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So I've been getting back into halo recently, but I've noticed that all of my matches have been on US East servers, both on the retail version of the game AND the Reach Flight which has obviously made a noticable amount of delay during my matches, and makes stuff like sniping a lot more challenging.

I tried looking up about it online, and some posts said there are EU servers, but I'm yet to actually be put into one, so I'm wondering if it's actually true? It's a shame as I used to love Halo, but playing the MCC recently, and more specifically the Reach flight last night really made me notice how poor it is not playing on EU servers.

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about 5 years ago - /u/ske7ch343 - Direct link

Yes, there are EU servers (and other parts of the world) - but in most instances the population at any given time is quite low across EU, Australia, etc.. which means players in those regions usually end up matching into NA servers. Originally there were stricter rules in place which led to some backlash and complaints about "region locking" so now players in lower pop areas can get into matches, but it usually means connecting to a datacenter further away. One thing the team has said they'd like to do is add an option for players to just manually select which datacenter they want to connect to - even if it means they'll have to wait longer for a match. Not totally sure when that would come online, but it's on their list and something they want to do to further help address this feedback.