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

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Rocketz

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Well I was gonna wait to buy until the multiplayer issue was fixed but I decided to just say screw it. Though the download is going to take forever.
 

dwells

Member
Oh man, you did it.
I'm tempted to pay the $10 to give you a 10 user jira :p.

Haha, if it weren't for the fact that they charge extra for hosting, I probably would've done it.

For what it's worth, I'm not doing this as a "screw you 343i" or anything. I'm doing it to help them and organize all the bugs that have been reported by various users. It's very easy for issues, especially smaller ones, to get lost in the mess of everything that's going on.
 

p3tran

Banned
I'm so glad I didn't buy an Xbox for this game... yet. I really wish this game to be amazing but all these glitches and troubles really put a damper on my excitement. Not sure if I really want to pay 400-500 euros to play it anymore. Even if it is at a playable state.

yeah, alright
:D






on subject:

dear microsoft
dear 343

please try harder

this weekend I want to play online. just enjoy. with no worries/hassle.
so do what you have to do.

thanks
 

Eoin

Member
LAA lives in the same country as me. It's odd, I've played co-op on many other big console games, with players both locally, countrywide, and worldwide, and none of them have had the connectivity issues and input delay of the Halo games. Ever. I wonder if the netcode in general for halo's co-op mode is just shitty on top of the Peer 2 Peer connectivity.
They probably use an async network model which isn't compatible with the way the AI in Halo works. Lockstep is always going to give input lag if the ping isn't super low.
 

Chitown B

Member
Um.

Halo 2 seems 'off' to me.

Playing on Heroic. Walk into a room. Die almost instantly. That area with the gun (y'know, the part that moves that's ridiculously awesome?) that has the jetpack elites. I killed the first guys. There's one that comes jetpacking into view as I get onto the moving bits. He fires a couple rounds that hit me. Blam. Dead.

My roomate was watching and thought I was playing on Legendary, but no, I picked Heroic. Game says it's Heroic. Feels like Legendary though. Deaths are almost instant, no time for strafing. The first room with the bugs just isn't fun at all. I don't even get to move around.

This is coming from someone who's beat Reach like 3-4 times on Heroic and loves it to pieces. The original game definitely didn't kill me this quickly; Halo 4 did occasionally.

Is this a bug, or does Halo 2's Heroic difficulty just turn Chief into soggy toilet paper?



what

Agreed. Heroic seems too hard. And I don't feel like I can tell when my shields are down easily enough, so i'm dying when I think I'm OK. The guns also seem way too quiet and far away. I need to hear them loudly in order to get the right feel - and there is no way to balance the sounds/music.
 
Agreed. Heroic seems too hard. And I don't feel like I can tell when my shields are down easily enough, so i'm dying when I think I'm OK. The guns also seem way too quiet and far away. I need to hear them loudly in order to get the right feel - and there is no way to balance the sounds/music.

The music really is loud as fuck. They couldn't even get the audio mixing right.
 

Rothgil

Neo Member
Got a couple of matchmaking games in. Works for the most part. Me and a friend kept getting sorted into separate teams despite being in the same party and voice chat is still broken.

XBL seems to be down or something so that ended my play session.
 

Mononoke

Banned
Are impulse triggers on by default in MP? Or do you have to turn them on? I see in the controller options "Vibration" and "Bumpers/Triggers" but I don't think that's them. It feels like they are on...sometimes.

Other side note:

* What is it with people betraying me so often? Not sure if people are being jerks, or if they just suck. But my god, I'm getting like 8 deaths a game because of team betrayals (in the earlier classic maps).
 

