Not in the US? Primetime US time matchmaking in BTB has been at most like 3-5 minutes but usually shorter. Dunno what its like during other times. Henery can answer for the UK, Ozzy for Australia.
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Halo |OT 23| Thruster is Love, Thruster is Life
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Not in the US? Primetime US time matchmaking in BTB has been at most like 3-5 minutes but usually shorter. Dunno what its like during other times. Henery can answer for the UK, Ozzy for Australia.
RedSparrows
Member
I played a BTB earlier, took very little time for a game. EU, about 11.30am. Yay for me, eh.
Fata1moose
Banned
My wait times for BTB even in the morning are usually quite short, though I'm also having games fail to load more often in BTB. This is pre-patch, so hopefully the stability is a little better there.
Everyone seems to forget that the first hours after a big patch are usually wonky as fuck, lol.
I'm hoping that's what most of this is.
As for the "negative vs. positive" approach to handling quitters, I think negative is needed to deter the idiots that are just oblivious to the fact that quitting affects those they leave behind (like the guy in that Facebook screenshot I linked).
Affecting your Xbox Live-wide reputation is on the severe side, but hey at least something's finally using that system. I imagine that losing rep is a bit of a slow descent anwyay.
Naa, Australia. Team slayer is the only playlist that works. Which gets a bit boring :s
Maybe things will get better next month with ODST and Relic or whatever. Hopefully.
Fata1moose
Banned
Looking at Relic, are those new structures on the island? Originally I thought they were background buildings on other islands, but on the large image the building on the right has a gravity lift seen in blue, seems like it replaces the covenant sniper tower.
Fata1moose
Banned
Looking at Relic, are those new structures on the island? Originally I thought they were background buildings on other islands, but on the large image the building on the right has a gravity lift seen in blue, seems like it replaces the covenant sniper tower.
I'd really like to see a map pack for Halo 2 anniversary. Would love Midship, Waterworks and Turf. Midship despite being in the collection twice, I'd still like to play more. It was omitted partly due to Halo 5, but that maps so big they don't really play the same. Waterworks I find to be the best BTB map not included in what we have now. Turf is a toss up, but I always enjoyed it in split-screen.
Edit: This was supposed to be an edit, not a double post!
I'd really like to see a map pack for Halo 2 anniversary. Would love Midship, Waterworks and Turf. Midship despite being in the collection twice, I'd still like to play more. It was omitted partly due to Halo 5, but that maps so big they don't really play the same. Waterworks I find to be the best BTB map not included in what we have now. Turf is a toss up, but I always enjoyed it in split-screen.
Edit: This was supposed to be an edit, not a double post!
One thing to note: Your Xbox Live reputation "heals" over time if you don't keep getting reported (and stop quitting).
http://news.xbox.com/2014/03/xbox-one-leveling-up-reputation
http://news.xbox.com/2014/03/xbox-one-leveling-up-reputation
Did they go into details about how many quit matches or quit matches over time it takes to adversely effect your Xbox Live reputation? Or for that matter, how to go about improving your reputation it if you're one of the few rampant quitters who's oblivious to this new system?
jailbird20022
Banned
who ever thought hang em high was good for 4v4 slayer needs to be kidney punched.
Fata1moose
Banned
They just said that it's amount that seems abnormal, so no.
People voted for 4v4 Standoff with assault rifle starts the other day, at least in Halo 1 you spawn with the magnum.
1) Not that i've seen, but if I had to guess, 1 quit = 1 negative report. Which means it would take a bunch for you to actually drop a "tier" to "Needs Work" and below. I've not even seen the needle move on people's gamercard rep after reporting them for quitting in the past.
2) Stop quitting and avoid being manually reported by fellow players for other crap, and it will go back up
EDIT: Hmm, thinking about this, you could theoretically still manually report the people for quitting and double-up on their punishment, lol
Diablohead
Member
Um did anyone know that halo spartan strike and spartan assault were released on iOS lately? I just noticed the games on the app store.
Was spartan assault on iOS before now? I don't remember.
Was spartan assault on iOS before now? I don't remember.
RowdyReverb
Member
I wonder how the penalty will affect quitting rates, especially a couple weeks down the line when constant quitters start to lose rep. It's a pretty stern warning it gives when you attempt to quit, but I have a feeling reading may be too much work for some.
Also, the cross-game aspect of rep means that we may end up seeing slightly fewer quitters in H5 someday, though I'd imagine only a small fraction of future H5 purchasers are still playing MCC. Wonder if H5 will have similar quit penalties.
Also, the cross-game aspect of rep means that we may end up seeing slightly fewer quitters in H5 someday, though I'd imagine only a small fraction of future H5 purchasers are still playing MCC. Wonder if H5 will have similar quit penalties.
It is not my connection. I have a 50mb download speed, more than enough to play online gaming smoothly. All my PC gaming, Xbox One gaming, etc, with the exception of Halo CE in MCC, all run fine.
I only play two playlists of MCC, that's H2A, and HCE. Occasionally I may dip into Halo Team Slayer...but I usually quit out every time due to SMG or AR starts.
Game flat out is broken for me.
Download speed doesn't mean anything, if your Ping is bad. Would really like to see other peoples Ping in the MCC.
The Henery
Member
I haven't noticed that particular issue but I don't play it that often.
