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[TrounceX]

Yup. The new patch ruined matchmaking for me...keeps going to players found...and not actually finding players.

My 2nd biggest let down of 2014 after Destiny.

Destiny is a much bigger letdown for me.

For as broken as this game is, it's nowhere close to as bad as how broken Destiny is, at least for me. I simply cannot finish a multiplayer match in Destiny because of disconnects. I've tried probably 25 games and have finished maybe 3 of them. I also get disconnected at the tower constantly too.

Meanwhile I've played in about 250 MCC games. Plus I've had no issues playing the MCC campaigns which are, oh about 10000x better than Destiny.

 

[TRI Mike]

I haven't had any luck finding matches at all yesterday and today... it stays on "Searching for players" forever. It was working perfectly fine on friday though... what a mess.

 

[clav]

I haven't had any luck finding matches at all yesterday and today... it stays on "Searching for players" forever. It was working perfectly fine on friday though... what a mess.

Maybe the reality is no one is playing.

 

[gossi]

I haven't had any luck finding matches at all yesterday and today... it stays on "Searching for players" forever. It was working perfectly fine on friday though... what a mess.

Ditto. It's like the thing went off a cliff.

 

[Welfare]

Maybe the reality is no one is playing.

Halo is the 7th most played game right now on the One, so people still play it.

It has at least 22k going off of BF4stats.com

I wonder if Halo MCC had a much steeper pop drop compared to Halo 4. I bet they only have 50k on at a time.

 

[AHappyPanda]

I haven't had any luck finding matches at all yesterday and today... it stays on "Searching for players" forever. It was working perfectly fine on friday though... what a mess.

Maybe the reality is no one is playing.

Against my better judgment, I re-bought the game after my friend told me it's been working for him really well since the patch.

We partied up and played lots of games together. mostly with no hitch. Had to restart a couple times because the party invite thing went wonky (it would say we're in the same party, when we weren't) But it worked for the most part, cept for uneven teams, but nothing drastic, mostly 5v6 or 5v4 games.

Also it did this weird thing where it kept switching us on and off as party lead, but it kept us together and we never got split up.

Still, not working as it should and even doing 1 reset to get the game to work is 1 too many, but felt good to play.

 

[MAX PAYMENT]

This game makes my Xbox freak out sometimes. Broken party chat, lock ups, and rarely screen artifacts.

Is my Xbox dying?

Seems to only happen in this game.

 

[Sai]

Figured I should ask this here since it's related to the platform: Has anybody here experienced this issue with the Xbox One where, if you shut it off via long press of the home button, it will immediately start itself back up?

Just wondering if this is common, and if there's any way to fix/prevent it.

Cleared Infinity on Legendary, game didn't even recognize that I completed the level—on any difficulty. :/

Is this a known and/or persistent bug?

Went through the mission again and it cleared properly. :/

I think I saved & quit last time, so that probably had something to do with it.

 

[Later Alligator]

team slayer is working perfect for me, looks like i am in the minority. i'm in a game in < 2 mins every time

one thing i found is if i close the game then resume it, match making never works. so i close the app and re-open it. after that works every time

 

[DudeWithNoName]

Halo is the 7th most played game right now on the One, so people still play it.

It has at least 22k going off of BF4stats.com

I wonder if Halo MCC had a much steeper pop drop compared to Halo 4. I bet they only have 50k on at a time.

If Halo wasn't such a streaming shit pile right now, it would be first by a mile.

 

[Sephzilla]

Grabbed Destiny on a sale to play missions with a friend. Decided to try crucibal...

I'd rather play MCC's broken multiplayer. Destiny's multi is so awful

 

[zlatko]

Grabbed Destiny on a sale to play missions with a friend. Decided to try crucibal...

I'd rather play MCC's broken multiplayer. Destiny's multi is so awful

Destiny's multi is rock solid IMO. It's not a "pick up and play" out of the box thing.

It requires a lot of leveling up to get solid weapons to use in the Crucible. Not every weapon is that viable. Three burst still sucks imo. There's a good bevy of hand cannons, A rifles, and now scout rifles that can get you first place.

Plus as you level your character gets access to vital skills and buffs in their development tree to do more work for the team.

It's a MP experience that the more you put into it the more you'll get out of it.


On a MCC note .... haven't got into a match for about a hour.Keep trying. no dice.

