Halo: MCC Multiplayer "1th" patch "fix" live!

As one who was brought to the Xbox brand with Halo, stayed with it because of Halo 2 and 3...

...I'd like a refund on this game. First time I've ever felt like this about a game, and I've been buying games since the NES.

With respect, I've seen enough and heard enough. If my plan was to purchase a game that only works properly 30% of the time, I would have expected to only pay 30% of the full $60 MSRP. But no, I was asked to pay 100% of the price of the game. With that I expect a game that works accordingly. I don't feel like anyone is looking out for my best interests, and I don't feel like I can trust 343 or MS to do so anymore.

Going to see about getting my money back. Maybe I'll come back and buy the game when it's working...but probably not. Too many other games I can be playing. I was hoping that awful game launches were behind us after the laughably bad glitches in BF4, KZSF and other games last year. Seems things have actually gotten worse instead of better. DriveClub, Unity and now this make me want to retire from console gaming forever.

I'll be picking up Halo 5 in the bargain bin, 343. Believe that.
 
Can't believe this shit lol. Hahahaha. I'm already selling my One which is no older than 2 weeks anyway. But man. This is rich.
 
Downloaded the patch and found a matchmaking game instantly. However I haven't found another game in about 5 attempts.

So disappointing.

EDIT: Just found a game! 6 v 6 BTB on Ragnarok.....holy shiiiiiiit.
 
I was one of the lucky ones finding games before the patch. Since the patch it's been worse. 343's forums are a wasteland. People are pissed.
 
Well, I was gonna get the x1 just for this game....

Was.......

Sorry M$, 343 and anyone else involved but from the general consensus of the Internet, this game wasnt ready for release and therefor fucked atm.

Was so looking forward to this. :(
 
Downloaded the patch and found a matchmaking game instantly. However I haven't found another game in about 5 attempts.

So disappointing.

EDIT: Just found a game! 6 v 6 BTB on Ragnarok.....holy shiiiiiiit.

At least people are finding games now...
Hope matchmaking goes from hit and a lot of miss for me to a lot of hit and less miss.
 
For me, I was finding matches much faster indeed. I was able to play 6-7 matches this night.

The problem though, is that I also had to quit the game entirely, 6-7 times aswell, because of various problems! Until I got stucked to that "downloading latest matchmaking gata" thing, so I went to bed to sleep! So its still really bad!

The biggest thing here is that things are messed up already. Im sure the number of players for MCC will now go straight down. Congratulations MS, 343 or whoever is the responsible for this mess... That was THE golden oportunity that MS was needing, that was again threw down the toilet.

Im gonna buy another game today, so I get entertrained with something else gaming wise and dont feel so tempted to get my self stressed again trying to play this MP.
 
doesnt work for me.

in fact, it doesnt work for southern europe in general.

"waiting..." x10, then "connection failed, please try again"


I did a hard reset just in case the patch wasnt downloaded, and the game booted fine, didnt ask for any update, and inside the game it updated for a couple of seconds the playlists or something.

but nothing more than that.
 
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Was really hoping to play customs tonight. :(

The game has so many bugs and glitches, I'm actually dumbfounded it's out in the wild. Almost feels like leaked code that everyone grabbed from a torrent and burnt on to a disk.

How could it have gone so wrong?

I just wanted to play some Halo. Not going to even bother trying to get games until it's confirmed the issues are fixed. I have no interest in a sub-par, team splitting, party crashing experience.
 
I admire you guys. After playing Halo Anniversary 360 with a friend (we bought it to play the coop campaign together, and gave up due to so much lag on one side), I sweared I would never buy anything related to 343. We were scammed, literally. Never again. Halo died this day for me.

Yeah I hear you man. It sucks even worse it's the exact same issue on MCC. Just isn't nearly good enough for what is Xboxes biggest game.

Matchmaking does seem slightly better in the sense it updates messages quicker like "searching for players" would usually show for an eternity and I gave up, now it changes to "match found" and "searching for more players." Problem is I'm not even sure if the whole process is shorter or not. It seems just I'm updated on what's happening in the matchmaking process is all... So yeah...its still too long for what I'm prepared to wait.

EDIT: Not a problem, but another thing too. I feel they've cheaped out on playlists...again. I means there's 100+ maps spanning 4/5 different...game engines? (Halo 1, 2, 2A, 3, 4) and there's like 5 playlists. We should at least have a playlist for each game. The best thing would be to have playlists within each game and have mixed one, but I think that's too big of a push for 343, though I think that would be the ultimate thing to deliver a complete matchmaking experience
 
Gave it a whirl.

Generally displeased:

- Match search time is variable, sometimes very quick other times like pre-patch
- Incomplete matches left and right
- Matches ending earlier (seemingly after failed host migration)
- Uneven teams and people disconnecting just as match starts

I think I'll do with this like I did with BF4 last year -- just get back to it in a month or two when it's fixed to properly enjoy.

What a shame.
 
Can't believe this is still such a broken mess after this 1.4 GB update. Was able to play 4 matches in 3 hours. The party system is completely fucked, I don't see any changes from what it was before, to release a product in such a state is shameful. Everyone involved in this collection should feel terrible they released it like this. There are no excuses for this type of shit. Seriously regret ever giving them any of my money because they don't deserve it. I feel terrible for those who haven't even been able to play and those who bought the Xbox One for this game.

Id be rapt to play 4 games in 3 hours. I've played 0 games in 10 days.

