Hiya All and I hope 343i or a Mod reads this too,
I and many other British Onyx players have had a huge issue since the January patch which makes it virtually impossible to find games online in all playlists resulting in a ‘‘unable to find games to match’’ message.
I know 343i did SOMETHING to the matchmaking algorithm in January as they stated it themselves, however, we are not aware specifically as to what they did. All I do know is that Pre-January Patch in Onyx Ranks, which I have been since release in each season, I was consistently able to find games in any playlist. I consistently found games against people situated all around the world.
Heck if you what the proof, just look back at my Service Record and see just how many games I was able to go through per day before the January patch versus afterwards. Ive checked, and its over Double the number of games per day.
What it appears to be is the regional modifier within whatever algorithm 343 uses for matchmaking was tweaked to push games found more locally, however, what this appears to have resulted in for UK players is, if there arent enough UK players online at the time in your RANK, you arent finding a game. Why has this become the case? The shocking thing about it all is, if I invite any of my buddies who are located in the US, we find games immediately, and i really do mean IMMEDIATELY. The other night, I was searching for a SWAT game at Diamond/Onyx level for 25 MINUTES, no exaggeration. I decided to try and troubleshoot the issue by inviting a Silver Rank US player to my party whilst matchmaking and upon joining we were immediately put into a game! It was so fast in fact, that I watched us join a game before he had fully joined my Fireteam! I have repeated this test several times with different players based in the US and the result is always the same: Instant Matchmaking,
343, without sounding aggressive, is this a joke?
Why have you put such strict Walls up around your pools of players?
There simply arent enough Xbox One’s out in the wild and therefore numbers of players playing Halo 5 consistently to put in such restrictions. Furthermore, of the Xbox Ones out there, the vast majority are found in the US, and as far as Im aware, you did not make this game simply for US players. I never experienced connectivity issues prior to the January Update, it was always smooth with only the occasional PLAYER, Not Game, lagging, which was obviously their own connection to the Servers.
Its sad because the Onyx Population outside of the US is probably 1/2% of your total population so its hard for us to have a voice, but if you are listening, please, analyse the statistics of players in Onyx finding games per day pre January and post January and take into account their Locale as well as their parties Locales and you will see where my claims come from.
This genuinely is up there with Halo 3 as one the Top Halo’s ever made in providing an addictive and exciting experience even with a comparitively small map pool! The previous algorithm for finding games, whatever it may have been, worked perfectly, can it be reverted so that UK / EU Onyx players can finally find games consistently again?
Has any other EU/UK Players noticed this issue?
If you want to see my Ranks or Game History search for iEvil iProdigy. This Forum acc is my alt.
a whole division shouldnt have problems matchmaking and the fact they are is ridiculous. If there are no matches as well then how are peoples csr and mmr ratings going to improve? Altogether it spoils the onyx rank a lot.