I am regularly being matchmade into games outside of my region end either getting 130 or 250 ping games.
This is just in Big Team Battles and Quickplay and its like a 50/50 chance of playing on servers in my region or not.
Please add some region lock or something that will allow me to stop joining servers outside my region as it makes the game less fun. 343 have done an amazing job so far but is ruined by the region matchmaking system. (Also the progression and customisation but I think thats already been addressed alot by the community).
Australian here, 80-90% of my games are 180-250ms.
We need region select or the realisation that 250ms is not playable, and the threshold should be far lower.
This is a huge oversight, however I have no confidence it will be fixed as 343 believes the entire playerbase is north america.
Not to mention the abundance of posts claiming to consolidate all player feedback, yet never mention the high ping issue.
Australian here, experiencing the same thing, I’m in a 190ms game right now. This is really making me not want to play the game, BUT I WANT TO PLAY SO BADLY.
They’ll fix it, but only 1 year post release when the AU player base is dead, like they did with MCC which took like 3 years and still kept lumping Australias into Singapore matches
Every halo game has had this problem at launch except Halo 3! Even that game you could prefer to search for games with better connection, simple but it worked.
I’ve had it with the consistent neglect for oceanic players in Halo games. It took them years to add server selection to MCC. The community is large for OCE, this is a priority to address now as it affects every single experience you have within the game.
I’m from Argentina but also agree with the region selection, its super wierd some times i get a lot of good matches with 49 MS and then out of the sudden it matches me with people in europe that for me is like 300 MS, the game definitely needs a region select.
UK players get sky high ping past a certain time too. Think its around 2 am, but in BTB it can be anytime after midnight. 90+ or 120+ ms every night without fail.
Prior to those times its 26ms on Xbox. Massive jump.
Oceanic servers are desperately needed, the game is straight up pointless when Im.on a US server, melee, precision shots, grapples are all near impossible.
Big agree. I’ve stopped playing today because I kept getting into 190+ms games. It’s so frustrating. Connection quality needs to be the first priority in matchmaking.
I’d rather play way outside my skill level and get stomped if it means I have good ping.
I’d rather queue for 10 minutes if it means I’ll get into a match with good ping. I’d rather not play at all then play with bad ping.
It’s inexcusable tbh. Goodbye to the OCE playerbase. No one will want to play with the non-existent matchmaking and the playerbase will die like it did when they took half a year to fix it for the MCC. Isn’t this a triple AAA title? Lol.
We have OCE servers the game just doesn’t even attempt to use them. I’d say 80% of my games are overseas and it doesn’t even attempt to search for an OCE game. It searches for 3 seconds and puts me in a game.