Hey guys,
My two friends and I are PS4 owners and recently decided to each pickup an xbox one s halo bundle. We played halo all the time on 360 and we recently felt the urge to play again. A few days after getting the consoles, we are already looking at returning them. I'm trying to figure out what's the deal. We've had a few issues and I will name a few of them and see if you guys could shed some light.
-Snapping things to the side is pretty much unusable. TV snapping stutters no matter what game I am playing. Twitch causes MCC to crash. Going from a snapped app to the main game is unreliable. It takes a few seconds for the main game to become responsive or it stays frozen altogether.
-Party chat. We frequently have the audio drop out and say there is a network error. We start a new party and everything is fine again.
-Party Chat. I will randomly get switched to game chat and vice versa. Very confusing in the middle of a match.
-Headphones. On PS4, when you route game audio to the headset it automatically mutes the sound coming from tv/speakers. Do you really have to mute your tv/speakers manualy on xbox one?
-Mic audio - is there not a way to adjust your own mic input to the console? One of our friend's mic is really quiet compared to everyone else. Does he have to buy that headset controller adapter to get that functionality?
-Headset audio dropouts. Game audio will randomly dropout, leaving only chat audio. Sometimes, the reverse happens. Sometimes both drop out. The fix is to remove headset from controller and plug it back in.
-Disk drive - while installing Halo 5, my friends disk drive was making a loud noise. His recording sounded like a washing machine.
-User Interface. This is the one I'm most dissapointed about. I expected Microsoft's prowess with software to be refreshing coming from the PS4, but it's extremely lacking IMHO. The UI is cluttered and extremely laggy at times. Button presses take seconds to register. Menu options can be all over the place.
-When installing Halo 5, the intall process froze multiple times for all of us and required us to pause/unpause the install to get it working again.
-I couldn't get my xbox one to change my tv channels. I thought this was a feature. Maybe this is my fault, but I thought it shouldn't be that hard.
HALO: MCC:
-Lots of freezes on startup. The microsoft studios logo will freeze everytime I startup. Sometimes the entire game freezes.
-After multiplayer games, it kicks you out instead of searching for another game.
HALO 5:
-When launching halo 5. It crashes on the splash screen back to the xbox home screen sometimes, requiring restart.
-Forge file browser. This is not showing as available for 2 of us. The third accesses it just fine. Mine was working one day and not the next.
-Halo reqs. Anytime one of my friends accessed his req's during warzone, the system says something like "Retrieving data", He was also never able to look at the previous game's scoreboard while waiting in the lobby.
-Forge maps. There are alot of maps that have moving parts of the level. These will stop moving completely in all parts of the map for many minutes at a time. This made maps unplayable.
-The game's graphics are disapointing. Is multiplayer 1080p? It looks low res at times with lots of aliasing and shimmering. On some maps, the environment textures lack any detail at all.
-Random disconnects during multiplayer
-"Can't reserve dedicated server" errors when starting games
Did we get a bad batch? Are these issues common? I hadn't heard any complaints like this before ordering.
My two friends and I are PS4 owners and recently decided to each pickup an xbox one s halo bundle. We played halo all the time on 360 and we recently felt the urge to play again. A few days after getting the consoles, we are already looking at returning them. I'm trying to figure out what's the deal. We've had a few issues and I will name a few of them and see if you guys could shed some light.
-Snapping things to the side is pretty much unusable. TV snapping stutters no matter what game I am playing. Twitch causes MCC to crash. Going from a snapped app to the main game is unreliable. It takes a few seconds for the main game to become responsive or it stays frozen altogether.
-Party chat. We frequently have the audio drop out and say there is a network error. We start a new party and everything is fine again.
-Party Chat. I will randomly get switched to game chat and vice versa. Very confusing in the middle of a match.
-Headphones. On PS4, when you route game audio to the headset it automatically mutes the sound coming from tv/speakers. Do you really have to mute your tv/speakers manualy on xbox one?
-Mic audio - is there not a way to adjust your own mic input to the console? One of our friend's mic is really quiet compared to everyone else. Does he have to buy that headset controller adapter to get that functionality?
-Headset audio dropouts. Game audio will randomly dropout, leaving only chat audio. Sometimes, the reverse happens. Sometimes both drop out. The fix is to remove headset from controller and plug it back in.
-Disk drive - while installing Halo 5, my friends disk drive was making a loud noise. His recording sounded like a washing machine.
-User Interface. This is the one I'm most dissapointed about. I expected Microsoft's prowess with software to be refreshing coming from the PS4, but it's extremely lacking IMHO. The UI is cluttered and extremely laggy at times. Button presses take seconds to register. Menu options can be all over the place.
-When installing Halo 5, the intall process froze multiple times for all of us and required us to pause/unpause the install to get it working again.
-I couldn't get my xbox one to change my tv channels. I thought this was a feature. Maybe this is my fault, but I thought it shouldn't be that hard.
HALO: MCC:
-Lots of freezes on startup. The microsoft studios logo will freeze everytime I startup. Sometimes the entire game freezes.
-After multiplayer games, it kicks you out instead of searching for another game.
HALO 5:
-When launching halo 5. It crashes on the splash screen back to the xbox home screen sometimes, requiring restart.
-Forge file browser. This is not showing as available for 2 of us. The third accesses it just fine. Mine was working one day and not the next.
-Halo reqs. Anytime one of my friends accessed his req's during warzone, the system says something like "Retrieving data", He was also never able to look at the previous game's scoreboard while waiting in the lobby.
-Forge maps. There are alot of maps that have moving parts of the level. These will stop moving completely in all parts of the map for many minutes at a time. This made maps unplayable.
-The game's graphics are disapointing. Is multiplayer 1080p? It looks low res at times with lots of aliasing and shimmering. On some maps, the environment textures lack any detail at all.
-Random disconnects during multiplayer
-"Can't reserve dedicated server" errors when starting games
Did we get a bad batch? Are these issues common? I hadn't heard any complaints like this before ordering.
