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

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Just because you can't use the AR doesn't make it garbage though....

Umm, you are barking up the wrong tree if you are trying to claim some sort of skill advantage with people here advocating the BR. Lots of people have their gamertags in their profiles, and you can check their general level of scrubiness here: http://www.legacystats.com/halocareer.php (note that some people had different gamertags back in the day)

The AR is inherently easier to use; that's the point. It's giving players who can't land headshots or even aim precisely in general the opportunity to pour lots of bullets into someone until they die. The BR lets you kill from farther away but punishes imprecise aim much more, and a player who can land headshots consistently is going to demolish someone who can't. With the AR it mostly boils down to who shot who first and when people melee (which often results in a tie).

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Halo 2 BR though. So goooooood.
http://www.xboxclips.com/video.php?...pgun&vid=68e92513-c420-44f7-8726-9fc73e42aec0

BR Scrub
 

Lan Dong Mik

And why would I want them?
Custom games have worked since the game launched, why not join some gaffers and play those?

It's not really working properly though, at least for me and some other people. I did join a custom gaf game, as soon as it was over, I was kicked back to the lobby. Then on top of that I was having issues just joining a friends party too. The original halo 2, 3 and 4 were nowhere near this bad at launch from what I recall.
 

E92 M3

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Custom games have worked since the game launched, why not join some gaffers and play those?

Eh, matchmaking is always more fun for me. In general, through my Halo career, I preferred matchmaking. At this point, though, I can go for some 4v4 on Lockout.
 
The problem with this update of their is that I still need to read ONE person reporting that is finding many matches at a normal time frame without doing any trick, and constantly.

Plus, even the people who are finding games are typically searching alone. I've yet to successfully get in a game with a team of 4. Ever.
 

U2NUMB

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This game sucks. Straight up. Right now it doesn't even work properly.

I've had it since launch and I STILL HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO PLAY A SINGLE MULTIPLAYER GAME! Real cool, Microsoft!

To make matters worse, I jumped on last night to play and my ENTIRE save was gone. So great, several hours of play on Legendary all wiped clear. I'm not alone on this either. My friend had her entire Legendary save wiped out, and she was nearly to the end of Halo 1.

I'm getting mighty tired of all these unfinished games, but this one in particular is inexcusable. To give your flagship franchise such shoddy treatment is disrespectful to its history and just a kick to the crotch to the loyal fans.

The save game thing really upsets me. I have had this problem with both previous 343 games.. I was hoping with the auto backup to the cloud this would not be the case. On Halo CE A and Halo 4 people were ignored by 343.. never got a response to why our save games were just gone... I can not believe it is still there in this collection.

What a total disaster this is becoming.. I am so sad over it... my most anticipated game of the year.. ugh
 
Finally got to play a multiplayer match and then the game froze on a black screen (after we got beaten pretty badly).

Game was smooth while it worked - I have hope for the game yet.
 
Nope, popped their heads up (late) twice yesterday and have been completely silent today.

They have like 20 people active on twitter and NOTHING from them today.

I have no idea how, 3 days after launch, they have not giving a timeline, or now especially, explained why the hell its P2P and not dedicated servers like they specifically said it would be.

Yeah where is this "working around the clock"? Shouldn't they (they probably do) have shifts working non-stop to fix the issues?

I haven't seen anything about the missing patch even on their official support forum. The natives are getting restless over there!
 

Striker

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I prefer BTB in Halo 3 to BTB in Halo 2, because it feels more organic and sandboxy. It's got better big maps. Halo 2 excels at pretty much everything else though.
Gametypes. Maps. The combat between the player and the vehicles. That's why Halo 3's fell much too short.
 

AlStrong

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Yeah where is this "working around the clock"? Shouldn't they (they probably do) have shifts working non-stop to fix the issues?

I haven't seen anything about the missing patch even on their official support forum. The natives are getting restless over there!

I have no idea how, 3 days after launch, they have not giving a timeline, or now especially, explained why the hell its P2P and not dedicated servers like they specifically said it would be.

I have to imagine the guys who are knee deep in the code are too busy to say anything, and the folks that handle PR just don't know what else to say as a result.

Folks should really try to calm down.
 

ViciousDS

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completed the first halo and me and my buddy are about halfway through the second....second halo sssoooo gooooddddd.

Anyone else having a problem playing co-op where there is a slight input delay when you are not the host. Me and my buddy made sure all ports and everything else were opened correctly, but there is a definite delay when you are not the actual host for co-op campaign.
 

