Stevey
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Yeah, dunno what happened there.
That was my last game, been searching ever since- all playlists the same
I had a patch today, or is there another one coming?
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Halo The Master Chief Collection |OT| Halo Never Died, It Was Just Missing In Action
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Yeah, dunno what happened there.
That was my last game, been searching ever since- all playlists the same
I had a patch today, or is there another one coming?
I stopped trying to play MP. Played the CE campaign until the middle of the Truth and Reconciliation level, where pressing "x" to open the bay doors did nothing <_<
Am I stupid or is it bugged?
Yeah, I noticed that while using the Brute Shot the other day.
The game is just one big bug
My coop partner is playing CS so I'm stuck alone trying to play MM. It hurts man
Ok so it's not just me. They really need to get it stuff fixed then. It makes the experience jarring having to restart each time.
I just wanna see the game in action. I seriously haven't even made it past the searching for players screen. Unbelievable. (I know I can do campaign but ugh)
Omg it found players!
Yeah, it's basically a coin toss whether it works or not. Leaving the Xbox in standby isn't safe either since the game has a thing for greeting me with the splash screen when I resume.
Frustrated_Grunt
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I got an offer to buy Advanced Warfare from someone for $45. Probably will take him up on that until a patch comes.
Deputy Moonman
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QFT. The game is a mess right now. Hopefully the patch next week will really fix a lot of the problems people have been experiencing.
RandyBobandy
Banned
Blackout is a horrible map
I forgot how much I hated it. Especially when it's not even full teams
I forgot how much I hated it. Especially when it's not even full teams
The Henery
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Pretty much this. It's going to take a client side patch to even be playable. What concerns me is that once this steaming mess is cleared we'll have to go through the inevitable rigmarole of complaining for months before BR starts have a higher weighting, certain map/gametype combos are jettisoned, objective settings are sensible etc.
In a collection that has over 100 maps, why is the near universally reviled 'Isolation' with an AR start even appearing in hoppers? You take the best maps from each game, pair them with their best settings and gametypes and iterate from there. If anyone cries, direct them to customs.
link1201
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There was a playlist but they removed it for the time being.
You basically can't :lol
Even if H4 DID show up in the Team Slayer playlists, and even if the matchmaking wasn't completely fucked, no one would ever vote for it.
Still waiting for a goddamn objective playlist.
superNESjoe
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Right now? On an Xbox 360.
Sad to say the game was outsourced to 7 different studios - 343 had very minimal input besides supervising and maybe project management. And it all shows.
They are damaging the brand. No other Halo had these kind of issues. They were incredibly polished on release. MS released it to meet the holiday season and it sure backfires at them.
Blue Ninja
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laaaammmmeee
Delt31
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ok so it's still broken? damn. Is the plan (once it's fixed) to be able to find Halo 4 MP only? Im one of the rare folks who enjoys Halo 4 and would hate to be left with only options to play with other Halos as the voting would never elect 4.
So Halo Nightfall... I'm not going to judge it (solely) from the first episode but it is pretty meh so far. It's not the worst show I've seen but it needs a lot of help in the pacing and story presentation department. The acting is pretty average at best too :/
It does get bonus points for helping me put the baby to sleep though. I'll watch the next episode lol.
It does get bonus points for helping me put the baby to sleep though. I'll watch the next episode lol.
They REALLY need to do that. Halo is best in objective gametypes imo.
cheezcake
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CitizenCope
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Got in 2 games last night where I actually talked to a couple of other guys that preferred Halo 4. We exist!!
There's only one thing I don't like about the remake and that's flora. It is static (nothing is animated) it's way less than in Halo CEA (which had animated flora and tons of it, especially grass) and at times for very strange reasons it's even less in Halo 2 Anniversary than in the original Halo 2. Delta Halo especially. Because of this Halo 2A feels very flat. And it seems like unlike Halo CEA a lot less geometry was changed. It's more a reskin than a remake.
Diablohead
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Zanzibar beach in anniversary graphics has zero foliage compared to patches in the original visuals, and because the ground is the same polygon wise it looks really bad for a remake.
