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343i Matchmaking / Launch Issues Update
- Thread starter Twin Tails
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What are you hyperbole harry ? They responded immediately and are rolling out fixes within 24hrs, didn't have to wait 3 weeks like Driveclub, not anywhere near the same. Its matchmaking issues but private matches and co op has been OK..
Miles Quaritch
Member
Matchmaking is broken. Custom playlists are working from what I gather, that doesn't excuse the problems with matchmaking, but to say it's broken in the same way that DC and BF4 were at their respective launches is somewhat misleading.
And I think there's a pretty difference in if a game is broken for one/two days to if it's broken for 30 or 90 days.
But as it doesn't work, it makes no sense to keep it and to keep getting worked up over it not working.
Seems the more sensible thing to do would be to ask for a refund and then maybe pick it up again down the line if it works as intended.
TheOhrenberger.
Banned
Hawk269
Member
Yeah, I am frustrated like many of you, perhaps not as bad because I have had to work a lot the last 36 hours so I have not had a lot of time to play, but I really appreciate that within 28 hours of launch or so we are getting feedback directly form the dev team and what they are working on.
We have had issues in the past, recently with Driveclub and took a long time to get anything official, so kind of happy that they put this information out and they are working on it.
Still though, I really wish these companies would spend more QA on ensuring games work properly before release. I understand a Day 1 patch that fixes the major issues, but when a game comes out and even after a patch is still kind of broken (and I am talking about a lot of different games here) and as a consumer it is really discouraging.
I think street dates or announcing release dates too early is part of the problem and they should try to hold back on announcing launch dates unless they know they can hit it and hit with minimal issues.
REMEMBER CITADEL
Banned
343i's quick reaction is admirable, many developers could learn from them. Hopefully they manage to fix the issues soon. Luckily for me, my copy of the game won't arrive before the weekend anyway.
Ol No Bones
Banned
I have played maybe 4 matches total and had mismatched teams and wasted oodles of time just to play 4 matches. Don't even try to play with friends. MM has some serious issues. People aren't just using this to hate on the game. People are genuinely upset. In my case I'm very sad. I love these games and I was very excited for that feeling of playing with friends again but the broken lobbies and MM have meant more frustration than anything. I will say that the games I was able to play ran beautifully though.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Hopefully hey get it nice and tightened up by the time my copy gets here from game. And if not, I was planning on playing campaign first anyhow.
Would like to see some performance enhancements as well, maybe a more stable framerate and some LOD enhancements.
Would like to see some performance enhancements as well, maybe a more stable framerate and some LOD enhancements.
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
Dragonborn
Member
I can't find an MP game at all. How long am I supposed to wait for?
Ol No Bones
Banned
I love Halo as much as the next guy but the defense force popping up regarding this is baffling. Its ok to be upset that your favorite games that you so longed to play again aren't working. This launch was shameful.
It's a game of chance more or less.
If you don't find a match in 5 mins your chances aren't going to improve so just exit and re que....
Ol No Bones
Banned
If you really want to play before they fix this madness make sure to drop out of the search if it isn't working after a few minutes and try again. It may take several tries but I have been able to find matches.
Dragonborn
Member
Jesus... yea, just going to stick to the SP and ACU for now. No way I'm waiting that long. Disappointing, to say the least.
I have a hard time riding them for the matchmaking issues because they're effectively trying to make a single MM system work across 5 games. That's probably complicated as fuck and really easy for something to go wrong. What baffles me more are little things like "1th" or why Halo 3 and 4 use armor sets instead of fully customized Spartans, those are things that you'd think would have been addressed pre-release.
It's quite unfortunate that you're being serious right now.
Fucking THANK YOU. I completely agree.
BuggeryBugz
Member
Haha! I might use this.
I'll be buying the game in the next day or so but will try and complete most of the campaigns first.
Seems to be matchmaking, while shitty we know its going to be sorted soon. Theres always some good will handed to devs if they recover swiftly from stumbling, if they take longer than expected then well get another drive club reaction from halo fans. Not good but its not the end of the world.....yet.
Super Stardust
Member
I've been trying to beat all campaigns on legendary before I play mp so I can wait 
The reasoning behind that would probably mean that they would have to load a model of a spartan to customize it. It's clear that they didn't want to load a model base off how coloring works since now you are no long able to see your color changes and that all the armor you see are just image files. The UI/MM is already having troubles I imagine that it would be hard to also load models.
Yeah I can see how 5 games across one UI/MM is hard but at the same time they should have had a stress test or beta
Ol No Bones
Banned
No offense but I think its kinda crazy that you are more worried about armor customization than about not being able to find multiplayer matches consistently.
Yeah, honestly I think MCC warranted a beta way more than Halo 5 warrants one. MCC's scope is a lot greater than Halo 5's scope and seems more prone to run into server issues like this.
How is it crazy? Something like matchmaking is probably one of the more complicated and failure prone parts of the game and it's something that tends stumble out of the gate for a lot of releases. The other things are things that could have been found and fixed without stress testing matchmaking what so ever.
This is online something Ms is known for on there biggest franchise they've got.
I managed to get into a SWAT game on a Halo 2 map I haven't played in a decade and got promptly trounced right out of town. Damn I'm rusty.
This definitely sucks, but it's not Earth-shattering. I picked this up intending to play it on-and-off for *years* so a few days at the front isn't catastrophic. Plus I never played Halo CE Anniversary and I'm sort of looking forward to Halo 2 Anniversary even though I remember Halo 2 campaign being some dumb garbage. Hope they get it sorted soon for everyone' sake.
