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

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Mdot

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Well i just bought an X1 and it sounds like the timing was good for MCC based on some feedback here. See you guys online next week.

Add me: Mdot twenty3
 
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rootbeerafloat

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Matchmaking seems faster but less stable. Teams are created, and then the search will restart with the same group of people, or it'll just freeze when creating teams. Finally got trapped in the post game carnage report. I was able to get into some BTB matches somewhat consistently for the first time though. All Halo 3 and 4, except for one Halo 2 match that everyone quit out of. Really need a wider selection of game specific playlists than what they have planned... I mostly just want to play Halo CE and 2, 4v4 and 8v8. No one is ever going to vote for the older games in TS/BTB once the 4v4 (2v2?) CE playlist arrives.

Blood Gulch and Sidewinder CTF, Headlong 1 bomb, Waterworks multibomb, Ivory Tower and Zanzibar 1 flag... I haven't had the pleasure of revisiting any of those experiences yet.
Sad times, 343. Sad times.
 
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Striker

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rootbeerafloat said:
Blood Gulch and Sidewinder CTF, Headlong 1 bomb, Waterworks multibomb, Ivory Tower and Zanzibar 1 flag... I haven't had the pleasure of revisiting any of those experiences yet.
Sad times, 343. Sad times.
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With an already 4v4 Team Slayer playlist laid out, the Slayer weighting in the Halo 2 and Halo 3 playlists should be extremely low; same for the eventual Halo 1 2v2 playlist. Halo 2 has far better variety for its gametypes than Halo 3, so you should see more things like 3 Plots Turf, 1-flag Zanzibar, Multi-bomb Colossus, etc. I've seen this coming since they sort of dropped interest in objective modes since taking over Reach.
 
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m23

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I was able to find some matches last night, even with a party. Did run into a crash once or twice though. Seems like it's being improved somewhat.
 
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gossi

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Okay, so prepatch this time yesterday I posted my experiences matchmaking BTB, i managed to get a game and it worked.

This lunchtime post patch I haven't been able to get a match, it has been a worse experience for me.
 
VincentMatts

VincentMatts

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Does anyone know why the close captions are always on by default in the Halo channel app? I turn them off and they always go back on after you reopen it
 
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Diablohead

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ambar_hitman said:
So people stopped playing this game, that reduced server load and now its smooth? Or did the patch actually do something?
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The patch helped, it's not the user count.

In-game lag is purely down to who is hosting and their location to yourself.

Sucks that we are nearly in 2015 and still playing high budget games on peer to fucking peer connections.
 
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mike4001_

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Well, it seems that the patch has improved the situation for a number of people.

Should run smoothly within the next 2-3 patches which hopefully will be released weekly.
 
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Diablohead said:
The patch helped, it's not the user count.

In-game lag is purely down to who is hosting and their location to yourself.

Sucks that we are nearly in 2015 and still playing high budget games on peer to fucking peer connections.
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Im having no lag at all (apparently) in most of my matches. I wonder if Im really not playing dedis.
 
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OrangeOak

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I really don't like BR in Halo 3.Feedback is really weak.I never know if my shots connect and it also sounds weak.AR is really great though.
Halo 2 BR is completely different and anniversary version is even better with its meaty sound.
Still getting lag in Halo 4 BTB.I can kill with no problem but there is rubber banding.I am afraid that it will stay that way :/
 
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MysteryM

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OrangeOak said:
I really don't like BR in Halo 3.Feedback is really weak.I never know if my shots connect and it also sounds weak.AR is really great though.
Halo 2 BR is completely different and anniversary version is even better with its meaty sound.
Still getting lag in Halo 4 BTB.I can kill with no problem but there is rubber banding.I am afraid that it will stay that way :/
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I love halo 3 multiplayer at the moment, probably more so than halo 2 classic so far. I'm just finding the sniping is just so much less laggy in halo 3, I've had lots of laggy-ish games on halo 2 classic but halo 3 has been rock solid every time. H2A has also been rock solid for me latency wise.

I'm a big halo fan, we only play 1.5 hours every evening and have done for 11 year so I'm proud of the 11.5k games of halo 2 and 7k games of halo 3 I've played.

Only reason I stopped playing both halo 2 and halo 3 was lag so this is great. I still think that halo 3 clinches it as my favourite due to the tighter controls, although I've had some epic games on halo 2 as well.

