did you reboot your router/modem? Seems like a NAT issue.
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Halo |OT 21| Battle is the Great Redeemer | LIVE. DIE. RESPAWN.
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did you reboot your router/modem? Seems like a NAT issue.
yup. just got a full 16 player game. Got a laser spree on Sand Trap H3.
Feels great.
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
I've reading far too much positivity this last page...did the new patch fix shit?
Can I just play Halo with my friends without having to sacrifice a cat on the altar of Microsoft or waiting for the stars to align for optimum matchmaking luck?
Can I just play Halo with my friends without having to sacrifice a cat on the altar of Microsoft or waiting for the stars to align for optimum matchmaking luck?
ElzarTheBam
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The Henery noooooooooooooooooooo
RowdyReverb
Member
Where are you located? Maybe it has something to do with your ISP or regional data center?
Also, did you check your account and family settings?
Might should contact support
The Henery
Member
Just another bug, bud. A way around it is to watch the preview until the end then wait a few seconds; the clip recorded badge usually pops after that (not always though!). There's another bug in H3 theatre in which the reticle will not render in the final processed clip so you're better off watching the clip real time in the theatre then recording the last 30 seconds with the native DVR feature.
'ButtMcfist' and 'Camelpiglet' lol
To be fair, most of the equipment was removed from matchmaking. I think end of life variants only had bubble shield, shield regen, and shield drain - and those were only allowed on certain maps.
I think some of the BTB maps still had trip mine.
The real Juices.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Still stuck with 343
I believe it's better, at 530AM central standard time, I found matches super fast.
The Henery
Member
Hey guys, to celebrate MCC being 5 weeks old I decided to bring back picture stories! This is from a single session Sunday night when I had 90 minutes to spare.
So while I wait five minutes for the game to find players in BTB, I thought I'd have a look at the stats of the last game I played from 5 days previous
Ouch, a 3v2 AR start One Flag game on Highground. Bad memories
But let's not dwell! I've found even teams on H2C Coag!
I mean 6v6 is too small for Coag but whatev's. Let's get set up with snipe on cliffsi..
Oh, dang it, the game booted a teammate before the game started. We promptly go on to lose 3-0. All teammates go neg bar one. Here are the stats
Time to search H3
Let's see if the experience improv...
Arrgh dang it! An all AR vote again! No democracy for you in December 2014, no Siree.
So I check the scoreboard
And not only did the game start my team a player down, the two present haven't mustered a single kill between them. Bummer.
Hey Canned Tomatae, you're supposed to shoot the other team, not me! Get booted.
So, I tried that game but -26 is a burden too heavy to carry
Ok, my MM experience hasn't been great so far, let's try BTB again, maybe we'll turn a corner
*Anything but slayer on harvest* *Anything but slayer on harvest* *Anything but slayer on harvest*
No! Anyway, what happened next was, a match of Halo 4 was played on the map Harvest. No one needs a picture of that.
Time to re-roll
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I thought these mixed playlists were supposed to be, er, mixed? For the record I've never seen an all H:CE votescreen or an all H2C votescreen or an all Halo 3 votescreen. Anyway, what happened next was, a 6v8 match of Halo 4 was played on the map Ragnorok. Here are the stats
Four teammates combine to go a hot neg thirty eight. I guess, much like dedicated servers, the new and improved Xbox One trueskill algorithm hasn't been turned on yet.
Luckily for me, two friends came on after that game. Searching BTB... ... ... ... ...
Ah, a mildly decent selection! Let's play Standoff.
Ah, Doh Hoh 343, you've done another whoopsie! AR starts don't go in BTB, silly billies!
Fuck this shit, let's go get killtacs in Hog's
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All of these events are sequential from a single 90 minute play session; I haven't cherry picked the worst stuff (twitch rebroadcast can confirm). AR start gametypes being the vast majority of MM voting options are nothing to do with botched codes and outsourcing to 3rd parties. Dear 343, please sort it out. Fin.
So while I wait five minutes for the game to find players in BTB, I thought I'd have a look at the stats of the last game I played from 5 days previous
Ouch, a 3v2 AR start One Flag game on Highground. Bad memories
But let's not dwell! I've found even teams on H2C Coag!
I mean 6v6 is too small for Coag but whatev's. Let's get set up with snipe on cliffsi..
Oh, dang it, the game booted a teammate before the game started. We promptly go on to lose 3-0. All teammates go neg bar one. Here are the stats
Time to search H3
Let's see if the experience improv...
