I heard that sometime recently within the last few weeks they removed the region lock so players can join servers based in/set for other countries, however it’s put.
I have been getting roughly 0.5 seconds of delay over the last few days/week(s) as I’ve been playing. Doesn’t sound like much but without that delay I was losing far less gun fights, yet now I trade kills (get killed by the same player I just killed) far more often due to this delay. Grifball, purely based on timing due to instakill weapons, is unplayable with this delay.
I decided to message the seven people from the match I was in with just before, before closing Halo. Six of the seven players replied and here are the results. Mind you, the one who didn’t reply was speaking a different language in game chat, so perhaps he didn’t reply because he didn’t understand my message.
So I guess that explains my delay… Removing the region lock, whilst it gives us more people to play with, ruins the experience for me personally. I can no longer find fair connection anymore except for the rare occasion.
Is there any chance we could get the filtering back so I strictly find players within my own region (Australia)? Or even add an option, give players the choice as to whether or not they want to be put in mixed servers outside of their region? It’s no longer fair, more populated countries (gamer wise) probably don’t have as hard of a time but I find hardly any Australians in any game I play, let alone Halo.
Halo 5 provided me with solid, fair connection making it the most enjoyable multiplayer game I had available but this has honestly ruined it for me. I can’t play Grifball anymore. I even have a clip I recorded where I kill a player, you hear their Spartan groan due to the death, and then their ragdolling corpse kills me.
Anyone else having the same sort of delay/issue? The multiplayer experience was far better prior, I may have had less people to play with/find upon searching, but at least the ones I found were going to provide a fair fight in terms of connection.
TL;DR - I’m Australian, I rarely find Australian players anymore, last game I played consisted of six players from different countries. Without the region lock/filtered searching, I now get delay that makes Grifball unplayable, disadvantaged gunfights and trading kills constantly takes place. Please bring back the region lock, I’d prefer only to play with Australians because the delay with anyone else just isn’t enjoyable. 