Griffball: Been trying to play it, but I get a warning that there aren’t enough players to play it and I get a message to pick a different playlist.
Why are playlists such as these maintained and still there if no one plays them?(there are not enough matches to create a game)
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> Griffball: Been trying to play it, but I get a warning that there aren’t enough players to play it and I get a message to pick a different playlist.
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> Why are playlists such as these maintained and still there if no one plays them?(there are not enough matches to create a game)
Are you searching on Expanded?
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> > Griffball: Been trying to play it, but I get a warning that there aren’t enough players to play it and I get a message to pick a different playlist.
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> > Why are playlists such as these maintained and still there if no one plays them?(there are not enough matches to create a game)
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> Are you searching on Expanded?
Yes
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> > > Griffball: Been trying to play it, but I get a warning that there aren’t enough players to play it and I get a message to pick a different playlist.
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> > > Why are playlists such as these maintained and still there if no one plays them?(there are not enough matches to create a game)
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Some people aren’t happy with the changes made to Grifball, maybe there’s not many players in your area/region?
Do you struggle to find games in any other playlists?
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> > > > Griffball: Been trying to play it, but I get a warning that there aren’t enough players to play it and I get a message to pick a different playlist.
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> > > > Why are playlists such as these maintained and still there if no one plays them?(there are not enough matches to create a game)
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> Some people aren’t happy with the changes made to Grifball, maybe there’s not many players in your area/region?
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> Do you struggle to find games in any other playlists?
Slow loading in some playlists but they eventually find matches. I never play with people from my own region(never get matched with that anyways). Always finds in Warzone except for the asymetrical warzone
There needs to be incentive for people to go back to them, if everyone just plays shotty snipers, or fiesta, then playlists will go dead. Maybe there should be a double req or xp boost incentive if you play modes such as grifball.
But then Grifball will be like shotty snipers and fiesta are now: Too popular. Most people will play grifball instead to get more req or XP making modes like shotty sniper and fiesta like grifball is now: dead
But grifball could earn more players if it gave more req. One round gives barely 1000 req points while others give 2k+
Playlists are dead for players outside US, but since 343 is caring only for US players it’s not a problem.
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> Playlists are dead for players outside US, but since 343 is caring only for US players it’s not a problem.
surely not dead here in Italy… usually manage to get in games quickly
I have to search on Expanded for Warzone Assault, Breakout and FFA most of the time. And now have to search Expanded for Slayer and Arena if I’m playing off peak hours. There simply isn’t the population to support the amount of playlists at the moment, which is a shame as there isn’t any that I’d like to lose.
I’m in the UK btw, and I do find that I can get games easier if I have an American in my fireteam. Although the game becomes almost unplayable at times due to the lag. I get killed in 2 shots, whereas have to unload an entire clip into the invincible enemies and sometimes still don’t get the kill. I’m a huge Halo fan, but the state of Halo on the Xbox One is forcing me to quit. MCC is totally unplayable for me now, tried it last night and was teleporting all over the place, it was a joke. And Halo 5 just isn’t a fair game to play a lot of the time, what is the point in having ranks if you get a huge disadvantage?
I think they are taking some of the playlists out soon, they said to play the ones you like and support them, because they’ll be looking at popularity. The thing that worries me about this is that I simply cannot play the games I want to, and get “unable to match” at quiet times, even on Expanded. Halo 5 is dying, and I’m not happy about it.
They really need to expand their servers where I’m at I find matches in arena 30 seconds maximum
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> Playlists are dead for players outside US, but since 343 is caring only for US players it’s not a problem.
It’s in the USA also. I haven’t been able to play swat or ffa in a few weeks. I can spend 10 mins re trying to find matches and nothing. On balanced anyways. I would just pop over to action sac.
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> > Playlists are dead for players outside US, but since 343 is caring only for US players it’s not a problem.
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> It’s in the USA also. I haven’t been able to play swat or ffa in a few weeks. I can spend 10 mins re trying to find matches and nothing. On balanced anyways. I would just pop over to action sac.