I agree with how H2A feels more like a reskin because they kept the look of a lot of polygons the same where HCEA changed a lot of things (the halo ring was rather lame looking but the stages looked fine to me)
What I do wish is that more areas in H2A had more / unique looking lighting, they improved it a ton over the original game but everywhere is way too well lit or foggy at a distance, I would have loved to see more dynamic lighting or flickering lights in places to add to the atmosphere, it's a ball they dropped.
Deputy Moonman
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Yeah I'm planning on going through CE on legendary before the next patch. Gonna be brutal lol.
fix the matchmaking and allow me to chose what kind of multiplayer type I want to search for ._."
I have not been able to play the MP since release. it did not find ONE GAME. well, okay, it did find one and when the game was about to start the screen froze..
I just want to play guys.
I have not been able to play the MP since release. it did not find ONE GAME. well, okay, it did find one and when the game was about to start the screen froze..
I just want to play guys.
Diablohead
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Yeah it's not the lack of people in searches, it's how the code is finding people which is the problem.
Since they cut back the playlists I noticed zero differences, I either find a game or I do not, most of the time it's the later.
4 shot BR kills in H2A ruin it a bit, also the lack of proper 4 v 4's making games feel fair and fun.
I told some guys last night that T&R could be a Dark Souls area, lol. It took me about 2 1/2-3 hours to get through the first 3 levels last night.
Phat Michael
Banned
Can you change difficulty through a campaign like in diablo 3? I started on normal and it's very easy right now and want to move it up. There is an option of "show difficulty"but I can't seem to change it.
I keep seeing the word "remake throw around in this thread and the majora's mask thread. A remake is something built from the ground up with new code, noting from the original code is used.
What Nintendo and Microsoft are doing is a reskin/enhanced port. Not tryin to be rude or anything but I've been seeing this happen a lot as of late and its setting the bar too high. Noting wrong with a reskin but calling it a remake gives people the impression more is changeling when it's not.
Finally did an objective based game in H2A 
Also got a triple kill ^_^
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=...raft&vid=c2466fa2-0219-4d9c-8bd6-ae3fd25e5f5a
Also got a triple kill ^_^
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=...raft&vid=c2466fa2-0219-4d9c-8bd6-ae3fd25e5f5a
Diablohead
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Sorry, it's just what I typed, I know it's more or a reskin with fresh models. Remake is just one of those simple words which comes to mind.
You will need to start again from the chapter you are in with new settings in the menu, you can't change on the fly.
The Strokes
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I'm stuck on the second mission, I'm going for the no vehicles achievment on top of it, already cleared the area where you have to nade jump but man, it's a nightmare.
sammyCYBORG
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I forgot how awful the middle section of Halo 1 is in terms of level design. So bad.
TheCanisDirus
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I finally got into a match! 3rd since launch. 45 mins of waiting 4 mins then restarting. Spawn in and it's 4v1 on lockout. I'm by myself. Seriously 343?
They should seriously stop selling it to new purchasers until it's 100% fixed. The avg public won't know how borked it is. I feel bad for anyone who buys
They should seriously stop selling it to new purchasers until it's 100% fixed. The avg public won't know how borked it is. I feel bad for anyone who buys
Vestal
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Yup it gets very repetitive. Which at the time of release was excusable.
One of the reasons the campaign layout does not hold up too well. Gameplay is still top fucking notch though.
Diablohead
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Fuck matchmaking at this point, they just need to allow us to start a custom where people can see others playing via a browser search and let us manually join that way.
Or even better, let us connect to a server and wait for others to join too, I am sick of not having a guaranteed server match, that was a big selling point for me and I still get p2p half the time, fucking stupid.
While reducing playlists is a start, I think the whole matchmaking thing should just be one playlist for now.
Add in playlists later once it's all fixed.
People just want to play games.
Lol, of course not. Invites still only work sometimes and you have to reboot the game if things aren't working.
Diablohead
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I think the problems are deeper then the pool size of players looking for a match, something is failing and not working to pair groups together somehow.
Who knows.
sammyCYBORG
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It is but my god the copy and paste rooms and backtracking. The level design alone makes Halo 1 the worst Halo I can safely say now.
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