Does the Geo-Filter still work on MCC?

[Bhins]

I've been experimenting with my settings for the past 2 days and I'm at my wits' end. These experiments include:

• Ping filtering
• Various distances (600km - 2000km)
• Various distances + Ping Assist (30 - 50)
• The Halo profile
• Launching the game with Filtering Mode enabled
• Launching the game with Spectating Mode enabled, then enabling Filtering Mode

The game refuses to search for a match whilst Filtering Mode is enabled. I thought I had figured it out the other day when I launched the game in Spectating Mode, enabled Filtering Mode and then immediately searched for a match and was placed on the North Europe server, I was then away from my console for about 10 minutes afterwards and my hopes and dreams were shattered by the aforementioned refusal to search for a match.

I noticed Fraser mention testing in this thread for a similar issue:

Was this testing conducted? What were the results?

[Netduma Fraser]

If I remember rightly, I'm not sure if we're able to use the filter with how their matchmaking works at the moment. A similar thing has happened with Destiny and we have some theories/possible solutions but it requires a lot more work than a cloud update so we will be looking into that more and seeing if it can help for MCC as well. Our founders love Halo so I'm sure they'll want to see this resolved.

[Bhins]

Ahh, that's unfortunate! I was hoping it would work better with 3.0 and I just had to wait for my beta email.

I'm well aware that the team loves Halo, I've been matched against Iain on Halo 5 before, and was watching one of his Halo 5 livestreams where he let everyone in the chat get an upgrade early because someone donated £100 😀

Here's hoping it isn't too complex to fix!