Eh, I think if you're going to play MCC over Halo 5 you're probably already doing it. No thrust, ground pounding, ADS, and more gametypes. Who knows though.
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Eh, I think if you're going to play MCC over Halo 5 you're probably already doing it. No thrust, ground pounding, ADS, and more gametypes. Who knows though.
The Real Napsta
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ADS is a non issue now right?
Emperor Bohe
Member
yep, i've been waiting to play Halo 2 online again every since the OG Xbox lost Xbox Live. As fun as Halo 5 is, I will want to play Halo 2 more...
Well, I have discovered the worst Halo experience of all time, and it's H2A 3Plots on Zenith. The spawns are horrible.
Luckily, I finished up my splatters. So all I have left for multiplayer is KOTH medals.
I've also run into a bug where H2A campaign progress will count missions you partially completed, then saved and quit and restarted as complete: good for Legendary progress! Bad for Legendary times though, as it's given all the missions that it happened to me a time of 1:40:39. Leaving aside those missions I'm still at 2:40:00-ish with Gravemind and Regret still to go, so there's going to be an equal grind as with CE to get the Monopolized achievement. And then H3 ODST LASO. Oy. So close, yet so far...
Luckily, I finished up my splatters. So all I have left for multiplayer is KOTH medals.
I've also run into a bug where H2A campaign progress will count missions you partially completed, then saved and quit and restarted as complete: good for Legendary progress! Bad for Legendary times though, as it's given all the missions that it happened to me a time of 1:40:39. Leaving aside those missions I'm still at 2:40:00-ish with Gravemind and Regret still to go, so there's going to be an equal grind as with CE to get the Monopolized achievement. And then H3 ODST LASO. Oy. So close, yet so far...
Is this on Legendary? Is that battle hard even with Scarab Gun and Infinite Ammo?
I still need to do a co-op legendary playthrough of Halo 2 with my brother.
Just in case you don't know, H2 Legendary co-op is different than the others because it's basically always got Iron on. If either player dies, it's back to the checkpoint.
Not trying to do it with Scarab because I'm still going to have to do the Halo 2 sub-3 hours business.
That fight gave me nightmares. You need to constantly bait the enemies to one part of the map, while Regret needs to be on an other. Climb him, punch him and as soon as he drops you climb up any high position, repeat and hope for good RNG.
pocketaces
Member
Does it still kick players back to the menu after matches? i haven't played in months
What the heck. I'll probably just do this solo then.
Are Halo 3 and Halo 3 ODST co-op like Halo 1? With re-spawns instead of restarts at checkpoints.
I eventually got through it, which polishes off all the campaigns on Legendary, finally. Doing the speed run for Halo 2 will probably be more frustrating than ODST LASO, but hey I get to see which is which!
I think before I was spending too much time worrying about the honor guards when the Grunts are really the big issue. They're absolutely viscous plasma pistol users on Legendary.
And yeah the Legendary Iron skull effects on co-op is why my brother and I never got through Cairo Station when we played. This was the first time I actually completed it on Legendary. Yuck.
The Real Napsta
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In played this game with friends Sunday night. Parties stayed together and matchmaking times were decent.
As long as you don't try switching host (and when joining a player you don't do anything until they're in your lobby) I've never had the party break up in recent memory. If you *do* try host switching there's like a 25% chance it just breaks you up.
VincentMatts
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So is MCC still getting support?
edit: great!
edit: great!
aHebrewMenagerie
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Yeah, it would be great it they could do campaign fixes as well. Especially that Halo 4 cutscene, and just the overall progress gone missing when it comes to the playlists and campaign levels.
Well according to /R/Halo the MCC feedback page on Xbox.com was erased. It seems Microsoft is trying to make us forget.
Don't know why I come back to this game.
Either there are no dedicated servers in matchmaking or they are they worst piece of shit servers in the history of Xbox Live. Seriously. Rubber banding, black screen for minutes at a time, grenades that don't throw - throw late - or don't animate at all. Can't recommend this to anyone. Ever.
Either there are no dedicated servers in matchmaking or they are they worst piece of shit servers in the history of Xbox Live. Seriously. Rubber banding, black screen for minutes at a time, grenades that don't throw - throw late - or don't animate at all. Can't recommend this to anyone. Ever.
Mr. Enigma
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Head To Head? Lol
Dead Man Typing
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Had a couple of team slayer matches last night but I haven't been able to get into any other matches since. A play list update is badly needed but I'd like to see something at e3 which could rushing the spotlight on MCC. A campaign patch plus Reach as dlc is what I'd really like.
