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[hearsaybear]

I just wanna know if they will update us today, and if theyre gonna deliver that patch...

The last update was about 23 hours ago so I'd like to think we would hear soon? That's completely unfounded though

 

[cardsbasebal]

from 343

11.14 1:00 PM Update
This morning, we rolled out tweaks that should begin to further improve the Matchmaking experience, including:
Dedicated server stability improvements
Laid the groundwork for upcoming Matchmaking content updates, including improvements to the team selection process
Details on the 11.14 Content Update:
This evening, we will be releasing a content update that addresses a variety of community-reported issues. This content update addresses campaign, UI, and some Matchmaking party issues, but will not address Matchmaking performance. As we mentioned yesterday, a larger Matchmaking performance-focused content update is currently planned for release next week. We will have the full details of this update when the update goes live late afternoon (PST).
Please stay tuned to this thread and official channels for this afternoon's update. We thank you for your continued patience.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

I really hope they're going to make a framerate patch for the splitscreen when playing H2 maps.

 

[Cavalier]

Christ I was hoping this would be fixed by today I was ready to go buy this game just now after checking with GAF first. Still not fixed. What a shame!

 

[Seventy70]

from 343

I wonder how many "stability improvements" we need before it actually works correctly.

 

[THEF3AR]

Gif GAF needs to make a searching for players gif.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

from 343

Still not feeling that improvements, but hopefully their next week patch will solve this.

Well, at least theyre releasing a patch to fix some bugs today, as they promised.


Ps.: Just arrived home and am trying to connect at a H3 match... 3 times in a row in the waiting list for 4-6 minutes each. So yeah... No effects here I believe.

 

[Spacereamer]

Haha sucker! Welcome back! Hugs and kisses.

Well, kinda on 66% now, Tried another Team Slayer, found players in under 5 minutes, selected a map etc....then I got dumped into the game myself!

Turns out I won! Yay!

 

[Computer]

Matchmaking performance-focused content update is currently planned for release next week.

Unacceptable.

I have been giving them the benefit of the doubt but 2 weeks after launch before MM works is a joke.

 

[clav]

I am honestly curious as to what the common issue is for people who cannot get MM to work at all.

While it is not optimal currently there are issues, I can constantly get into MM games at least 90% of the time within 2 minutes of signing up for it.

For information sake:

ISP: Brighthouse
Down/Up: 60/20
Xbox One: Wireless 5GHZ on Open NAT
Playtime: 9pm-1am

I always backout and go back in if it does not show the list on the right side with searching.

Just a theory alert.

I think the problem is upload.

There are some crucial steps in the beginning that the Xbox and servers relay back and forth in the first steps of matchmaking. If the server doesn't get a certain response within a critical time frame, then the player is lost in limbo. People with NAT problems are not going to find games either.

That's why service response has been to retry the matchmaking process after at most 5 minutes.

 

[THEF3AR]

Matchmaking performance-focused content update is currently planned for release next week.

Unacceptable.

I have been giving them the benefit of the doubt but 2 weeks after launch before MM works is a joke.

Your math is flawed, grasshopper.

 

[VinFTW]

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No... I said don't wait in the MM playlist for 15 minutes, that's been proven not to work.

But somehow that ended up with me saying people are "wrong" for believing the game is broken and it's their "fault" that it's not working...

 

[hearsaybear]

Matchmaking performance-focused content update is currently planned for release next week.

Unacceptable.

I have been giving them the benefit of the doubt but 2 weeks after launch before MM works is a joke.

Not to be a debby downer, but I think next week is too late. Next week people will have moved on from the matchmaking. Halo just doesn't have the pull it once did, and if Halo 4's precipitous fall-off is any indication, the audience isn't there. You had one job 343.

 

[TaKeRx]

Matchmaking performance-focused content update is currently planned for release next week.

Unacceptable.

I have been giving them the benefit of the doubt but 2 weeks after launch before MM works is a joke.

2 weeks? It's only been 3 days....

 

[PanicFreak]

I just wanna know if they will update us today, and if theyre gonna deliver that patch...

