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The Halo 3 Beta Thread

soco said:
he mentions doing this in his post...
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"This message is only useful today, May 15th."

Ahhh. You know what? I bet we're accessing the previous BETA code. The official crackdown title update should fix this .. i hope. Or I'm completely wrong.
 
WHAT THE ****?!?!?!?!?

GAME OVER
The Halo 3 Public Beta s either currently unavailable, or has expired. Look out for the official retail release of Halo 3 this fall! If you want to shoot stuff and blast your buddies right now, why not try Shadowrun for Xbox 360 and Windows Vista? Find out more at www.shadowrun.com
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andrewfee said:
I'm getting it too. Got to clear the cache each time it happens.

http://sr-388.net/images/gaming/360/halo3/DSCF4180.jpg[img]

Takes about 5 minutes to start up crackdown, patch it again, sign in, detect the beta, update the beta, start the beta.

I've had my 360 lock twice now when using the guide blade, and it's now started doing it in the dashboard too. (thought I would start a private chat [i]before[/i] loading the beta.

I [b]love[/b] Microsoft products.[/QUOTE]


LMFAO at the Shadowrun plug. This must be what Shane Kim was talking about.

"If you liked the Halo 3 Beta...you may also like Shadowrun...which contains 3 times as many maps!!!"
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Yea, I'd suspect the freezes you all are getting is from networking issues (Live being hammered) and the only freezes I get recently are due to this (and it's obvious when it happens to me).

Anyways, I'm still downloading, I have no idea what % I am at now, it's been at 71-72 for a VERY long time...
 
Speevy said:
Your lockups have ZERO to do with having Crackdown or the beta in your system.

It's the massive amounts of traffic Xbox Live is taking on during this time.

It's locked me up during message sending and private chats too.
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So the massive amounts of traffic have frozen my entire system twice, where it wouldn't respond to any controller input, and I had to walk across the room to turn the unit off? Interesting.
 
I've gone from 65% to 67%, woo!

I was going to try to stay up for the download and maybe play it a bit, but it's waaaay too slow now, I think I'm just going to turn it off in a few and crash and get it in the morning.
 
OMG it moved to 41% !! i had to disable the screensaver on my 360 that damm blade in crackdown would stop the download. Time to go watch csi, I wish this was done in market place. i would used the download while console is powered off.
 
sooperkool said:
8300 players and i cant get a match
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Yeah, it took me a few minutes to get into a game. I remember a similar problem when Halo 2 was release and matchmaking was taking forever. I've played 2 games so far and this game is a freaking blast and plays so much better than halo 2
 
XBL is definitely getting crashed as we speak. No point in staying up I suppose until the calm after the storm has settled =/
 
Eel O'Brian said:
So the massive amounts of traffic have frozen my entire system twice, where it wouldn't respond to any controller input, and I had to walk across the room to turn the unit off? Interesting.
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Being that 360 is very much dependant on Live when connected to it, yes that would be the reason.

Simply browsing my friends list the system started to become sluggish and "freeze" (froze for like 10 seconds). It was simply trying to get the info for my friends list at the time.
 
So after waiting all day for Crackdown to get patched, after waiting 1 hour to dld the beta when I finally think I'll be able to play what do I get?

DSCF4180.jpg


Jesus Christ Bungie! :(
 
yeah i just spent like 3 hours d/l'ing the beta, finally get into it, and not only do i get the "Game Over" message, when i exit and go to my friends list the system freezes. **** its probably going to be like this throughout the entire beta. What a waste. Good job Bungie/MS.
 
Dl at 80%!!!

And thank you Bungie for extending the Halo 3 Beta an extra 4 days! :D Not sure who quoted me before asking me why Bungie should compensate us a week... but 4 days is good enough! :)
 
If anyone is wondering who Masenkame is, that would be me. I'm just adding any gamertags I come across in the thread.

Download's at 27% because I accidentaly backed out, so I deleted the file and started the download :(.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
yeah i just spent like 3 hours d/l'ing the beta, finally get into it, and not only do i get the "Game Over" message, when i exit and go to my friends list the system freezes. **** its probably going to be like this throughout the entire beta. What a waste. Good job Bungie/MS.
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I doubt throughout the whole beta lol

stop being such a pessimist.
 
I've gotten one game in, but it took the whole game to get used to the controls!

I'll try fro one more, then come back tomorrow after things have cooled down. But the guys in the Live NOC love the fact that the beta was delayed until this late. I'm sure they would have rather had all of the servers being hammered and stressed during normal business hours, rather than sleepy time. I don't envy those suckers!
 
got done playing about an hour ago. Only took 20minutes to download!...living near washington has its perks I guess....if you call Alaska close :lol

I actually had a good time and look forward to playing some more...as I said before, I loved Halo1, hated Halo2, but am now honestly really looking forward to 3 based on this limited playtime so far....didn't suck as much as I thought I would to boot!


....now just give us a proper SP Campaign Bungie!

..oh yeah...graphics are "good-enough" for me as long as they pump that shit up in the singleplayer, which I'm sure they will......though it would have been nice to have some motion blur as others titles have evidenced that its not too taxing on the latency (see LostPlanet, Vegas, PDZ, etc.)
 
Eel O'Brian said:
So the massive amounts of traffic have frozen my entire system twice, where it wouldn't respond to any controller input, and I had to walk across the room to turn the unit off? Interesting.
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I haven’t downloaded the beta yet (waiting for off-peak time), but even still I’ve locked up three times in the friends list.
 
Most surprising thing for me when downloading the beta that it seemingly went from 70% to 100% in a blink of an eye. Either the system lied to me or I just had memory loss.

Other than that a really fun game so far, although I suck.
 
So... alright, enlighten me here.

The only way I can play a game is by selecting "Begin Matchmaking?" I don't get to browse a list of available matches? WTF?

How does this thing work? More importantly, how do I find the guys on my friends list?
 
i dunno what it is but since i did that clear cache thing, the console likes to hang. it doesn't hang completely, but it'll stop responding sometimes for like a minute or two all over the place. then suddenly it'll recover and go about its way.
 
So I keep getting cycled through a bunch of games just about to start, then return back to the "looking for player" screen.

Beta testing is fun!
 
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