//ARCANUM

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I see multiple people talking about MP games not running on dedicated servers. Can anyone link me to a source on that? Or something confirming its legitimacy?
 

RetroStu

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Man i just played a bit of Halo 2: Anniversary in my local GAME and damn it looks amazing. I didn't think it looked that good in screen shots but its amazing seeing it in person. Good job guys.
 
seems to me working for me, first few games i have tried i have got in within a min or 2 of each other

no lag in any of the games and equal teams

although noobs are playing right now, (me included!) lol
 
Iv experienced things like terrible pop in, ACTUAL WEAPON EFFECTS MISSING(this pisses me off), sounds issues, check points not saving, framerate issues, enemies not spawning when they should. While I didn't really buy this collection for SP. I was hoping I could actually play it while waiting for MP to be fixed.
I'm sure there's other bugs people have encountered. Tho
My friend couldn't get out of his cryo? Pod at the beginning. We restarted. Then we didn't have hands or guns. We were floating in the air and muzzle flash when we shit with no crosshairs. Poor frame rate way to often and other glitches even in the cinematics for me. I was so stoked to run through halo and be a sloth for the week after work but now I am migrating back to other games
 

Kssio_Aug

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seems to me working for me, first few games i have tried i have got in within a min or 2 of each other

no lag in any of the games and equal teams

although noobs are playing right now, (me included!) lol

Thats a refreshing post. Hope I can read more like this soon enough!
 

//ARCANUM

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My friend couldn't get out of his cryo? Pod at the beginning. We restarted. Then we didn't have hands or guns. We were floating in the air and muzzle flash when we shit with no crosshairs. Poor frame rate way to often and other glitches even in the cinematics for me. I was so stoked to run through halo and be a sloth for the week after work but now I am migrating back to other games

Shitting with no crosshairs is a messy business. ;)
 

Caayn

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I just started playing this. Was trying to do par times too but man. Im a lot slower and these maps are a lot longer than i remember
Got quiet a few of those, not all of them. Some where ridiculously easy like completing the mission with almost 50% of the time remaining while in other missions I used up way too much time like one where the limit was 20 minutes and completed it in 30+ minutes.

The amount of time given each mission feels a bit off at times.
 
I have to imagine the guys who are knee deep in the code are too busy to say anything, and the folks that handle PR just don't know what else to say as a result.

Folks should really try to calm down.

I dont think they should at all. I think that this is the only way game devs/publishers will take urgent action. Look what happened with BF4, DriveClub etc. They're selling us unfinished/untested product and we need to make noise and let them know we won't keep taking their shit.

Games should only be released when they are fully functional and have been tested to ensure that's the case.
 
I dont think they should at all. I think that this is the only way game devs/publishers will take urgent action. Look what happened with BF4, DriveClub etc. They're selling us unfinished/untested product and we need to make noise and let them know we won't keep taking their shit.

Games should only be released when they are fully functional and have been tested to ensure that's the case.

As horrible as it sounds, I'd rather buy a product in the state of the MCC now rather than wait until sometime next year for it to be incredibly polished. I don't mind a few unstable weeks.
 
Quick question for any of you Halo 4 guys

how the hell do i Jetpack? just seen a few others in the multiplater jet packing around - how do i do it? is it something i need to unlock?
 

Jeff-DSA

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My friend couldn't get out of his cryo? Pod at the beginning. We restarted. Then we didn't have hands or guns. We were floating in the air and muzzle flash when we shit with no crosshairs. Poor frame rate way to often and other glitches even in the cinematics for me. I was so stoked to run through halo and be a sloth for the week after work but now I am migrating back to other games

It skipped the cryo thing for me. I was wondering if I was remembering the beginning of Halo incorrectly, because it started me immediately on the path to head to the bridge. There was no "look around the room" prompt or the part where they check his vitals. Did that get trimmed, or did it skip a cut scene for me?
 
It skipped the cryo thing for me. I was wondering if I was remembering the beginning of Halo incorrectly, because it started me immediately on the path to head to the bridge. There was no "look around the room" prompt or the part where they check his vitals. Did that get trimmed, or did it skip a cut scene for me?

This is CE right? I didn't have that either. They must have cut it.
 

ViciousDS

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It skipped the cryo thing for me. I was wondering if I was remembering the beginning of Halo incorrectly, because it started me immediately on the path to head to the bridge. There was no "look around the room" prompt or the part where they check his vitals. Did that get trimmed, or did it skip a cut scene for me?

single player is the only one that does that little intro tutorial.
 