Going to install the patch tonight and hope that this is the start we should have had 2 weeks ago, I understand that there are more bugs but I'm glad 343 are targeting the (potentially more complex) multiplayer ones first. Okay yes I'm still annoyed that this was shipped in a terrible state (no amount of "it worked in our unit test\scalability labs" can cover UI bugs and general H4 crashes - given that H2 delivered a decent multiplayer environment 10 years ago) , but happier knowing that 343 are doing all they can to fix it as quick as they can. They need to keep going until this product is perfect. They owe us bad.
 
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Diablohead

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I sold my copy, had enough lol.

I'll treat the £10 loss as a two-week rental price I paid to try it out, sometime next year this will go on sale and if everything is better i'll dip in then.

i'll keep my moaning out of this thread.
 
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klodeckel

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I can find games constantly (H2A playlist)!

Wow ... Fuck that ... The game deserves all the critique it gets currently, but if you have played a 60fps completely lag-free H2A Team BRs 4vs4 50 - 49 match on Lockout for the first time in two weeks ... DAMN THIS IS SO GOOD!!
 
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Smidget

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Still had issues matchmaking this morning with my brother one party two separate XB1 over XBL. Got into one match and then got disconnected after playing that one match... :/
 
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Liamc723

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Well the latest patch has made things far worse for me, 50% of the time the game will fail to load the map on the loading screen.

This is an absolute joke, fuck 343.
 
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Dougald

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So its finally starting to work right, the day after I get access to the Elite:Dangerous gamma? Bloody typical

I suppose I'll give the game one last go at the weekend before I file it away as "to play the campaign in co-op at Christmas"
 
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JDizzv

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Cow said:
After the few games I had tonight, H1 is fun but 4v4 is far too many people on most of the maps
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Okay yea, this makes a ton a sense and I see why 343 initially had Halo CE set as a 2v2 playlist. I never got to play Halo CE MP on the OG Xbox but I've been playing team slayer this morning and after playing on several Halo CE maps, I was left wondering how this game ever got praise as a multiplayer game.

It just doesn't play well with 8 people on a map. I was constantly being betrayed by my teammates own grenades and killed right at spawn since the maps are so small. Definitely a better experience at 2v2.

Overall matchmaking has improved though. However, this game needs to switch to a veto system ASAP. I was sold on, and paid for, 100 maps and I'm consistently only getting the same 5-10 and they're almost always Slayer BRs.
 
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Sai

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Lost my progress twice on Outskirts.

Throughout my playthrough of CE, I never encountered this lost checkpoint glitch. It's annoying. :/
 
Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

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The patch only fixed playing matchmaking by yourself. Its not perfect but it works more consistently.

Playing with friends is impossible. We got into 2 matches in 2 hours of trying. 5 crashes in the meantime. Complete fucking bullshit. Fix this shit already.
 
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Simbo

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Fired up Halo this morning and downloaded the update. Found a 7v7 BTB One ball on Headlong in about 30 seconds. Epic.

Rolled straight into another game with no problems. I backed out of that lobby after the match and instantly found a BIg Team Slayer match on Sandtrap.

Fuck Halo 3 feels weird at the moment. Can't get my aiming right at all.
 
Kssio_Aug

Kssio_Aug

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JDizzv said:
Okay yea, this makes a ton a sense and I see why 343 initially had Halo CE set as a 2v2 playlist. I never got to play Halo CE MP on the OG Xbox but I've been playing team slayer this morning and after playing on several Halo CE maps, I was left wondering how this game ever got praise as a multiplayer game.

It just doesn't play well with 8 people on a map. I was constantly being betrayed by my teammates own grenades and killed right at spawn since the maps are so small. Definitely a better experience at 2v2.

Overall matchmaking has improved though. However, this game needs to switch to a veto system ASAP. I was sold on, and paid for, 100 maps and I'm consistently only getting the same 5-10 and they're almost always Slayer BRs.
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I have some good fun with Halo CE MP, but indeed 4v4 is too much for most of its maps. Sometimes I sapwn right in the midle of the action and get killed right away... Damn I have even spawned near a thrown granade! 2v2 or 3v3 would be much better balanced.


The worst for me is Halo 3. For some reason it seems to me that every weapon is too weak! The granades, seems super nerfed compared to Halo CE and Halo 2! I rarely kill someone in it! lol
 
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ProvenDeadly

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So I have read this forum and a Halo forum I frequent as well as social media and I see a lot of guys saying they actually have seen improvement, which is a good sign.
 
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Omni

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Finally finished Halo 2 solo legendary. Actually, not finally. I only started yesterday.

But it is done, nonetheless. So pretty. It's almost jarring going back to Halo 3 now
 
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