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[Random17]

Hmm... 1.4GB is a lot and this will mean that a lot of people won't join matchmaking immediately... so that might making matchmaking harder for the first impressions, definitely. That raises another question actually; what do we consider to be "ideal" matchmaking times? I could find games in Halo 4/Reach in under a minute, MCC takes 4-5 minutes when it works at all.

PLEASE WORK PLEASE

 

[Diablohead]

UPDATE IS OUT.

1.40 GB

How many selfies are in this update, frankie?

 

[ozz ex machina]

Stuck on "getting ready..." for my update.

I AM READY.

 

[Mr. Enigma]

My download went to "queued" at 46%. Wat.

 

[Ryde3]

all praise to the most high! I realllllly hope this works

 

[GringoSuave89]

Your problem wasn't bridging. Your problem was living in the Internet shithole of the world.

Harsh

Spoiler

but not false. Aussies are screwed over in the online gaming department.

 

[DopeyFish]

My download went to "queued" at 46%. Wat.

mine did the same at 24

and hasn't moved since i said resume installation ahhhh

 

[Smell E. Butz]

Holy hell this is downloading at a snail's pace.

edit: nvm, just jumped from 4% to 24%.

 

[ozz ex machina]

Okay, something "went wrong" with my attempted update.

Anyone else?

 

[DopeyFish]

Holy hell this is downloading at a snail's pace.

edit: nvm, just jumped from 4% to 24%.

im downloading at 49 B/s

see you guys in a few years

 

[SFenton]

How do I force it? Booting it just takes me to main menu.

 

[DopeyFish]

How do I force it? Booting it just takes me to main menu.

force turn off your xbox by holding the power button for 4 seconds

then turn on and start the game

 

[matrixman92]

cant find a halo 3 match, its all over

 

[SFenton]

force turn off your xbox by holding the power button for 4 seconds

then turn on and start the game

Thanks, appreciate it.

 

[BigTnaples]

So finally got and played a bit. Freaking loving what I have played so far, just a couple missions of CEA and a couple of H2. Fantastic so far, and the instant switch is so nice.


One complaint so far is the loading in Halo 2, curious as to why it doesn't load while the blur cinematics are playing.

 

[-tetsuo-]

Update is live? Welp it is judgement day.

 

[jem0208]

cant find a halo 3 match, its all over

Hardly anyone will have the patch yet. Give it some time for people to download it.

 

[Smell E. Butz]

Uhh, mine just disappeared from the download queue. Does that mean it's done? This shit is confusing.

 

[Cru]

6 v 4

 

[matrixman92]

Hardly anyone will have the patch yet. Give it some time for people to download it.

I was joking...and I got a halo 3 match a few seconds after posting

 

[Random17]

6 v 4

But you found a game, yes?! How many games have you found so far in the last week?

 

[Smell E. Butz]

6 v 4

Ahahahaha, wow.

 

[Sanjuro]

Aww yeah time to update this bitch!
If I am I must have never added you back then. What's your gt?

Sanjuro Tsubaki

 

[Prinz Eugn]

Have to call bullshit from first hand experience mate, ranked objective playlist at 50 for years was a haven to host cheating and booting. Also remember in the lobby how your yellow boxes would disappear and then magically all fill up and the game would start or the search would take a long time?...yep bridging host at its finest before the game even started. How about so many quitters? A large percentage of quitters was in fact host booting at work. Don't kid yourself at high levels in almost any playlist it was rampant, not so much at launch but the longer Halo 3 was out the worse it got. Also you couldn't bridge host yourself in 3 but could in 2. How about bought accounts? How about boosted accounts? How about DDOS? I could keep going.

How many players bridged host to stop the cheaters? Therefore cheating themselves and cheating players/teams like me out of any chance to get Aussie host.

Uh... no.

Out of a couple thousand games of Halo 3, maybe a handful of times I remember seeing something that was probably cheating and not run of the mill connection issues. Deranking was probably the most irritating exploit-ish thing in that game.