 

[Forerunner]

Grabbed Destiny on a sale to play missions with a friend. Decided to try crucibal...

I'd rather play MCC's broken multiplayer. Destiny's multi is so awful

Yeah Destiny's PvP is different...

Not going to say it's bad, I have +500 Crucible matches, however I'd much rather play Halo.

 

[Diablohead]

This game makes my Xbox freak out sometimes. Broken party chat, lock ups, and rarely screen artifacts.

Is my Xbox dying?

Seems to only happen in this game.

Playing the MCC is like playing a homebrew project, it's unstable, effects other apps in strange ways and will lock your console up randomly.

It's terrible, ruined my feelings on halo and microsoft among other things.

 

[zlatko]

Playing the MCC is like playing a homebrew project, it's unstable, effects other apps in strange ways and will lock your console up randomly.

It's terrible, ruined my feelings on halo and microsoft among other things.

I'm just glad Killer Instinct is on XB1 and uses the model it does. Been having a BLAST with this game.

I just finally gave up on getting a match on MCC today. Fuck it. Hopefully H5 beta is solid or else this turd will get traded in for Titanfall and Msoft bucks. :/

 

[aza]

Destiny's multi is rock solid IMO. It's not a "pick up and play" out of the box thing.

It requires a lot of leveling up to get solid weapons to use in the Crucible. Not every weapon is that viable. Three burst still sucks imo. There's a good bevy of hand cannons, A rifles, and now scout rifles that can get you first place.

Plus as you level your character gets access to vital skills and buffs in their development tree to do more work for the team.

It's a MP experience that the more you put into it the more you'll get out of it.


On a MCC note .... haven't got into a match for about a hour.Keep trying. no dice.

For me, this is precisely why I don't like it. I just prefer multiplayer games where everyone is on a leveled playing field from the get go.

 

[buddha0991]

I think what's most odd is how wide and different so many players experiences with this product is. It's not that it's broken for no one or everyone, it's working for some and broken for others and it is broken in so many different ways for different people. It seems like it's almost really like we are beta testing.

 

[Friend of Sonic]

What I shame. I got in on a Black Friday bunderu and I've Halo MCC listed on Craigslist. I decide that if I saw evidence of it working, I'd keep it, otherwise if I get an offer on CL I'll let it go. It seems like a long time for this game to still be having problems.

Should they have launched a multiplayer beta for this in the summer or something? I mean, I don't care if it was Too Many Cooks, they really screwed this one up it seems like.

 

[Booshka]

HCS Cup #1 notable matchup coming up.

CLG vs EG

Gonna link Snakebite because I think he is the best H2A player right now.

http://www.twitch.tv/snakebite

 

[Madness]

What I shame. I got in on a Black Friday bunderu and I've Halo MCC listed on Craigslist. I decide that if I saw evidence of it working, I'd keep it, otherwise if I get an offer on CL I'll let it go. It seems like a long time for this game to still be having problems.

Should they have launched a multiplayer beta for this in the summer or something? I mean, I don't care if it was Too Many Cooks, they really screwed this one up it seems like.

Seeing as how they had to literally do a 16gb day one patch to bring in a lot of multi-player, I doubt they'd have been able to do any kind of beta. This game came in "hot" and as you can see, still had a lot of stuff that needed fixing.

We're now approaching a month, with 4 patches to get things working, and a lot of it still has issues. Sure it's probably an issue of too many cooks, but I'm more inclined to believe it just wasn't enough time. November 11th date set in stone by MS, was known for almost 10 months, and wasn't changed. They thought it wouldn't be a big deal, could fix the issues, but instead they probably only sold a fraction of what they could have.

 

[zlatko]

Welp. No games for who knows how long now. Tried resetting XB1. redoing NAT, etc. No dice.

At least Killer Instinct works. :/

 

[Virdix]

It's a nightmare trying to play MM with even one friend. The amount of times I need to back out and restart the game because we can't connect or one of us isn't showing up on the in game roster is ridiculous.

And then half the time you find a match it fucking crashes. Ugh.

Thank you for this, I've just been ignoring everything about this game after launch, was going to boot it up today to play with a friend. I think ill wait a bit longer.

 

[mcrommert]

It's a nightmare trying to play MM with even one friend. The amount of times I need to back out and restart the game because we can't connect or one of us isn't showing up on the in game roster is ridiculous.

