HALO 5 Custom Games WILL Have Dedicated Servers!

One of the selling points of Halo: The Master Chief Collection was all four games finally having dedicated servers. It wasn’t until shortly before the launch of MCC that we were told by 343i these dedicated servers would only be available for matchmaking and not for custom games.

Often this system is not available and we find ourselves listfully slipping back to the old peer to peer system we have had since Halo 2 in 2004.

The Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta ran exclusively on dedicated servers with absolutely zero support for peer-to-peer similar to other games such as Titanfall, personally it worked great for me!

Josh Holmes, Lead on Halo 5: Guardians at 343 Industries hopped onto forums and confirmed that when the game launches later this year, both matchmaking and custom games will run exclusively on dedicated severs with no peer-to-peer fallback. How awesome is that?!