The Zett

It's 100% official that my Xbox account had a major issue for the past 7+ years. The amount of friends/data on the account caused inputs to not register properly while also not being synced to the servers as fast as possible. We suspect this problem may have begun for everyone shortly after Halo 5 came out when the "NXOE update" launched for Xbox One around late 2015. If I remember correctly, that's when more major heavy aim was introduced in Halo 5 and it started to weigh your account down if you had a lot of friends/data. Which may explain why during the beta and the first couple weeks of Halo 5, the aiming was not nearly as bad. It's also 100% official that this happens on PC as well. This is NOT an Xbox console exclusive issue. This has to do with how inputs/data are stored in packets that are sent to the servers. The hardware is not relevant in this situation. My inputs now never get interrupted like they have before in the past on PC. My inputs never get eaten/lost and they feel like completely different games compared to the past 7+ years of playing. It was limiting my ability heavily to be consistent and stopping me from playing the game to it's full potential. After I stopped competing in Halo 5 in 2017 to go to full time streaming. I never really played on smurf accounts, so I never really knew anything different than what I played on. It's a bit sad that we've been competing on a platform that determines your game quality, input registration, and shot registration speed based on the amount of friends and other data on your account. There was always rumors of smurf accounts being better for whatever reason, but no one could really pin the reason why. Well, now we know for sure it is 100% the friends list, messages, and whatever other data on your account weighing the packets down to cause your game to feel unsynced and slower overall to the server.