agreed. the dialogue in game and pre and post game animations need to mature a bit. feels really cheap right now. also, HATE the red and blue team logos.
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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo
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agreed. the dialogue in game and pre and post game animations need to mature a bit. feels really cheap right now. also, HATE the red and blue team logos.
il Diavolo
Banned
Played a bit of CE campaign and now trying to see if I can get into at least one match before I jump into H2A. No luck so far, however.
The Henery
Member
Why are there SMG starts in this game?
Map choices are Ivory Tower, Ghost Town, and Rat Race. I vote Rat Race along side 3 others. It starts loading Orbital with AR starts. Not only that, but it's a 2v3 with Player A, Player A's guest and Player B versus me and Player B's guest. Once the match is over, it crashes. This should not have shipped.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Why are there SMG starts in this game?
but hey
they brought backwash back to the unwashed masses
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
What a shit show of a game.
343 should be embarrassed by this launch
343 should be embarrassed by this launch
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
This game is so broken.
So I started matchmaking for Team Slayer. Wait for 5 minutes, get bored and decide to start watching Nightfall. I stop matchmaking, go to extras and use the in-game link to the Halo Channel. 5 minutes later I load up the MCC again and I'm in a game of Halo 3.
Play for a bit, then halfway through it crashes.
I've only had issues with multiplayer but they aren't limited to connectivity. The game has crashed once, UI is buggy, i had the weird situation I described above. All in all it's pretty damn shoddy.
So I started matchmaking for Team Slayer. Wait for 5 minutes, get bored and decide to start watching Nightfall. I stop matchmaking, go to extras and use the in-game link to the Halo Channel. 5 minutes later I load up the MCC again and I'm in a game of Halo 3.
Play for a bit, then halfway through it crashes.
I've only had issues with multiplayer but they aren't limited to connectivity. The game has crashed once, UI is buggy, i had the weird situation I described above. All in all it's pretty damn shoddy.
Is the game broken in general or is it anything to do with online connectivity?
Do the campaigns crash on you?
It's weird that some people are starting to say that it is working now just fine. It implies consistency is the major issue here. Some people have it working, others do not.
Do the campaigns crash on you?
It's weird that some people are starting to say that it is working now just fine. It implies consistency is the major issue here. Some people have it working, others do not.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Halo 4 crashed on me in a way. It went to a black screen and said "untracked build, won't upload". I should upload the pic, lol.
Game is elzar tier
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Yep this got very annoying trying to check matchmaking vs. customs last night.
Campaign crashed on me in Halo 3 wheels, wheels and more wheels Ark level near the end, connection to host lost etc.
Parties and rosters are glitchy to where they won't load, you cant join, only half can see etc. If party leader backs out, rest of team remains without him. So you have to rejoin. Matchmaking, literally waiting 30+ minutes for matches in all playlists.
The only thing that is working is limited campaign use and custom use. Basically can run single player or maybe customs with a few people.
Jellycrackers
Member
Anyone hosting customs? I've got one or two friends online who can join too.
Gt: Jellycrackers
Gt: Jellycrackers
YourExWife
Member
The entire game crashes on a regular basis, there's basic features missing/broken, weird client-side design choices and bugs, performance is very rough very often, audio is borked half the time, audio is randomly fucked in H2 mp (crackles/distorted/blown out), Joining even custom lobbies is a coin flip, in-game voice might as well not even exist considering how often it works, emblems don't show up in lobby 90% of the time, post-game stats are borked (telling me my most-killed and killed by are my teammates every time), if you hit the home button and try to resume, you'll get some kind of crash or soft-lock about 1 out of 4 times.
There's many more problems, but these are just the ones I noted last night before I went to bed, and none of them are to do with server issues or MM. Those are a whole other couple dozen complaints/problems.
Ive got two and would prefer to keep things small. GT is DJ Gunner. US Ohio.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
I can't believe I got an Xbox for this buggy mess. At least I have Killer Instinct to fall back on.
I'd say Unity, at least when you're actually playing the game the MCC seems pretty solid.
Unity is just a giant mess in every aspect.
I might be jumping to conclusions, but I feel it's pretty telling Frank hasnt tried to put some of these fires out, with a little reassurance of fixes coming. I fear the game is busted, and we're looking at a long time before everything works correctly. I want to be wrong, really wrong, mind you.
I think it's going to be pretty broken for a while. Matchmaking will be fixed quickly, however the crashes, weird UI bugs, performance issues etc. are here to stay.