Gaz_RB

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I believe this is enough to prove that every online game should have a Beta test at least one month before release.

Agreed, especially if we use the recent Destiny as an example. That game had a perfect online launch across 4 different platforms. I have a feeling the Alpha/Beta played a role in that.
 

Fuchsdh

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It skipped the cryo thing for me. I was wondering if I was remembering the beginning of Halo incorrectly, because it started me immediately on the path to head to the bridge. There was no "look around the room" prompt or the part where they check his vitals. Did that get trimmed, or did it skip a cut scene for me?

On Legendary you skip all the training/movement tutorials, but you still get out of the cryo pod*. Sounds like a bug.

*Unless I have totally gone crazy. I've only played through the campaign on MCC this time around on Normal.
 
As horrible as it sounds, I'd rather buy a product in the state of the MCC now rather than wait until sometime next year for it to be incredibly polished. I don't mind a few unstable weeks.

Hey to each his/her own. Might I ask why though? (Genuinely curious.. not being a dick here.)

I personally have only been able to get into 2 MP games since launch. The MP (the portion i bought it for... you might be into SP?) just doesn't function and i paid money for it. I'm not into giving people free loans.
 

Caayn

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It skipped the cryo thing for me. I was wondering if I was remembering the beginning of Halo incorrectly, because it started me immediately on the path to head to the bridge. There was no "look around the room" prompt or the part where they check his vitals. Did that get trimmed, or did it skip a cut scene for me?
If you're playing on legendary or in co-op it skips that part, has been that way since the original release afaik.
 
As horrible as it sounds, I'd rather buy a product in the state of the MCC now rather than wait until sometime next year for it to be incredibly polished. I don't mind a few unstable weeks.

I'm totally with you here. It sucks that I can't play multiplayer but I've been really enjoying my time replaying through the campaign on legendary and I haven't run into a single problem doing so.


By the time I'm done with the campaigns hopefully multiplayer will be ready
 
It skipped the cryo thing for me. I was wondering if I was remembering the beginning of Halo incorrectly, because it started me immediately on the path to head to the bridge. There was no "look around the room" prompt or the part where they check his vitals. Did that get trimmed, or did it skip a cut scene for me?


Skiped for you - it was there

Right 5th match in a row im in, takes roughly 2 mins to find a game, all games have been equal with no lag


although i did have 1 crash which kicked me back to dashboard

seriously though how do i jetpack!
 
Hah,

Well fine, you say screw them and you might as well say screw the rest of the industry that follows the same practices too.(but I highly doubt your purchases will reflect this.)

There is no reason to pretend this is a normal game by any means. It has 13 different game engines(audio, physics & graphical) for two of the games it runs 3-4 game engines at a time. The multiplayer allows you to jump from one game to another without a hiccup and they've added features on top of games that were never meant to have them.

If this game isn't something you want to support than by all means return the game until it matches a level that you find acceptable but that isn't stopping others, like myself, from already enjoying it.



No one is saying that it excuses anything but it also shouldn't be ignored. The point of the amount of content argument is that this is a insanely packed game with pretty much way too much going on at once.

I'm proud to say that my purchase history does indeed reflect the ideology I have which is - I BELIEVE A PRODUCT I PAY MONEY FOR SHOULD WORK.

I have refused to give my money to:

Evolution Studios
Ubisoft
EA

For pushing this kind of garbage. I am happy to say that I am part of the solution where I would argue your mentality is part of the problem.

The only broken game I ever bought was BF4 which was a month after it was released and was used. By that point though the game had issues, it worked 90% of the time and again I got it for like $20.

The best I can offer 343i is this. I will be returning your game today because I don't believe in screwing your customer over. If in a month or 2 the game is running perfectly I will then pick up a used copy off of gaf. I will not be buying Halo 5 new either.
 

Dub117

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Quick question for any of you Halo 4 guys

how the hell do i Jetpack? just seen a few others in the multiplater jet packing around - how do i do it? is it something i need to unlock?
Go to your customization for your load outs. Everything is unlocked, you need to pick a armor ability and some other perks
 

AlStrong

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I dont think they should at all.

My point was directed to the on-going outrage of "pls respond". Sure, make noise about non-functional products. The thing is we already know that 343i etc are already on-the-job. So I'm not sure what gets accomplished with even more noise. It's enough to have folks keep updating their experiences with MM.
 
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