If they do an update, it will pop up on the @Halo Twitter account.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

If they do an update, it will pop up on the @Halo Twitter account.

Yeah they just did it. Sadly a matchmaking patch just next week (hopefully that will solve things). For today, a geberal bug correction patch probably.

 

[hearsaybear]

I am also completely turned off by their pimping of Halo 5 right now. Why should people care about your next game when this is what you release?

 

[Seventy70]

I am also completely turned off by their pimping of Halo 5 right now. Why should people care about your next game when this is what you release?

Same here. Fix the products you release before you go around advertising something that isn't out for a year.

 

[Marvel]

Oh man these H2A cutscenes are orgasmic. Well done Blur.

 

[WJD]

Halo 4, for all it's flaws, ran perfectly on release didn't it? Makes this even more baffling.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

I am also completely turned off by their pimping of Halo 5 right now. Why should people care about your next game when this is what you release?

I am less confident aswell (was pretty positive before). Well, I'm trully disappointed, but I will give 343 the chance to fix it till the next week matchamaking patch. If it doesnt drastically change the situation here for the best, then I dont really think we will see many improvements for a long long time, and I will be completely unconfident about Halo 5 MP.

 

[Seventy70]

They said next week for the matchmaking patch. Who knows when we'll get a campaign patch.

 

[Impala26]

Still not feeling that improvements, but hopefully their next week patch will solve this.

Well, at least theyre releasing a patch to fix some bugs today, as they promised.


Ps.: Just arrived home and am trying to connect at a H3 match... 3 times in a row in the waiting list for 4-6 minutes each. So yeah... No effects here I believe.

Oh Sweet Buttery Baby Jesus...PUHLEEZE be this the update that fixes the major UI and party bugs!

If it is at least we can play some GAF customs games this weekend...

 

[HamsterPackage]

Quick question, do the patches download at the same time as installing the disc?

 

[Future PhaZe]

I am also completely turned off by their pimping of Halo 5 right now. Why should people care about your next game when this is what you release?

yo HAVE YALL HEARD ABOUT HALO 5 BETA

...searching
...searching
...searching

 

[Grisby]

from 343

I hope they fix the freezing with that stability stuff.

 

[Sephzilla]

Matchmaking performance-focused content update is currently planned for release next week.

Unacceptable.

I have been giving them the benefit of the doubt but 2 weeks after launch before MM works is a joke.

The patch might be out before the game even reaches the one week mark...

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Oh Sweet Buttery Baby Jesus...PUHLEEZE be this the update that fixes the major UI and party bugs!

If it is at least we can play some GAF customs games this weekend...

I'm hoping for that aswell! Those party issues really pisses me off!!

They said next week for the matchmaking patch. Who knows when we'll get a campaign patch.

"This evening, we will be releasing a content update that addresses a variety of community-reported issues. This content update addresses campaign, UI, and some Matchmaking party issues, but will not address Matchmaking performance."

 

[Poodlestrike]

The patch might be out before the game even reaches the one week mark...

Secretly, MCC matchmaking takes so long because it's also warping the fabric of space and time.

 

[Strider]

Oh man these H2A cutscenes are orgasmic. Well done 343.

343 didn't do those cutscenes... or the majority of the rest of the game(s) for that matter lol I think Blur was responsible for the H2A cutscenes. But yea I agree they look damn good.

 

[Sephzilla]

Secretly, MCC matchmaking takes so long because it's also warping the fabric of space and time.

Mother of God

 

[Kssio_Aug]

343 didn't do those cutscenes... or most of the rest of the game for that matter lol

I think Blur was responsible for the H2A cutscenes. But yea I agree they look damn good.

Yeah, it was Blur. And yeah, they're awesome!

 

[Marvel]

343 didn't do those cutscenes... or the majority of the rest of the game(s) for that matter lol I think Blur was responsible for the H2A cutscenes. But yea I agree they look damn good.

Oops, my mistake haha.

Yes goddamn! amazing stuff.