Eh, when you're actually in a game though it's superb. I've been getting much more lucky recently, got into a few games. I've also not noticed any issues in the campaign. I have only been playing H2 though...
No way. MCC is all but broken. Unity may be buggy and glitchy as hell, but people can at least do what they were promised. We can't even play a damn matchmaking game in Halo. It's almost 24 hours for some people since launch. This is worse than Gears 2 which was just a lag fest. I'd love to be able to at least join some matches and play. In the past 8 hours today, I've been able to do 2 custom matches and 1 campaign mission and the game froze on the second campaign mission. I haven't been able to get into matchmaking since last night at 3 am where I got a 3v4 match on CE Derelict.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I thought buying Destiny digital was the biggest bungie buying blunder I could make this year
and yeah this is worse than Gears 2. At least you could get into matches; granted it be laggy as SHIT and unpleasent experience, but I mean, it functionally worked, ya know? You could actually get into games.
and yeah this is worse than Gears 2. At least you could get into matches; granted it be laggy as SHIT and unpleasent experience, but I mean, it functionally worked, ya know? You could actually get into games.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Is anyone on for customs or anything? MM is awful. No idea how it got shipped like this.
Halo 4 crashed on me in a way. It went to a black screen and said "untracked build, won't upload". I should upload the pic, lol.
Game is elzar tier
I would have never predicted that it would be the MCC, not Halo 5, that would force Frankie from GAF in shame.
Yeah like you'd eventually get a match that was laggy as hell, everyone throwing those smoke bombs sending everyone flying. It was just poor matchmaking. I've literally only been able to join 1 match since 2 am last night. Now not even achievements were working. I'd even take playing some laggy AR starts on Valhalla in Halo 3 with rubber banding going on than just sit in the searching menu for 30+ mins.
YourExWife
Member
oh, hey, they brought back my emble-
oh.
Well, at least you tried.
Yup, can't do the emblem I had in H2 because of layering changes and can't do mine from every game afterward because the two parts don't line up the same anymore.
buddha0991
Member
At least when I get into games, they run perfecty. And I do get into games reliably, I just have to wait for a while...
I am getting games now myself 4v3 or 3v3.
Team slayer game I was just in ended when we got 8 kills, the other team did not quit out or anything like that.
buddha0991
Member
I've been doing Big Team Battle, if that helps get into good games
Oh, and something worth mentioning - a handful of matchmaking games I've gotten into were not on dedicated servers. I started observing my network traffic on a game of Halo 2 where I noticed that I absolutely had host - I could grenade jump, grenade reloads didn't work, and my BR had that host-only ability to reach out and touch people cross-map.
So I took a look at my network traffic, and it sure as hell looked like I was hosting that game. Other matches I played where I didn't have host effects in game did not show the same network traffic. So yup, I played a peer to peer hosted matchmaking game.
Maybe it's a fluke due to the various issues occurring right now. But for the time being, matchmaking is not always running on dedicated servers like we were told. This sure as hell better change, as it's the primary reason I bought the game.
So I took a look at my network traffic, and it sure as hell looked like I was hosting that game. Other matches I played where I didn't have host effects in game did not show the same network traffic. So yup, I played a peer to peer hosted matchmaking game.
Maybe it's a fluke due to the various issues occurring right now. But for the time being, matchmaking is not always running on dedicated servers like we were told. This sure as hell better change, as it's the primary reason I bought the game.
Gnome Scat
Member
Dammit I'm going about 10% an hour. Is Halo 2 like the long haul bump in the road because of campaign and multiplayers?
Your primary reason for buying the game changes everyday.
Devin Olsen
Member
Who's coming up with the UI for this game?
Why do I have to hit nearly 8 buttons to CHANGE TEAMS in a custom game lobby? Just make it rb and lb like it was before, what's the issue with that? It's buried so deep in the menu that a group of us actually thought it wasn't possible to switch teams.
It wouldn't be such a problem if the game didn't randomly switch teams around everytime a game ended.
On the plus side, Halo 1 is still an incredible game. So when you finally wade through all the issues and get into a game that doesn't crash... It's fun!
Why do I have to hit nearly 8 buttons to CHANGE TEAMS in a custom game lobby? Just make it rb and lb like it was before, what's the issue with that? It's buried so deep in the menu that a group of us actually thought it wasn't possible to switch teams.
It wouldn't be such a problem if the game didn't randomly switch teams around everytime a game ended.
On the plus side, Halo 1 is still an incredible game. So when you finally wade through all the issues and get into a game that doesn't crash... It's fun!
