Right now we can expect "suboptimal performance," but games are easier to get into they say. The online team are "not out of the woods" yet.
"The Beta is not quite fully operational, but it should be moving at a pretty good clip now that our online team has applied some technological fixups," posted Bungie on the official site, reports Eurogamer.
"You should still expect suboptimal performance, but you should also now be getting games with relative ease. Once again, thanks for being patient."
"Unless of course you weren't patient at all and you made like a million posts to the feedback forum to complain about the outage even though there were already like a million posts already made complaining about the outage. If you were that guy, thanks for nothing!"
"Again, we're not out of the woods just yet. If you experience any problems connecting or getting into games, please let us know about it. Politely, of course. Otherwise, have fun in the Beta! " they continued. Cool those jets Spartan - Bungie are on it.
Beta for Halo is always a big thing and Halo: Reach was "getting hammered" yesterday when it kicked to life. Are you in the multiplayer beta and feeling the pressure?