Yep. 9/10 ranked matches have me playing on US servers with pings of 190ms - 300ms.
I have legit clips showing the ping which I have posted all over social media.
If I play on oceanic servers, as I’m Australian, I get 25ms - 30ms MAX!
Guys I’ve been geo-filtering since day 1 but I could never figure out why I’d be playing in games with 150 ping so often.
Discovered I still had westus2 server enabled. I’m in Ireland and there are servers less than 100 miles away in Dublin but 343 threw me Into games 7000+ miles away.
Everyone needs to geo-filter. 343 don’t know what they’re doing.
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Another match of ping over 100 ping…
Just do it brother. Be a bad actor.
Looks like it’s going to get a lot worse for everyone outside of America. You thought the desync and lag was bad before now…well it’s going to get a whole lot worse now we’re literally being forced to connect to US servers.
Wow, I thought todays update would have made things better they actually managed to make thing even worse… I had one game off 20ping the rest we over 45, 50, 60 experienced worse lag, worse hit detection than before at this point I might just give up on Halo it’s so annoying playing games where it’s never the same due to 343 networking code… only game in history where I have experienced this… how did Halo 2 have better matching making from 2004! ???
Not anymore you don’t. 343 made sure of that with todays update.
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We’d all best start researching our national average ranks. Some of us might need to de-rank a little or manage to rank up to connect more efficiently to our local player base haha
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The desync and lag that this game has is a huge example on why the game, at least for social, should prioritize Connection Based MM instead of going so heavy into Skill Based MM. Now I’m not saying completely remove SBMM but they need to tone it back and focus more into Connection Based to just help with stability with the game (team balancing is another discussion in itself).
Now there are still unerlying problems that need to be fixed as well, otherwise ranked will always be in a bad spot if they only did CBMM for social as ranked would still need SBMM way more than social does. I haven’t really tried the update today, but I’ve heard (not just here) that the update didn’t fix much. I know I’m personally still having problems with BTB as I can get into games now, but it will just randomly kick me for no reason.
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What SBMM? I never notice any of it in social. All matches are one-sided to extremely one-sided with extreme skillgaps between the players in those matches.
It’s nice that i now get to play all matches on EU-servers (at least so far) and that only 1 match had lag (but significantly less lag then earlier) instead of half of them, but having to face extremely skilled players as an average player (with teammates that often are worse then me) almost every match (the exceptions are where i was extremely more skilled then the rest) still makes the games unplayable.
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Only in every god dang game I play.
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343 is it normal for 45 ping to 60 ping back down to 25 ping… I’m pretty sure your ping should stay closely the same unless your connection is horrible…
Another day of lag… it’s really getting out of control!!!
Yep. Played 10 consecutive games on EU servers at 18ms…clearly the lag and desync issues are not ping related. The game plays like a total turd at the moment. 
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I only play “Fiesta” anymore. It’s the only way that hides how bad this works. It’s been a long time since I’ve played ranked and I’ve also left the social lists. The next thing is to leave it permanently.
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Here I was thinking 30 ping was good.
https://www.xbox.com/play/media/TJPGYAXC
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I’m done playing this game the lag and the horrible ping issues make this game so annoying and frustrating than actually trying to play and get better. So 343 message me in 10 years when you game is finally fixed because apparently a multi billion dollar company can’t figure out how to fix their net code.
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I haven’t worked out the percentage yet, but I’ve been analysing and recording my connections per game and I can confirm that the anti-geo filter update does mostly place me on EU servers at approx 20ms ping for the overwhelming majority of games. This means that I don’t have to use geo filter even if I was allowed, however it also confirms that the desync issues are not related to ping…the game plays and feels as bad on 20ms as it does on 115ms with horrendous desync.
My KD is literally plummeting before my very eyes since that update and I struggle to go positive…not because I’m bad but simple things like shooting someone with no shields, hit reg is non existent and they just skip around the corner in to safety…or my grenades are literally puffs of smoke that players run through taking no damage but if they lane anywhere within a huge blast radius of me then they detonate with the full force of a nuke and kill me instantly with full shields.
The game simply isn’t fun to play when it performs like this.
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Exactly! It’s not fun, and most importantly it’s not fixed it seems like with each update it gets worse and worse… I lost 4 games in a row because my hit reg for some reason doesn’t work… I might try uninstalling and reinstalling maybe it’s something to do with continued updates that breaking something in the files I don’t know…
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And according to the update…it’s not going to get fixed any time soon. They are releasing telemetry to gather data so they can find the issue and then develop a suitable fix, so anyone expecting these issues to disappear next week should be prepared to be disappointed.