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

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ProvenDeadly

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SicSemperTyrannis said:
It shows that we as consumers aren't going to stand for releases like this. The culture around gaming has facilitated companies assuming it is perfectly okay to do this to it's paying customers time and again. I'm personally refusing to play the game again until it is fixed, I'm not going to go through the hassle of getting a refund for my digital purchase. People are right to assume it won't take a week to fix though, historically games that release this broken take a long time to fix. DriveClub is still having issues over a month after release and Battlefield wasn't truly fixed for almost a year if I recall correctly. I'm hoping this Wednesday has the game working exactly as it should have last week, but I'm not counting on it.
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343 is running tournaments and have pushed them back a few weeks in order to address MM. It seems to me like they are pretty confident in this update, because their whole tournament planning relies on the game to be fixed.
 
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PooBone

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ProvenDeadly said:
343 is running tournaments and have pushed them back a few weeks in order to address MM. It seems to me like they are pretty confident in this update, because their whole tournament planning relies on the game to be fixed.
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As opposed to just delaying it again?

Were they confident when the game came out that the tournament would be happening?
 
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hawk2025

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ProvenDeadly said:
343 is running tournaments and have pushed them back a few weeks in order to address MM. It seems to me like they are pretty confident in this update, because their whole tournament planning relies on the game to be fixed.
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eerrrr...

By this logic, you could have said the exact same thing a week ago: They were confident it would work because of the tournament's original date.

They will just delay it again if they have to.
 
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Garrett Hawke

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I'm not having trouble getting IN to matches anymore, it's just when I do get into them they always seem to be half empty and hilariously lopsided.
Such as me vs 4 people.
 
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ProvenDeadly

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Poodlestrike said:
Apparently. Frankie's said that he'll give us the down low on what happened after it's working properly, so that'll be interesting.
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Know where he said this?


Also response to those two posts, sure they can delay it again, but 343 is putting a ton of mony into tournaments and such for this game. I don't think they can afford to leave this game broken. Besides, it is 100000000x better for me than t launch.
 
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hawk2025

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ProvenDeadly said:
Know where he said this?


Also response to those two posts, sure they can delay it again, but 343 is putting a ton of mony into tournaments and such for this game. I don't think they can afford to leave this game broken. Besides, it is 100000000x better for me than t launch.
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The question isn't whether they can afford to leave it broken or not, it's whether they are capable of fixing it in a timely manner.
 
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ProvenDeadly

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hawk2025 said:
The question isn't whether they can afford to leave it broken or not, it's whether they are capable of fixing it in a timely manner.
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I feel like they wouldn't be so optimistic in their tweets/dates if they weren't confident. They would look like even bigger assholes if they did so. Maybe I'm just reading it the wrong way.


This wasn't a situation of total surprise where they had no idea this game was broken.
 
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TheCanisDirus

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ProvenDeadly said:
Know where he said this?


Also response to those two posts, sure they can delay it again, but 343 is putting a ton of mony into tournaments and such for this game. I don't think they can afford to leave this game broken. Besides, it is 100000000x better for me than t launch.
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I believe he said something like that in one of his recent tweets. Check his twitter it might be on there.
 
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Oozer3993

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Der Flatulator said:
Every now and again when I feel down I watch this inspirational Halo CE video. Someone should totally remake it in MCC.
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I still can't believe some one actually pulled this off. The Halo tricking community will never cease to amaze me. Earlier this year, some one got into the room from the Halo 2 X02 trailer.

mcrommert said:
I think you are thinking of the orbital elevator...if it is the thing that stretches highest in the sky...used to bring stuff into orbit without rockets
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The beginning of the E3 2003 trailer actually featured a very different New Mombasa skyline from the finished product.

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gamechanger87

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ProvenDeadly said:
Know where he said this?


Also response to those two posts, sure they can delay it again, but 343 is putting a ton of mony into tournaments and such for this game. I don't think they can afford to leave this game broken. Besides, it is 100000000x better for me than t launch.
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=138727444&postcount=278
We DO have dedicated servers.

First off – and I will say this for the next hundred years – SORRY – we are fixing it. It’s getting better slowly today and we expect that trend to continue, but what you’re seeing currently is actually just an element of this complicated problem – we do in fact use dedicated servers for matchmade games, but as an emergency contingency, MCC is designed to fall back to traditional peer-hosted gameplay in the event that there are connectivity issues with the dedicated servers. This can happen for a variety of reasons including intermittent unavailability of dedicated servers, poor ping times to the dedicated server datacenters, or network configuration issues that prevent you from being able to access the dedicated servers. We’re busy getting stuff fixed and improved, and I promise you I will give you a full breakdown of what happened (and it’s multiple compounding things) after we fix it all. And Dan is going to update everyone on the situation and improvements later today.


And sorry for periods of radio silence, we're literally rushing around fixing stuff.
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darthbob

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Oozer3993 said:
The beginning of the E3 2003 trailer actually featured a very different New Mombasa skyline from the finished product.

Ykf5xwO.jpg
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Looks neato, but what the hell is it supposed to be?

They actually repurposed that building as a Forerunner design in the Halo: Origins I animu
 
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hawk2025

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ProvenDeadly said:
I feel like they wouldn't be so optimistic in their tweets/dates if they weren't confident. They would look like even bigger assholes if they did so. Maybe I'm just reading it the wrong way.


This wasn't a situation of total surprise where they had no idea this game was broken.
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I'm not sure it not being a surprise works in their favor.

