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Arnie

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In 2012 who actually sits around playing rock, paper, scissors for any prolonged period of time?

Why is that the holy grail they're aiming for?
 
It's not working for a friend of mine - he got the glitched Map Pack. It's saying "unable to validate - please make sure you are connected to Xbox live and have the War Games pass downloaded" and then he gets a "required content missing" error on the Crimson DLC.

Cross-posted from other thread.
 

Plywood

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So I'm downloading the maps for free right now, this id good I guess but pretty unfair :D
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So some people took the maps for free uh? smh


edit: nvm
 
I wish 343 would have just googled image searched "Harvest" for art inspiration:


Plenty of potential to be realized within a MP map and a sci-fi twist, but instead we got:


Which is neither pretty, interesting or even original looking for a Halo 4 map. And nothing about that really screams Harvest either.
 

Omni

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So far I've got:

Clay Pigeon (40G)
ODST (30G)
Pump Yer Brakes (40G)
David and Goliath (20G)

...

"Now they Fly?" Is completely ridiculous. Getting a kill while airborne in a Warthog? Christ. Because that happens all the time.

"Special Delivery" is rubbish too. How often is someone standing perfectly in the landing zone of a man cannon?

Looks like I'll be boosting those ones.
 
Played for a good 6 hours today and left wanting more. Avoid BTB and you're good to go. Loving the thruster pack, the one AA that I feel enhances gameplay and is a worthy addition to Halo. I enjoyed the play session because I mostly played Haven and Adrift, good old fashioned small Halo maps... which brings me to the DLC

My heart goes out to the people who in good faith believed there would be no issue with the map pass and that they would be receiving their content on the day of release for having in good will given their money to the Microsoft Corporation.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. People should know better than to pay actual money for content they know nothing about, way in advance. As a consumer I feel incredibly vindicated in my decision not to purchase the war games pass; I can vote with my wallet and not reward the nonsensical decision to include three BTB sized maps in a game which already has a skewed abundance of BTB maps. I wanted and expected small maps in the first DLC pack; I didn't get small maps so they don't get my money. If I pay, what does the studio learn? So long as folks keep spending money on trash, they'll happily keep serving up trash and charge you for it (talking more about armours, skins, and LE content here).

To me, the Crimson pack looks like a load of brown rocks, white pre fab buildings and gameplay damaging sunlight glare, stretched to BTB size and washed down with a duckshit green filter. Maybe there's less incentive to try when people (LE/war games pass owners) have already put the money down?

Also, Crimson DLC matchmaking is specified in each achievement's description.

Lol. Paywalling of achievements is so funny. Thankfully I don't care for GS.

- Wreckage KOTH has massive, gamebreaking framerate problems. It was unplayable the second you even approached a decent battle. I'm talking about like 5 fps here. Hard to say whether or not it appears in other gametypes since it's rarely concentrated around a single point like that.

First Halo mappack I haven't bought day one and that decision seems more and more wise with impressions like these.

Today is such a good day for the Internet. Not only are we going off the deep end, but then we have people misspelling a childish, crude insult.

Appreciate it.

Furthermore, we still haven't played this game together. Should probably fix that soon.

Are you going to pull Frankie up on the use of the word 'retard' next time you speak or is that only applicable to people who don't post here often/juniors? Frankie uses it all the time (not that it offends me personally).
 
So how do i snatch the map pack? it's sais 800mps for me.

EDIT: Wait, are the people who are getting the free map pack the ones with the specialisation email?
 

dalVlatko

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I got the maps for free (also received/used the specialization code too, if that means anything)

Hopefully this happens for the map pack with the arena maps too lol

edit: got them a couple of minutes ago, so yeah it is still working
 
So go to download the map pack last night as part of my LE purchase.

1. Redemption code "already used" notice when trying to enter it, tried 3 times to make sure of correctness.

2. Check map pack from games browsing > add ons. It says don't buy it here as you'll be charged again...go away looking for LE method to download map pack.

3. Look on Xbox Live support site, find one page about go to download history due to point 1 reason. Map pack is not listed in download history.

4. Try redemption code from LE and it fails again with "already used".

5. Call xbox live support, get no help apart from above once again.

6. Go to games > add ons out of desperation from wasting my time for 25 mins.

7. Click "Confirm Download" and waste 800 MS points without any avenue or posts on Waypoint or Xbox sites about this issue.

8. Fear the exact same thing is going to happen for the next two map packs.

UGH, I've been looking the other way for the series of bugs and missing features but overall there has to be a major step up in testing and decision making over at 343i. Hate to add to the team downer in this thread but if a company fucks up repeatedly they're going to be called on it.

I'll give the maps a chance but my first thoughts were more large maps...really where are the small maps and what happened to 4v4 Halo tradition? Bring back small maps and 4v4 and I think we'll see far more population from that alone.
 

Overdoziz

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So go to download the map pack last night as part of my LE purchase.

1. Redemption code "already used" notice when trying to enter it, tried 3 times to make sure of correctness.

2. Check map pack from games browsing > add ons. It says don't buy it here as you'll be charged again...go away looking for LE method to download map pack.

3. Look on Xbox Live support site, find one page about go to download history due to point 1 reason. Map pack is not listed in download history.

4. Try redemption code from LE and it fails again with "already used".

5. Call xbox live support, get no help apart from above once again.

6. Go to games > add ons out of desperation from wasting my time for 25 mins.

7. Click "Confirm Download" and waste 800 MS points without any avenue or posts on Waypoint or Xbox sites about this issue.

8. Fear the exact same thing is going to happen for the next two map packs.

UGH, I've been looking the other way for the series of bugs and missing features but overall there has to be a major step up in testing and decision making over at 343i. Hate to add to the team downer in this thread but if a company fucks up repeatedly they're going to be called on it.
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Why would you do that?

I tried multiple avenues, used the methods on the LE card for redemption, called XBL support and out of sheer wasting my time clicked the confirm download hoping it wasn't confirm purchase. Normally for movies or anything else when you buy something it says "confirm purchase" NOT "confirm download".

Also this was the ONLY place to even view the download, so what choice did I have? I exhausted every avenue possible and frankly 30 mins of my time is worth more than 800MS points if that happened. Well it happened.

Now I want to raise the issue so the next two maps packs download as part of the LE as promised.


Too right, LOL
 

u4iX

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"Whatever weapon that you start off every round with is going to really affect the decisions you make." - Tyson Green

http://youtu.be/MG9fh74D-_M?t=4m5s

RIP Halo

Still a poor example, because they didn't even realize that spawning with a dual wieldable weapon like the SMG would change the game; changing it so far and away from Halo 1 to Halo 2. The Halo 2 to 3 transition was much more similar, but the random BR spread rendered long range battles frustrating.

Again, find John Howard.
 

Wizman23

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One thing I always found odd was on launch day when I entered my LE codes there was no notification in game or anywhere that I was indeed a season pass owner. Something just seemed off. With Gears 3 it was 100% obvious you were a season pass owner. So even though I have the maps downloaded I'm not sure if its because I am indeed a season pass owner or because they are still free to the masses. The areas of this game that MS and 343 decided to "half ass" are just utterly mind boggling.
 
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