The Jackdog
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I just kept saying thats unacceptable, elevate me please.
Halo: MCC Multiplayer "1th" patch "fix" live!
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I just kept saying thats unacceptable, elevate me please.
Try Xbox Chat Support. People are having more luck with that.
Watch Dogs works too. Not gonna play that either just because it works. And in Destiny's case it's hard to fuck up matchmaking support when you dont even offer it for most of the modes in end-game.
Same. The guy I talked to wanted to go through trouble-shooting steps for an hour. I told him to let me talk to a manager. He wouldn't. Eventually he just gave me the refund. And this was all after I gave him links to MS admitting there were issues.
This is all I care about. Pissing me off it's not fixed yet. I better not have to replay those sections to unlock them either.
block tower
Member
yeah its bullshit. i usually dont get mad about issues with video games, but im very busy wih work, school, and relationships, so i finally get minute to sit down and play some Halo this morning (east coast time) and the matchmaking is still broken. its a bit ridiculous that matchmaking is the major issue plaguing this game.
It must be pretty difficult for them to make the first online, competitive multiplayer video game. If only they were employed by the same company that runs the Xbox Live team, the standardized online network of the one platform they developed for, I bet this game could work if they had access to talk to them.
Oh wait.
Still rather take a broken Halo game (that will be fixed eventually) than a functional Destiny.
Don't even get me started on the two "Expansions" that are $20 USD a piece (that sound like they were gutted from the base game to begin with)
How is it worse? It seems pretty much the same, with quicker MM.
Future PhaZe
Member
Patch?
I bought a console for this.
I spent four hundred goddamn dollars.
I am seriously butthurt about this. Any and all hope I had for anything 343 does in the future is dead and buried.
Same boat here. I bought an Xbox for Halo CE, and Halo 2 and Xbox Live converted me over to consoles from being a PC online gamer. I logged hundreds upon hundreds of hours on Halo 2, I traveled for tournaments, I made real friends through that game. Friends I still talk to everyday, friends I've visited on the other side of the country, friends who I spent a weekend partying in Vegas with. Say what you will, but Halo has actually had a real impact on my life.
So when I saw an opportunity to relive some of that and play Halo 2 online again with a real community, I went out and bought an Xbox One solely for that reason. I didn't want an Xbox One, I had no plans on purchasing it, but there was no way in hell I was going to miss out on what was supposed to be the rebirth of my favorite franchise. What was supposed to be an opportunity to reignite the spark of Halo for a new generation, inspire the old fans, and bring in new ones.
And instead we got this... mess. Even if 343i manages to somehow fix all the game's bugs and issues within a month (which most certainly will not happen), the damage is already done. A game's community and population will never fully recover from such a horribly botched high-profile launch.
Call me melodramatic, but the whole thing actually makes me sad. It's really disappointing to see this happen to something I was so passionate about.
It actually made it worse for some people.
skatebored
Member
Seems silly that Spartan Ops apparently doesn't cut the mustard and gets held back when everything else gets a thumbs up.
Matchmaking is working better for me post patch, but it's definitely not fixed.
Yup, hardly any of my progress from last weekend's marathon actually saved to my console. It says I've played 1/15 missions in Halo 2 even though I completed the Heroic playlist -________-
I bought a console for this.
I spent four hundred goddamn dollars.
I am seriously butthurt about this. Any and all hope I had for anything 343 does in the future is dead and buried.
I bought it for FH2, SO, and mainly this game. I spent 349 for the console. I don't particularly even like the console or it's UI. Since I bought it after November 1st, I'm allowed to return it for a full refund before January 15th (Christmas extends return periods at most stores in the US). I think I'm going to do that now and get a Wii U on Black Friday. I'll miss FH2, but I figure next year MS will have a new iteration of the console that isn't so huge, and will probably be even cheaper and I can play FH2 again then.
Yeah, it's really on MS as the publisher more than 343i. The reason we have so many broken games this fall is because the publishers don't want to budge on their release windows. The games need more time to cook. Hopefully, they will begin to loosen up on that and get more creative with their release dates. It's OK to release a game between April and September.
Woah woah woah... You want me to buy a Halo game outside of November? November and Halo... They go together...
Like red beans and rice.
Peanut butter and jelly.
Cigarettes and CVS pharmacies...
Oh wait...
rootbeerafloat
Member
Well, I don't have to restart my searches nearly as often. Unfortunately that's leading to a different kind of frustration. The uneven teams are making things absolutely miserable. In thirteen years of Halo I could probably count on two hands the number of games I've quit out of. Even when I was getting destroyed at blue on bg by the host on XBC I was happy to just be playing Halo online. I'm probably well beyond that mark now.
I know most people apparently can't even find a game, but has anyone complained about the playlist being absolutely terrible? In TS, every game of Halo 3 is either Narrows (who are these people voting for Narrows??) or High Ground, Halo 2 is Ivory Tower or Lockout, and no one really votes for CE but it seems to be Hang'em or Prisoner when they do. So many wonderful maps and I've only seen a handful even show up for a vote. You go into the playlist for Halo 2 and 3 and everyone just votes for slayer. I'm never going to get to play an objective game unless add separate objective and team slayer playlists for each game, which I doubt they'll ever do. It's a bummer.
CE feels much nicer after the patch though, so thanks for that, I guess. Too bad there's not a playlist to enjoy it in.
