Emperor Bohe
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This game is still a blast, shame about the population dropping. Hopefully it's GwG at some point.
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bobs...onGaf
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Would love for this to be a GWG - would boost the population and I wouldn't have to disk swap any more.
Only problem is - I imagine that Microsoft won't want to hamper the halo 5 population
Blergh, this game is so buggy. Never in my life have I played a game this buggy. I bet glitchier and worse games have been released but I guess I lucked out or am super selective as out of the multiple hundreds of games I've played across NES, SNES, Playstation 1, Playstation 2, N64, Wii, Gamecube, 360, XB1, iOS, Windows Phone, Gameboy, DS, 3DS, and PC (that covers every platform I've ever gamed on) I've never played something as buggy as Master Chief Collection.
So the other day I couldn't continue my Halo 4 legendary solo run because after reaching the sniper alley in Reclaimer, any attempt to load the save resulted in the game freezing and crashing.
So I started Reclaimer from the beginning and I'm close to the sniper alley again, but now my Mammoth is off the gosh darned map and is flying in mid-air. Cortana gives her usual definition of rampancy and then bam the Mammoth disappears and I fall to my death. Reloading my save doesn't help. It just loads me on the mid-air Mammoth again.
I'll have to start Reclaimer again....
So the other day I couldn't continue my Halo 4 legendary solo run because after reaching the sniper alley in Reclaimer, any attempt to load the save resulted in the game freezing and crashing.
So I started Reclaimer from the beginning and I'm close to the sniper alley again, but now my Mammoth is off the gosh darned map and is flying in mid-air. Cortana gives her usual definition of rampancy and then bam the Mammoth disappears and I fall to my death. Reloading my save doesn't help. It just loads me on the mid-air Mammoth again.
I'll have to start Reclaimer again....
Reclaimer was that buggy in its original form on the 360, so it's really not the MCC's fault
Reclaimer was that buggy in its original form on the 360, so it's really not the MCC's fault
Heh, well the good thing is that reaching the sniper alley is so incredibly easy, even on legendary. I am not kidding, I'm barely lifting a finger. It's like a nice reward for going through all the difficult Covenant/Promethean encounters in the earlier parts of the game.
1st sequence on the Mammoth: stay inside, don't attack Covenant, Mammoth will just run past them
2nd sequence, getting target designator: Drive quickly to target designator, pick it up, destroy Phantom, then drive back
3rd sequence, banshees attacking Mammoth: Stay inside and don't do anything, Mammoth will drive past
4th sequence, getting past the blue shielded wall: Glitch past the wall using the Warthog trick from Halo Reach
5th sequence, attacking Ghosts and Wraiths: Drive the Gauss Gun Warthog while an ally marine mans the Gauss Gun turret... Then you can literally drive around for 5-10 minutes doing nothing other than let the marine kill Ghosts and Wraiths
6th sequence, boarding the Lich: Use the jet pack to sneak by effortlessly into the back of the gunfight, and go into the Lich without fighting anyone
7th sequence, destroying the Lich: Super easy if you pick up a Plasma Cannon turret. There are only 8-10 enemies here.
So... I'll give it another go tonight when I come home from work.
You can also skip killing the enemies around the Lich entirely. The two ways I've seen is waiting for the Lich to stop above the rocks and jet packing on, and the other I've seen is jumping to the far cliffs and jumping into the Lich from the top almost immediately as it spawns.
Glitchiest level definitely comes with benefits for speedrunners. You can also avoid sniper alley by glitching through the back of its geometry, and skip the final shield by jet packing into the cliffs and skipping the generators to go for the final target designator.
Also, for pure fun you can arrest your momentum enough so that you can survive the drop to the bottom of the room where Cortana disables the cannons. Not much to do down there but you turn invisible except for your Forerunner weapons glowing like lightsabers.
LMAO
Well I left home to visit my brother and the achievement popped on his XB1. Woot.
Anyhow, been playing Spartan Ops and that is surprisingly fun. Helps that you get unlimited lives.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
wrong thread.
I think that's a downside, insofar as there's no penalty for dying/the difficulty is subsequently ramped up to brutal levels, especially for solo.
People were always going to be upset with Spartan Ops because it wasn't Firefight, but I think it still needed some additional metagame stuff (even if it was just completing for highest score) to work with its more arcadey presentation.
Someone needs Kinect.
Emperor Bohe
Member
This game needs a good ol' holiday boost. Still having tons of fun playing ranked Halo 2 classic.
Edit: they gotta get rid of the Halo CE 4v4 playlist, and merge the HCS one into the H2A playlist since esports will play Halo 5 now. Don't spread the player base to thin...
