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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 1, 2014 16:09:45 GMT -5
eLantern: great to "see" you again and on XONE! I would love to play Halo with you again, although that might be tough with SBMM, because I do suck pretty badly and we are not in the same league
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Post by n1gh7 on Dec 1, 2014 16:11:05 GMT -5
Game was still broken as of last night when I tried to play.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 1, 2014 16:17:18 GMT -5
Game was still broken as of last night when I tried to play. How broken? My limited experimentation with matchmaking seems to suggest that things have improved significantly (compared with the situation at the launch time). Seems to me that at least I can now expect to find a game within tolerable wait time.
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Post by eLantern on Dec 1, 2014 17:58:10 GMT -5
wittyscorpion: if not Halo then perhaps Titanfall as I'm still trying to get accommodated to that new IP and you seem to have spent a decent amount of time with it already.
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Post by n1gh7 on Dec 1, 2014 17:59:31 GMT -5
Well I seem to get stuck on the "players found" screen, then I lose my connection to XBL. Then when I try to leave matching to restart the search, it hangs again.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 1, 2014 18:07:08 GMT -5
wittyscorpion: if not Halo then perhaps Titanfall as I'm still trying to get accommodated to that new IP and you seem to have spent a decent amount of time with it already. Yeah, sure. I feel much more comfortable with Titanfall, and have been thinking about getting back to it and try the new things: Frontier Defense, Ranked Play, etc. Will definitely ping you when I get to it. BTW, how is the online population looking right now? The game finally can show the number of players after update #8, curious to see how many players are currently playing.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 1, 2014 18:08:54 GMT -5
Well I seem to get stuck on the "players found" screen, then I lose my connection to XBL. Then when I try to leave matching to restart the search, it hangs again. Well, that's really bad. I seemed to be able to pass that stage more often than not now, hopefully 343i will get this thing to acceptable state soon. At the very least: hope they can learn enough lessons from Halo MCC to make Halo 5 beta a solid experience.
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Post by n1gh7 on Dec 1, 2014 18:43:45 GMT -5
Apparently you can get 3 months of XBL gold free if you have already purchased the game in exchange for the deal offered here. rewards.xbox.com/mymissions/see reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/2nz3fh/asked_microsoft_why_i_dont_get_the_15_for_already/ Personally I'm just getting a refund, and then I'll repurchase later.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 1, 2014 19:13:12 GMT -5
Apparently you can get 3 months of XBL gold free if you have already purchased the game in exchange for the deal offered here. rewards.xbox.com/mymissions/see reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/2nz3fh/asked_microsoft_why_i_dont_get_the_15_for_already/ Personally I'm just getting a refund, and then I'll repurchase later. I bought my Halo MCC directly from XBL digital prepurchase. I guess that I am not eligible for this?
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Post by n1gh7 on Dec 1, 2014 19:24:08 GMT -5
Apparently you can get 3 months of XBL gold free if you have already purchased the game in exchange for the deal offered here. rewards.xbox.com/mymissions/see reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/2nz3fh/asked_microsoft_why_i_dont_get_the_15_for_already/ Personally I'm just getting a refund, and then I'll repurchase later. I bought my Halo MCC directly from XBL digital prepurchase. I guess that I am not eligible for this? That's how I got it. I recommend you go to the online support, and ask for a refund. Then you can repurchase the game from that link and you'll get the 15k credits. (Also, I have heard that if you get a refund, the game is still playable until you uninstall the game from your Xbox) If you are good manipulater/talker, you may be able to get them to give you something else instead of doing the refund/repurchase thing.
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Post by n1gh7 on Dec 1, 2014 23:27:46 GMT -5
Got the game refunded. Still works (kinda).
EDIT: Got into my first game (in a while) now. HA! I recommend that everyone do a digital download purchase and then get a refund on it until the game is fixed.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 2, 2014 18:00:45 GMT -5
1 full hour of nothing-but-gameplay video of Halo 5 beta, shining a light in an otherwise very dark era of Halo franchise:
This beta is critical for 343i to restore fans' confidence about them. If they screw up again, that's pretty much it.
