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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo

op_ivy

Fallen Xbot (cannot continue gaining levels in this class)
Apart from the obvious gameplay decisions that are the wrong direction to take (sprint, ledge-grab, ADS, air-aim-hover <WTF) why are the Spartans acting like douche-nozzles?

The in combat dialog is juvenile and not necessary. And then the victory screen where the Spartans are high-fiving like a bunch of kids playing basketball at the local park? What the hell.... these are supposed to be highly disciplined special ops super soldiers, why are they acting like tools?

agreed. the dialogue in game and pre and post game animations need to mature a bit. feels really cheap right now. also, HATE the red and blue team logos.
 

Karl2177

Member
Map choices are Ivory Tower, Ghost Town, and Rat Race. I vote Rat Race along side 3 others. It starts loading Orbital with AR starts. Not only that, but it's a 2v3 with Player A, Player A's guest and Player B versus me and Player B's guest. Once the match is over, it crashes. This should not have shipped.
 


Why are there SMG starts in this game?

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but hey

they brought backwash back to the unwashed masses
 

Madness

Member
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, connection to the host lost right near the end of the Ark on a legendary coop wheels, wheels, and more wheels playlist. This whole launch has been fucked.
 

Mesonak

Member
I seriously must wonder if 343's going to do anything to compensate people for this botched launch. Not financially, but maybe something else.

armor customization plz
 

jem0208

Member
This game is so broken.


So I started matchmaking for Team Slayer. Wait for 5 minutes, get bored and decide to start watching Nightfall. I stop matchmaking, go to extras and use the in-game link to the Halo Channel. 5 minutes later I load up the MCC again and I'm in a game of Halo 3.


Play for a bit, then halfway through it crashes.


Is the game broken in general or is it anything to do with online connectivity?

Do the campaigns crash on you?

It's weird that some people are starting to say that it is working now just fine. It implies consistency is the major issue here. Some people have it working, others do not.

I've only had issues with multiplayer but they aren't limited to connectivity. The game has crashed once, UI is buggy, i had the weird situation I described above. All in all it's pretty damn shoddy.
 

Random17

Member
Is the game broken in general or is it anything to do with online connectivity?

Do the campaigns crash on you?

It's weird that some people are starting to say that it is working now just fine. It implies consistency is the major issue here. Some people have it working, others do not.
 

belushy

Banned
They should release a free map pack with a few extra remastered maps as a sorry for the launch!

I don't have the game, so I'm happy I don't have to deal with this stress lol
 

Madness

Member
Is the game broken in general or is it anything to do with online connectivity?

Do the campaigns crash on you?

It's weird that some people are starting to say that it is working now just fine. It implies consistency is the major issue here. Some people have it working, others do not.

Campaign crashed on me in Halo 3 wheels, wheels and more wheels Ark level near the end, connection to host lost etc.

Parties and rosters are glitchy to where they won't load, you cant join, only half can see etc. If party leader backs out, rest of team remains without him. So you have to rejoin. Matchmaking, literally waiting 30+ minutes for matches in all playlists.

The only thing that is working is limited campaign use and custom use. Basically can run single player or maybe customs with a few people.
 

Blueblur1

Member
Not liking the game. Really buggy, missing stuff and H2A looks, sounds and plays like it was not made by a seasoned team. It feels incomplete.
 
Is the game broken in general or is it anything to do with online connectivity?

Do the campaigns crash on you?

The entire game crashes on a regular basis, there's basic features missing/broken, weird client-side design choices and bugs, performance is very rough very often, audio is borked half the time, audio is randomly fucked in H2 mp (crackles/distorted/blown out), Joining even custom lobbies is a coin flip, in-game voice might as well not even exist considering how often it works, emblems don't show up in lobby 90% of the time, post-game stats are borked (telling me my most-killed and killed by are my teammates every time), if you hit the home button and try to resume, you'll get some kind of crash or soft-lock about 1 out of 4 times.

There's many more problems, but these are just the ones I noted last night before I went to bed, and none of them are to do with server issues or MM. Those are a whole other couple dozen complaints/problems.
 

Random17

Member
It sounds like the game needs an extra two weeks of full time development.

I think Gears 2 is a bad example; this seems to be more inline with Battlefield 4 due to the incredible glitchiness.
 