Edit: they gotta get rid of the Halo CE 4v4 playlist, and merge the HCS one into the H2A playlist since esports will play Halo 5 now. Don't spread the player base to thin...
Yeah the HCS playlist is kinda' redundant now.
The Real Napsta
Member
Has an old Halo game ever gotten a playlist update after the next one comes out?
Emperor Bohe
Member
Did the Halo 3 playlist update happen after Reach or right before Reach came out?
343 cleaned up Reach's playlists before Halo 4. Dunno about anything done to Halo 4 before MCC or Halo 5.
If only they merged Super Slayer as the default instead of letting the community vote. That was dumb.
Well, I think they really should have just given up on the TU/non-TU split at that point and just combined them together, but yeah.
Right? Gah. At least they didn't take away the Infection playlist.
It's cool to see the little boost Reach got once it came to the One.
The Real Napsta
Member
I'm asking about after, not before.
tattooed_dwarf
Member
Am I imaging things or were we supposed to get Reach free when it landed in BC?
Nah. BC either lands things on your XO when you have it digitally, or you have to pop in the disc. It's not free.
tattooed_dwarf
Member
Oh, thanks. Shame I gave my copy away years ago.
The Real Napsta
Member
It was free on XBL some time this year.
Dr. Feel Good
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So a year ago I really wanted to get this game with an Xbox One so I could finally play the original Halo on Live. With all the fucked up release I ended up backing out. I recently moved in with my buddy who has the game and have been playing online. I need to know:]
Is there any way for me to play Blood Gulch CTF in Halo 1 outside of this shitty match making luck of the draw??
There's no really good way to play the original Halo maps and I either hate the other Halo games or never played them.
Is there any way for me to play Blood Gulch CTF in Halo 1 outside of this shitty match making luck of the draw??
There's no really good way to play the original Halo maps and I either hate the other Halo games or never played them.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Um, custom games?
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
I don't have any friends that play. Can you use Custom Games to find strangers?
So I got an Xbox One MCC bundle for Christmas and I was curious if I should sell the MCC code and put it towards Halo 5. I am a bit bummed reading that the online community is pretty sparse. Will I still have an enjoyable time online? I mostly want to keep it for the online MP as I have pretty much played through all the Halo games already with the exception of Halo 5 of course.
Fata1moose
Banned
Edit: Wrong thread.
Thanks!
gamerguy2002
Member
So is this game still getting patched and updated or has 343 sunsetted it?
The last patch was on 13th October and since then it has been death silence. I wrote Frankie specific issues I had with the game and he said he would forward it to the team. That was roughly a month ago.
Frankie assured us, that they have a dedicated team working on Halo MCC post Halo 5 launch, but they are sure taking their time with doing anything. Guess the support is dead by now.
Blue Ninja
Member
The game still hasn't unlocked the ODST Audio Log achievement, even though I found 'em all. It's been over six months now. :lol
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
Anyone? I just want to play CTF Blood Gulch with 16 people without the luck of the shitty match making draw.
I guess I don't really get what you are asking here. You can either find 15 friends and set up a custom game of CTF Blood Gulch or go into matchmaking and hope you get that map and gametype and don't get horrible teammates. Are you asking if there is some other way to do it besides those two ways?Anyone? I just want to play CTF Blood Gulch with 16 people without the luck of the shitty match making draw.
He's asking if there's a custom games browser (nope) or a way to toggle matchmaking to find map/gametype combinations (nope).
Ah okay. As someone who has played Halo since Halo CE, I was so used to those things not being available, I didn't even think of them! Yeah, sorry man. You are out of luck.
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
Basically yes. The odds of getting that game type are basically nothing in match making. How the hell do I find 15 friends? This game is so shitty.
The Real Napsta
Member
Is your first online halo game?
Logged into TrueAchievements.com and had a message waiting for me:
After exactly 220 days, the achievement finally popped.
Now, if only the Killjoy achievement would finally pop, because it still says 9% while I have 254 Killjoys.
599/600 achievements.
Edit: I wrote Stinkles yesterday about it. Coincidence or based Stinkles?
After exactly 220 days, the achievement finally popped.
Now, if only the Killjoy achievement would finally pop, because it still says 9% while I have 254 Killjoys.
599/600 achievements.
Edit: I wrote Stinkles yesterday about it. Coincidence or based Stinkles?
Apparently they fucked up the graphics in their latest patches. Shadow draw distance, bloom and some FX are messed up.
Why is this not surprising? This game will never work properly. So much promised. So little delivered.
I don't think I've ever seen that stated, and them actually putting more work into another update would unfortunately still be highly irregular in the history of post-new game Halo support.
You could try hitting up Bravo or another 343 dev on Twitter and see if they'll say anything, but I'd be surprised if we got anything considering we haven't heard a peep since the last update.