Computer

Member
Played H2A to the Arbiter mission. The next day I hit resume game and it starts me at the Cairo station. The game cant even save your progress! This is like simple day one shit here. I know all the missions are unloled to I can just clicked on where I left off but why have a resume feature if it don't work. Also it will not save progress on check points. So vest to beat the hole mission before stopping. Starts you at the beginning. Add it to the glitch list if not already added.
 

mcrommert

Banned
The spawns are something else too. It spawned 3 enemies in front of me as I threw a grenade once. Got an easy double kill there.

hehe yep also halo ce...always found it hilarious when halo 2 came out and people said it wasn't as good of a game. halo one is great but a competitive, fair multiplayer experience? Hell no
 

Noobcraft

Member
Halo CE and 2 haven't aged well in multiplayer as far as I've seen. In 2 my team won 50-13 and the entire team but one guy quit. We just camped the spawns and killed him over and over until we reached the limit. Midship is a good map design though. Halo CE is something else though. The spawns are so bad they're amazing if that makes sense lol. The gameplay is COD-like in speed despite being super slow paced movement wise.
 
not sure if posted

11.12.14 - 11:10 AM PST Update
Next update coming: 11.12 - 5 PM PST

We have deployed a number of server updates to help improve matchmaking. These updates should expedite wait times and allow you to find matches faster and easier. We are actively monitoring data for wait times and will continue to modify as necessary.
Additionally, we are monitoring all non-matchmaking feedback, and still targeting another release for this weekend. Please continue to use the support forums to report and discuss issues. We will continue to work until issues are resolved, and thank you for your continued patience. Please stay tuned to this thread for regular updates.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/...on/e024f78f-6022-4a49-99ea-67562ec5b4ca/posts
 

Sesuadra

Unconfirmed Member
Played H2A to the Arbiter mission. The next day I hit resume game and it starts me at the Cairo station. The game cant even save your progress! This is like simple day one shit here. I know all the missions are unloled to I can just clicked on where I left off but why have a resume feature if it don't work. Also it will not save progress on check points. So vest to beat the hole mission before stopping. Starts you at the beginning. Add it to the glitch list if not already added.

It should be on it already, I already reported that yesterday morning..
 

Booshka

Member
hehe yep also halo ce...always found it hilarious when halo 2 came out and people said it wasn't as good of a game. halo one is great but a competitive, fair multiplayer experience? Hell no

2v2 Halo CE is the most balanced MP Halo experience to date. There are known issues with the weapon and player spawns in the PC version of Halo CE. Xbox Halo CE has some crazy spawns here and there, but they are for the most part under you or your teammates control, and the opposing team can exploit the spawns to trap you. Which you have to fight out of, it's part of the metagame.

It's random, messy fun/frustration to a lot of players, but if you put the time in, pay attention to the details, and learn the game, you'll learn that is a lot deeper than you thought.
 

Noobcraft

Member
2v2 Halo CE is the most balanced MP Halo experience to date. There are known issues with the weapon and player spawns in the PC version of Halo CE. Xbox Halo CE has some crazy spawns here and there, but they are for the most part under you or your teammates control, and the opposing team can exploit the spawns to trap you. Which you have to fight out of, it's part of the metagame.

It's random, messy fun/frustration to a lot of players, but if you put the time in, pay attention to the details, and learn the game, you'll learn that is a lot deeper than you thought.
Clips from me playing Halo CE in the MCC.
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=...raft&vid=cd6c9b58-80c1-4b4a-bec3-ecc2fc236015
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=...raft&vid=434b5807-9484-4062-8af7-8cb8347907b5
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=...raft&vid=8061285e-a957-4703-8d8a-3a46c208d6d4
 

Thorgi

Member
I know I'm being unreasonably paranoid right now but I'm really worried that by the time all the fixes are up, no one will be bothering with the multiplayer anymore.
 

Xamdou

Member
So after each online matchmaking game I get booted to the main screen rather than the mm system continuing to find another match for me to play?
 

Caja 117

Member
I know I'm being unreasonably paranoid right now but I'm really worried that by the time all the fixes are up, no one will be bothering with the multiplayer anymore.

I feel the same way, hopefully this problem dont scare away a good chunk of the player base. (but this is Halo so Im sure by the time this get fixed most of the people will come back, the game when it works is really good)

so when will the reviews get updated? isnt this what they waited for? launch. see how mm would hold up....


Why? will they Update them again when these problems are fixed?
 
I know I'm being unreasonably paranoid right now but I'm really worried that by the time all the fixes are up, no one will be bothering with the multiplayer anymore.

Halo 1, 2 and 3 will always have a community, halo 3 is still rather busy online and halo 2 now that it's back will be here for the long run.
 
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