Region-specific Matchmaking Reports

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> We are currently investigating potential improvements to matchmaking and collecting additional data and gamertags to determine improvements that can made for players in specific regions. While previous adjustments have shown improvements for some players, we are aware of continued reports of difficulty to find matches at certain times of day. If you are having trouble finding matches at certain times of day and/or within certain playlists, please list the following:
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> - Gamertag - Region - Date/Time/Timezone - Playlist(s) - Any addition detailsThank you! Our services team will be reviewing your gamertags and reports.

Can you stick this thread on top?

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In UK and i only match platinum or gold players for slayer in my placement matches. Same for ffa despite rabkibg onyx at the end of the last 3 seasons. Never match diamond or onyx. Major problem that needs fixing. Happens every time of day. Want a higher rank but wont if i wont get matched with higher ranked players. Please fix.

GT: Admiral Crispy

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Game tag: thebigdaud
Region: London uk
Game type: free for all

Extra information: I am able to play ffa on my friends account ON MY xbox but am unable ti play ffa on my own account on the same xbox as well as on his one. Help!

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  • Gamertag: BRAV0echoN0VA - Region: Australia - Time zone: ACST (Australian Central Standard Time)FFA & Warzone Assault-
    Unable to find matches any day or time.

SWAT, Breakout, BTB, social playlists, Warzone-
Generally only available during peak hours: Friday evening, Saturday/Sunday mid-morning to evening.

Slayer & Team Arena-
Usually available weekdays afternoon/evening, but often requires repeated searches.
Always available during peak hours Friday to Sunday.

I work Monday-Friday, early morning until early afternoon, I only play early afternoon to early evening during the week, so I can’t say what it’s like earlier in the day or later at night on weekdays.

During the week when I play, my choices are usually limited to Slayer or Team Arena, sometimes I can find matches in Warzone and social playlists, but not usually.
On the weekend I can sometimes play in the afternoon and evening, and can usually find matches in everything except FFA, BTB and Warzone Assualt.

More often I start playing between 9pm and 12am.
When I start at 9pm, the weekend afternoon/evening playlists are usually still available, and I can find matches in any playlist besides FFA and Warzone Assault.

As it gets later it becomes harder to find matches anywhere other than Slayer and Team Arena.
By 2am (at the latest) they are my only choices, and by about 4-5am I am unable to find matches in any playlist.

PS: After being unable to find any matches in the early morning hours this weekend, I decided to try Titanfall.
I was put on the Australian server automatically, but after checking the regional playlist populations and seeing a total of only eight players online, I switched to a US server, which showed several thousand players online.
I was put in matches quickly, and did not experience any noticeable latency issues.

I’m sure you are already looking into this possible solution, but I just thought I’d mention it.
At the very least, just knowing how many people in my region are in each playlist would save a lot of time wasted searching in playlist with nobody in them.

Thank you very much for looking for ways to solve the issues we are experiencing.

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Gamertag- HFFL BIG KIWI
Region - Australia
Date/ timezone / day- All the time
Playlist issue - can never find games for Big team/FFA/warzone assault.
Additional Details- cannot find Any games between 5.00 and 7.00am. After that warzone mostly no issues slayer no issues.

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  • Gamertag: ElWonAte - Region: Australia - Date/Time/Timezone: 26/03/16, 10:40am AEST - Playlist(s): Big Team Battle - Any addition details: Was excited for the new maps. I was unable to find players and therefore cannot play the new maps. Please alter region lock.
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  • Gamertag: ElWonAte - Region: Australia - Date/Time/Timezone: 26/03/16, 11:25am AEST - Playlist(s):Social Slayer - Any addition details: Played 2 games prior to this. Then failed to find any more. Please alter region lock - It will really benefit players with high MMR, instead of attempting other fixes.
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  • Gamertag: Noble Warlord 1 - Region: Brisbane, Australia - Date/Time/Timezone: Any time of the day - Playlist(s): BTB, Breakout, FFA, Swat, Warzone Assault - Any addition details: The other playlists work, but i can only find a game in the afternoon (generally). The playlists mentioned above are unplayable. Thankfully, however, the new BTB maps brought an influx of BTB players. I was able to find a BTB match in under a minute.
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  • Gamertag: UKK Virus - Region: UK (England) - Date/Time/Timezone: Any day / 1PM - 10PM / GMT - Playlists: Team Arena, Team Slayer, Breakout, Free-For-All, Swat, Big Team Battle and Social Slayer - Any Additional Details: The region lock in place is making it almost impossible to find any games in ranked play during most of the day, forcing me to stick to the two Warzone modes until the peak times in the evening. I wasn’t even able to complete my Breakout placement games due to this as it was impossible to find any games whatsoever, which is a shame because I love the gamemode so much. While the connectivity has definitely improved now that I only match with EU, I would prefer the region lock be removed because it is so difficult to find any games, and they end up being incredibly unbalanced in the end anyway. It is slowly killing the EU playerbase.
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> - Gamertag: UKK Virus
> - Region: UK (England)
> - Date/Time/Timezone: Any day / 1PM - 10PM / GMT
> - Playlists: Team Arena, Team Slayer, Breakout, Free-For-All, Swat, Big Team Battle and Social Slayer
> - Any Additional Details: The region lock in place is making it almost impossible to find any games in ranked play during most of the day, forcing me to stick to the two Warzone modes until the peak times in the evening. I wasn’t even able to complete my Breakout placement games due to this as it was impossible to find any games whatsoever, which is a shame because I love the gamemode so much. While the connectivity has definitely improved now that I only match with EU, I would prefer the region lock be removed because it is so difficult to find any games, and they end up being incredibly unbalanced in the end anyway. It is slowly killing the EU playerbase.

