Can't remember if it was discussed already... but Halo 2 campaign looks friggin outstanding. And the cut scenes!!!!!!! If they were to ever make a Halo movie, they should totally go with this CG team. Incredible job. I doubt there's ever been video game CG that comes close to matching what they did here.

My Xbone showed up yesterday, add me to the Halo list.

Gamertag: mpfef98

Matchmaking is definitely light years better now. Finding games super fast. Too bad it's weeks late.

Maybe we should make a brand new thread and act like the game JUST came out and everyone can get exited all over again. I moved on to other things at this point.

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Can't remember if it was discussed already... but Halo 2 campaign looks friggin outstanding. And the cut scenes!!!!!!! If they were to ever make a Halo movie, they should totally go with this CG team. Incredible job. I doubt there's ever been video game CG that comes close to matching what they did here.

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I agree. With visuals like that, who even needs live action. They are incredible. By far the best I've ever seen in a video game. This sounds dumb, but the coolest thing to me is the brutes, especially their hair. They seriously look real.

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Still really bummed that any hope of Aggie custom games is pretty much shot... I never see anybody playing.

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Don't worry, I'm getting it as a Christmas present so I'll be playing then.

I am still playing on i TheRufio i . Not as much time during the week but have about 2 or 3 guys who play customs. Mostly Halo CE though.

How is the new patch working for everyone?

It's not bad. I'm just sick of playing nothing but team BRs. I play Halo for assault, CTF, oddball, etc. They need to change the playlists badly.

Had a hard time downloading the new patch but once I got it, the game ran fine. I agree with the playlist update, they need to put a Halo Snipers playlist.

Good to hear its improving, my update was stuck at 51% last night so I haven't tried it out yet.

Yeah I kinda wish they would use the halo 2 style of matchmaking where you didn't have a choice what to play. Either that or use the veto system at the very least.

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Good to hear its improving, my update was stuck at 51% last night so I haven't tried it out yet.

Yeah I kinda wish they would use the halo 2 style of matchmaking where you didn't have a choice what to play. Either that or use the veto system at the very least.

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what do you mean by "choice?" you had a choice of slayer, skirmish, BTB, SWAT, or Clan match.

of course, you couldn't vote or veto, if that is what you meant.

Yeah I mean once you found a match after searching, it just locked into a map and game type. So for skirmish it was always random what objective game you would get between CTF, assault, oddball, etc.

So does this patch fix halo?

If I bought halo, can I efficiently play halo in a party group? Tia

They had more playlists when the game launched, but because of the immediate issues they took away several to help consolidate the population. No doubt they will have more playlist options, but they gotta get their stuff together first. My personal frustration is playing the same maps all the time! We have this massive list of maps to choose from and yet there are only about a dozen that seem to be offered on a regular basis. Several great Halo 3 maps in particular are ignored... never even seen them show up on the voting screen.

I'm still hit or miss regarding patches (I haven't played with the new Sunday update yet). Last weeks update made getting into a game is better, but ever since then I literally get kicked to the lobby after every match. Before it took a little longer to find games, but I would get to play 3-4 in a row once I got in. Now I have to do a new search every time.

Yes. They have changed it so that you have search for a new match after every game. I agree about the map voting rotation, I feels like i see blackout on every vote and blackout was hardly one of the best maps.

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They have changed it so that you have search for a new match after every game.

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Really!? They made this a thing on purpose!!! I'm sorta speechless. I mean, I guess they had a good reason, but it's just getting silly now. I'm definitely starting to feel like they better come hard with the "we're sorry" care package they promised us.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/halo-the-master-chief-collection-is-almost-brought-down-by-its-ambition/

So many words.

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and blackout was hardly one of the best maps.

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You watch your dirty mouth, punk.

Meant to use this

My new Xbox One comes today. I'm excited to sit through some updates and try out the multiplayer

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So many words.

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Yeah.

I like long-form "journalism" in principle, but sometimes in practice.... it gives me tired-head.

Got everything set up last night and after 2 hours of downloading/installing, it actually worked pretty well. My issue is that I'm a bit rusty and switching control schemes between games doesn't help.

Gamertag: TMoney1876

I didn't know you were so passionate about a virtual map.

I played for a couple hours last night in a party of 4 and had no issues at all. Looking forward to adding ranking and filling out the playlists

Hmmm.... I got a refund several weeks ago, but I had a friend over last night with the game, and we were still having a lot of trouble getting into games. In about 3 hours of trying we maybe got to play 5 big team battles. There were a lot of instances of the team filling up, going to the loading screen, and then getting bootted back to the main menu. It really blows my mind that this game can still be such a steaming pile of ****.

It has been hit and miss for me. Sometimes, it is quick... sometimes it can't find a game.

It has been fairly good for me after the first few patches, however, last time I played it got stuck on "Players Found" about 90% of the time. I only played 1-2 games.

There are still some issues with occasionally getting stuck at "players found" or "joining game" and failing to load maps, but overall it is much better for me.

Well they have 13 more days until twice the number of players are on. Hoping more fixes are on the way as that is when I will be playing it.

holy crap! A halo 3 modder replaced the master chief's 3d model with the scarab. he made vids of the model scaled down, and left normal size. Watching a mini-scarab ride the mongoose is ridiculous. Towards the end, there's a little scarab on scarab mounting.

scarab chief

That's awesome!

1164MB update tonight... They have been busy busy.