junior, you gotta stop inferring that none of us have been playing halo as long as you.
this is halo gaf son, we all old & pathetic.
i feel this.
playing in Canada [but not quite butt-fuck Canada], i'm always at a slight latency disadvantage.
and when i'm not?
oh man, you can really tell - it's like all of a sudden my reticule just tracks peoples' heads all on its own.
i mean, obviously not quite that pronounced [not even close], but it's an easily perceivable difference when my auto-aim "just works", versus when it "just doesn't".
I'm feeling this big time at the moment. I can go -15 in a game and the next game instantly feel a better connection and go +15. It's not better or worse players matched, it's my latency to the dedis selected. There's no honour in those losses or victories, it feels cheap.
I wonder how much of the reported issues right now are 343 tweaking and things for the next update. I'm sure they have a closed system to test but at some point they have to push things to the live XBL/H5 service to test them out or prepare for full live release. My total guess here is the updates around regional toggles or whatever is coming is playing havoc with H5 dedis at the moment.
Don't quote me on it but that's what it feels like.
Here's linked images from just last night, again just wanting to play H5. Jumped on MCC with a buddy and we both quit the first game for the night, just not worth playing.
Stayed in an average connection game, two quitters because we were down the whole game. Seriously stop fucking quitting, even if you're losing.
http://screenshotscontent-t3002.xbo..._=1462329553_43093c9f48021744aa7d92993f65f81c
Player emblems and REQs wouldn't load.
http://screenshotscontent-t5001.xbo..._=1462329554_1a7a6a1db48fc2741e7d29f70e28b830
FFA Playlist still says high latency.
http://screenshotscontent-t2001.xbo..._=1462329555_9195da9efd6abc0a5e1ac6e990dfd8f6
Profile sync error on game loading. No other game does this. No troubles with my connection on multiple other devices.
http://screenshotscontent-t5001.xbo..._=1462329556_a0cb9aa9b1123f75faca6504bbb06d27
Online services wouldn't load on game boot.
http://screenshotscontent-t3002.xbo..._=1462329557_2a0466eb951139b73dc96cc622b573c6
Jump on MCC in the hope we can get half decent matches. My buddy and I partied up before searching, found one other random Aussie, great matching 343. Get put on USA dedis or P2P host, get trashed, random Aussie quits, so my buddy quits...I finish another losing game.
http://screenshotscontent-t2001.xbo..._=1462329879_d88279c3ae6354903ffc65664fb39f84
I'll switch from my cable connection tonight to an ADSL2+ ISP and test again tonight. It's frustrating as fuck, I pretty much just play Halo these days. I'm educated on the tech, I play solo and many types of parties (including full ones), I understand not every game is for Aussies, I know how to configure networking, I get my ISP will be the issue sometimes but you know what....it's none of those issues. I've done the process of elimination a number of times in the last week. It's dead Jim.