BTB search times are usually fine but once every 5 or so games the lobby gets stuck at 13/14 players and takes aeons to find the final player (or, in the case of last night, start the game 6v7).
I have no idea of knowing who it's connecting me to. I have no idea if I'm on a dedicated server, and if I am, no idea of where that server is. I have no idea if I'm connected peer 2 peer.
I primarily play Halo CE...so unless you play it as much as I do...most of you won't know what I'm talking about. If you want to see it for yourself, play more CE.
If more people tried CE, they would probably see what I'm talking about.
I think they're new wasn't any like the one in the background in the original Relic.
The stuttering that Vapor's referring to in CE was very real after the Feb patch. However, I played 4-5 games of CE last night and didn't see it once, so I figured it was gone.
FWIW, I think the quit penalties are just fine, and I'm glad to see 343 and MS put something so severe in place. It's needed- especially for the people who, for whatever reason, won't play customs games but only want to play their flavor of Halo in matchmaking. Combined with ranks, should see a lot less quitters going forward.
FWIW, I think the quit penalties are just fine, and I'm glad to see 343 and MS put something so severe in place. It's needed- especially for the people who, for whatever reason, won't play customs games but only want to play their flavor of Halo in matchmaking. Combined with ranks, should see a lot less quitters going forward.
jailbird20022
Banned
the few CE games I play are relatively smooth, only severe stuttering I've witnessed is co-op on H3 and a bit of co-op on 4
For me, it wasn't stuttering at all prior to March update. After March...all hell broke loose on Halo CE and has yet to recover.
Munch Poke
Member
I have some Live friends that are really gonna hate that quit penalty but that's not a bad thing. I understand quitting when you're team is dropping out too but not much more than that.
One thing I saw on Reddit was a comment talking about dropping Team Slayer as a playlist. That sounds like another good step, make everyone go into the playlist of the game they want. That means less people playing CE, 2,3, or 4 when they don't want to and obviously less quitters.
One thing I saw on Reddit was a comment talking about dropping Team Slayer as a playlist. That sounds like another good step, make everyone go into the playlist of the game they want. That means less people playing CE, 2,3, or 4 when they don't want to and obviously less quitters.
I would agree with TS being dropped. Each respective game basically has TS come up as a voting option and it generally gets voted for majority of the time.
http://i.imgur.com/yeUxQYf.gifv
This is the reason I don't like H2A.
I never knew exactly what the problem was until seeing this but I have this problem all the fucking time playing H2A.
Hint:
This was taken from this /r/halo thread.
Edit: Why doesn't NeoGAF have the ability to embed gifv? Don't want to embed a giant gif and ruin the page again.
Also they'll never remove the TS playlist, it's almost certainly the got the highest population of all the playlists.
This is the reason I don't like H2A.
I never knew exactly what the problem was until seeing this but I have this problem all the fucking time playing H2A.
Hint:
watch the ammo counter...
This was taken from this /r/halo thread.
Edit: Why doesn't NeoGAF have the ability to embed gifv? Don't want to embed a giant gif and ruin the page again.
Also they'll never remove the TS playlist, it's almost certainly the got the highest population of all the playlists.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Agreed. Drop team slayer as a playlist ASAP, replace with Objective, win.
All games are running on dedicated servers, didn't you get the memo?
And wow, that really should have be a 4 shot.
That's awful hit detection the red should have died way before that.
Munch Poke
Member
Also, if we're never gonna have a tiebreaker option with our three choices it would be nice to have objectives on the left. Team Slayer will probably still win but objectives would at least have a chance.
Bullet refunding as well.
Forerunner
Member
I wish I could kill someone!
Also lol at some of the players' tags. This community.
Also lol at some of the players' tags. This community.
FTFY
Well I missed that, so much for all of those patches.
I was only able to get two games in last night, one in H2A and one in H3, but both worked pretty well. Fastish matches, smooth connections. I'm sure it can still be shitty at times but I was impressed (although basic matchmaking functionality shouldn't be something to be impressed by...). Plus, the SpOps mission that had consistently crashed the game halfway through worked. Yay?
Abd the new quit penalty sounds fine. Build in a little bit of a buffer for extenuating circumstances and the ability to get your rep back by proving you've been rehabilitated and it's exactly what I'd want.
Abd the new quit penalty sounds fine. Build in a little bit of a buffer for extenuating circumstances and the ability to get your rep back by proving you've been rehabilitated and it's exactly what I'd want.
I don't know how old that gif is so it might be fixed... I still have a shit time on H2A though, I think it's more than likely due to US hosts combined with my shitty rural Welsh internet so I have terribad ping.
jailbird20022
Banned
Fair enough my experiences it will be similar probably with my awful rural Essex internet here when I eventually get around to playing MCC /getting a one.
Diablohead
Member
The MCC needs to not blend all the halo games in hoppers, sometimes I am in the mood for halo 3 big team and I have to cross my fingers that i'm not getting into a halo 2 or 4 BTB among other things like smg starts.
I really dislike it, because of that I just stick to the halo 2 hopper because I know i'm getting halo 2 and nothing else.
Does aiming at the enemy in halo 3 mp still result in making the aiming loose and reverse the aiming help magnatism?
I really dislike it, because of that I just stick to the halo 2 hopper because I know i'm getting halo 2 and nothing else.
Does aiming at the enemy in halo 3 mp still result in making the aiming loose and reverse the aiming help magnatism?