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Live event lagging/freezing for anyone else?

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Like a mother****er. Oh well.

Xbox Twitch channel is working fine for me.

I'm in a party watching if anyone wants to join, I'll switch over at launch to play.

Looks like I might beat the buzzer. Might try out the Zanzibar superbounce just for the hell of it first.

Zanzibar was one of my all time favorite maps

COME JOIN US!!!!
deathmullet76
ScottAPerk
The Aggie

Not sure how I feel about this

http://m.ign.com/articles/2014/11/11/7-new-abilities-coming-to-halo-5

Guess I'm not playing tonight. Been stuck on 100% updating since 11

Anyone else having problems finding games?

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Anyone else having problems finding games?

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Only one I've gotten into was swat playlist...

I got in one Team Slayer but that is it.

No dice on matchmaking. Played (and sucked at) some custom games but party issues kept cropping up as well.

Also, is there no way to select Skulls when playing the campaign straight through? I can only select skulls when playing specifically chosen missions (as opposed to Quickstart)

Not sure how the multiplayer matchmaking is failing so badly

I read there was an issue with matchmaking in the Australian release yesterday. Didn't think much of it at the time. Hopefully they will get it working.

I will be on tomorrow night. Was at work till 2am so have to get it tomorrow.

GT: JohnnyTitanfall

Still seems like XBlive was easier to use and much more reliable on 360. So many PS4 converts with this game and MS cramped the bed on launch night. I'm not personally fuming mad, but it was disappointing. Got like 3 custom games in before I couldn't even do that any more.

Anyone else disappointed about all armor being unlocked already?

Anybody tried to play this morning and have any better luck?

Also, does anyone know how to access online coop? I see it listed under the multiplayer menu, but when I actually go to multiplayer, there's no sign of it.

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Still seems like XBlive was easier to use and much more reliable on 360. So many PS4 converts with this game and MS cramped the bed on launch night. I'm not personally fuming mad, but it was disappointing. Got like 3 custom games in before I couldn't even do that any more.

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The disappointment with xbone has been nothing to do with differences in graphics but exactly what you are talking about. The interface, party system, and overall functionality of the xbone operating system has been miles behind the 360 to me. Very frustrating when it is a newer system.

Played one multiplayer game this morning. Long queue times. It was 4v5 and split our party.

For campaign, just invite the person to your party. When you boot the game, they will load in also

This is partly why they have a limited number of Playlists... Spreads out the online players too much and then it takes longer to find games. Hopefully it's all sorted out when all the day 1 people get home with the game.

It's a technical problem with the game. Hopefully they get it figured out today.

JRyder05

Add me. I plan to start burning through the campaigns primarily first so I can see the Agent Locke story, but I'll be down for multiplayer if a group is forming up. I'm super pumped for this and the Halo 5 beta.

If I don't have to go to my second job gonna be slayer time on halo 2 or 3 all night.

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Not sure how I feel about this

http://m.ign.com/articles/2014/11/11/7-new-abilities-coming-to-halo-5

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The Verge has a good article on 5. On the road so can't link

I'm hoping to pick it up today, but I'm baffled that MM is a jumbled, random mess. Everyone thought that you'd be able to first select your game, then gametype. Here's a post from the Waypoint forums which pretty much sums it up. Hopefully they will patch this.

"I thought it would be set out like the campaign menu - choose a game you want to play, choose one of their playlists, all the same as the original game's playlists, and off ya go, no needing to worry about if
you'll get put into a game of Halo 2 when your intention was to play Halo 3. Would that not have been easier? I was looking forward to bouncing around Big Team, Slayer, Swat and Team Snipers, or social
variants, on Halo 3. What I got was, choosing big team and getting put into a Halo 2 match (of 6v4, but
that's for another thread), going down to Swat only to find you've not even put Halo 3 into that playlist and that Halo 4 is there. There is also no Team Snipers to speak of, at all.Very disappointing. I was so looking forward to playing all the Halo 3 game types I used to play, on the maps I used to play them on.

This hybrid mashing together of the different games, which all play differently, is
not what I was looking for. PLEASE say you're going to change the format of multiplayer. If it helps, if you
turn on a 360, stick Halo 3 in, go to matchmaking and have a look through the playlists there, those are the gems I was looking for."

I completely understand not having all of the playlists within each game individually, because that would spread the player population way too thin. But I don't understand why they chose some of these playlists. A few are fine, but some of them suck.

What I also don't understand is how this game is basically unplayable for a lot of people. Did they even test it before they sent it out?

One thing is very clear: 343 Industries might have taken some people from Bungie, but they are definitely not Bungie. They took Halo 4's gameplay in the wrong direction, and they basically gave us a beta-quality multiplayer experience in MCC on release day.

Say what you want about Bungie, but Halo 1, 2, 3, and Reach were essentially without any technical flaws at release. They had their process down and were a well-oiled machine. Even when a lot of other developers had started to release half-finished games and patch them later, Bungie never fell into that trap. Obviously the same cannot be said for 343.

Wait.... So if I want to just go play team slayer on halo 2 or 3 I can't do that I have to do some variety pack?

I just watched the first episode of Nightfall. Now, I admit I'm a bit of a Halo nerd, but I really like it! Really well done and the story has me hooked... Very good intro episode that set the events in motion.

You can Play halo 2 or 3 specifically but it will be slayer and objective game types. There is a vote system though

Ugh I'm a BR slayer ***** and I don't do objective crap.

What a mess.

They most definitely aren't Bungie.

XBL: CHUNKY LIVE

Add me!

I was so hyped to be able to play Halo online again via matchmaking. Guess what I still haven't done yet.

In other words, it's still completely Fubar'd! You gotta be kidding me, the most important part of this whole package doesn't work at launch. I remember 10 years ago actually playing Halo 2 online!

This is frustrating. I've played a grand total of 2 mp games. Hope they get this resolved quickly.

At least you get to listen to sweet remastered music with a Gregorian Chant in the background while you wait to never find a game.