For the last week it’s about impossible to find a playable game. Doesn’t matter which time I try or what playlist I try. The only playlists that has some players is husky raid and warzone firefight heroic. Other players experiencing the same? 343 better delete half the playlists and hurt people’s feelings rather than have al those barren ones.
That’s always bound to happen when a game with so many different modes starts to show its age. I think they rotate out playlists to focus on the more popular ones but there’s only so much you can do to entice players.
They rotated in Grifball this week and made Infection double XP all month long. People are in those playlists right now since those are the only two playlists I can get games with virtually zero wait. Everything else right now is like 4-5 minute waits between games. And with people trying to make their pushes to 152, I’m expecting Infection to be the healthiest playlist for the rest of the month.
I feel ya man, before last week I could solo Q in BTB and find match after match after match, this last week I solo Q and can’t find a single match even during peak hours. I’m not sure if it’s population or if a bug recently popped up. Yes, I try expanded .
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> For the last week it’s about impossible to find a playable game. Doesn’t matter which time I try or what playlist I try. The only playlists that has some players is husky raid and warzone firefight heroic. Other players experiencing the same? 343 better delete half the playlists and hurt people’s feelings rather than have al those barren ones.
It’s only possible to get matches on expanded search. Apart from that, I found that it depends on the time of day. In the EU in the evenings it’s usually ok. Any other time of the day, I can maybe play WZFF but nothing else.
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> For the last week it’s about impossible to find a playable game. Doesn’t matter which time I try or what playlist I try. The only playlists that has some players is husky raid and warzone firefight heroic. Other players experiencing the same? 343 better delete half the playlists and hurt people’s feelings rather than have al those barren ones.
In this blog post they mention that they are considering reducing the amount of playlists in the new year.
> Additionally, we did want to give you all a heads up that we may start to reduce the total amount of playlists in the new year. Since Halo 5’s launch four years ago, we’ve slowly added more and more playlists and have now gotten to the point where we have eighteen unique playlist offerings up at all times (with even more on special Warzone weekends). While having more choices is definitely a good thing, we’re starting to notice that people may be getting a little too scattered across these experiences.
> As a result, in 2020 we may reel those eighteen in a bit and increase the cadence of our rotational schedule to ensure that you can continue to find quality matches without long wait times. It’s one option we’ve been looking into, as we’ve noticed that when playlist are shifted to the rotational slots they’ve performed much better than they have in years – meaning your favorite playlist will always have a great experience when it rotates into matchmaking. The team is still exploring options here, but we just wanted to provide an ample awareness that this is something that is currently on our radar for next year.
I just want to make sure that they keep all game modes active that allow for commendation progress, specifically:
- Strongholds - BreakoutI assume Slayer, CTF, Warzone and Warzone Firefight aren’t in danger.
And bring back Assault 4v4 for Spartan Company Commendations!
At this point, halo 5 should go free to play. As a celebration of the final year of the xbox one and so that the serves can be populated.
I think it’s been on game pass for a good while now.
I think extending the double exp event (again) will help the playerbase out a bit. More players have been wanting to complete the grind to SR152 (including myself) and the exp required to do so is so unbearably and discouragingly long. Give the players some motivation and see more players return.