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

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Kssio_Aug

Kssio_Aug

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I am not only that frustrated because I've never played Halo before and am having tons of fun with the campaing, and I have people to play co-op and cutom games with. But without mm working properly this collection will die in a month, and thats for sure very disappointing. Matchaking is the biggest feature of this collection, it should not be broken like that. But whaterver 343i and MS is doing to fix it, it isnt working.

They may have a huge interest on fixing it though. Afterall, Halo 5 beta will be releasing on December 29; so they will want some credibility till then.
 
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Hollow

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My frustration with this has been growing.
I've given up on playing multiplayer for the time being but the campaign is just as fucked.

I activated a terminal in Halo 2 and after it finished playing it closed my game and reset my progress.

I've had the game crash twice and upon restarting finding that I have to start the level all over again even though I was right near the end.
 
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ozz ex machina

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I can appreciate people furious at the MM. But anyone here who is saying any game they get into is laggy as hell...I can assure you, that you are in the minority.

I have played a lot of games. Two so far have had connectivity issues (both on halo 3 matches actually) the rest have had amazing connectivity once in the actual room.

@JoeTonic - UK here and I'd be shocked if these are not eu dedis.


Ugh just got into a h2a match super quick... 4v4...booted out after loading the map.
 
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Isurus

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As much as I love Halo (and I do love me some Halo), this thing clearly wasn't ready to be released. For now, I'm going to stick with COD: AW until they get the kinks worked out, which I'm sure they will over the next few weeks. They traded off quality for speed with this release; probably a poor decision given the momentum they had, especially if another couple weeks could have cleared everything up.
 
Kssio_Aug

Kssio_Aug

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JoeTonic said:
I heard some talk that dedicated servers are US only or something. Tell me it isn't true, HaloGAF.
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I dont think so. Maybe people are getting many P2P matches but I dont think that this was intended, probably everything is related to those issues. They would not promote the game with that dedicated server promises and do it, specially with Halo.

Things are fucked, but I dont think only USA players would have access to the dedicated servers.
 
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JonCha

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Tempted to order this today for the campaigns alone, but I wonder how long it's going to take them to get matchmaking sorted.
 
BeforeU

BeforeU

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
JonCha said:
Tempted to order this today for the campaigns alone, but I wonder how long it's going to take them to get matchmaking sorted.
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I am thinking, if its not fixed today then it is going to take them long time.

The thing I hate is that, they didn't find out this after launch. They knew it way before. I got my game on Saturday and some people got it on Friday and that shit didn't work. I mean you can argue that there were less people playing back then. But you can't find match with 6-8 players? So it was the same issue back then, if you wait 10-15min you can find a match.

So if you think about it, they were probably working on this issue before launch. And that's worrisome
 
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sam777

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Some of the achievements I got earlier but never unlocked seem to have unlocked now, such as the iron skull cheevo. Not all of them however but some, which is progress I guess.
 
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Ont

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JoeTonic said:
I heard some talk that dedicated servers are US only or something. Tell me it isn't true, HaloGAF.
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I really doubt that. That would not really make any sense. MS has dedicated servers in Europe and elsewhere. There really is no reason force players to play only on US servers. The game would be unplayable for people from Scandinavia and US servers would quickly become overcrowded.
 
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+Aliken+

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Wow wasn't expecting all these problems also with MCC.
The past months have been horibble for AAA games...

first DriveClub then Unity and now MCC...
I wonder how Super Smash Bros on Wii U will go...
 
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greatnorthern

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Invisible elites w/swords on T&R in Heroic + not playing CE in years = roughly an hour of such frustration followed by JOY after getting through it.
 
Stevey

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I'm wondering if people's install went a bit borked if they're having crashes and system crashes with this.

I mean I can understand lag and trouble matchmaking being down to servers, but it seems strange that it's locking some people's system up and not others, since everyone is running the same hardware.

MS should add a "check integrity of install" feature like Steam.
 
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KnockOneOff

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BruceLeeRoy said:
Well I'm over it. Taking the game back today. Got into one match last night with the craziest lag I have ever experienced. H3 campaign registered none of my chapter completions this morning.

343 and MS have completely shaken my confidence in the franchise. This was clearly only a cash grab and no labor of love. Looks like its back to the Vault of Glass till Dragon Age comes out.

What a disappointment
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Do it bruise, let us know how you get on :)
 
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TheCanisDirus

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Whelp woke up hoping they fixed matchmaking... guess i'll return this turd now. And wait for a fix (if it ever comes) before buying again.

Do we know if GameStop is accepting full refunds on opened discs? (f'n better be!)
 
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Foxycotin

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Pro-tip: If you don't find players in the first 30 seconds, cancel and restart matchmaking. I've been averaging about 5 games per hour in the TS and H2A rumble playlists.
 