Arrgh dang it! An all AR vote again! No democracy for you in December 2014, no Siree.
So I check the scoreboard
And not only did the game start my team a player down, the two present haven't mustered a single kill between them. Bummer.
Hey Canned Tomatae, you're supposed to shoot the other team, not me! Get booted.
So, I tried that game but -26 is a burden too heavy to carry
Ok, my MM experience hasn't been great so far, let's try BTB again, maybe we'll turn a corner
*Anything but slayer on harvest* *Anything but slayer on harvest* *Anything but slayer on harvest*
No! Anyway, what happened next was, a match of Halo 4 was played on the map Harvest. No one needs a picture of that.
Time to re-roll
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I thought these mixed playlists were supposed to be, er, mixed? For the record I've never seen an all H:CE votescreen or an all H2C votescreen or an all Halo 3 votescreen. Anyway, what happened next was, a 6v8 match of Halo 4 was played on the map Ragnorok. Here are the stats
Four teammates combine to go a hot neg thirty eight. I guess, much like dedicated servers, the new and improved Xbox One trueskill algorithm hasn't been turned on yet.
Luckily for me, two friends came on after that game. Searching BTB... ... ... ... ...
Ah, a mildly decent selection! Let's play Standoff.
Ah, Doh Hoh 343, you've done another whoopsie! AR starts don't go in BTB, silly billies!
Fuck this shit, let's go get killtacs in Hog's
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All of these events are sequential from a single 90 minute play session; I haven't cherry picked the worst stuff (twitch rebroadcast can confirm). AR start gametypes being the vast majority of MM voting options are nothing to do with botched codes and outsourcing to 3rd parties. Dear 343, please sort it out. Fin.
The game ran much better early on last night- but later in the night, my party of 3 ran into multiple pre-game crashes, a Foundry BR Slayer that ended 17-14 (Moonman was in that game I think) and twice getting stuck on 7 out of 8 players and waiting over 4 minutes for the last to join.
Based on this and prior observations, I'm wondering if population load has a detrimental effect on everything. Game always seems to run better for me during times that less people should be playing.
Based on this and prior observations, I'm wondering if population load has a detrimental effect on everything. Game always seems to run better for me during times that less people should be playing.
Amazing!
I don't get the infactuation with AR start games. Even with Halo 5's gameplay they have been showing...it's an AR start. Why??
Halo CE gives you the pistol secondary at least.
I can't support a game mode that gives respawning players a handicap off spawn. Not gonna do it.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
AR starts in 2015
Its kinda amazing how that's really a thing that's gonna happen. Like, even after the community complains every.single.Halo.release to stop spawning players without a good precision weapon, they do it anyway, and then act like they're listening to the fans when they change it in about a year's time when they get around to updating the hoppers.
Its kinda amazing how that's really a thing that's gonna happen. Like, even after the community complains every.single.Halo.release to stop spawning players without a good precision weapon, they do it anyway, and then act like they're listening to the fans when they change it in about a year's time when they get around to updating the hoppers.
I still don't understand why Throwdown or whatever it was, was hyped as the giant hardcore playlist.. then debuted with AR starts
like
what.
Hah, that's actually pretty amusing. And sure thing, enjoy!
Agreed. Sadly this type of agenda-writing happens pretty often. People who do it have no business being in journalism. Go into journalism because you want to present the facts and objectively inform people, not to tint things in a manner that best suits your preconceptions. It's sad.
Honestly, you can just make stuff up and with this game there's a good chance it'll be true. "Yeah, it crashed to to like a weird black screen with red text and then it crashed again and made my console make a screeching sound and stuff." Any other game that would sound like BS, but those are actual common issues here.
No goddamn kidding. That pisses me off to no end. It's like Microsoft are plugging their ears and going "LALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU GO BUY HALO" regarding the major issues with the game. Shows they don't give a damn about their consumers.
None of the sites are going to call 343i out on the nonsense. One or tow might pretend to and then immediately revert back to praise, but no major outlet is going to really say anything. Gotta keep that cash influx healthy.
I'm there with you. I'd rather play post-TU Reach. The aiming feels bad, the movement feels bad, the shot registration feels bad. I don't feel "connected" to the game at all, it's almost as if it's input laggy. Add the non-hitscan BR and its spread in, and I have no confidence in my shots. Every time I land a shot on someone, I feel like I have no way of knowing whether the whole burst or just one round hit the target.
