It has been brought to my attention that people are struggling to find matches due to the Region Lock that was implemented in Europe, I and many other members of the community campaigned for months in regards to the problem of being placed on US servers 99% of the time. I have recently seen threads of people complaining that it now takes far too long to find games and I’m quite frankly scared that 343 Industries is going to revert the changes which will mean we’ll be forced to play on US servers constantly… obviously I don’t know this for sure but I’d like to put forth my suggestion that would keep EVERYONE happy.
When you start matchmaking there should be an option to “Prefer Good Connection” similar to Halo 3 however this option should guarantee that the player is placed on a server in their region which obviously comes at a cost of waiting longer for matches.
If you do not select this option the game should place you in the first match it can find suitable for your rank etc.
This would keep everyone happy and I’m sure this would not be a difficult thing to implement.
Reading some of the responses in regards to region lock worries me as I’ve been having the best time on Halo 5 as I feel that with quality connection between players it creates a truly competitive game which is what Halo is meant to be. Please, do not call for reverting of region lock rather the option to choose a good connection longer wait or no wait and lower quality connection.
I only noticed that there was an uproar about this after I wrote my thread thanking 343i for the server progress.