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Halo |OT 23| Thruster is Love, Thruster is Life

Ok i know im a scrub and all. But seriously I was just in a H2A match im level 3 mind you. I got a team of a 5, 7, 9, and a 1, Against a 37, 42, 45, 12, and 9 SERIOUSLY...... this is the first time ive been upset over anything MCC but Come on REALLY?

Sorry im done just had to vent.
 
I want to thank Gringo Suave89 and a random friend for 2 match made games and on one complete custom game. It worked and was kinda fun. Still we were waiting a long time for a game, and upon trying for a 5th game back in matchmaking, both Gringo and my friend dropped out of my xbox party and game session.

I would have been there, but I was just getting back from school/work. MCC would be way more bearable if the Xbone itself wasn't so sketch.

Holy fuck Ozzy, be more ignorant about the discourse surrounding racism. You sound like you are 86 and haven't seen a black person up close since they added that third gate to your community back in '06.
 
I would have been there, but I was just getting back from school/work. MCC would be way more bearable if the Xbone itself wasn't so sketch.

Tell me about it. My disc drive is just giving me nothing but trouble. Luckily there's a Microsoft store in town and they may be able to get it fixed without sending it off. But beyond that party chat still sucks and trying to look at an achievement or a message takes way too long.
 
Tell me about it. My disc drive is just giving me nothing but trouble. Luckily there's a Microsoft store in town and they may be able to get it fixed without sending it off. But beyond that party chat still sucks and trying to look at an achievement or a message takes way too long.
I like the part where the achievement app can crash trying to load MCC's list because 343 gave the game hundreds of cheevos.
 

Booshka

Member
CLG and Optic just cancelled a Scrim cuz the game kept breaking. Couldn't start the game with 8 players after trying 6 times in a row.
 
I like the part where the achievement app can crash trying to load MCC's list because 343 gave the game hundreds of cheevos.

...is that the reason? I've basically given up looking to see what my achievements mean simply because of how l long I looked at that loading circle.
 

Omni

Member
All kinds of missing and broken transparencies, replaced assets, lighting and shading is weirdly calibrated, choppy transitions to and from cutscenes, terrible cutscene framing, original audio not available, hideous HUD.
Not the first time I've seen someone refer to the HUD as "hideous"

Are we just being hyperbolic? The motion tracker is a bit different... but hideous? Am I missing something?
 

HTupolev

Member
Are we just being hyperbolic?
Maybe. I'm speaking relative to the very appropriate original HUD; as HUDs in games in general go, you could do a lot worse.

The shape adjustments by and large don't look good or help out, there are some issues with coloration and opacity, the motion tracker has a weird pulsing behavior, and the whole thing has a strange oversharp appearance that reminds me of those "velocity scan modulation" filters that CRTs started getting in their last decade of production.

Maybe what really sends me over the edge is that there just doesn't seem to be any reason for it. We're stuck with this less attractive HUD, even in game modes which don't have Anniversary stuff, for "reasons" or something.
 

Leyasu

Banned
I like it now that we can see if the game is p2p... 7 games so far this morning 100% of them p2p.

How long before they patch that out?
 

Glass

Member
Is it worth doing a PSA thread on gaming side about all the episodes of the Sprint now being on Youtube? I guess it could be a bit redundant with the beta being over, but before Christmas I really wanted to watch them but didn't have my Xbox One yet, I'm sure there's a lot of others who don't have one but would be interested. The episodes themselves were great, hope we see a post beta episode and some campaign ones.
 

Omni

Member
Packed away my Xbox 360 earlier today. End of an era

Not sure what I'm going to do with it. On one hand all the Halos I care about are playable on the Xbone right now (except Wars. RIP). But I still have original Xbox versions of Halo CE and Halo 2 that are only playable on the 360 and to get rid of the console would be to render them completely useless to me.

Hmmm
 
Yep. I really do feel H2A nailed it. I have a few negligible issues with the soundtrack but they really did a fantastic job with H2A. I see CEA as lessons learned in the remaster department.

Eh, I like the changes for the most part. I think Peril was in desperate need of some variation in the first place. My only complaints are that Moon Over Mombasa doesn't have a male vocalist for that deep Halo riff part (it was neat / unique because it was basically the only place in the franchise that did it), and there's some ambient choir thing that used to play on Regret that doesn't show up in the remasters at all.

It's crazy how accurate the music is, too - the faithfulness of it combined with the compression on the original tracks in-game makes it sound like you're just muffling the music when you switch to classic mode.
 
Packed away my Xbox 360 earlier today. End of an era

Not sure what I'm going to do with it. On one hand all the Halos I care about are playable on the Xbone right now (except Wars. RIP). But I still have original Xbox versions of Halo CE and Halo 2 that are only playable on the 360 and to get rid of the console would be to render them completely useless to me.

Hmmm
Keep it. Almost everyone I know that got rid of there's when the bone came out regretted it.
 

Akai__

Member
Is it worth doing a PSA thread on gaming side about all the episodes of the Sprint now being on Youtube? I guess it could be a bit redundant with the beta being over, but before Christmas I really wanted to watch them but didn't have my Xbox One yet, I'm sure there's a lot of others who don't have one but would be interested. The episodes themselves were great, hope we see a post beta episode and some campaign ones.

There already is one. I read a few posts, but people didn't have much interest in it, it seemed.
 

Glass

Member
There already is one. I read a few posts, but people didn't have much interest in it, it seemed.

Just spotted it and gave it a bump. Hopefully it gets some traction. Some more episodes spread out over a longer period would help with the wait.
 

