Point still stands that while a typical person can do this, it essentially boils down to having to do MANUAL matchmaking yourself outside of the actual game. I still can't justify why Bungie designed the game this way.
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Point still stands that while a typical person can do this, it essentially boils down to having to do MANUAL matchmaking yourself outside of the actual game. I still can't justify why Bungie designed the game this way.
Naked Lunch
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Friends should never be split up in matchmaking. This is basic stuff here. Something is majorly wrong. Played for about 2 hours last night with 2 different friends. We managed to get into about 10 different big team battle games:
- We got split up in 9 of the 10 games. This is completely unacceptable and defeats the purpose of matchmaking.
- In every game that we saw same screen guests, they were split up. People playing on the same TV are being put on different teams.
- If you ever hit B to back out of matchmaking to re-search, it almost never finds a match. You have to go back to the dashboard and quit/relaunch the game.
- Halo CE is far more laggy and the hit dectection was far worse than before the patch. We got into about 5 Halo CE matches. You can sometimes die in CE now by just picking up a weapon. Hilarious but... Something got royally screwed up there.
Yeah, its going to be a while before this gets fixed.
- We got split up in 9 of the 10 games. This is completely unacceptable and defeats the purpose of matchmaking.
- In every game that we saw same screen guests, they were split up. People playing on the same TV are being put on different teams.
- If you ever hit B to back out of matchmaking to re-search, it almost never finds a match. You have to go back to the dashboard and quit/relaunch the game.
- Halo CE is far more laggy and the hit dectection was far worse than before the patch. We got into about 5 Halo CE matches. You can sometimes die in CE now by just picking up a weapon. Hilarious but... Something got royally screwed up there.
Yeah, its going to be a while before this gets fixed.
UND3RxOATH
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And it did it again! Life is awesome!
Diablohead
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When I was matchmaking and getting stuck on players found, the only fix for me was to close and reload the game completely, this seemed to help for a few games until it would eventually stick on players found again.
Revolutionary
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Welp, refund request fell through. The CSR assured me things will "be worked out within 24 hours".
Right..
Right..
Kssio_Aug
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I believe the servers are with problems now. Im getting this issue as well, and am reading more reports about it in the last couple hours.
Dr Stabbingworth
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Noticed the same problem with ce. No indication that I'm being shot with the pistol and phantom grenades with no sound killing me.
Enordash
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Same here. This is frustrating to no end. When I'm playing with friends, most of them just quit for the night when a full game reboot is recommended.
unless you're in customs, you're not host.
Have you read anything that has come out in other threads? Frankie even said that the MM uses P2P when the servers are having trouble. Many people are having P2P matches outside of custom games and it is pretty easy to tell the differences.
how are you telling the difference for sure?
Juke Joint Jezebel
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What is it with asshurt teams quitting when the other team has a significant lead? Some people have no concept of good sportsmanship and not being a sore-ass loser these days. And with the frustration of some people actually being able to get into games, you'd think they'd stay and make the most of the match for themselves, and the other team. Been a few times now where an entire team I'm playing against has just outright quit, leaving one poor sod to face an entire team alone, and vice versa. I've been on both ends of it.
Mostly you can tell by others lagging versus you but it's easier to tell when you aren't the host.
If the game's main issues aren't fixed by Black Friday then this will be more of a flop/disappointment than it already is.
Might sound crazy but I think the only appropriate way they could say "sorry" about this if the main issues still don't get fixed by Black Friday is by giving every person who bought the game in November a few free months of XBL and then making the game free to play on XBL Gold.
The latter would continue on making Halo MCC a system seller even with its terrible launch, especially when the issues get fixed obviously (well, that is if they ever do).
Might sound crazy but I think the only appropriate way they could say "sorry" about this if the main issues still don't get fixed by Black Friday is by giving every person who bought the game in November a few free months of XBL and then making the game free to play on XBL Gold.
The latter would continue on making Halo MCC a system seller even with its terrible launch, especially when the issues get fixed obviously (well, that is if they ever do).
Play all these Halo games... EXACTLY as you remember them.
