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[Ray Wonder]

First match, 4v4. Second 5v5. Both found within a minute.

 

[AHappyPanda]

Anyone have any positive improvements in terms of searching with a party?

 

[RdN]

Going to try to play with a party. Wish me luck, GAF.

 

[Nialrot]

I'm not quite sure I understand what this means:



Does that mean that when a mm game is over, you have to search for a new lobby? Or does that mean the players who stick around get to select a new playlist?

Yea I don't know how that is consistent with previous Halos because it makes you pick the playlist over again. In H3, for example, you finish the game and your still in the lobby with everyone and you join together or leave. Odd they would change that...

 

[ProvenDeadly]

So now "Joining Seesion" and "Retrieving player info" is a thing. Also when I found 8 players it almost immediately found the game, instead of waiting to fill up

 

[Sai]

I don't recall taking down the Scarab in The Storm being this annoying. Rather, I remember it being quite easy.

Played a round of BTB Multibomb on H2 Coag.

All of my banshee kills counted as flamethrower kills. :|

Uh... Isn't that a vehicle kill medal on the right? Not sure about the one on the left.

 

[ryan299]

My friend just got the system on black friday and he's pissed that we can't party up for matchmaking. I can't believe this shit is still broken.

 

[zma1013]

My friend just got the system on black friday and he's pissed that we can't party up for matchmaking. I can't believe this shit is still broken.

You didn't warn your friend about it? I was in a similar situation with a friend of mine and I flat out told him not to buy it.

 

[Diablohead]

you know, thinking about it a majority of unbalanced games is because someone votes non BR starts, people quit before they give it a chance.

Same with bomb

Same with 3 plots

Gametypes like those should be in their own playlist, keep slayer as a pure shoot and kill listing.

 

[Death Metalist]

Anybody got hit with a 103MB update? I was in the middle of "The Arbiter" level - H2:A on legendary. Got a terminal and then immediately it told me that MCC needs an update which ended up with me loosing my progress lol *facepalm*

EDIT: Looking at the previous page, looks like you guys got it aswell.

 

[Diablohead]

Anybody got hit with a 103MB update? I was in the middle of "The Arbiter" level - H2:A on legendary. Got a terminal and then immediately it told me that MCC needs an update which ended up with me loosing my progress lol *facepalm*

Another design flaw with the MCC, sadly.

 

[Ray Wonder]

Third match, 5v5. This is the best it's been for me. I've never even come close to having three even games in a row. Let alone a game without pulling my hair out.

 

[Ramirez]

I don't recall taking down the Scarab in The Storm being this annoying. Rather, I remember it being quite easy.

Take the elevators up and just jump on it, I did this on Legendary without breaking it's legs or killing enemies on the Scarab, lol.

 

[cardsbasebal]

So far after the update, I'm not finding games and I was one of the lucky few that had little problems after the last update ... I'm not going to base a conclusion on it just yet as not everyone has the update yet

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Played a round of BTB Multibomb on H2 Coag.

All of my banshee kills counted as flamethrower kills. :|

The right medal in that picture is the Vehicle Kill medal and the left medal is the Avenger medal (kill someone who recently killed a teammate). The Incineration medal (for killing with a Flamethrower or Flame Grenade) is a starburst with a flaming skull on top (and only appears in Halo 3).

Also, the weapon on the Vehicle Kill medal is a Warthog's chaingun, not a flamethrower.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

3 crashes within the past 10-15 mins. 3. 2 within 5 minutes, one was before the match I got.

Why does it have to be Halo? ;'[

you know, thinking about it a majority of unbalanced games is because someone votes non BR starts, people quit before they give it a chance.

Same with bomb

Same with 3 plots

Gametypes like those should be in their own playlist, keep slayer as a pure shoot and kill listing.

Custom Games Browser

 

[RdN]

First try: Party with 2 people. Stuck on searching for 5 minutes. Tried to stop the matchmaking by pressing B to return, game froze and threw me back to the dashboard.

Congrats, 343i.

 

[WonkyPanda]

Haven't had a chance to test yet, but posts here and on r/Halo look very, very promising.

 

[btrboyev]

Looks like this update improved things pretty well. Next one sounds like it will come quicker and improve things even more.

 

[The Jackdog]

so i got three games in a row. perfect.

then one game got stuck in a loading screen. went to game over, listed no players.

now i cant find anything, in any playlist. unplugged the thing, reset my mac address on xbox, power cycled modem and router.

nothing.

i dont get it.

 

[zma1013]

Anybody got hit with a 103MB update? I was in the middle of "The Arbiter" level - H2:A on legendary. Got a terminal and then immediately it told me that MCC needs an update which ended up with me loosing my progress lol *facepalm*

EDIT: Looking at the previous page, looks like you guys got it aswell.

Jokes on you, even when you do finally complete it, you got a chance it won't even register the level as ever being played.

 

[Cow]

This update has just made things worse for me. Haven't found a game since the update... What is going on?

 

[Nialrot]

so i got three games in a row. perfect.

then one game got stuck in a loading screen. went to game over, listed no players.

now i cant find anything, in any playlist. unplugged the thing, reset my mac address on xbox, power cycled modem and router.

nothing.

i dont get it.