TTUVAPOR

Banned
Halo: The Master Quitter Collection

That's one of the major annoyances I have with Halo CE in MCC, when a team quits, there is an extremely long wait before the game ends...usually I just quit out if the other team quit, since there isn't a rank yet...it doesn't matter to me.

On top of the quitting, the lack of skill-based matchmaking in HCE really sucks. Getting paired with split-screeners who are trying the game for the first time only to get stomped on during the first few minutes of the game and then they just quit anyway is super annoying and not fun for those of us who will play till the end of the match, win or lose.

I'm hoping once ranks get turned on that it will create the much needed skill-separation because it needs it really badly.

Also, I pretty much can't play Halo 2 Annv multiplayer anymore, the BR skipping bullets is getting ridiculous. I don't know if it's because it's a peer 2 peer thing, but so many fire fights I'm in, I can hear the sound of the BR not doing a full-three shot burst...and sometimes I'm only getting one bullet from each shot...it's making for some completely unfair outcomes.

It's ZERO fun if you're expecting the gun you're firing to have three actual shots from each one of it's three-round bursts...yet you sometimes get three, two, or one...depending on what the game decides. It's basically a slot machine weapon. The other projectile-based weapons do this as well, including the AR, SMG, Needler and the Carbine (depending on how fast you fire it).

I don't even know if 343 is even aware of this.
 

Fuchsdh

Member
I have justifications for all of my criticisms, but for the most part, change for the sake of change and reuse of Reach assets really doesn't sit well with me. Perhaps my evaluation was a bit harsh but a lot of the things I don't like about it could have been avoided if someone checked in on it more often or allowed a little more budget.

Well, Saber had eight months, and came up with the most technically impressive remastering technique I've seen for a video game. I cut them a fair amount of slack. CEA certainly wasn't the way it was due to lack of talent, as H2A demonstrates.

Packed away my Xbox 360 earlier today. End of an era

Not sure what I'm going to do with it. On one hand all the Halos I care about are playable on the Xbone right now (except Wars. RIP). But I still have original Xbox versions of Halo CE and Halo 2 that are only playable on the 360 and to get rid of the console would be to render them completely useless to me.

Hmmm

I've been keeping my 360 out, even got an HDMI switcher expressly for it and the Bone. Got to finish off Halo Wars and Bioshock, and they keep producing GwG that I haven't played. So I'm still getting tons of use from it.
 

Leyasu

Banned
"Half the team quit" or half the team lost connection to the buggy MCC? I'm starting to wonder if part of rash of quitters is due to the game kicking people.

Could well be the problem.. There's so many its and buts with this game.

Oh look, BTB p2p
 

link1201

Member
I think we may have to pay for the patch through DLC channels.

lol, I just thought I heard it was due out in Feburary. Then I saw the beta for it was cancelled. I was kinda hoping that not having the beta may still allow us to get the update this month. I so want to play some BTB. ;/
 

TTUVAPOR

Banned
lol, I just thought I heard it was due out in Feburary. Then I saw the beta for it was cancelled. I was kinda hoping that not having the beta may still allow us to get the update this month. I so want to play some BTB. ;/

I wonder if the patch is going t fix the Halo 2 Annv multiplayer bullet refunding/loss issue on the projectile-based weapons?
 

Impala26

Member
I've been keeping my 360 out, even got an HDMI switcher expressly for it and the Bone. Got to finish off Halo Wars and Bioshock, and they keep producing GwG that I haven't played. So I'm still getting tons of use from it.

Between Xbox One, 360, my Wii U and the occasional plug in of my laptop for movies unobtainable on Netflix... I sorely need one of these. My method of remembering which HDMI cables go to which device works solidly, but it's still damn annoying.

I wonder if the patch is going to fix ___________

Literally throw anything into that blank space and wonder away.

I know you're a typically pessimistic sort, but I can't help but at least chuckle a bit at this...

*le sigh*
 

Mdot

Member
I wonder if the patch is going to fix ___________

Literally throw anything into that blank space and wonder away.

So true. I know I'll be super pumped once it launches and that first H2A game I play where I get black screened constantly will just ruin all hopes.
 

Fuchsdh

Member
Between Xbox One, 360, my Wii U and the occasional plug in of my laptop for movies unobtainable on Netflix... I sorely need one of these. My method of remembering which HDMI cables go to which device works solidly, but it's still damn annoying.



I know you're a typically pessimistic sort, but I can't help but at least chuckle a bit at this...

*le sigh*

There's plenty of serviceable ones for cheap on NewEgg. What sucks is it's another precious power outlet taken up by badly-designed adapters that usually block other outlets on the power strip, and, in the case of the one I purchased, come with eye-melting LEDs that don't turn off.
 

Madness

Member
There's plenty of serviceable ones for cheap on NewEgg. What sucks is it's another precious power outlet taken up by badly-designed adapters that usually block other outlets on the power strip, and, in the case of the one I purchased, come with eye-melting LEDs that don't turn off.

I have a Kinivo one that I got from Amazon with bright LED's you can't turn off but it works great because it switches automatically at least.
 

Tunavi

Banned
i want to sell my xbone but i like the mcc campaigns too much. i have invested nothing into my xbone but mcc.

I wanna get a wii u and just play the virtual console haha
 
Has anyone gone back to play any of the Halo games that run at 30fps? Went to play Reach and I was so horrified by how choppy and slow it was. 60fps is honestly a godsend.
 
i want to sell my xbone but i like the mcc campaigns too much. i have invested nothing into my xbone but mcc.

I wanna get a wii u and just play the virtual console haha

As stated, Sunset Overdrive is a good exclusive. Quantum Break coming out later this year, too.
 
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