dmatt51333 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I setup the geo filter for Halo infinite and it kind of works, If I'm playing solo it works fine. But when I'm with friends it still connects me to the unwanted servers then it says "cannot connect to server". The issue I'm having is it's putting my teammates (friends) into the game man down(3v4). Is there anyway around this? Any help is appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 26, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 26, 2022 Hey, welcome to the forum! @Zippy may be able to comment on whether this is possible as he plays Halo a lot. Are you the party leader when you're with friends? Have you added your friends to the allow list? dmatt51333 and Zippy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippy Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 As Fraser has mentioned above in order for you to have your friends with you and use the Geo you have to be party leader. And when your friends are in your party look at the Geo Filter and you should see them pop up! Once you see them add them to your allow list. That is the only way to play with your friends and use the Geo. Your friends should appear on the Geo as a Player.. You will have to allow each player to your Allow list. Before you invite them to your party/fireteam have the Geo up and running as that will help you spot them on the Geo. You will have to watch close because they show on the Geo for a bit and can disappear.. Usually just having them in party chat will trigger the Geo to spot them. Hopefully this should give you good results. As its worked for me thus far unless something has changed. But I doubt anything has. I just did this the other night with no problems.. If you want to test this before playing ranked so your fireteam doesnt go a man down play a couple of Bot Boot Camp games.. Once you have played a couple of those with no issues you can then move to Ranked Matchmaking of your choice.. If you have any other questions feel free to ask away! Good luck! Zippy. Netduma Fraser, dmatt51333 and Fuzy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmatt51333 Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 45 minutes ago, Zippy said: As Fraser has mentioned above in order for you to have your friends with you and use the Geo you have to be party leader. And when your friends are in your party look at the Geo Filter and you should see them pop up! Once you see them add them to your allow list. That is the only way to play with your friends and use the Geo. Your friends should appear on the Geo as a Player.. You will have to allow each player to your Allow list. Before you invite them to your party/fireteam have the Geo up and running as that will help you spot them on the Geo. You will have to watch close because they show on the Geo for a bit and can disappear.. Usually just having them in party chat will trigger the Geo to spot them. Hopefully this should give you good results. As its worked for me thus far unless something has changed. But I doubt anything has. I just did this the other night with no problems.. If you want to test this before playing ranked so your fireteam doesnt go a man down play a couple of Bot Boot Camp games.. Once you have played a couple of those with no issues you can then move to Ranked Matchmaking of your choice.. If you have any other questions feel free to ask away! Good luck! Zippy. Ill try that tonight, thank you! Zippy and Netduma Fraser 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippy Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 2 hours ago, dmatt51333 said: Ill try that tonight, thank you! Welcome! Give it a go and see how it works for you. Good luck! Zippy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmatt51333 Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 18 hours ago, Zippy said: Welcome! Give it a go and see how it works for you. Good luck! Zippy. Hey Zippy, So I played about 10 matches after allowing them and being host, but it's still connecting me to a bad server then disconnecting me.. For example I'm filtering so I only get the 2 east coast servers, then we connect to a lobby and I see it ping the Texas or west server and it shows the orange server icon (denied server) then it says "unable to connect to server" then continues to put them in the game 3v4. maybe there's no way around this idk lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 27, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 27, 2022 It may be something that has changed then, I'm not sure why they would allow it to happen really, is this in every playlist you're seeing this behaviour? dmatt51333 and Zippy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippy Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 How many games are you able to play with your friends before this happens? Do you and your friends live on the East coast? Also what time of the day have you experienced this at? Like does it seem to happen at about the same time frame? Right before you get disconnected is it this Texas server that pops up? Like does it seem to always be that same server before you get disconnected? Like Fraser has mentioned as well does this happen in all playlists? Or only Ranked? Thanks! Zippy. Netduma Fraser and dmatt51333 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmatt51333 Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 43 minutes ago, Zippy said: How many games are you able to play with your friends before this happens? Do you and your friends live on the East coast? Also what time of the day have you experienced this at? Like does it seem to happen at about the same time frame? Right before you get disconnected is it this Texas server that pops up? Like does it seem to always be that same server before you get disconnected? Like Fraser has mentioned as well does this happen in all playlists? Or only Ranked? Thanks! Zippy. It's all different sometimes it's 2 games or could be every 10 games. 1 west 3 east Usually at night Sometimes it's Texas but I've seen Cali and Washington too only tried it in ranked But I've noticed it does it when I'm playing solo too. Connects to bad server then just says unable to connect and I have to search for another lobby. Maybe it's just kinda broken for halo lol But i've heard other people using it no problem so who knows lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmatt51333 Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Netduma Fraser said: It may be something that has changed then, I'm not sure why they would allow it to happen really, is this in every playlist you're seeing this behaviour? yeah its weird, but I only really play ranked so that's all i've tested it in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0NSPIRACY Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 @Netduma Fraser there’s talk about 343i banning players for use of geo filter having publicly announced that they consider it to be cheating and anyone using geo filter is a “bad actor” (whatever that is supposed to mean). Are Netduma aware of this and doing anything to potentially counter geo filter no longer working in the game if they patch the game to prevent geo filter working? Zippy and dmatt51333 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBDJG Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 6 minutes ago, K0NSPIRACY said: @Netduma Fraser there’s talk about 343i banning players for use of geo filter having publicly announced that they consider it to be cheating and anyone using geo filter is a “bad actor” (whatever that is supposed to mean). Are Netduma aware of this and doing anything to potentially counter geo filter no longer working in the game if they patch the game to prevent geo filter working? Wonder how they can patch it?