The netcode was made to be terrible (“favor the shooter” 
) on purpose, in order to attract more casual players. That’s why 343 will barely touch upon the subject, and almost refuses to acknowledge it. Similar to why the COD netcode has been terrible for it’s entire existence. It was intentionally favored to be slightly wonky, that way lesser skilled players who don’t enter firefights correctly or tactically can still come away with a shootout victory when under normal circumstances (regular Halo gameplay) they wouldn’t.
I don’t know much about coding in general, especially netcode, so I am most likely talking nonsense here.
But at this point, I just feel like an insane person. I could ignore every other problem with this game, as long as it was functional. But it’s literally not functional. I can’t play a single game without feeling like I got cheated in some kind of way. Whether it’s shots not registering correctly, dying behind walls, or bouncing around as I’m trying to move from one location to another.
Ignore the rest unless you want a little bit of a laugh
And as long as I’m ranting, I’m going to finish it off with this. Put your tinfoil hats on real quick. I know for a fact that I experience desync more than any other person I play the game with (though I know they all still do experience it). But where I am having to deal with it in literally almost every single match I play, most of them only say something about it every now and again. I also notice that the people I watch on Youtube do not seem to experience it at the same rate. Pros are constantly uploading videos of full matches where they do not have a single shot register incorrectly, never rubberband, never really have any of the wonky -Yoink!- happen to them that happens to me. And I get that it would be less entertaining to upload videos that included that, but it still doesn’t add up. I experience this -Yoink!- in literally 90% of the games I play, even if they were avoiding clips of it, the videos of full matches should be noticeable. But it’s simply not. And I’m sure there’s plenty of explanations. Maybe my PC setup in some way leads to me experiencing it more. Maybe my internet decides to mess up when I happen to be playing, literally every time I play. OR (and this is the reason I said get your tinfoil hats out) the game intentionally punishes people who don’t spend money on it. Because I have not spent a single dime on this game, not bought anything out of the store. But everyone else I play with has. All the pros have. In fact, there are very few people who play the game that haven’t spent money on it. And the only two explanations I can come up with are this, and the first one about my setup for some reason making me experience it more. But I doubt that my AMD 6700 (which is the sponsored brand for Halo Infinite) is the thing that’s making this happen. Maybe some other part of my build could cause it, but I just genuinely doubt it. And I know it’s extremely doubtful that 343i is punishing players that don’t spend money in the store and that the most likely explanation is that I am simply cursed to have some of the worst luck with this desync. But I am a broken and hollow shell of a once excited Halo fan. And I have no other ways to express these feelings than through this rant right here. So thank you if you read all that, I know it’s a little crazy. But that first paragraph still stands and I believe has some merit to it. So let me know what you all think.