 

[Vinc]

No difference after patch for me. Says players found and hangs on that instead of searching. Matchmaking is still broken, have been waiting on "PLAYERS FOUND" for about 10 minutes.

Edit: As a huge Halo fan, it pains me to say it, but I'm on the verge of selling this and not paying any attention to Halo 5.

 

[Malo]

I found a 5v5 game instantly

 

[Altered Juice]

6 v 4

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Your problem wasn't bridging. Your problem was living in the Internet shithole of the world.

The interesting part was with a team of 4 Aussies I could pull host over USA teams. Sure Australia has some backwards ass Internet but I was on cable at that time, before it was really popular here and had great stability and speeds.

Sucks I can't get Fibre where I'm at, yet...

 

[Enordash]

cant find a halo 3 match, its all over

Will we have to wait until a bunch of people download the patch? I just found a game AND connected with a friend, lol.

 

[Smell E. Butz]

No difference after patch for me. Says players found and hangs on that instead of searching. Matchmaking is still broken, have been waiting on "PLAYERS FOUND" for about 10 minutes.

Same here.

 

[BrikHog]

6 v 4

pls no...pls.

 

[matrixman92]

ooop...Got disconnected from the match right as my first Halo 3 match was starting

 

[Ferny]

No difference after patch for me. Says players found and hangs on that instead of searching. Matchmaking is still broken, have been waiting on "PLAYERS FOUND" for about 10 minutes.

You realize EVERYONE is/has to download this patch right? Give it more than 10 minutes why don't ya...

 

[ShogunX]

Gears dethroned Halo 2, because up until Gears, Halo 2 was still really the only good competitive MP option on the 360, lol.

Call of Duty 2 was great online and had a soild community as well as tournaments, ladders and a pretty big forum.

 

[watership]

Patching!

 

[Vinc]

This is garbage.

 

[Ballistik]

6 v 4

Well does it kick people the second the patch went live? Or were you maybe playing with someone who hasn't received the patch and somehow that affects it? My last straw of hope.

 

[Mr. Enigma]

My patch download completely stopped at 46%. It's taken 5 minutes for it to go up to 47%.

 

[Diablohead]

6 v 4

Spoiler

sadface

Can current players still play or do they get kicked to update? might effect things.

 

[Vinc]

You realize EVERYONE is/has to download this patch right? Give it more than 10 minutes why don't ya...

Why does it say "players found" on the left and hangs there with nobody appearing in my party on the right, if that's the case? I doubt I'm the only person with relatively fast internet on here.

 

[EvB]

Mine has downloaded, letsa go!

1400mb, but total game size is now 58gb

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Hopefully good impressions will come soon.

 

[ozz ex machina]

Why does it say "players found" on the left and hangs there with nobody appearing in my party on the right, if that's the case? I doubt I'm the only person with relatively fast internet on here.

I have 80meg down wired to my xbox...Download is taking forever.

 

[Ramirez]

Call of Duty 2 was great online and had a soild community as well as tournaments, ladders and a pretty big forum.

Maybe, but I don't think CoD 2 was any where near as popular as Halo 2 on the 360.

 

[Etnos]

cant find a halo 3 match, its all over

Give it a few hours probably most people haven't download it yet

 

[Cru]

But you found a game, yes?! How many games have you found so far in the last week?

All good. It was even when the game started. Fastest I've ever found a game. H2A playlist.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

All good. It was even when the game started. Fastest I've ever found a game. H2A playlist.

Thank god!

 

[Vinc]

On the plus side, they appear to have fixed the situation where you don't get the grey "searching" boxes on the right.

 

[tmac456]

lol people freaking out after patch being live for like 25 mins....

 

[BokehKing]

6 v 4

Hahaha give the rest of the world time to download it


If it's still doing that tomorrow, throw it in the bushes