Dee Dah Dave
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As compensation scrap the Halo 5 Beta (probably a broken mess anyway!) and give us the Crackdown 3 Alpha instead 
As compensation scrap the Halo 5 Beta (probably a broken mess anyway!) and give us the Crackdown 3 Alpha instead
huh? have you seen the gameplay from H5?
AHappyPanda
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The one with the super overpowered sword complete with super lunge and increased movement speed? (because that's what the sword truly needed...) Or the SMGs that are absolute death dealers? Or the one-hit kill flying ground pound?
Yeah. But hey, it'll maybe work.
Enordash
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This feels a bit overblown, lol, but these things aren't broken in the same sense. This beta is supposed to reveal all the unbalanced nonsense after all.
Diablohead
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Is it actually in the map listings for that? I have never seen it online either.
With the way matchmaking works right now I will now probably get 3 v 3 on that map tonight when I play.
VisceralBowl
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Me. A lot. I hate that map for 5v5.
AHappyPanda
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Not broken in the same sense no.
I'm just flabbergasted they need a beta to see what's unbalanced even just up to this point. I took 5 minutes watching gameplay videos and went "wow, that sword is OP as fuck." "he's killing people with SMGs in 1/2 - 3/4 clips?" "wow, that ground pound looks easy to nail"
Sword isn't any more powerful than the regular sword. It's always been one hit and lunge. And it's Midship, which always had a sword in the middle. So.....?
I didn't see anyone using SMG's in the video I watched. DMR/BR all the way.
They are still working out the abilities, but there will always be pro settings.
Brolic Gaoler
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Diablohead
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Halo 5's new sword looks like it has the stats of the flood from 4, which gave them fast movement speed and god like lunges.
AHappyPanda
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The video I watched, the lunge very, very obviously has a much larger range and reach, it was absurd. And it had increased movement speed. The very, very last weapon in Halo that ever needed a buff was the sword, so when they take steps to buff it, it seems completely non-sensical to me. EDIT: And I don't care that it's on the map, it's that they fucking took time to make it more powerful. Who the hell thinks this is a good idea?
Watch more videos, you will see the SMGs.
If you count being put into a BTB game from the H2A MM hopper, then yes, you can get stuck playing Gungoose CTF if you are in the H2a playlist.
H2A, 3 and 4 work fine for me. CEA is super laggy with the same co-op partner though :/
halfway through this and the guy is rocking it without touching an SMG. However SMG/AR have always been beasts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfRg4Oqgq94
For Midship, there's gonna be a sword. Unless maybe they take it out for pro. Honestly I don't really care. Things I've read make it seem like the sword will be used sparingly.
Alright then. I don't remember it in 4, but I didn't see it much there nor did I like 4 much.
peppermints
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Anyone try to get a refund at a retail store? Specifically, Target?
Jessie.Bristol
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Heh, nope. I have yet to play that map.
I always have my console in Energy Saver if I am going to play Multiplayer and Instant On if I am playing a Single Player game. For some reason I get Open NAT with Energy Saver and Moderate with Instant On.
hard power off disconnects from all network activity and clears the cache. You'll get a fresh connection to your router if you do this.
is it listed in the maps for that list? Seems like it would be a BTB map.
That must be the reason then, because we're starting from the first and working our way through. We've been flipping coins over facetime to determine who hosts and who lags.
Tonight I'm going to suggest we just start from 2.
Poodlestrike
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Halo 5's new sword looks like it has the stats of the flood from 4, which gave them fast movement speed and god like lunges.
That's not the new sword. The old sword is still in, that's what they're calling a Legendary weapon. Presumably it's map-specific.
Yup, you can check where it says "View maps in this playlist".
Huh, weird, no idea why it's never came up for me then!
No. Just like you wouldn't if you played on a friend's game.
But again if you're worried about that, why are you returning the game? I just don't get it. Patience, people.
CEA has bad netcode for co-op and always has. I doubt they fixed it.
Wait.. what? So I bought the game.. paid 60 bucks for it and you suggest I get one month worth of Gold added to my subscription and yet anyone else who did not buy it gets the 60 dollar game for free?
What am I missing?
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