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Halo The Master Chief Collection |OT| Halo Never Died, It Was Just Missing In Action
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I've had a similar experience. The best thing you can do is try to hard reset your xbox. I turn it of and unplug i for a while but I think you can also hold the button for a while.
I only do this if I search for like 20-30 minutes and get nothing. It actually seems to work.
If you're playing solo I think it's safe to say you can get a game with a 2 minute wait at most. Since the last patch my wait times have dropped noticeably.
Still a ways to go but it's getting there
Kibbles
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Was waiting over 30min yesterday after I had one successful game. Even tried different playlists. I just gave up. Still not fixed.
I am not exxagerating. It was OK with the beeps but now I never know if I'm doing damage on a person. You don't aim where they are, you lead them an amount that changes every game depending on connection.
Yes you spawn with a pistol but you need to switch to it first which you can be dead by the time you fire a shot. The grenades are fucking insane, get blown around by other explosions, and you get 4 of them at a time.
It's just problems of a game that was never built for online, so they took a shitty PC port in. I played Halo PC for years. Managing the leading was fine because you had more precision with a mouse but its a shitshow here.
IxmagicmanIx
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Still broken? K still broken.
ffejeromdiks
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Yep I'm done, 3 weeks of this bullshit and I still cant get into games, and in the rare chance that I do there are extreme networking issues.
I tried so hard to give these guys a fair chance to correct themselves but they have just completely and utterly failed. Campaign content is fantastic, didnt have many issues at all, but the MP is an absolute disgrace. I remember a week ago getting into my first h2a match, was SO excited to finally be in a match then not 5 seconds into the game I rubberbanded back 5 feet...this continues the entire length of the game. I can kind of regularly find h2a matches but they ALWAYS end up being unplayable. I suspect it has something to do with H2a's absurd upload spikes.
I feel pretty bad for the artists and talent at 343 and the other countless studios involved, there is a lot of love in this "project" and theres a lot to admire...but its greatest failure is in its own ambition. Put such a bad taste in my mouth that I dont think I'm even going to show up for the halo 5 beta, if they cant fix 10 year old games how in the FUCK are they going to deliver a stable modern game?
I tried so hard to give these guys a fair chance to correct themselves but they have just completely and utterly failed. Campaign content is fantastic, didnt have many issues at all, but the MP is an absolute disgrace. I remember a week ago getting into my first h2a match, was SO excited to finally be in a match then not 5 seconds into the game I rubberbanded back 5 feet...this continues the entire length of the game. I can kind of regularly find h2a matches but they ALWAYS end up being unplayable. I suspect it has something to do with H2a's absurd upload spikes.
I feel pretty bad for the artists and talent at 343 and the other countless studios involved, there is a lot of love in this "project" and theres a lot to admire...but its greatest failure is in its own ambition. Put such a bad taste in my mouth that I dont think I'm even going to show up for the halo 5 beta, if they cant fix 10 year old games how in the FUCK are they going to deliver a stable modern game?
rokkerkory
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Yeah playing the SP now... wow I suck on legendary on halo CE lol
Krappadizzle
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I think this is a fair response and one that many will share.
DragoonKain
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Employee at Gamestop told me on December 4th, there will be free DLC made available for this?
Has anyone here heard, reported that?
Not sure if the employee was full of it.
Has anyone here heard, reported that?
Not sure if the employee was full of it.
Never believe anything gamestop employees say. They don't know anything more than anyone else.
YuriLowell
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buddha0991
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^Spartan Ops?
VincentMatts
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Youre getting patches
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
No, I was in the store and we were talking about it and he just mentioned it.
I told him that I was going to play through the game once without the skulls and once with them and he said all the game's pre-order bonuses will be free on the marketplace for the game on December 4th, so I'll be able to try all of them as much as I want.
ShyGuy0504
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I think that's actually true.
Blackstarhat
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when the multiplayer works its a ton of fun.
buddha0991
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Yea I remember that lol
I forgot all the pre order skulls were gonna be given out for free
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Yeah, that part is true. But that has been known since before release, and it's not exactly DLC.
CreateNowSleepLater
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The real shame is there is a fixed time limit here. If this thing doesn't work perfect by the time the beta hits, it's going to get dropped. MS isn't going to keep pouring resources into a dead dog.
7DollarHagane
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HOW DO YOU RELEASE A GAME IN 2014 THAT CANT DO BASIC MATH?? 8 > 4
Surely creating teams in a lobby of 12 people shouldnt be difficult, right?
Surely creating teams in a lobby of 12 people shouldnt be difficult, right?
HOW DO YOU RELEASE A GAME IN 2014 THAT CANT DO BASIC MATH?? 8 > 4
Surely creating teams in a lobby of 12 people shouldnt be difficult, right?
Yeah, I seriously don't fucking understand how this is even possible in a game with a matchmaking component.
