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Halo The Master Chief Collection |OT| Halo Never Died, It Was Just Missing In Action

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kittens

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[Reposting this from the community thread cause lol]

This game is amazing.

I went into Team H2A matchmaking, got matched up with six other people, and then got a "matchmaking failed" error. I backed out and noticed that the six people I got matched with were still in my lobby. I figured it must've been a mistake, but out of curiosity I started up a custom game. Sure enough, I was able to take these random people from matchmaking into a custom game without inviting them or anything.

And even better: the custom game froze up halfway through and booted me out of it with no one else in my lobby.
 

Tall Paul

Member
14 hours to download the game on a 15 Meg line...the future for xbox is not digital in that state. Can at least play tonight. 57.9GB.
 

Etnos

Banned
I've been getting into game for H2 and H3 relatively quickly (1-3 min waiting) constantly for the last 2 hour or so... yooo this is so GOOOOD! I forgot how fun H3 is, I'm gonna live in this game for the rest of the year.
 
I have a burning desire to know HOW and IF they didn't know matchmaking was broken. There's no way they didn't know, how could they not? I want to know what happened.... i demand to know damn it.

i took off work for this, this has been a pure frustrating experience.
 

dmg04

#DEADWRONG
Apparently 16 players wasn't working to the quality standard
lol
of the rest of the playlists, so they temporarily reduced it to twelve.

It had better be temporary.

While most all of the marketing for Halo MCC multi has been 4v4 competitive, the draw I've always had was the vehicular mayhem.
 

HiiiLife

Member
I've been getting into game for H2 and H3 relatively quickly (1-3 min waiting) constantly for the last 2 hour or so... yooo this is so GOOOOD! I forgot how fun H3 is, I'm gonna live in this game for the rest of the year.

Are you solo?

It seems to take long(er) when you're in a party. Think I played a total of 7 or 8 matches over the course of 24 hours.

Its abysmal.
 

Etnos

Banned
Yeah they will get it going, Microsoft and 343 will be into this one... It's freaking halo, it'll be a priority.

As frustrating as it is now I anticipate it'll be sorted fairly swiftly and we will forget about these issues.

Not so sure about the PvP stuff though, played halo CE battle creek last night and it was very laggy.

Its hard not to sound as a apologist fanboy, perhaps I'm one... but I think its worth notice there hasn't ever been a collection of this size and magnitud, 4 games with a bunch of maps and game modes. God knows what a logistic nightmare was to integrate(or re-develop) the different netcode for each game.

Personally once I'm in the matches I have experience no lag, they need to fix the MM weirdness ASAP people will calm down.
 

HiiiLife

Member
It wouldn't hurt to add a player count in the playlists either.

I'd like to know where everyone is at every now and then.

If possible, obviously.
 

Beboh13

Banned
So I've played parts of all 4 campaigns and I love everything about them.

I attempted H2a co-op legendary with my brother, but for some reason when one of us dies we restart at the last checkpoint. It's making it really hard to beat the part in the first level where you fight in the hangar with the pelican. Is this something new for legendary mode? When we played Halo 4, it took two of us to die to restart at the checkpoint. I hope its a glitch or something because legendary mode is going to be almost impossible to beat.

As for multiplayer, I've been sticking to Halo 3 and have had very few problems.
 
So I've played parts of all 4 campaigns and I love everything about them.

I attempted H2a co-op legendary with my brother, but for some reason when one of us dies we restart at the last checkpoint. It's making it really hard to beat the part in the first level where you fight in the hangar with the pelican. Is this something new for legendary mode? When we played Halo 4, it took two of us to die to restart at the checkpoint. I hope its a glitch or something because legendary mode is going to be almost impossible to beat.

As for multiplayer, I've been sticking to Halo 3 and have had very few problems.

you have a skull on, i forget which on it is.
 

Hawk269

Member
Yeah they will get it going, Microsoft and 343 will be into this one... It's freaking halo, it'll be a priority.

As frustrating as it is now I anticipate it'll be sorted fairly swiftly and we will forget about these issues.

Not so sure about the PvP stuff though, played halo CE battle creek last night and it was very laggy.

Well, for as jacked up it is now, it is no where near the disaster that Driveclub was and to a certain extent still is a month later. I was able to get into a game with minutes of launching MCC after 9pm PST, but obviously have had issues here and there like all of you. With DC, I had the game for 3 1/2 weeks and NEVER was able to get on-line, so this is nothing compared to that. If MS/343 don't fix the issues soon, they are going get hammered with bad PR and bad word of mouth. Hopefully the fixes are something that can be implemented quickly and resolve most of the stuff.
 

Hawk269

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Here is the detail on the info in that link and within another link after that one...

Posted 1 hour ago...

Since the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, we've received several, well deserved, complaints related to slow matchmaking and other issues. From everyone at 343 Industries, we are truly sorry and feel your frustration. You deserve better and we are working day and night to find solutions as quickly as possible, with our first priority focused on matchmaking improvements.



Tomorrow morning (Wednesday morning Pacific Time) we plan to roll out a number of server updates to help improve matchmaking. Again, these are server-side fixes, so you won't need to take a content update or reboot your console; you should see the effects right away.