😲 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 27, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 27, 2022 47 minutes ago, dmatt51333 said: It's all different sometimes it's 2 games or could be every 10 games. 1 west 3 east Usually at night Sometimes it's Texas but I've seen Cali and Washington too only tried it in ranked But I've noticed it does it when I'm playing solo too. Connects to bad server then just says unable to connect and I have to search for another lobby. Maybe it's just kinda broken for halo lol But i've heard other people using it no problem so who knows lol Would you mind playing a non ranked playlist? It could be that the population for ranked is smaller and therefore less options for servers etc. 36 minutes ago, K0NSPIRACY said: @Netduma Fraser there’s talk about 343i banning players for use of geo filter having publicly announced that they consider it to be cheating and anyone using geo filter is a “bad actor” (whatever that is supposed to mean). Are Netduma aware of this and doing anything to potentially counter geo filter no longer working in the game if they patch the game to prevent geo filter working? Do you have a link to any official statement on this? I don't see how it would be possible given all it would look like is that they cannot connect to a server for some reason - they couldn't ban everyone that can't connect to a server, people with legitimate network issues would then be banned. dmatt51333 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0NSPIRACY Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 @Netduma Fraser Unyshek posted about it on his Twitter calling geo filter users “bad actors” and essentially cheaters. This has also been picked up by at least one Halo YouTuber who states that there are 3 methods of cheating…walls, aimbot and geo filter. From what I’ve heard they are releasing an update in February to address cheating issues so that may or may not involve players using geo filter. It just so happens that I’m currently experiencing issues trying to find a game in all playlists on Dublin/Amsterdam servers…it just fails to progress at 0% loading map. I’m going to presume it’s because it’s 3am and everyone in Europe should be asleep…but I hope they have released a stealth patch just by coincidence! 😂 Zippy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBDJG Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 20 minutes ago, K0NSPIRACY said: @Netduma Fraser Unyshek posted about it on his Twitter calling geo filter users “bad actors” and essentially cheaters. This has also been picked up by at least one Halo YouTuber who states that there are 3 methods of cheating…walls, aimbot and geo filter. From what I’ve heard they are releasing an update in February to address cheating issues so that may or may not involve players using geo filter. It just so happens that I’m currently experiencing issues trying to find a game in all playlists on Dublin/Amsterdam servers…it just fails to progress at 0% loading map. I’m going to presume it’s because it’s 3am and everyone in Europe should be asleep…but I hope they have released a stealth patch just by coincidence! 😂 These are my geo settings its also 3.25am and im having no issues at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBDJG Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 you on pc or xbox?what game mode you trying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0NSPIRACY Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 1 hour ago, GBDJG said: you on pc or xbox?what game mode you trying? Your Geo looks pretty much identical to mine. I play on Xbox Series X and it was happening in Team Slayer, Attrition and SWAT. The only way I could get a game was to restart Halo then it would happen again after one game…then fully reset console then it would happen again…then I just gave up and did a bit of campaign. Hopefully it will be back to normal tomorrow evening, but I’ll post again if issues persist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 28, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 28, 2022 Looks like they're referring to people editing the hosts file on PC more so than using the DumaOS Geo-Filter so I don't think this should affect anyone using our Geo-Filter! Zippy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBDJG Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 11 hours ago, K0NSPIRACY said: Your Geo looks pretty much identical to mine. I play on Xbox Series X and it was happening in Team Slayer, Attrition and SWAT. The only way I could get a game was to restart Halo then it would happen again after one game…then fully reset console then it would happen again…then I just gave up and did a bit of campaign. Hopefully it will be back to normal tomorrow evening, but I’ll post again if issues persist. SWAT?? i dont see this in the playlist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0NSPIRACY Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 47 minutes ago, GBDJG said: SWAT?? i dont see this in the playlist. SWAT = Tactical Slayer 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0NSPIRACY Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said: Looks like they're referring to people editing the hosts file on PC more so than using the DumaOS Geo-Filter so I don't think this should affect anyone using our Geo-Filter! Hi @Netduma Fraser. Here’s a link to another BS article that follows up and reports on this, and includes link to Unysheks original Twitter post: https://piunikaweb.com/2022/01/25/halo-infinite-geo-filtering-system-exploit-causing-high-ping-on-matches/ The comments are quite alarming from people that don’t know what they are talking about…and I still don’t know what a “bad actor” is supposed to mean! 😂 Zippy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 28, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 28, 2022 13 minutes ago, K0NSPIRACY said: Hi @Netduma Fraser. Here’s a link to another BS article that follows up and reports on this, and includes link to Unysheks original Twitter post: https://piunikaweb.com/2022/01/25/halo-infinite-geo-filtering-system-exploit-causing-high-ping-on-matches/ The comments are quite alarming from people that don’t know what they are talking about…and I still don’t know what a “bad actor” is supposed to mean! 😂 We will keep an eye on it but I don't see how they could block the DumaOS Geo-Filter in any way GBDJG and Zippy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBDJG Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 43 minutes ago, K0NSPIRACY said: SWAT = Tactical Slayer 😂 God damn that mode is truly full of hackers and geo filers 🤣 Zippy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippy Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 3 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said: Looks like they're referring to people editing the hosts file on PC more so than using the DumaOS Geo-Filter so I don't think this should affect anyone using our Geo-Filter! Thats what im hopping 343 meant. That Tweet was a bit out of line to start calling people bad actors when not fully saying exactly who they are referring too. This really all started from that one Pro Player and of course people on waypoint took that and ran with it to no end in sight. Zippy. Netduma Fraser 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0NSPIRACY Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 4 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said: Looks like they're referring to people editing the hosts file on PC more so than using the DumaOS Geo-Filter so I don't think this should affect anyone using our Geo-Filter! What’s the difference between using DumaOS geo filter and editing the host files on PC? They refer to exploits so is this something that could negatively effect the game or impact other players if someone did edit the host files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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