I know most people apparently can't even find a game, but has anyone complained about the playlist being absolutely terrible? In TS, every game of Halo 3 is either Narrows (who are these people voting for Narrows??) or High Ground, Halo 2 is Ivory Tower or Lockout, and no one really votes for CE but it seems to be Hang'em or Prisoner when they do. So many wonderful maps and I've only seen a handful even show up for a vote. You go into the playlist for Halo 2 and 3 and everyone just votes for slayer. I'm never going to get to play an objective game unless add separate objective and team slayer playlists for each game, which I doubt they'll ever do. It's a bummer.
CE feels much nicer after the patch though, so thanks for that, I guess. Too bad there's not a playlist to enjoy it in.
Final Verdict
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I agree, but I do understand in this case they didn't really have much wiggle room. Nov 11th was the 10 year anniversary of halo 2.
I think they should have outsourced more help to bug test it & fix problems.
Not every game needs to do a beta, but yeah, that probably would have been a good Idea here...
I'm not trying to make excuses for them. They messed up, and I feel like we should be compensated for it, but I think it makes no sense to continually bash 343 like this was all intentional. They are doing the best they can.
If anything, blame Microsoft's certification team which should have recognized that this game was a buggy as it was and gotten a lot of this fixed before launch, or just decided to push the date back a couple weeks.
GayForMaster
Banned
2 games That are rumoured to come to pc, you should have had more patience.
Bravo. This one got many laughs.
FairXchange
Member
Game's still broken. Gg 343. I was patient at first but it's messed up a few gaming nights just trying to get into a game with a friend to the point where we're both just tired and want to play something else.
rokkerkory
Member
Totally do not blame you guys that are upset over this. Shit needs to be fixed.
I wonder if part of the issues last night was a combination of people trying to download the patch, people with the patch trying to get into games, and people who were still online pre-patch trying to get in games. Maybe the mix of people on different versions screwed something up? Regardless, it was really stupid of them to release the patch so late in the day after people were already online. Release that shit at noon eastern when most people are at school or are at work.
Anyways... All work on Halo 5, and the Halo 5 Beta, should be indefinitely delayed until Master Chief Collection is working properly. This in all likelihood isn't going to happen, but it is what should happen because splitting 343 up between bug fixing MCC and producing Halo 5 is only going to hurt both products.
Anyways... All work on Halo 5, and the Halo 5 Beta, should be indefinitely delayed until Master Chief Collection is working properly. This in all likelihood isn't going to happen, but it is what should happen because splitting 343 up between bug fixing MCC and producing Halo 5 is only going to hurt both products.
soundscream
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You mean the same source that said the PS4 itself knack and killzone were coming to PC also.
User 73706
Banned
Well I'd like to know what testing they actually did on matchmaking. Because it flat-out doesn't work - it's not just a little broken.
Kssio_Aug
Member
For those who, just like me and these two here, are having the same problem, let me ask something.
Yesterday night / tonight, when playing the game after patch, did you have a "downloading latest data" issue that in fact never downloaded?
Mendax
Member
yeah they should get snoop dogg in there as well!
Narpas Sword0
Member
Yea I'm sure the campaign missions played in sequence before the game came out, too. Give me a break.
I'm really curious how different their test environment is from the live environment. Because it seems like their shit goes through testing with flying colors and then hits the live servers and immediately crumbles. Makes me think their test environment isn't a proper reflection of the live XBL environment.
Son of Sam
Banned
Any word from Frankie? 343? Microsoft?
Dreams-Visions
Member
+1
I wouldn't expect them to have anything to say until they can offer a plan of action and a target date.
backflip10019
Member
That is a really good point.
joeygreco1985
Member
Because rumours are always true :/
Yeah. Well either way, it's shocking from MS, especially for their flagship franchise and their servers. I would assume, this must be a massive fuck up with the coding or something to do with the sheer size of the content? All the maps and engines being utilized across all the games?
That's the only thing different here. That the game is just massive in size, and all the variance between each game.
I'm quite sure the coding isn't as simple as your statement.
Kssio_Aug
Member
I dont think the problem is related to specific playlists. I believe that, if they fix one, they fix everything.
I had no idea an /r/Halo exists on Reddit till today.
I thought people were upset here... Nope. They're absolutely losing their minds in that subreddit.
I'm just glad I have other things to play in the mean time. I'd be really upset if I just bought the Xbox One and Halo MCC was the only game I had on it.
I thought people were upset here... Nope. They're absolutely losing their minds in that subreddit.
I'm just glad I have other things to play in the mean time. I'd be really upset if I just bought the Xbox One and Halo MCC was the only game I had on it.
Is it unreasonable to think that MS has access to some of the best testing & dev tools available in the world? It's hard for me to imagine they didn't have a means to test this game properly. I could believe they didn't have time, but not the means.
I just can't make sense of the process and steps that happened and led to the release of the game and it's current state.
EDIT: Maybe I am wrong... I don't know
Backfoggen
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I had no probs trying the matchmaking a couple of times just now but man the games itself seemed broken. Pretty laggy and the ground kept swallowing grenades? A dude drove a ghost and suddenly it was like he was getting sucked into the ground. It just exploded. Then it ended a round early.
Is it unreasonable to think that MS has access to some of the best testing & dev tools available in the world? It's hard for me to imagine they didn't have a means to test this game properly. I could believe they didn't have time, but not the means.
I just can't make sense of the process and steps that happened that and led to the release of the game and it's current state.
EDIT: Maybe I am wrong... I don't know
It's not unreasonable to think so. I'm just applying what little of my programming knowledge that is transferable to this situation. Piecing together what Frankie and 343 have said, it seems like the big issues didn't pop up until everything went live. From all of my programming experience when a similar situation happens its almost certainly a discrepancy between testing environments and production environments.
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