Same exact thing happened to me as well. Games were popping up quicker right after the update but one crash and it's just stuck on searching for players...

 

[RowdyReverb]

This update has just made things worse for me. Haven't found a game since the update... What is going on?

I think a big chunk of the population is presently un-patched and incompatible or are waiting on the download. Try again later

 

[Friend of Sonic]

Just taking a quick browse, this shit is still broken?

Oh, lord.

 

[TechOne]

My game keeps freezing when I back out of matchmaking with a party. Anyone having this issue?

 

[ryan299]

You didn't warn your friend about it? I was in a similar situation with a friend of mine and I flat out told him not to buy it.

Oh he's known its broken for a while bu he was like by the time I get one it will be fixed and I just laughed. I haven't played this game in a week or two so I figured it be more solid by now.

 

[Cow]

My game keeps freezing when I back out of matchmaking with a party. Anyone having this issue?

It's freezing when I back out without a party. The background goes black and the game crashes.

 

[RdN]

Searching for a match, black screen, full crash, back to the dashboard.

 

[RowdyReverb]

It's freezing when I back out without a party. The background goes black and the game crashes.

Literally just got the same bug. Weird. Backed out of a game search and got a black background. No crash though, just no background.

 

[ProvenDeadly]

This black background thing is widespread



This game is a joke

 

[Sai]

Newest update's causing black screens 'n crashes? Yikes.

Take the elevators up and just jump on it, I did this on Legendary without breaking it's legs or killing enemies on the Scarab, lol.

Forgot about the elevator. lol

But still, even doing it the "normal" way didn't take this long. Maybe I just wasn't skirting it at an ideal distance.

 

[The Jackdog]

Same exact thing happened to me as well. Games were popping up quicker right after the update but one crash and it's just stuck on searching for players...

we were so close.

343 is bale in this clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Glnz2buVU

but i being poor, only want to play halo.
i spread halo under your feet.

bale'd

 

[JaggedSac]

For fuck sake 343.

IF NumPlayers.ToString.Contains(0,2,4,6,8) AND NumPlayers IsNot 0
STAR GAME
ELSE
SEARCH FOR PLAYERS
END IF

And MOD that bitch don't use a string

 

[VinFTW]

https://twitter.com/chespace/status/540316296810749952

 

[Sephzilla]

And MOD that bitch don't use a string

Fine fixed

 

[RowdyReverb]

https://twitter.com/chespace/status/540316296810749952

Thanks. Game has been acting strange and I've been having 0 luck in MM for the past 10-15 min

 

[The Jackdog]

https://twitter.com/chespace/status/540316296810749952

welp, just did a hard restart.

lets find out.

 

[Sephzilla]

https://twitter.com/chespace/status/540316296810749952

They should roll out server side updates before or alongside client updates IMHO

 

[JaggedSac]

Fine fixed

Nah man, NumPlayers % 2 == 0

 

[RowdyReverb]

They should roll out server side updates before or alongside client updates IMHO

Is. And just kick everyone off after their current game finishes and give them a "time to update" pop-up.

Just got the black background again btw. Seems to happen inconsistently after leaving matchmaking. I'll let it slide if the patch ends up working though. Hard to tell right now because of server weirdness I assume.

 

[Sephzilla]

Nah man, NumPlayers % 2 == 0

You weren't the only person to mention that lol

 

[Ray Wonder]

Ok, last time I'll post, but fourth match is a go with 5v5. I'm tempted to call off of work from how lucky I feel that this is working. I don't want to quit. I feel like if I do, it'll be back to it's old self.

EDIT: Wow, I'm reading these comments. Maybe I am just getting lucky.

 

[JaggedSac]

You weren't the only person to mention that lol

Really? Lol, I thought I was almost caught up with the thread when I posted

 

[Cru]

Whatever they did makes it feel like launch night. Searching for players...

 

[RdN]

Welp.. No dice.

Tried for more than half an hour with a couple of people, had 3 crashes, lot's of searching and no matches found.

343i is pathetic.

 

[The Jackdog]

after hard reboot post "server side update"

black screen, stuck on searching now, was stuck on searching for all playlists.

black screen is new is that a new feature to let me know to give up hope

 

[augmental]

Anybody got hit with a 103MB update? I was in the middle of "The Arbiter" level - H2:A on legendary. Got a terminal and then immediately it told me that MCC needs an update which ended up with me loosing my progress lol *facepalm*

EDIT: Looking at the previous page, looks like you guys got it aswell.

What does it show as the total game install size after the update? I'm still showing 59.1 GB. I think I might need to turn 'Instant On' off if I'm not going to be able to tell that I am getting an update. I'm not sure if Sunset Overdrive updated either.

 

[victimroyalty]

Kay well more broken then before for me. Just searches and searches. Ah, this generation is lovely.

 

[RowdyReverb]

after hard reboot post "server side update"

black screen, stuck on searching now, was stuck on searching for all playlists.

black screen is new is that a new feature to let me know to give up hope

I think there is wonky stuff going on with both client and server updates rolling out at once. I'm hoping it will be more smooth tomorrow.