The New Playlist Wait Time Analysis for Halo Infinite - Operation Fleetcom

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Another operation wrapped up, which means it’s time for another update on playlist wait times. I’ve talked about some of the early analysis in my previous blog post, where I covered Operation Anvil. Today, we’re looking at Fleetcom.

Captured playlists #

The following playlists and their identifiers were active during the operation when I was capturing the wait times - they were returned through the lobby endpoint:

Name	Asset ID	Version ID
Big Team Battle	2825D417-93E6-4366-98F9-839A2DC41FE4	BDDD569D-4F26-477A-AC30-A3A776B9B170
Big Team Battle	2825D417-93E6-4366-98F9-839A2DC41FE4	915FBF47-65B7-4948-89F4-CB1B05A4F2C6
FIREFIGHT HEROIC	4EC3A07B-EDEC-4FDD-AA7E-668DC6398AC2	A6152448-16C1-46B0-8610-BAF406FE65BB
FIREFIGHT LEGENDARY	D3C44874-7F46-4F8B-B9A8-92DB24CF807E	A761AD8C-E385-4D79-B930-468FEEEEDD03
FIREFIGHT NORMAL	1F58F2E2-324D-4770-BCA7-E36C63662626	F948E57B-600D-4826-9B31-BCAC6A6A7848
Headhunter	D907E1D0-A562-4352-AE3C-37A57FCDB978	7CD7CB65-EC6F-487F-92F6-C442347920A9
Headhunter	D907E1D0-A562-4352-AE3C-37A57FCDB978	6D278207-4EF4-4669-BAFE-3B07EDC1CC4B
Infection	4FC0EC81-AF6C-47DE-BD30-D0A32D800214	5F954137-FDA6-4710-9326-23932299F595
Quick Play	1B1691DC-D8B9-4B1F-825D-CB1C065184C1	A6B78616-28BB-4BE3-B010-9FFDF553A78E
Ranked Arena	EDFEF3AC-9CBE-4FA2-B949-8F29DEAFD483	49E3F3D4-151F-492D-B33F-3BE17F7D3374
Ranked Doubles	FA5AA2A3-2428-4912-A023-E1EEEA7B877C	FD738446-1169-4E0B-8790-74D3F07F7E80
Ranked Slayer	DCB2E24E-05FB-4390-8076-32A0CDB4326E	D2734BF0-ED62-4BE8-8AE9-B59348FD303F
Ranked Tactical	57E417DD-7366-4DDA-9BDD-2802151D5E81	E5FBFF29-54B8-47A2-BD2E-81433E849B86
Rumble Pit	A7D20EF6-EBDC-4C01-B96C-69B27AFA88D7	88412E86-8257-4852-A406-DFB068A078DA
Squad Battle	F5580605-660C-43F9-AC69-4075C4A05C5D	9989CF1F-01EA-4D61-8ED3-3EA6265E1BAA
Team Doubles	7323BE09-2523-47C0-9E0D-64AF9534EE22	0F05356A-D429-4835-87EB-5FC3D68A20C9
VIP	80C3D141-DED6-4203-984F-E9F0E752BED4	0BC1E8D8-D145-4279-94CC-AB083EDFECF1
VIP	80C3D141-DED6-4203-984F-E9F0E752BED4	8F9715AF-BE0E-4D4B-82DD-B78471AA4DFE

Now, you might notice that there is some duplication. Through the operation, 343 Industries released updates to the playlists, which meant that the same real name was logged twice, but it’s differentiated by the version ID. If you are using the dataset, you should always be using the asset ID and version ID and not the name if you want exact details.

However, because the meta-entity doesn’t change, the data you will see below is aggregated on a per-asset ID basis. And just like in the previous report, the data here is exclusively covering West Coast (US/Canada) times.

The data below tells a somewhat obvious story if you’ve been playing on West Coast servers - playing late at night (after midnight) up until mid-day is generally worse than playing in the evening until midnight. You have an especially bad time if you’re trying to play any of the ranked game modes in the morning or through the night. And if you are like me and want to play Ranked Tactical, then your bad time will be amplified even further because the population in that mode is so small that your wait times are off the charts through the day (where a minute and thirty seconds of wait time is considered “good”).

Now, keep in mind that these are system-reported wait times. Your actual wait time, that accounts for whatever factors the lobby service takes into consideration when trying to find a match to join, may be very different. However, I found the reference points fairly accurate throughout my matches.

Data, presented in a neat heatmap for each playlist, is below.