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Post by n1gh7 on Dec 2, 2014 20:08:12 GMT -5
Well, now that I have returned the game, I've been able to get into matches consistently.
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Post by eLantern on Dec 2, 2014 21:39:23 GMT -5
Loved that video Witty
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 3, 2014 19:45:02 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 3, 2014 21:02:44 GMT -5
Spoke too soon. Reddit is filled with complaints again. Looks like it is even worse than before the patch.
Crap. Looks like 343i is pretty clueless on how to make Matchmaking work. Can't they just learn something from Respawn and Titanfall (seriously speaking, just invite some network engineers over for some consultation. Can't be that hard if Titanfall/Destiny/AW can do it just fine)?
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 4, 2014 0:13:25 GMT -5
Turns out the earlier problems were with XBL, not Halo MCC. After that is fixed, players seem to be happy with the MM speed.
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Post by eLantern on Dec 5, 2014 14:03:30 GMT -5
I actually got a few decent searches in a day ago and amazingly even had balanced teams. I've seen improvement.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 8, 2014 14:48:49 GMT -5
Another patch released last night, how are things now?
I am still too busy with Destiny to play Halo. Need to find time this week if this patch is any good...
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 17, 2014 18:44:16 GMT -5
More patches, and now 343i feels the game is stable enough to make Halo CE MP available with its dedicated playlist, which I have never played before and am excited about.
Can any bros give an assessment of the current state of Halo MCC Matchmaking? If decent enough, I plan to dive in next week to get ready for Halo 5 beta.
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Post by n1gh7 on Dec 17, 2014 20:12:14 GMT -5
It... kinda works.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 18, 2014 3:42:47 GMT -5
That's what I like to hear, "kinda" > "this shit does not work at all"
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Post by n1gh7 on Dec 18, 2014 10:00:01 GMT -5
Sometimes the matchmaking seems like it hangs, but it's really just taking a long time. The problem is a lot of people will leave if it takes awhile, so you'll get uneven games. I was able to play some Halo CE and it is so unforgiving.
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Post by eLantern on Dec 18, 2014 12:05:10 GMT -5
I've been playing nearly every night and morning the last 6-7 days and with the most recent update/patch things have seemed much improved across the board. I've been putting a lot of time into the SWAT and Big Team playlists (I've always been big fans of those two) when playing by myself (which has been way to often), but I did play a ton of Combat Evolved per its dedicated playlist (btw, it's capped at 3v3 which is probably a good thing) last night along with a few tries in the eSports playlist too (got shit on pretty bad by teams who were obviously well coordinated).
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 20, 2014 12:11:07 GMT -5
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Dec 21, 2014 4:53:10 GMT -5
Beta seemed pretty decent, I only played a couple of rounds, felt good. Maybe if MCC wasn't broken and I had been playing it for the past month I'd have a better point of reference.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 21, 2014 15:35:51 GMT -5
Beta seemed pretty decent, I only played a couple of rounds, felt good. Maybe if MCC wasn't broken and I had been playing it for the past month I'd have a better point of reference. If you can also play a couple of rounds of Halo 3 and give me your "freshman" opinions on how you compare the 2, that would be great. Excited about Halo 5 beta from what I have seen so far, seems like a game with Halo goodies but a little bit easier for people who suck (e.g.: me)
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Dec 21, 2014 16:50:10 GMT -5
I would love to, but I'm pretty much out of Xbox time, traveling for the holidays, need to pack, get some other things in order. And if I'm going to get video game time in it will be to build up some battlemarks so that my Diamond V Titanfall ranking hopefully survives to the end of the season. I played a little Halo 3 on Xbox 360 back in the day and immediately disliked the multiplayer. But really it was the 30fps I couldn't get past, so it would be silly to say I like Halo 5 and hated Halo 3.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 22, 2014 15:00:09 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Jan 12, 2015 20:08:43 GMT -5
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