Ranked matchmaking is taking more than 30 minutes to put me into a match.
“Unable to Match: there might not be enough players to support this playlist” you gotta be kidding me… the game is not officially out for more than one month and this is what we are getting?!
I don’t want to say it but Halo does seem to be dead even though I’m sure there are a lot of players out there trying to match and are facing the same issue.
I’m matching from the middle east and I know the game is not as popular here but so was Halo 5 and I have never had this issue even nearing the release of Halo Infinite.
Fix it 343, it is not befitting of such a great game. Don’t alienate your player base outside the US/EU. It is bad enough that we have to play on 90+ ping because the closest server is so far away… not being able to play at all is just a slap on the face.
OMG really? This is very depressing.
I’m hoping it’s just a problem with your NAT settings or something
26k at peak times on steam now. 16k for MCC lol. this is on steam of course, if that’s any correlation.
The more they delay things for this game with updates/patches, and drip feed the worse it’ll get. I was playing ranked last night and it took me awhile to find matches. That could also be due to the rampant cheating going on there too.
Well it is a Monday, people either go to work or school. Maybe this is the issue? I don’t know. Hope you find some matches! Stay awesome.
its because most people enjoyy playing with a radar and an AR. i play ranked solo and i really want a ranked mode with radar AR/BR starts. solo players will always dislike esport settings. i still enjoy it but traditional ranked would be much better.
Might be a personal issue. I can find a ranked game easily. Back to back, even.
well ain’t that just a nice sign. it’s probably because most are onyx and have moved to QP over ranked because of the challenges (unless there’s one for ranked) it’s easier to complete them in things like QP, BTB, or fiesta. unlike the sweat fest of ranked
Where do you get these made up numbers from? There are more players than that currently, let alone peak which is about double that.
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Steam numbers… It says it right there in the hub lol… nothing is made up there you ignoramus. It’s for all to see.
Literally steamdb, steam charts, steamplayercount, and the halo infinite steam community page all show over 30k active players right now
https://steamcharts.com/app/1240440
https://steamdb.info/app/1240440/graphs/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1240440
It really is man.
Unfortunately it is not… my NAT is open
Not surprising… they need to get on top of things or Infinite will not reach its full potential
In some parts of the world but why are others not playing… I think it’s an issue with matchmaking in my region.
Cheers man.
I don’t think that’s it but who knows?
Same here in Korea. Unranked match finding is ok. Only ranked is hard to find. H5 worked fine. Something should be fixed
It’s not something that can be easily fixed.
Population at launch aka ‘beta’ was 272k in November
When campaign launched it was around 75k in December
Then in January it was dropping from 60k to 25k
We are currently sitting on 2.5k
All these stats are based on Steam while even TA is now reporting a steady decline in ‘active xbox players’ due to top played games list charts. So basically it’s understandable that wait times are longer. Don’t have an exact number on Xbox players plus it’s unlikely people are using the Windows game pass version due to how poorly optimized that version is.
Far as I can tell Halo Infinite has been in severe decline and is not slowing down.
Why does matchmaking still often take so long? 
Its the unfortunate side effect of a dead game sadly.
I think 80% of the console playerbase left -
18% series X and 2% series S still playing the dame daily
Halo is Xbox microsoft’s game, populated by steam players running the game with expensive computers.
Imagine if you would need 2000$ runnning shoes to compete at Olympic games :
No usain bolt
No world record
Nothing but privileged thinking they are fast
This is what happens with Halo Infinite :
Halo was supposed to be THE console arena shooter
But the same story from CoD is happening to Halo
And this people are too much lazy to create one game every year
Now I think they use most of their day negotiating with Microsoft for new Halo projects.
It would allow them to live the good life without any crunch period for another 6 years.
Pc players aren’t the problem, 343 released an unfinished and very buggy game, that’s it