Ramirez

Member
I might be jumping to conclusions, but I feel it's pretty telling Frank hasnt tried to put some of these fires out, with a little reassurance of fixes coming. I fear the game is busted, and we're looking at a long time before everything works correctly. I want to be wrong, really wrong, mind you.
 

willow ve

Member
How is a game so fundamentally built on multiplayer not launch with working match making? Ouch. Glad I didn't get an Xbone yet. Hopefully it's fixed by December.
 

jem0208

Member
I might be jumping to conclusions, but I feel it's pretty telling Frank hasnt tried to put some of these fires out, with a little reassurance of fixes coming. I fear the game is busted, and we're looking at a long time before everything works correctly. I want to be wrong, really wrong, mind you.

I think it's going to be pretty broken for a while. Matchmaking will be fixed quickly, however the crashes, weird UI bugs, performance issues etc. are here to stay.

No way. MCC is all but broken. Unity may be buggy and glitchy as hell, but people can at least do what they were promised. We can't even play a damn matchmaking game in Halo. It's almost 24 hours for some people since launch. This is worse than Gears 2 which was just a lag fest. I'd love to be able to at least join some matches and play. In the past 8 hours today, I've been able to do 2 custom matches and 1 campaign mission and the game froze on the second campaign mission. I haven't been able to get into matchmaking since last night at 3 am where I got a 3v4 match on CE Derelict.

Eh, when you're actually in a game though it's superb. I've been getting much more lucky recently, got into a few games. I've also not noticed any issues in the campaign. I have only been playing H2 though...
 

Madness

Member
I'd say Unity, at least when you're actually playing the game the MCC seems pretty solid.

Unity is just a giant mess in every aspect.

No way. MCC is all but broken. Unity may be buggy and glitchy as hell, but people can at least do what they were promised. We can't even play a damn matchmaking game in Halo. It's almost 24 hours for some people since launch. This is worse than Gears 2 which was just a lag fest. I'd love to be able to at least join some matches and play. In the past 8 hours today, I've been able to do 2 custom matches and 1 campaign mission and the game froze on the second campaign mission. I haven't been able to get into matchmaking since last night at 3 am where I got a 3v4 match on CE Derelict.
 
I thought buying Destiny digital was the biggest bungie buying blunder I could make this year

and yeah this is worse than Gears 2. At least you could get into matches; granted it be laggy as SHIT and unpleasent experience, but I mean, it functionally worked, ya know? You could actually get into games.
 

Madness

Member
I thought buying Destiny digital was the biggest bungie buying blunder I could make this year

and yeah this is worse than Gears 2. At least you could get into matches; granted it be laggy as SHIT and unpleasent experience, but I mean, it functionally worked, ya know? You could actually get into games.

Yeah like you'd eventually get a match that was laggy as hell, everyone throwing those smoke bombs sending everyone flying. It was just poor matchmaking. I've literally only been able to join 1 match since 2 am last night. Now not even achievements were working. I'd even take playing some laggy AR starts on Valhalla in Halo 3 with rubber banding going on than just sit in the searching menu for 30+ mins.
 

Source

Member
At least when I get into games, they run perfecty. And I do get into games reliably, I just have to wait for a while...

I am getting games now myself 4v3 or 3v3.

Team slayer game I was just in ended when we got 8 kills, the other team did not quit out or anything like that.
 

dwells

Member
Oh, and something worth mentioning - a handful of matchmaking games I've gotten into were not on dedicated servers. I started observing my network traffic on a game of Halo 2 where I noticed that I absolutely had host - I could grenade jump, grenade reloads didn't work, and my BR had that host-only ability to reach out and touch people cross-map.

So I took a look at my network traffic, and it sure as hell looked like I was hosting that game. Other matches I played where I didn't have host effects in game did not show the same network traffic. So yup, I played a peer to peer hosted matchmaking game.

Maybe it's a fluke due to the various issues occurring right now. But for the time being, matchmaking is not always running on dedicated servers like we were told. This sure as hell better change, as it's the primary reason I bought the game.
 

Truelize

Steroid Distributor
Just got the to library. Paused the game to go to the bathroom. Came back to see that it was at the main campaign menu and gives me the option to resume playing Pillar of Autumn.
6 hours of progress gone.

Good thing they have everything open from the start.
 
Who's coming up with the UI for this game?

Why do I have to hit nearly 8 buttons to CHANGE TEAMS in a custom game lobby? Just make it rb and lb like it was before, what's the issue with that? It's buried so deep in the menu that a group of us actually thought it wasn't possible to switch teams.

It wouldn't be such a problem if the game didn't randomly switch teams around everytime a game ended.

On the plus side, Halo 1 is still an incredible game. So when you finally wade through all the issues and get into a game that doesn't crash... It's fun!
 
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