Give Halo to another studio. 343 are incompetent at best.
 
I just got home from work and decided to try the game for myself after reading everyone's issues all night and oddly enough I get my first match no issues. The next match though is where it fails to start after finding players. Also, BTB didn't find anybody though which upsets me :(. It's been a long time since I played halo 3 though. Man my first reaction is "wow this looks good" then my next is "wtf am I moving like robocop!" I'm hoping they come out today and say "oh, we released the wrong patch" and issue the correct one that fixes it, but I doubt it'll be that easy.
 
My friend said the patch was working fine last night. I only had time to start the download/install. Surprised to see comments about it not working.

Edit: I didn't have any issues finding games before the patch. But I did have issues with parties. Hopefully I can play with my friends now.
 
I figured I'd take last night off from Halo to let the patch stuff settle and play some GTA. I check in this morning and shit is still broken? What is going on over there??!
 
Have the campaign issues been fixed at all. Achievments not unlocking, crashes, saving progress and all that jazz?
Achievements are still glitchy. Previously "unlocked" achievements still show up as "Done! Unlocking..." in the achievement app and new achievements aren't guaranteed to unlock. Just picked up the envy skull, after applying the patch, but the achievement didn't unlock.

Can't comment on crashes or save progress yet.
 
So...working/still not working?

I'm itching to pick this up, but really want the problems fixed before I jump in.

Campaigns good for me, matchmaking worked the 4 times I tried today, got games within a couple minutes every time but a lot of people are saying its still fucked for them.

Best to wait to be honest, there's a lot wrong with the game and I don't expect the majority of issues to be fixed for at least another couple weeks.
 
If I remember correctly that wasnt in the patch notes. This patch was supposed to fix matchmaking... What did not exactly happened anyway.

Achievements are still glitchy. Previously "unlocked" achievements still show up as "Done! Unlocking..." in the achievement app and new achievements aren't guaranteed to unlock. Just picked up the envy skull, after applying the patch, but the achievement didn't unlock.

Can't comment on crashes or save progress yet.

Okay thanks. I shall hold off for a while then I guess :(
 
Matchmaking is better but could still be faster, and every game I play seems to go ahead with 9 players.

Actually got worse for me. I never experienced the "Incomplete Match" crap before and it happens often now. As does the never ending post carnage report, lol.
 
This night after patch I was finding matches. Now Im stucked at the searching list forever again.

I dont know if its server instability, or if everyone gave up. But well, its as bad as ever now, again. It just goes better and worse all the time that I cant even say if I was lucky or what!
 
The patch fixed my cross-game playlist (it wouldn't load Halo 3: Arrival) so I'm happy there!

Also tried one H2A MP game and got into a 4v5 Team BR on Warlord after about a minute of searching which I was impressed by (not so much the unbalanced teams, why it's not capped to 4v4 I'll never know).

Game was laggy as hell though, but I'm putting that down to my internet because I really struggle for latency.
 
You know this is all I'm going to say at this point. For me the patch helped some. That said at this point it seems to have made things worse or had no effect on most people. Now 2 weeks out it's safe to say that 343 and Microsoft have finally put the final nail in the coffin for Halo.

Halo 4 was a huge step back and drove away a lot of the community and fans. Then you had the little twin stick shooter that tried to microtransaction you. Again that pissed folks off. Now you release this collection and tell people certain things that you know aren't true. You release a game that is broken for everyone for 2 weeks and counting. Now you release a patch that only addressed a third of the issues and only multiplayer issues. Then turns out that the patch you released made things worse or had no effect on the state of the game for most people.

At this point any goodwill 343 had is long gone and honestly their customers are starting to turn on them. I think you will see this hurt the franchise pretty damn good. That's sad too because it was a franchise that had a ton of potential. 343 and Microsoft have nobody to blame but themselves too.
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Campaigns good for me, matchmaking worked the 4 times I tried today, got games within a couple minutes every time but a lot of people are saying its still fucked for them.

Best to wait to be honest, there's a lot wrong with the game and I don't expect the majority of issues to be fixed for at least another couple weeks.

Yeah, think I'll do that. Thanks for the info.

GTA5 and Thomas Was Alone should be enough to keep me busy for a couple of weeks, hopefully they'll have fixed the issues by then.
 
I have never had achievement unlocked problem on Halo 2 campaign...
On the contrary, some achievements unlocked before completing, like "win 10 multiplayer match" :D
 
I have never had achievement unlocked problem on Halo 2 campaign...
On the contrary, some achievements unlocked before completing, like "win 10 multiplayer match" :D

I had an achievement for grunt kills unlock while i was playing a local round of golf in The Golf Club.

To be fair i shanked my shot pretty bad I could of hit so out of bounds i hit an enemy in a different game.
 
I have never had achievement unlocked problem on Halo 2 campaign...
On the contrary, some achievements unlocked before completing, like "win 10 multiplayer match" :D
Custom games and forge also count towards that. Even if you played solo ;)
I had an achievement for grunt kills unlock while i was playing a local round of golf in The Golf Club.

To be fair i shanked my shot pretty bad I could of hit so out of bounds i hit an enemy in a different game.
Unlocked Titanfall achievements while I was playing Tomb Raider. Seems to be a problem of the way achievements are unlocked on the Xbox One. However even delayed achievements always popped within 24 hours for me. Halo MCC is the first game where they do not pop after even a week of unlocking them.
 
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