Halo Infinite's desync problem is on hold because developers are busy with other things

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Desync, simply put, is when an online game server and client don't agree on a player's location: The client says a player is here, but the server says they're actually over there. As you can imagine, it's a real problem when you're trying to put bullets or blades into someone, and it's been an issue in Halo Infiinite since before the game released.

«Players have found cases where you can permanently desync the client from the server,» 343 Industries wrote in a February blog post(opens in new tab), referencing a December 2021 thread on Reddit(opens in new tab).

«Usually, the moment we detect a desync, no matter how small, the client should begin correcting to the server’s position. In bad cases this results in rubberbanding, but in normal scenarios these changes should be unnoticeable. The cases where you permanently desync occur when our systems fail to detect and respond to desyncs.»

343 said at the time that it had identified multiple situations in which Halo Infinite players could become permanently desynced, and expected to have a fix «deployed in upcoming builds.» But the problem has persisted, and it sounds like it's going to be around for awhile yet, as developers' hands are currently full with other things.

«I don't know if twitter/reddit is the best place to go into all the details about why there's been a lack of UCN [networking] improvement, there's a lot of factors, so I'll keep it brief,» 343_Taxi wrote(opens in new tab) in response to a video illustrating desync problems that was posted earlier this week. «The TLDR of it is the devs that would work on these fixes have been allocated to other Infinite work. Their work has had some knock-on benefit to our UCN solution, especially around movers (players,