Game feels abandoned. But it's still a lot of fun when I come back to it. There's room for both MCC and Halo 5 in my life.
Game feels abandoned. But it's still a lot of fun when I come back to it. There's room for both MCC and Halo 5 in my life.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
Played some Halo 4 this weekend.
I really hope they tweak the map voting on it because it's pretty much the same 3 maps over and over again. I feel like i'm playing an online demo for H4 instead of the actual game thanks to people voting the same 3 maps every time they pop up
I really hope they tweak the map voting on it because it's pretty much the same 3 maps over and over again. I feel like i'm playing an online demo for H4 instead of the actual game thanks to people voting the same 3 maps every time they pop up
VincentMatts
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Damn shame considering this is their premiere franchise and its the only way a lot of younger people will get to experience halo CE, 2 for the first time. It just keeps reminding me on why im now very skeptical in regards to how well i think 343 can handle this franchise.
The Real Napsta
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Nice dude, congrats.
Thanks man. Gonna gun for an extermination in SWAT next.
JigglesBunny
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I haven't played in months because of the... everything, but is it fixed? I'm redownloading now.
Short answer: yes and no. Feels like Halo.
More or less. You'll still run into frustrations here and there but it generally works fine.
CloudyTuba
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It will never get to 99% fixed as 343 has forever swept it under the rug, and there are still many minor and a couple medium glitches. However overall the biggest functionality problems have been patched to a (not ideal, but) working state.
You can play now. Connections will still be P2P shit, youll end up getting dropped from a couple games now and then, but you can play.
Dead Man Typing
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Played some Halo 2 Legendary coop online tonight. It was pretty flawless. Got through the first 2 missions in about 3 hours. Instant reset when one of you dies is brutal but it was a lot of fun.
Still blows my mind how they got online coop working on Halo 1 and Halo 2 when the originals only had split screen. Ran perfectly.
Still blows my mind how they got online coop working on Halo 1 and Halo 2 when the originals only had split screen. Ran perfectly.
VincentMatts
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It is just me thats bothered by the fact that the shields deplete too fast in halo2? I always preferred having shields and health a la ODST, Reach and CE. I have a lot of trouble enjoying Halo2, 4 & 5 on legendary because of this.
Halo 2 is definitely the worst in that regard, and I don't encounter many people who actually *love* H2 Legendary. 4 and 5 are much more forgiving in general in comparison.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Finally wrapped up and holy shit Halo 4 has one of the worst QTEs of all time at the end.
I hope none of that shit is in Halo 5.
I died like over 20 times and when it finally worked I don't even know why. Absolutely ruined the climax of the whole game. "Press RT to fire machine gun" I DID! I did at every possible moment! I used the press early strategy, I used the waiting for key moment strategy, I used the random times strategy, I used the spamming constantly strategy, nothing worked. By time it finally did I was literally using the mash all buttons not just the one it tells you strategy.
I hope none of that shit is in Halo 5.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
TBH the moment I saw something in the story about trying to digitize people as a defense against the Flood I figured if they ever get it to work they'll also learn how to do it in reverse and they're eventually gonna do some Pinocchio shit with Cortana.
The only thing I really don't get about Halo is they have all this fancy technology and Cortana is still a USB stick. Why the fuck can't she access stuff wrielessly? I'm like girl you have like 32 bluetooths, what's wrong with you? At least they got USB to be actually universal because she plugs right into all kinds of alien shit. Galactic standard ports are the great triumph of the future.
The only thing I really don't get about Halo is they have all this fancy technology and Cortana is still a USB stick. Why the fuck can't she access stuff wrielessly? I'm like girl you have like 32 bluetooths, what's wrong with you? At least they got USB to be actually universal because she plugs right into all kinds of alien shit. Galactic standard ports are the great triumph of the future.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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It's actually stupidly simple, as is the issue you faced - there's a glitch that causes the MCC version of Halo 4 to somehow erroneously gives the incorrect button prompt in that QTE. All you're just supposed to hit the grenade button. That's it. Not even any difficult timing or anything.
For some reason they never fixed it, despite being present I think since launch.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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It had several far more severe issues at launch that took up the majority of the focus for patches and fixes. By the time most of those were mostly ironed out MS decided to more or less sweep MCC under the rug. They claimed they wouldn't abandon it after Halo 5, but all they've done is one or two playlist updates.