And I'm doubly annoyed that this wasn't fixed in the latest update. Looks like not much will be improved when I fire up the game this next week.
7DollarHagane
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I never in years of playing halo 3 online had it serve up a platter of shit like that one flag CTF match I posted.
Never! And I've put a metric shit-ton of time into that game. The only time you get uneven teams is if somebody drops in the lobby/can't load the map. I really don't understand how such a basic component of a modern multiplayer game can be so broken.
For randoms in Matchmaking, 4v4 Halo CE should only be Objective with 10 second Respawn timers. A coordinated team can push out and manage spawns for Slayer, but a bunch of Randoms have no idea that their movement is affecting your Spawn.
The spawning, lethality and map size makes 4v4 Slayer really messy in CE, unless you are playing with a coordinated, intelligent team. Slayer should probably just be 2v2, or 3v3, a Hardcore 4's playlist weighted 2 to 1 toward Objectives would be nice as well.
it's truly unbelievable
ShyGuy0504
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It's even more unbelievable because Halo 2 pioneered matchmaking and this game is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
If someone had said a year ago that a Halo game would have broken matchmaking nobody would have believed them.
Just got this game from gamefly... SP is really great, but cannot believe how fucking broken the multi is. I thought maybe some people here were exaggerating, but no. It really is a shit show. Are there any other tips or tricks I can do besides making sure my NAT is open (it is) to try and get in to some games?
At this point MS should honest to god start refunding people money or giving free games as a sorry or something (I just gameflyed it so I'm fine, I'll just send it back, but I do feel sorry for those who bought at full price). They definitely should also instruct their customer service reps to not ask a single question if someone wants a refund. This product is fucking broken. If someone wants to return their digital purchase it should take no more than a 5 min phone call to do it.
I really can't believe that a major release, from a AAA publisher, and a first party title with the full support of the console maker is this totally fucked this long after launch.
At this point MS should honest to god start refunding people money or giving free games as a sorry or something (I just gameflyed it so I'm fine, I'll just send it back, but I do feel sorry for those who bought at full price). They definitely should also instruct their customer service reps to not ask a single question if someone wants a refund. This product is fucking broken. If someone wants to return their digital purchase it should take no more than a 5 min phone call to do it.
I really can't believe that a major release, from a AAA publisher, and a first party title with the full support of the console maker is this totally fucked this long after launch.
Bornstellar
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Play campaign until MP is fixed.
Forgot to mention not to Save and Quit levels. So play Campaign, complete levels, or keep them paused until you can complete them. Otherwise you have a chance of your Checkpoint being eaten by the Guardians.
Tell your Xbox to record it and post a link here. Sounds interesting.
i only got two shitty clips that wont really show what i was talking about. I was streaming and twitch would automatically record it and archive.
http://xboxclips.com/KdMgMan/f7bec505-9b16-4049-8ad2-b7065539b860
http://xboxclips.com/KdMgMan/88b7673a-b35b-4107-80af-edcfe01817bc
but basically what happened was the AI replaced my friend and would do it own thing like drive around if my friend wouldn't touch his controller but when he did he would take control of the AI. my friend was at other location doing something but he controlled what the AI was doing at the same time. He also told me that on his screen i wasn't even in his game like if i had been kicked out.
This can happen in Halo CE Anniversary too, happened to me a few times on 360. Basically you suffer a "world split", but the game still networks the button presses.
It's something that can happen due to forcing Halo 1 / Halo 2 to work online.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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I would like to try this.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Gyahhh they really need to put it down to 8 players. It's so annoying to have 8/10 with people constantly joining and leaving so it resets the searching. Takes awhile for it to just force it forward with 4v4 and people are impatient or getting DC'd.
Twin Tails
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wut
The multiplayer has definitely improved as far as finding matches, but it's a crapshoot on the type of match you will get and chances are your game will freeze or error out at some point.
It will probably not be fully fixed until next year. They need to stop putting weekly patches out because they seem to be making more bugs the more they "fix" with very little time to actually test what they are fixing.
It will probably not be fully fixed until next year. They need to stop putting weekly patches out because they seem to be making more bugs the more they "fix" with very little time to actually test what they are fixing.
DontBeThatGuy
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I actually have little issue finding matches now but the balancing is still supremely fucked up. Also, they should probably have a separate H2:A objective playlist because when objective gets voted for, people start jumping ship.
Quick question: I'm getting occasional controller disconnects while playing. The dashboard indicates my battery level is fine ( about 80% powered by two AA batteries the console came with). Is this an issue with the game or the console in general? Halo is the only game I currently play on the One so I've nothing to compare it to.
Have you done the general Controller firmware update, with the usb cable?
Yeah. Did that for the stereo headset adapter. I'll try and resync it to the console/try different batteries. The controller itself isn't switching off (Xbox light stays solid). The game just reports it disconnected. Press A and it's back.
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