On the other end of the spectrum, Halo 2 definitely wins best in franchise for responsiveness and immediacy. It goes a long way for me in contributing to my love of that game. Everything feels so connected and sharp.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
"Halo 5 Arena is a very competitive focused mode"
"esports esports esports"
"a team of pro Halo players playtest every day"
"eeeeeeeesports"
*AR Starts*
Yeah, that's a crock of shit.
I'm so glad I'm not a pro Halo player doing the play testing or doing these demo matches, I'd cringe at the AR starts. I just simply will not play it. I will always quit out if it's not a BR start game.
They still think we're some weird minority who are perverting Halo away from their vision. "We" being people who don't want to play the game with a useless starting weapon and get absolutely slaughtered if a competent team gets a better spawn wave and establishes an inkling of map control.
The eSports is there to keep us at bay and build hype. They'd be running Halo 1 style with Plasma Pistol spawns otherwise. It's what happens when all the developers are bad at the game, none of them seem to understand the fundamentals for balanced, effective gameplay. Sounds harsh, but how else do you explain GOD DAMN PLASMA RIFLE STARTS ON MIDSHIP STILL. I MEAN REALLY.
...ahem, sorry about that. But for real. That and SMG spawns on Ascension - one of the single worst game types and maps in any Halo game ever.
Oh god, that would be great to be on the pro team.
"Hey why'd you drop out, build issues?"
"Nah, AR starts are for scrubs and I ain't playing that."
LOL! Yeah, unless they're paying me $100 an hour...no way would I put myself through that torture.
It's like being forced to play Up is Up and Down is Down...I play inverted...no way am I going to conform!
Wow, I think I just found the only other competitive player who plays inverted. It really feels like there's no one else.
I don't think I could ever switch, either. Goldeneye habits die hard.
I also play with the arrows on the keyboard for Quake, CS, and basically any FPS.
Delete, end, pagedown are my reload/buy menu keys.
My jump is on my mouse thumb button.
My prone is on the other mouse thumb button.
Right Ctrl is my crouch.
Been doing this since Half-life in 1998.OdysseusVA
Banned
Cold beer and you play inverted?
Who raised you?
Who raised you?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
cold beer and inverted controls...
be a father to your children, HaloGAF
be a father to your children, HaloGAF
10 outta 10... Would HaloGAF again.
Good game night fellas, totes made my only 3 hours of sleep before work worth it!
:-D
User 73706
Banned
heckfu alt confirmed
Was gonna say, "hmm, must be a European thing," but then you chimed in here about it.
What is this, the 17th Century? Are we talking like mead or something here?
Yeah I'm shocked aswell.
Beer is served cold you weirdos, I mean JC is excused, he is American, the general American has no fucking idea about beer.
German beer nation chiming in <3
Also MCC is working for me pretty good after the patch
The Henery
Member
Thing is, I don't expect to play BR start every single game. I've seen enough posts on gaming side to convince me that there do indeed exist players that would rather everybody spawn with an AR. My point is that there has to be the option to vote on a BR start, every single game. If I go to the polling booth and there's only one party to vote for, that holds all the democratic principles of Sadam Hussein's Iraq.
In the H3 playlist, 66% of any one voting screen will be ALWAYS be offering an AR start gametype. Roughly half of the time a BR start option will not even be offered. 1 in 6 chance of a BR start over two matches. And still... posters on gaming side complain that all anyone ever votes for is BR starts. In my experience, when a BR start is presented, the votes dogpile onto it. So that means, generally, that more than 1 in 6 people want to play Br's, right? Yeah... 343 see's that and goes and reduces the weighting of BR starts in the last server side update.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqE2oiiiruI
yeah I noticed the reticle thing too. seriously wtf.
I needed at least 60 seconds, but I had to settle for the last 30.
There is quite a lot of people who are anti-ice cold beer these days, especially with the craft beer market. A lot say that it lessens the taste, commercial makers use the cold temperatures to mask their poor taste.
I like my beer chilled in the fridge, and then left out for a little while on the counter before serving/drinking.
I like my beer chilled in the fridge, and then left out for a little while on the counter before serving/drinking.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Ive been playing through H2A campaign. The first half of the game wasnt bad. The second half? Ugh.. a bunch of dark drab levels. i could never see the intended paths that i was supposed to take clearly. Kept causing me to miss par times. Thats more fault on the original level design and less to do with the H2A revamped look. And even on easy the brutes were taking several shots and melees to take down. Just reinforcing why halo 2's campaign is still at the bottom of my campaign rankings and only just ahead of Reach.
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