
Seriously its like nothing is ever done to help patch the game up performance wise. I’d like to see this thread bumped or at least moved up closer to the top of the forums so that someone at 343 sees this and considers doing something about it. Or at least forwarding it to their boss so something can be done about the decaying network quality and connection.
Also don’t forget ghost matchmaking.
When i enter the Ranked arena and exit AFTER even 10 minutes of false loading and searching, it apears to exit in Matchmaking itself like Quickplay and Infection. Its pain full how much time i lost by this bug!