And then half the time you find a match it fucking crashes. Ugh.

Trick

Only play halo 2 and 3...no issues with parties
Halo 2 anniversary is super broken

 

[gossi]

The official Halo tournament is happening at the moment, and the key players are all sat at matchmaking fail screens: https://twitter.com/nexusfandom/status/541723862460018688

What an impressive shambles, Microsoft.

 

[jem0208]

The official Halo tournament is happening at the moment, and the key players are all sat at matchmaking fail screens: https://twitter.com/nexusfandom/status/541723862460018688

What an impressive shambles, Microsoft.

What a surprise.

 

[The Henery]

Thank you for this, I've just been ignoring everything about this game after launch, was going to boot it up today to play with a friend. I think ill wait a bit longer.

FWIW the last patch has brought the game up to a level where it's no longer a big stress to play for me and my friends. Remaining together between games has been resolved for us and mm times in H3 and TS have been < 2 mins. 1 in 5 matches or so, one of us will lag out or a map won't load. Overall the game is in a much more playable state now than its first 3 weeks. It's still not where it should've been day one however.

 

[mmazurkiewicz]

I've found that if i launch the game and try to play championship series, i'll stay stuck searching for players.

If I launch and start at H2A playlist and play one match, and then go to Championship series, I'm able to find games fine.

 

[mhi]

So why haven't they came out with a Double Team playlist yet ?

It would be H1 and H2C, with the least amount of required players so should start fast and with most people searching in pairs, I assume the team imbalance wouldn't occur ?

We need one like yesterday.

 

[zlatko]

I keep getting "Halo: The master Chief needs an update" does getting ready, and fails. Something went wrong.

Anyone else getting this?

 

[RavenHawk]

I keep getting "Halo: The master Chief needs an update" does getting ready, and fails. Something went wrong.

Anyone else getting this?

Yes, but a hard reset forced it to start updating for me.

 

[DarthWalden]

Another update

 

[Ghazi]

New update out. #weback?


Patch notes.

 

[Fracas]

Nearing 4 weeks since launch, let's fucking hope so.

 

[Bgamer90]

Update is a little bit over 1 GB. The only main issue I have now is with team balancing. I can get into games pretty fast (at least for solo matchmaking). Hope this update will fix it.

 

[EchoChamber]

the 4sth update finally live

 

[Welfare]

Yay at random fall damage being removed in CE!

And I better get that fucking Your Joking achievement now.

Also Halo 4 campaign improvements are good. It shouldn't stutter now.

 

[mcrommert]

Umm download error...others are seeing it too

 

[NYYstateofmind]

so all they halo pros are playing a tournament right now and there is a 1 gig update mid match. that wouldnt be so bad/funny, but the people that are hosting the tournament are partnered with 343 LMFAO

 

[jailbird20022]

I've noticed that when playing MCC the snap UI gets really laggy :c

I honestly think that the game and console are clashing with one another.

press the xbox button while searching the UI will lag up a bit and then when I go back I can find a match.

 

[Welfare]

Mine got stuck on Queue.

 

[Nori Chan]

#WeBackv4?

 

[NameGenerated]

Nice notes, is it still 5v5?

 

[Madness]

#WeBackv4?

This is patch 5 I think.

 

[Welfare]

I FINALLY GOT THE YOU'RE JOKING ACHIEVEMENT


THANK YOU

 

[Spasm]

New update out. #weback?


Patch notes.

This is the 2nd update in a row where it absolutely will not prompt for the update until I hard reboot the Xbox. What's going on?

 

[TechOne]

Didn't expect the patch to come out this early. Maybe now I can play with even teams.

 

[WonkyPanda]

I can't seem to force the update

 

[RdN]

New update today is great news. I don't recall ever seeing an update being pushed from the Xbox Live team on a Sunday. All hands on deck indeed.

Let's see how it goes.

 

[darthbob]

Getting to finally play this on Tuesday. Hope this is 'The Patch&#8482;'.

 

[zlatko]

Update is giving me games to join thankfully.

Now if MSoft would just update the XB1 for this strict NAT type... I unfortunately have Centurylink and so manually doing port forwarding with them is not an option. Their website doesn't work on 2 different browsers on 2 different devices I've tried. Can't click anything on it...Broken piece of crap.