This is by far the most annoying thing in halo infinite. Why is a legacy game that was made 8 years ago able to have the ability for u to search for games that are on servers you want. After removing geofiltering, it is now impossible for international players to play ranked or any playlist, much less compete in the game. This is the most ridiculous thing and we get heavily penalised because of this. Why do american players get the edge over the world when they do absolutely nothing but bash the game and send death threats to the devs? Where is this double standard 343? Fix your game please!
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There are a number of threads on here discussing server selection. Worth searching out if you’re interested in reading the views being expressed.
In any case, from this article:
https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/season-1-outcomes-report
- Feedback: Desire for regional server selection
Since launch we have already done some work to help improve matchmaking in some regions, such as Australia, and will continue monitoring and making updates during the lifetime of this game. It was mentioned in our Online Experience blog, but it’s worth restating in this post too. If we ever feel like the matches we are making do not meet player expectations or our quality bar, we will evaluate additional means of improving the online experience - including considering features like a server selection similar to MCC or search preferences similar to Halo 5 - further down the road.
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geofiltering was runing the game for 98% of the cummity to be honest gave that one person a hudge advantage everyone suffered from it pretty much I am glad it was taken care of
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simply completely wrong.
I quit playing and uninstalled HI on my Xbox One X about 5 weeks ago.
About 80% of my matches are at 250+ ms ping times. Their Server Selector somehow thinks that a Server in Europe (Amsterdam I’m told) at 250 ms is closer to me in Alberta Canada than Seattle is. 20% of my matches are at 25ms ping times and I know from H5 and MCC Server Selectors that this is Seattle Server.
The game is absolutely unplayable at 250 ms ping times and until they fix their broken Automagic Server Selector or better yet, allow me to select my server manually, the game will remain uninstalled and DEAD to me.
And from what they have said about Season 2 hype pieces I’ve read, it’s still something that remains unresolved, along with De-Synch.
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no lmaoo it made it possible for non US players to play the game because they keep getting forced on 200+ ms players. Ur just self centered.
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imagine I used to get trash servers 10% of the time and there is no way EU or asia players are getting 200+ ping on a regular basis I understand right now since there is no player base over seas your connection probably isnt good I have over 1,000 up and down now and average 10-30 ping west coast 50 ping and anything over seas 100-120
unless your actually geofiltering intentally to get lag comp and use it to your advantage it needed to be done
During day for me is OK in UK after about 9am. Over night my ping is ridiculous. Do they turn the eu servers off over night or something? Or is there literally noone from Europe playing at these times?
Hey, I agree it’s better that’s its gone, but they need to solve the reason people were using it in the first place. I used it because I didn’t want to play high onyx ranked games on 220 ping every game. Now that’s what I get 
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It’s Bank Holiday Monday and I can’t get a game below 150 ping. Seriously, there’s not enough players for eu servers right now?
Same issues persist. The amount of games I am forced to play ranked on 110 or above is just a disgrace.
Seriously 343 can you give us an update on the server selection? Have you tried playing with above 100 ping yourself? There are several software options that allow to simulate high latency, please try it for yourself and see how we “enjoy” getting killed behind walls, hits not registering, melee phasing etc.
There are occasional games when I get 30 ping and the games are relatively even. I’d rather play with the same guys 20 times in a row than to play games with ping 110, 130, 170, 220.
Do something about please, EU seems to be just slowly dying
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If we ever feel like the matches we are making do not meet player expectations or our quality bar
I’d be interested to know how they are monitoring this. I get about an even 30% split between 25, 90 and 120 ping and I’m UK based. Whatever the system they have in the background is, it simply is not working. 120 ping is straight up unfair, losing trades you shouldn’t.
I don’t see the problem in implementing a server select, it’s optional anyway and I’d happily wait to guarantee 25 ping.
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I get halfway through a game wondering why it’s going so badly and then I look at the top right, ah yes a 120ms server, thanks 343i.
Edit: Even worse when it’s on Ranked, absolute joke. Normal matches are 22ms and at a bearable increase, 80ms.
I’m in Alberta Canada and the nearest MCC / H5 Server to me is Seattle / NW at ~ 30 ms ping times. The manual server Selector tells me what servers I can connect too.
However 80% of my Halo Infinite matches are at 250+ ms ping times (that a update rate of 4 fps) because their Broken Server Selector thinks a European Server (Amsterdam I’m told) at 250 ms is somewhow “Better” than 25 ms ping times for the Seattle Server.
A First Person Shooter at 4 fps is a broken piece of trash.
Until they swallow their pride and allow us to pick the sever we want to play on, the game will remain uninstalled on my Xbox One X.
And maybe I will not even be buying an Xbox Series X going forward, if this is how MS wants to handle things as part of their Game Pass subscription model - having broken trash game Developers as part of their “FlagShip” showcase.