This definitely sucks, but it's not Earth-shattering. I picked this up intending to play it on-and-off for *years* so a few days at the front isn't catastrophic. Plus I never played Halo CE Anniversary and I'm sort of looking forward to Halo 2 Anniversary even though I remember Halo 2 campaign being some dumb garbage. Hope they get it sorted soon for everyone' sake.
Dragonborn
Member
How would you get a refund if you bought digital, or heck, I'm pretty sure you can't get a refund on physical copies either
Can't believe the reaction we're getting here. Jesus it's only been 2 days. Relax. I understand we paid for a full product and we expect things to work off the bat but shit happens. This reaction is only warranted if this continues for 2 weeks or so. It's a popular product, they couldn't test it properly big deal. At least they are acknowledging it. Some of these doomsday replies are really ridiculous.
Um, no. You don't release an unfinished game. How the hell did they not test this with 200-500 employees indoors before releasing? Quality Control went out the window for MCC.
GHG
Member
I liked it better when you were a sarcastic bastard. At least we didn't have to deal with an apologist. The issue is the same, it doesn't work as advertised. You might be able to play online via other methods but a lot of people only want to use matchmaking. What are those people supposed to do?
And for what its worth I actually managed to play driveclub online during the 1st weekend after launch. If you were lucky enough to get on the servers then you could play since they were working on a 1 in 1 out basis initially. That didn't make it ok.
The game should work day 1. So from that perspective, no it doesn't really matter. I don't know about you guys but when I decide to buy a game I'd like it to work as intended the moment I boot it up. If I have to wait to play it I will likely move on to play something else and will be unlikely to return to play it because I will have simply lost interest. It leaves a sour taste in the mouth.
No I don't have the game. Sorry, didn't know it was a prerequisite for posting in this thread.
Hope the game works for you guys eventually, but seriously some of the posts here are a prime example of why we are getting increasing numbers of broken releases these days.
I think Halo 5 's beta is a big reason why this ended up like this, I imagine most of 343's team is more focused on making sure Halo 5's beta is high quality while also delivering a lot of content(7 maps and 3 modes).
You can get digital refunds. In some countries you could easily get a physical refund
That would actually be a terrible way to test and give a stamp of approval to MCC's match making. That's so small scale and unlike a real world scenario.
MCC needed a beta in the worst fucking way. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft were the ones who forced the game out the door before it was ready.
Ol No Bones
Banned
Yeah I'm not trying to pile on. I'm just saying that the problems as of now are not fixed and this was a major feature of this game and selling point. The QA team really dropped the ball. I don't appreciate the people who pop in and act as if the frustration is unwarranted. I love Halo and I I'm sure I will love this game when it is fixed but there is no reason to pretend this is sunshine and roses. If they fix it quickly I will be far more forgiving.
I'm not sure if this is just an okay joke post or a really funny serious post.
Your "outrage" and "demands" also read as a parody of the sterotypical Angry Gamer, I would say is most unfortunate it is not in fact a joke, would be a quite funny one.
As I said It is hard not to come out as an apologist fanboy, but I can't even imagine the logistic nightmare it was to adapt if not to re develop the netcode for 4 different massive games into a single unified package.
If 2-3 days of busted MM make your purchase "not worth it", well that is your prerogative, I sure know I'm gonna be playing this for a loooooong time.
You could probably get a refund digitally from MS support.
On physical *shrug* YMMV
IsntChrisL
Member
"Patching" in 20 gigs of data on day 1 should have been a pretty big red flag for you guys that bought this.
vasametropolis
Member
Bug list is looking pretty gross and long with this one. I'm a huge Halo fan, but don't have an Xbox One yet (just PS4). I hope they get it sorted out because this is their killer app this holiday with the price drop... sad. Some of these issues are understandable and others are ridiculous. Maybe I'll get it next year.
Guy who wrote that announcement did good though. Most dev/publisher statements are disingenuous as fuck these days.
Guy who wrote that announcement did good though. Most dev/publisher statements are disingenuous as fuck these days.
Agreed. When shit goes wrong, good old fashion customer service goes a long way. I'd say the same thing with Respawn and their handling of the Titanfall launch.
Usually there's phased betas starting with employee access indoors... How did they not do this with MS and 343 employees in a phase is absolutely ridiculous and would've identified a lot of these problems such as random team color and emblem switches and freezing after a mp game which I experience Everytime.
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
Is not a patch, it is the multiplayer data that couldn't be fit into a blu ray, its been said like a zillion times. But, hey you would probably know this if you had a real interest in MCC to begin with.
Worth also notice the main issue right now is server side
For all we know that's probably what they did. But since that's such a small scale test and is not very reflective of a real-life scenario those test results were probably unreliable.
Going purely off gut instinct I just have a sneaking suspicion that 343 didn't want to release the game in this condition but Microsoft pushed it out the door to make holiday sales.
To be fair, he does kind of have a point. That 15-20GB of data was also not completed yet by the time the game went gold. That's why during the IGN First live stream they couldn't do a couple of maps, because they weren't ready yet, and that's why the patch wasn't available the same day that MCC went up for pre-load.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Battlefield 4 and Driveclub have been bested. Terrible launch. How the game was allowed to ship in this state is beyond unconscionable
IsntChrisL
Member
I did know this. It was still patched into the game and it's also the part of the game that's not fucking working.
It could be mostly sever-based but it's pretty damn clear this game was rushed to make it out on time.