So I tried playing with some US friends yesterday and it turns out I was told my latency was too high to play on their servers.
After doing a bit of searching around the Internet it seems it’s a common problem and something they’ve purposefully implemented to reduce lag I assume.
Now im fine with this on ranked game types as nobody wants laggy people but what about Warzone? That game type is unranked and many of us just want to play with our friends. Yes people do have friends in countries outside their own, perhaps 343i doesn’t.
Most of my Aussie friends don’t play Halo and I shouldn’t have to go out and find new friends who play Halo when I have plenty of American ones.
Anyway I will be returning Halo, a game from my favourite franchise, until this gets fixed.
TLDR: Let us play with anyone from anywhere and stop forcing your ways upon us, at least in unranked game types.
Warzone is 12v12, with AI thrown in, if they did that, the lag would be impossible to play.
Sorry man. We have to wait a few hundred year before this isn’t a issue and the issue will be why people from Mars or the Moon can’t play with players from Earth
That’s just it, it isn’t an issue. Every other game you can play with people from anywhere and it isn’t an issue. Sure we might get the occasional lag spike due to latency, but we endure because playing with friends is what gaming should be about.
I can understand, as I said, to have it this way for ranked games so it’s fairer, but warzone is not ranked so it should not matter at all.
And Warzone doesn’t really have all the much AI. You get the occasional few spawns that get taken out real fast and a handful of marines.
If we can’t play a game for fun and enjoy it with friends, no matter where they are, what is the point?
People shouldn’t put up with it just because that’s what they want, they should want change. Why is it ok for any other game except Halo? Oh because 343i said so I guess?
Same is happening to me. I bought the game to play with friends overseas. Never had this issue with other multiplayer games and always played with no lag. I have a good internet connection. Please fix this!
It’s utter rubbish for them to do this to us! It’s -Yoink- really. I’ve played with Americans (I live in Australia) and I felt I have a better connection playing with them in Custom games than I have playing the -Yoink- Australian/New Zealand servers here. How dare they alienate their audience like this! I don’t give a -Yoink- crap about lag AS LONG AS I GET TO PLAY WITH MY FRIENDS! I don’t have many cross state Aussie friends because they’re either they play a lot of CoD more than anything or they’re just outright -Yoinks!- all the time.
I paid a lot of cash for this game, but I would continue to give them a bit of my cash every now and then to support the company at least, but by creating this design decision, this will be the very first Halo game that I absolutely cannot play anymore. And I survived Reach and Halo 4, I stilled played them even in the state they were in CAUSE I HAD FRIENDS TO PLAY WITH.
P.S Their excuses of preserving a lag free environment is -Yoink- when on Destiny, the connection is far better than it is on Halo 5. 343 Industries better do something about it, or I’ll keep boycotting the -Yoink- out of them!