How’s that? Easy. We Start shooting at the same time, I don’t miss any shot and who dies? Yeah, I do. I try to melee an enemy, but my melee doesn’t count but my enemy’s does. I shoot in my enemy’s head with no shield, doesn’t die and I end up dead. I throw 2 grenades to an enem without shield, my enemy doesn’t die, and I instantly die when that happens.
Been there brother, it’s just the way it is with servers in other countries. Adding a dated network like most of Australia and you have a recipe for disaster.
I don’t often get terrible lag with Halo 5, but sometimes I can feel the latency.
I think it’s about time you put in some practise and git gud scrub!
I’m joking, the servers are trash. I’m in the UK and its terrible.
Seems to happen to me but not because of lag, it’s just because the game is rigged.
'Merica
If you don’t like it, you can git outttt
So how true is this, I mean is there an article or something that enforce this? I am a noob, but sometimes it feels like they make more damage than usual.
It sucks just as bad in America haha. I see that same crap. Even more now than usual. Games almost unplayable online
It’s a tough issue actually. I love halo and just want to play, but most of all I want to play on the local servers.
For the first time, a Halo game has local, dedicated servers in Australia. Well call me skippy and throw a shrimp on the barbie. You beaut. It’s actually amazing, after YEARS of yellow bar games on p2p connections where the host is 200ms away, I can play Halo on low ping.
And yet during the first few months, and for the beta, the game didn’t bloody use them. I am still SO SALTY. When the population was highest, we couldn’t find local matches. Ridiculous. Edit to say I wonder how much damage this did to the long term regional population, I’d wager a lot.
They eventually fixed that, and after many cries for help, added the matchmaking options, Focused, Balanced and Expanded. More than that though they made it so that Balanced would default to our local servers. This was the H5 golden age, in 2016, I could play Halo 5 with no lag. Happier than a kookaburra in a gum tree.
Now, I’m not sure exactly what happened, but the local population dropped. More and more games came out, Overwatch came out, lots of people in Australia stopped playing. Now your average player doesn’t really know about ping or servers, this was the great population drop. People in Australia stopped searching balanced because they couldn’t even find a game. They took to desperate measures, like searching Expanded, and they complained that they couldn’t find games, on twitter, on reddit, on waypoint. So 343 listened and changed the settings back, Balanced. This was recently, a few months ago - the game doesn’t care if you’re on 200ms ping, it will find you a match fast (this is still somewhat of a blessing I guess).
So here we are.
Focused - will get you a local connection guaranteed, unfortunately because literally no one in a regional area apparently cares about ping, no one uses it. It doesn’t work.
Balanced - You’ll find games fast, someitmes they may not even be that bad of a connection, but most are just a horrible mess. When playing people of equal skill, it is just frustrating and hopeless.
Expanded - Well you know what you’re getting in for.
So if you want local games you have a few options.
- Party up with people from your region when you find them, these are nuggets of power. If you have a team of 4, you’re pretty likely to get a local server even searching on balanced, depending on your ranks.
- Play customs with friends.
- Endlessly search focussed and hope for games while you play Heroes of the Storm (this is what I do).
- Give up and play on balanced and enter the rage cage of laggy online Halo 5.
Couple of things need to happen for this to be fixed.
The population needs to improve drastically.
That’s actually it really. It really is just because the population is low in regional areas. People understandably get sick of playing the same people over and over, they also get sick of losing to the same 4-5 skilled players. I get it.
Anyway - rant over. Looking forwards to H6.
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Yeah I have been in an infection match where I hit a guy with an energy sword and I heard the sound of the sword stabbing this guy but nothing happens.its happens in America too
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Hey I’M Skippy!
Okay joke aside you really hit it home with your post. Matchmaking would’ve been hella better if these search parameters were in the game at launch. Here’s hoping it’s standard for H6.
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> Okay joke aside you really hit it home with your post. Matchmaking would’ve been hella better if these search parameters were in the game at launch. Here’s hoping it’s standard for H6.
Skippy! G’day cobber 
Josh Menke really listens and matchmaking has improved a lot since his hire earlier this year, I have high hopes for H6. He seems open to ideas that would really benefit regional areas, like condensed playlists, combined social/ranked playlists - things that keep the population higher.
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Well on oct 1st 343 put a mini patch out for WZ after it had a mini stroke and when all the sleepy Americans wake up and play WZ my spartan delelops a rare disease that turn his actions and wepons into a baked potatoe, yum i do like potatoe (im dead inside when an AR noob poops on me after recieving 2 full BR clips to his face) skill base has become vegetable variety box and i want steak you maniacs!