So I am a big believer in constructive criticism, here we go.
Lately I have spent some time on the forums here and I can’t help but notice that a majority of players located OUTSIDE the US are having trouble finding matches, with the expectation in war zone. Since I know this issue myself and have experienced it before, I wanted to make this thread.
Back when they released MW3, people had a very hard time finding matches (it took a really long time) and when eventually did, it were against the same people. Now this has never occurred for me in Halo, until now. Before the region “lock” was put into place, I had never had any major trouble with find matches. I can still find matches but I get matches against the same people in arena and war zone. Arena is what I play most so it is what I will use as an example :
Keep in mind I HAVE to search on Expanded to find people :
In a night of gaming, I will likely get matched against many champions (I am onxy 1800) and they are usually part of a team and even sometimes I will play against the Pro teams from EU (like Infused). Whilst I don’t mind playing against them, it does get old really fast (mainly because they are a pro team of 4 and I am with teammates without mic’s).
What I don’t get is why there hasen’t been introduced a “select server” kind deal, INSTEAD of these “search” parameters, which is useless when you live outside the US.
I do love Halo with all of my heart and I hope that there SOON will be made adjustments accordingly. If not a option to select which server you want to play on, then that dedicated servers are made, and that is advanced or whatnot to eliminate the PING difference between US servers and servers abroad.
If the game dosen’t see these changes, It would not surprise me if Halo would die out outside the US within the next 5 years…
It was never meant to work, it was only ever (at least in my opinion) intended to be a bandaid solution at best (and induce a placebo effect on people) and a distraction from the fact the game doesn’t have the selectable data centres that we were originally promised
Even just allowing players to select the optimum US server to connect to like West, East or South… like I am from Australia and the latency is beyond equal at all. It should show us the estimated ping to the server and back to our consoles, and we could then do a best selection based on these parameters.
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> Even just allowing players to select the optimum US server to connect to like West, East or South… like I am from Australia and the latency is beyond equal at all. It should show us the estimated ping to the server and back to our consoles, and we could then do a best selection based on these parameters.
Agreed, it would greatly increase the population of the game not to mention the diversity of the people you play against. I believe that something like this could help promote Halo in regions of the world such as South east Asia
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> It was never meant to work, it was only ever (at least in my opinion) intended to be a bandaid solution at best (and induce a placebo effect on people) and a distraction from the fact the game doesn’t have the selectable data centres that we were originally promised
If this is truth…damn we are much further down that rabbit hole then I originally thought.
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https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/how-fans-helped-shape-the-multiplayer-of-halo-5-guardiansin this article
josh Holmes promise selectable data centres in the final game
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What is select-able data centres?
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Like titanfall has, you select what dedicated server you want to play on
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Oh that would be the best, you should also be able to see estimated ping and the population on each server.
From the UK
I’ve only had issues finding matches after the update for search settings. Games used to be found in a split second but after the update it takes 30 seconds to a few minutes and some times it times out. But I’ve always got more people from USA, Canada, South America, Japan, and less often from any one in Europe, and never seen any one from the uk. Based on mics.
I have done extensive research into these servers we have for halo5. And servers in general. What many may not know is the whole point to having “Dedicated Servers” is for the sole purpose of being able to pick the server one wants to play on… Which normally is the one with the best ping. What we have here is very very strange concept and almost a joke to be entirely honest. In the current state of this game we don’t always connect to a sever with the best ping at all… In fact it is random. Which is totally crazy. This whole theory we are on now isn’t much better then the P2P of the old times of Halo. Except this time around we could either get lucky and connect to a server with good ping or be unlucky and get one with very high ping… And this is all caused by the fact we have no control at all over it. The concept now really just wants you to get into the game the quickest. And the quality or performance of the game suffers. In any shooter game you always want control of a server with the best ping…hands down! Oh yes… These Matchmaking Preferences are nothing more then a smoke screen to make you think you are actually pinging the same server. They help very little. If 343i would add “Selectable Servers” one would be very surprised at the difference. That is of course you have a server near by. But either way you always want to pick the server with the best ping. We need to see if we can get an answer from Bravo or 343i on this because this game was suppose to have it and to be honest it really needs the option to Select your Server!