I know some US gamers having this problems, it’s very rare (if compared with us) but i know it happens also to US players.
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> I have to search on Expanded for Warzone Assault, Breakout and FFA most of the time. And now have to search Expanded for Slayer and Arena if I’m playing off peak hours. There simply isn’t the population to support the amount of playlists at the moment, which is a shame as there isn’t any that I’d like to lose.
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> I’m in the UK btw, and I do find that I can get games easier if I have an American in my fireteam. Although the game becomes almost unplayable at times due to the lag. I get killed in 2 shots, whereas have to unload an entire clip into the invincible enemies and sometimes still don’t get the kill. I’m a huge Halo fan, but the state of Halo on the Xbox One is forcing me to quit. MCC is totally unplayable for me now, tried it last night and was teleporting all over the place, it was a joke. And Halo 5 just isn’t a fair game to play a lot of the time, **what is the point in having ranks if you get a huge disadvantage?**I think they are taking some of the playlists out soon, they said to play the ones you like and support them, because they’ll be looking at popularity. The thing that worries me about this is that I simply cannot play the games I want to, and get “unable to match” at quiet times, even on Expanded. Halo 5 is dying, and I’m not happy about it.
Exactly this.
The only difference between a game like Halo 5 and Titanfall 2 (which has an even smaller population) is the skill filter “hard coded” into matchmaking system.
Thanks to that if you are very good in a playlists (high diamond/onyx) you’ll be most likely prevented from matching the largest part of gamers because the mayority has a lower rank than you.
This isn’t happening in TF2, even with a small population, because the only filter there is the selected datacenter, automatically chosen by the game (which selects the lowest ping), but also selectable “manually” by the user. Titanfall is able to find games even if the total population in a given playlist is 35-50 players TOTAL.
Games like titanfall, battlefield and partially GOW are all about good connection, Halo is all about skill even when it goes against the possibility to find a good and equal match on connection side.
The saddest thing is hearing people saying “i’d prefer not to play at all than be matched with people not having my equal skill”. Well, it’s already happening so be happy freezing in front search screen all day long. Maybe some day 343 will give a gold pack for each search timeout as reward…
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> They really need to expand their servers where I’m at I find matches in arena 30 seconds maximum
In Europe there are 5 more datacenters ready to be used (they where released months ago). Halo is using only the 2 original ones (Amsterdam/Dublin).
Even Titanfall 2 BETA updated itself to use the new datacenters, released exactly the day after the start of the 2nd beta weekend this summer. Such a shame.
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> > Playlists are dead for players outside US, but since 343 is caring only for US players it’s not a problem.
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> surely not dead here in Italy… usually manage to get in games quickly
I’m italian too (and before you say anything my connection is fine, my NAT is opened etc.) and i saw that your highest reached rank is Gold 3.
Not arguing about your ranks is lower than mine bla bla bla, but if you were at least high diamond or onyx you’ll see how utterly broken the search system is.
Unfortunately the rank reset each season doesn’t help because the system remebers your past ranks even during qualifications.
It’s really funny seeing “x is dead so remove it” when I can play these and get games instantly. People keep saying warzone assault is dead, I normally play that majority of the time when I play solo, that and griffball and I never end up waiting. It’s best that 343 remove stuff at “their” discretion rather than a fanbase that doesn’t know the numbers.
I was searching for WZA on expanded an hour ago, total games found: 0.
Where are you from dude?
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> Playlists are dead for players outside US, but since 343 is caring only for US players it’s not a problem.
How is it 343’s fault when people choose not to play a certain Playlist outside of the US? And how do you know 343 only cares for the US players? If anything it’s the players fault. It’s not Microsofts fault that most of the Halo 3 servers are dead, now is it? It’s the players fault. No one is playing. –
ANd as far as play lists go, the community has been asking for more Playlists since day one and now people want them removed? That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.
And another thing, the servers were trash a couple hours ago. The whole game was having issues when this forum was posted.