Two Warzone modes?
Count yourself lucky, here in Australia Warzone Assault isn’t an actual playlist, it’s just a lobby to hang around in if you need a break from playing.
Apparently in other countries FFA is more than just a lobby too.

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GT: darthejet
Region: EU UK
date time: any time
playlists: slayer arena
additional information . matches can be unbalanced I could be onyx and it teams me with platinums against a full team of onyxs and in between 6am and 10am GMT it can be hard to find a game in any playlist even warzone. fix it so we can choose what region we want to search and ballence it so onyx only matchs onyx platinums match platinums etc etc apart from champions they match onys 1800+ or other champions.

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Gamertag: ElWonAte
Region: Australia
Date/Time/Timezone: 27/03/16 - 12:10AM, AEST
Playlist(s): Social Slayer
Any addition details: I was not expecting this to work. But for a new playlist, I’m expecting the low population numbers for my rank should be the perfect example for why region lock should be lifted.

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> We are currently investigating potential improvements to matchmaking and collecting additional data and gamertags to determine improvements that can made for players in specific regions. While previous adjustments have shown improvements for some players, we are aware of continued reports of difficulty to find matches at certain times of day. If you are having trouble finding matches at certain times of day and/or within certain playlists, please list the following:
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> - Gamertag - Region - Date/Time/Timezone - Playlist(s) - Any addition detailsThank you! Our services team will be reviewing your gamertags and reports.

Gamertag: Milkman CE
Region: Europe, England
Date/Time/Timezone: All the time
Playlists: Breakout, SWAT, FFA

For a while now (2-3 months) I can’t solo Q Breakout or FFA, I have to get people who are low ranks to play with to ever get games, only managed to get 1 game of SWAT this season and 2 games of Breakout playing with plats/diamonds because no onyx ranked players will match me.

FFA is a strange one, I hit champion early on in the season and when I was on champion I could never find games, I had to wait to be kicked out of champion to find games again, I kept going in and out and its got to the point where I can’t find games at all.

I would like 343 to change it back to the way it was on launch, or make it so the longer the search for the more wider varitey of servers you can reqch because currently I can’t find any games and its killing my passion to even bother playing the game at all.

#RemoveRegionLock #SaveEUHalo

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> - Gamertag: UKK Virus
> - Region: UK (England)
> - Date/Time/Timezone: Any day / 1PM - 10PM / GMT
> - Playlists: Team Arena, Team Slayer, Breakout, Free-For-All, Swat, Big Team Battle and Social Slayer
> - Any Additional Details: The region lock in place is making it almost impossible to find any games in ranked play during most of the day, forcing me to stick to the two Warzone modes until the peak times in the evening. I wasn’t even able to complete my Breakout placement games due to this as it was impossible to find any games whatsoever, which is a shame because I love the gamemode so much. While the connectivity has definitely improved now that I only match with EU, I would prefer the region lock be removed because it is so difficult to find any games, and they end up being incredibly unbalanced in the end anyway. It is slowly killing the EU playerbase.

I thought I’d see you posting here, me and Miniman have the same issues :frowning: hopefully we can run some teams of 3/4 in Arena some time and see if we can find some games!

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  • Gamertag: Nobelnaga
  • Region: Norway
  • Date/Time/Timezone: 26.03.2016 / 23:00 / GMT+1
  • Playlist: BTB
  • Any addition details: I couldn’t find a match in BTB after waiting 5 min
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  • Gamertag: eben gibon king - Region: Australia - Date/Time/Timezone: 26/3, 10pm-1am, ACDT (Australian Central Daylight Time) - Playlist(s) BTB - Actually managed to find a few games, however started dropping from lobby when setting up game/restarting search for players when all players found
    Grifball - Serious lag for entire matches
    Warzone - Quite severe lag for brief periods (one match it lasted the whole time)

  • All other issues from previous report still present.

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  • Gamertag: Juckor - Region: Australia, NSW - Date/Time/Timezone: 5pm Onwards (Normally all day). - Playlist(s): Any playlist that’s ranked. - Any additional details: Decided to download the update and see if I can find any matches. I found that I can find a game almost instantly in social playlists (Social slayer, atleast) but once I switch over to slayer or arena it can’t find matches at all. I’m currently searching in slayer right now and haven’t found a match for 10 minutes.
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Gamertag: jalup
region: uk
date/time: all day and night
playlist: SWAT
any additional details: unable to find games only just played 10 games this month usually searching 3 hours a day at peak times before Feb update would always find games anytime

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GT: Reclaimer Qtr
Region: Qatar, Middle East
Date: 6 am to 11 am Arabian standard time
Playlist: Big Team Battle, FFA, Warzone