 

[Sephzilla]

They need to contract Blur to make a full Halo movie

 

[Gandie]

Got kicked out of Search for an update(?), went back in and immediately found a game in H2A,

Spoiler

got donged on tho ;_;

 

[Etnos]

Well at least I'm getting constant matches today, just make sure to watch for "In Lobby' as frankie said.

 

[Poodlestrike]

343 didn't do those cutscenes... or the majority of the rest of the game(s) for that matter lol I think Blur was responsible for the H2A cutscenes. But yea I agree they look damn good.

In all fairness, if we're heaping blame on them for the bad things about the collection, they should probably get credit for the good stuff as well

And +1 for a Blur-produced Halo movie.

 

[Marvel]

They need to contract Blur to make a full Halo movie

 

[Primethius]

Holy shit, this game is fucking stupid. I tried playing online with one of my buddies.

Me and him got split into different teams. Some dude who was playing splitscreen with a buddy got split into different teams. Another guy and his friend got split into different teams.

Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to release this game?

 

[Deputy Moonman]

Quick question, do the patches download at the same time as installing the disc?

So far the updates have been server side and no download has been necessary. Not sure about the patch next week.

Update that gif! http://www.abload.de/img/animation1dfg2zq7g.gif[IMG][/QUOTE]
Done lol.

 

[buddha0991]

Halo 4, for all it's flaws, ran perfectly on release didn't it? Makes this even more baffling.

Probably because Halo 4 is 1 game engine and was developed by 343. Halo:MCC is like 7 game engines developed, ported or tweaked by like 5 or 6 game companies. This game needed to be delayed a few months imo.

 

[Impala26]

Probably because Halo 4 is 1 game engine and was developed by 343. Halo:MCC is like 7 game engines developed, ported or tweaked by like 5 or 6 game companies. This game needed to be delayed a few months imo.

It's really a "Frankenstein" of a game in terms of various developers actually, so to at least a small extent, I was expecting some bugs and glitches from the get go. Anyone have the full list of all involved with each component? Would love to see that again.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

I'd love to see their patch notes for today.

 

[HamsterPackage]

So far the updates have been server side and no download has been necessary. Not sure about the patch next week.

Done lol.

Thanks! 84% so close I can taste it....So I shouldn't have any problems single player right?

 

[MThanded]

F@#%ing Really!?!

It couldn't be that, oh I don't know, some of us just really freaking love Halo and we have the patience enough to put up with this situation? That some of us like BOTH multi and campaign? That we know there are issues here but that for many of us they don't OUTRIGHT PREVENT us from playing the bits of this package we want?

God... why do I even bother sometimes...

Loving something doesn't mean you blindly defend it.

 

[AHappyPanda]

Thanks! 84% so close I can taste it....So I shouldn't have any problems single player right?

lol hopefully

I've been hit with the save issue as well that others have had. I had to sit through that opening Halo 2 scene where they test your aim and armor 3x now because it didn't save properly. Not a huge deal, just annoying.

Other people are having their entire progress be lost in the Master Chief Saga playlist or whatever.

 

[Latvian Hitman]

Halo 4, for all it's flaws, ran perfectly on release didn't it? Makes this even more baffling.

No. Matchmaking was pretty broken for the first couple of days post-launch. Not as broken as MCC, but pretty damn broken. Worked pretty well after the first couple of nights, though.

 

[Sephzilla]

The build for CEs multiplayer in MCC is the PC version. Gearbox worked on the original PC port. Therefore, I blame Gearbox because it makes me feel better.

 

[HamsterPackage]

lol hopefully

I've been hit with the save issue as well that others have had. I had to sit through that opening Halo 2 scene where they test your aim and armor 3x now because it didn't save properly. Not a huge deal, just annoying.

Other people are having their entire progress be lost in the Master Chief Saga playlist or whatever.

Ouch...so make sure I beat a whole level before quitting or that doesn't seem to matter either?

 

[Marvel]

I got into a couple games today, had some very strange bugs and team mix ups/uneven shit. It's not worth me playing MP for now until the updates. I am however enjoying the campaigns.

Oh how I missed Halo's music.