In addition, we are targeting another release for this weekend, which will address a number of other community priorities. An unrelated issue with services is also causing achievements to not unlock correctly, and we realize this just makes it all feel a bit worse.



A game as large as Halo: The Master Chief Collection has a massive surface area, and while we made every effort to have the best launch possible for our fans, issues surfaced with launch and we're committed to improving this as fast as possible and get you all into matches. We're committed to improving things as fast as possible so you can have the Halo experience you've been waiting for.



Your feedback has been helpful for us in isolating issues, so please keep the input coming. We thank you for your continued patience and understanding while we work through these challenges. The development team at 343 Industries worked insanely hard to create Halo: The Master Chief Collection for you, and we won't stop until it's worthy of your passion for our franchise.



Dan Ayoub
Executive Producer
 

Sesuadra

Unconfirmed Member
oh not again. played last night halo 2 single player, stopped after a checkpoint and left the game with "save & quit". today I press "resume" and I am back at the start of the level -_-
 

Hubble

Member
They released a server side update a day ago. Not confident this will bring much improvement. There is enough servers. The problem is the game is riddled with bugs and weird software issues. A patch is needed and looks like there targeting this weekend.
 
So a friend and I could never join each other's game session to play the campaigns. Is that a common issue? I've see people talk about issues with the matchmaking and MP stuff, but not the campaigns. Like whether I would invite him or he would invite me, we didn't show up in each other's game.
 
Done for night, 2 matches of H2A in total, more Halo 4 Legendary, Still in Caigro Station H2a legendary fing tuff solo them plasma pistols/br v elites are crucial doe.

Nope, Halo 2 does that by default on legendary co-op in it's original release, so H2A is going to be the same way

WELCOME TO THE PAIN

oh man that's rough, lol
 

Sephzilla

Member
They released a server side update a day ago. Not confident this will bring much improvement. There is enough servers. The problem is the game is riddled with bugs and weird software issues. A patch is needed and looks like there targeting this weekend.

I'm curious how you reached this conclusion
 
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kittens

Unconfirmed Member
I'm curious how you reached this conclusion

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/...te/42893877-4f95-40a0-a9d3-d0f8ab188568/posts

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday morning Pacific Time) we plan to roll out a number of server updates to help improve matchmaking. Again, these are server-side fixes, so you won't need to take a content update or reboot your console; you should see the effects right away.

In addition, we are targeting another release for this weekend, which will address a number of other community priorities.
 

tuna_love

Banned
So a friend and I could never join each other's game session to play the campaigns. Is that a common issue? I've see people talk about issues with the matchmaking and MP stuff, but not the campaigns. Like whether I would invite him or he would invite me, we didn't show up in each other's game.
Are you already in the campaign?
 

sam777

Member
So a friend and I could never join each other's game session to play the campaigns. Is that a common issue? I've see people talk about issues with the matchmaking and MP stuff, but not the campaigns. Like whether I would invite him or he would invite me, we didn't show up in each other's game.

Not sure, I managed to play campaign last night with my cousin. Did you both have the patch completely installed because we didn't at first and couldn't play campaign together until the patch was done.
 

Sephzilla

Member

ugh. i must be tired if i missed that whole line

Read the update. There targeting "another release to address issues this weekend". They already have done 2 server upgrades. Waiting an hour or 30 minutes for a match is software related in this case.

waiting 30 minutes to get queued is almost certainly a server side issue and nothing that needs to be patched client side. the weekend update their targeting is probably for a lot of the smaller bugs that are clearly client side
 

ryan299

Member
I'm reminded that I'm not a fan of Sanctuary or Warlock. Those are the only maps I seem to be able to play when match making works in anniversary.
 
They really need to patch emblem customization back into Halo 2 at the very least, it makes it hard to know who is who in team games when everyone has the same damn emblem.
 

JimiNutz

Banned
Nah not joking. The system is aesthically unpleasing to look at, the user interface is confusing as hell, I have had nothing but bad luck with the party chat and invites, install times are ridiculous, double A batteries in 2014???

I know this is all personal opinion and your Driveclub comment is true too and there's no excuse for that, but I am not impressed with this console so far. Shit even the mic is going out on me and I haven't had the thing for more than 24 hours.

I do however love the SHIT out of Halo and Gears. Only reason I shelled out 350 for one game. And I'm gonna stick it through till they bring back the trilogy to its rightful spot. But man, bad first impressions.

I do feel really bad for people that bought am Xbox One specifically for Halo MCC and now can't play any matches online.

I'm confident (maybe naivety on my part) that the issues will be fixed soon though. Definitely not expecting it to be like this next week.

I also wasn't that happy with my Xbox One when I first got it. Hated the UI and kept on getting odd glitches (such as issues with party chat, load times etc.) but most of those issues are fixed now and things are constantly improving.

I agree about the AA batteries thing but the good news is that the play and charge kit holds charge for WAY longer than the DS4 controller.
That things is constantly running low on battery where as the Xbox One controller lasts ages once fully charged.
Def cheeky of MS to expect you to buy that shit separately though.
 
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