I feel bad for the EU folks. I am in the U.S, with 100mphs download, and the inconsistency of the online matches is really frustrating and I feel half of my matches there is latency and feels really weird like not smooth when running and jumping. There is no way most games are on dedicated servers. Absolutely not.
HERE IS A TEST:
When you play the game, and you get the map Shrine, try the Ring 2 to Ring 3 jump. On a lag free game, it should be easy to do like you shouldn't fail. If you keep failing, it feels sluggish during the jump but not necessarily in the game, it is likely laggy. I found this to be a good measure.
It was funny because my friend, who is really good kept failing the jump and he kept saying he's choking but he was experiencing the same issue. I then noticed if game is lag free, I can execute this jump fine and if not, I will fail more often than not feeling like a bumper car bouncing off the wall.
I kid you not, yesterday I got matched up with 3 people, who were in a party from Columbia on my team. Yes, Columbia. It was funny because we had really good game chemistry. I was number one on the list. I got an invite. I joined them. We played a few more games together before the game broke then we all logged off, I got invited to their party. None of them spoke English, just little, which is fine. We were all making jokes. They said they live in Columbia, and I told them there lying, thought they were joking but they were absolutely dead serious and have them on my friends list. How the heck did I get matched with them?
This new bug is if you're in a party, you will matchmake I say maybe 4-5 games then it will suddenly stop finding matches. I've experienced this with other people too. Resetting the game unfortunately does not appear to work. Everyone has and it will not find a match.
Judge each game as it comes. Do you think that if Halo 5 is great it still deserves to do poorly because the MCC had all these problems? I get feeling that people who have always wanted Halo to fail are smelling blood in the water and posting this sort of stuff. The bulk of 343 is working on that game, and so far they've have made extremely well made, working games: Halo 4 and the Halo 5 beta. (regardless of your opinion of the value of those games)
So you think people are posting this sort of stuff not from there bad experiences and to just rail? Please. I'm sure if you experienced the constant delays, bugs, glitches, game resets, party restarts, often power resetting your Xbox One with everyone else, as others have had, you would be upset too.
I think it's more people having less hope in the Halo franchise. Before, you knew it was going to be good, but with 343 failing at every Halo game, there's not much confidence. After playing the Halo 5 beta, I don't think so either. A lot of poor decisions were made especially in design and the game has turned into a sprint to your spawn fest raping newbs with horrible changes that it doesn't play like Halo nomore, just feels like its shell.