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sam777

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Foxycotin said:
Pro-tip: If you don't find players in the first 30 seconds, cancel and restart matchmaking. I've been averaging about 5 games per hour in the TS and H2A rumble playlists.
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That is what I do, leave it for a minute or 2 then back out, more often than not, I get matches.
 
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Thorgi

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Holy crap, I'm actually getting into more games now! And yeah, the "wait a minute, back out, join again" trick totally works. Excellent :)
 
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Diablohead

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In some matches online I was getting ping above what a located server or host would have in the UK or even parts of europe, if there are dedi's they are not 100% garenteed for you in matchmaking because there is no way i'd be in a game with skipping ping and early round overs if it was.

People have even had host migrations on this forum.

Until we get an in-game notification or icon to tell us we are on a dedi or 343 explain how they work exactly down to the full stop, I don't believe in them working right now.
 
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Skele7on

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I am giving this game a week, if by next tuesday it's still a mess it's getting returned.

I will pick it up again once it's working and price dropped.

But for now I just think that for a cool $60 I could use that money on a game that works.
 
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dwells

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Diablohead said:
In some matches online I was getting ping above what a located server or host would have in the UK or even parts of europe, if there are dedi's they are not 100% garenteed for you in matchmaking because there is no way i'd be in a game with skipping ping and early round overs if it was.

People have even had host migrations on this forum.

Until we get an in-game notification or icon to tell us we are on a dedi or 343 explain how they work exactly down to the full stop, I don't believe in them working right now.
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They're not dedicated servers, at least not always/most of the time. I had a sneaking suspicion I had host in one game of Halo 2 (could grenade jump, BR was cross-map capable), so I did a little digging and decided to monitor my network traffic. Yep, I was hosting alright.
 
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King Beyond the wall

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Halo 2 anniversary single player is still great. But the matchmaking problems and general technical problems of this game are ridiculous. How they launch this in good faith is beyond me. Takes about 30/40 minutes to find a game which will crash before even starting half the time. Then after each game the game will crash again and go to black screen every other time.

This game was not ready for release.
 
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Thorgi

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Despite my love for the campaigns, I totally get if people want to return the game because the multiplayer isn't quite up to speed. I tried to be patient with Battlefield 4, and when it STILL wasn't working two months after launch, I wanted to set the world ablaze. As much as I'd love to face you guys online, it's your money and time, and you really shouldn't have to wait days and days before the $60 game you bought starts functioning.
 
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Skele7on

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clear_blue_sky_by_nescio17-d656th1.jpg

This is currently the Halo MCC matchmaking

Not a cloud in sight... I hate clouds.
 
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Diablohead

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dwells said:
They're not dedicated servers, at least not always/most of the time. I had a sneaking suspicion I had host in one game of Halo 2 (could grenade jump, BR was cross-map capable), so I did a little digging and decided to monitor my network traffic. Yep, I was hosting alright.
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See this is what I was thinking but some people say yes, some say no. 343 really need to explain what is going on because my trust is dropping after buying this game for dedi halo play more then anything else.
 
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strata8

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Blood Gulch has not aged well. Loaded it and Coagulation back-to-back and it's almost a generational difference. Just... wow.

Not a huge fan of how Bloodline looks though.
 
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E92 M3

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bobs...onGaf said:
Wait....


Why in the world are multiplayer games 5v5!??

urgh.
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I've been thinking that as well. Overall, this game has really disappointed me. So many of us were looking forward to playing some old school Halo for Microsoft to only release a broken mess. Have no idea how Phil Spencer let this through.
 
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DJ Lushious

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BradC00 said:
I just got the par achievement for Truth and Reconciliation with a 28 minute run. The in game par time says 20:00, so its either wrong or glitched. It's a pretty hard mission though so I think 30:00 is what it should be :D That time on legendary (what I did it on) is good enough for #13. So I think it's a display error?
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How do you manage Legendary Truth & Reconciliation on Legendary in 28 minutes?! There's so many long stretches without checkpoints, and then there's the multiple encounters with the Hunters, and then there's the ship bay area! This is a level I often dread on Legendary, as one mistake will set you back big time, and it's seemingly so long.
 
Laws00

Laws00

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again its feels like its getting better

or is it just me that it seems like it. its taken less time maybe half the time to find matches


i wish that there was some sort of thing to tell me how many people are playing or attempting to play certain game types. this would make me feel better that the game doesnt feel baron
 
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hearsaybear

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Did 343 ever end up pushing an update last night? I know it was originally planned for 8 PM EST but then apparently live was having problems. Somehow I don't believe that for a second. I cannot believe how screwed up this package is.
 
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