If they knew the product wouldn't work when it released, they should have let their customers know.
 
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ProvenDeadly

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hawk2025 said:
I'm not sure it not being a surprise works in their favor.

If they knew the product wouldn't work when it released, they should have let their customers know.
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I'm not absolving them of these issues or the fact that they probably knew about them, I would just rather them know about them and have a solution rather than have no idea what's going on.
 
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PooBone

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ProvenDeadly said:
I feel like they wouldn't be so optimistic in their tweets/dates if they weren't confident. They would look like even bigger assholes if they did so. Maybe I'm just reading it the wrong way.


This wasn't a situation of total surprise where they had no idea this game was broken.
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Life lesson here.

They WOULD be so optimistic in their tweets/dates if they think it will get people to buy the game with existing issues AND/OR not refund their copy because of said issues.
 
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BokehKing

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Damn can ya'll pick up the pace here and get to OT2, I hate going to the bottom of page 1 just to hit the last page button and have to see the master chief shaking his ass in front of that kids face


On another note, still no words from Phil? No apologies? All he could do leading up to this game is talk about it, now he is silent
 
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Twin Tails

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Watched the H2A Terminals (on youtube cause Halo Channel is bad), cool backstory about Arbiter.

Also H2A prologue, now we know what Locke's job is.
 
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reddish

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Did they remove penalties for betrayals in Halo 2 or is my memory foggy and they were never there?

Have had multiple teammates kill me to use my power weapons with no -1 kill and no option to boot them even after several betrayals.
 
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Ramirez

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RoKKeR said:
No updates from 343 recently?
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No patch notes til Wed. which I don't understand at all. People are expecting this to fix a lot of issues, and what if it turns out to only make MM as fast as intended, but the party system is still busted?

Frankie has been posting on GAF, but in neither of the Halo threads, some details on the patch would be nice.
 
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ProvenDeadly

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PooBone said:
Life lesson here.

They WOULD be so optimistic in their tweets/dates if they think it will get people to buy the game with existing issues AND/OR not refund their copy because of said issues.
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I totally understand where you are coming from, but these optimistic tweets are coming from respectable people, not MS suits. I don't think they would straight up lie about it.
 
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Chitown B

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BruceLeeRoy said:
Its their own fault. I feel bad for me.
I talked to an acquaintance of mine that is a manager at BB and he said they are getting a lot of returns as well. Terrible first impression for those new to the series.
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It's not their fault if it's MS's servers which it seems to be.
 
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Ramirez

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FyreWulff said:
Halo 4's file browser didn't work until months later. Web share took a while to show up too. Web share worked at H3 launch and file browser worked at Reach launch.
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The game worked tho, no one would give a shit about FB not working at the moment if they could play.
 
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Poodlestrike

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Ramirez said:
No patch notes til Wed. which I don't understand at all. People are expecting this to fix a lot of issues, and what if it turns out to only make MM as fast as intended, but the party system is still busted?

Frankie has been posting on GAF, but in neither of the Halo threads, some details on the patch would be nice.
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I imagine that they don't want to confirm improvements that may or may not pass cert in time.
 
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Rawr Its Ry

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Spent 2 hours trying to find a match last night - nothing

Spent 3 mins trying to find a match before heading out to class - finally got one
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Ramirez

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Poodlestrike said:
I imagine that they don't want to confirm improvements that may or may not pass cert in time.
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The patch is done? Can they take out parts of it or something?

I just want to know if me and my friends can join a party on Wed, find a match and not have to back out after every game.
 
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Cavalier

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devilsadvocat said:
Damn can ya'll pick up the pace here and get to OT2, I hate going to the bottom of page 1 just to hit the last page button and have to see the master chief shaking his ass in front of that kids face


On another note, still no words from Phil? No apologies? All he could do leading up to this game is talk about it, now he is silent
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FyreWulff

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Ramirez said:
The patch is done? Can they take out parts of it or something?

I just want to know if me and my friends can join a party on Wed, find a match and not have to back out after every game.
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Actually yeah some things can get backed out to make cert and push a patch out. Which is probably why they're not mentioning a list yet.
 
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Korosenai

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Got to the end of the mission Keyes on coop legendary when my game crashed..... So of course since the game doesn't save progress my friend and I have to start over from the beginning.
 
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Skullface

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I feel the need to point out how fucking awesome Halo multiplayer is. If it wasn't, no one would ever be spending this amount of time with these bandaid fixes to get 3 games per hour. It's broken as fuck, but when it works it's the best multiplayer experience I've ever had. I've ditched Destiny like a bad habit for the MCC, broken and all.

I understand if no one feels like jumping in here, but how does one change their gamer tag? I have the default I was given when I signed up for gold. I want to try and reinstate m old gamer tag from '04 if I'm allowed, or something similar.
 
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BraXzy

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TheWesker said:
Halo 4 is basically entirely wiped from my memory and I have no idea how.
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You know.. I realised the same thing yesterday. I booted up a few random maps from each game in customs just to familiarise myself and remind myself on them and looking at the H4 list I was thinking.. which one was that? Huh? Oh Haven I remember that. What's this one though? Weird. I swear I played it a fair amount but I guess not.

Skullface said:
I understand if no one feels like jumping in here, but how does one change their gamer tag? I have the default I was given when I signed up for gold. I want to try and reinstate m old gamer tag from '04 if I'm allowed, or something similar.
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If you go to Customise Profile in My Profile, you can Change Gamertag. (It costs £6.49 though)
 
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