its very clear that many players {outside US} are experiencing high ping matches, I always get 180+ ping matches. it doesn’t make sense why region select has not been implemented already?
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The Season 1 outcome report addresses region select. Lots of threads around this topic on the forum too if you’re interested.
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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I uninstalled HI on my Xbox One X 7 weeks ago. The lag due to the incompetent Server Selection Code is the reason.
I’m in Alberta Canada, have no GeoFiltering turned on for my Modem and play solo.
80% of my matches were connecting to a European (Amsterdam i’m told) server with 250+ ms ping times. There are Turn Based RTS games that play faster than 4FPS!
20% of my matches are at 25 ms ping time… From playing MCC / H5, which allows me to select my Server, that would be the Seattle West Coast server. The game is fun at 25 ms ping time, but an absolute joke at 250+ ms.
Although they say the changed things, I doubt that completely. And given their glacial Network fixing initiatives (i.e. De-Synch and manual Server Selection) so far, the game will remain uninstalled and dead to me until this gets fixed.
And if I can’t play the game, there is ZERO reason to give them money for a Battle Pass.
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