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Luckily I enjoy the Halo Universe and Campaigns, but the majority of my friends bought it solely for the MP.

I was thankfully able to tell my buddy before he headed to store to buy an Xbox to wait until they got the issues fixed. He just had a little girl that had some medical issues this past Summer, but he did a little side work along with his wife helping him save up the funds for when Halo launched this month. From what I've seen, they're really pushing away the older Halo fans that don't have as a much time to spare with this debacle.

This **** needs to get fixed.

OK this is now officially ****ing ridiculous that it barely works even with the update. I need practice to get better and cant even get a game to play. When I do it is always 3v4 or some lopsided game with terrible teammates while I get raped....I think I may legitimately want a refund. I played Medal of Honor for God's sake and got more enjoyment out of it.

I'm gonna spend the next couple of nights trying to beat Evil Within so I can trade it towards GTA 5 and Smash. Hopefully the problems are ironed out before my weekend starts (Monday & Tuesday)

Well against my better judgment I decided to try mp tonight and got stuck in a 3v1 one bomb assault game. Real nice...

For me it's the menus that are the main problem. I can find games, but sometimes it takes 30 minutes to get everyone in the same lobby without anyone's game freezing up. It's terrible.

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I played a handful of MP games last night on a couple different occasions. Once you get into a game it finds the next game much faster. The initial lobby wait was around 3 minutes or so.

Good news is that once in a game it played really well. I like the slayer list that cycles through Halo 1-3 maps. Played one Halo CE game and man does that version play so different. In short, if they can get this crap working it was everything I thought it would be. Halo is just fun!

Update for those who are frustrated with multiplayer or the game in general. As jr15aggie mentioned, multiplayer has been functioning much better as of late. While it is not perfect with queue times between 1-5 minutes, it appears that the server side fixes implemented are allowing people to find games on a more consistent basis. Even so, there are still a large number of issues with the multiplayer that need to be addressed. These are:

1) Splitting up parties in-game.
2) Uneven teams during matches
3) Breaking up parties when backing out of queue
4) Kicking you out of party if your controller turns off in queue
5) Party connection issues that force a game restart

Additionally, I have also noticed a number of game specific issues, namely with Halo CE, that hopefully will be fixed in short order. If you play Halo CE, you will notice that the host generally always has the best KDA and wins the game a majority of the time. This is because off host hit registration is absolutely horrible on Grenades, Rockets, Melees, and Bullets.

As host, I have been hit by a rocket, blown into the air, and taken zero damage. Off host, I have recorded shooting a guy 10 confirmed(11 possibly) times with a pistol and he not be dead (the Halo CE Pistol is a 3-5 shot kill). In these instances, your bullets will spark off the enemy's armor and will register a hit on your screen, but the shields of the host player will not flash at all.

This issue alone makes Halo CE unplayable at a competitive level where the host will not lose.

With that said, some good news it on the way. Per the following link, a significant patch should be implemented on Wednesday of this week. This patch will hopefully fix a number of the multiplayer bugs that currently exist and allow for smoother game play.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/85d779d52cfd46918b4f8b638f2e3c7b/topics/11-15-update/21e7e215-7795-4568-9437-9a6dcacfb654/posts

I got a refund yesterday. We tried to do 2v2 customs the other night, and it took us 45 minutes of joining, quitting the game, inviting, inviting again, rejoining, etc. before we could even get a game going. Also tried to find a matchmaking game with 4 people several times for at least 10 minutes...we either didn't find a game, or it just lagged everybody out or split us up. The user interface is completely, 100% ****ed, and I decided I couldn't pay full price for it in good conscience. IF they get most of the issues fixed, I'll buy it again when the price drops. I definitely will not be buying Halo 5 after watching 343 absolutely mangle these ports. Just horrible.

At this point, after playing some of each part of the game, including part of all 4 campaigns, plenty of custom games, matchmaking, extras, etc., it is pretty clear to me that it's never going to be completely fixed. There is simply too much wrong with the game, and it's not in their economic interest to spend the resources fixing it all.

I hope their Halo 5 sales are destroyed because of this.

I get where you are coming from 100% Paragon. I took all of last week off from work to play, and am now fairly burnt out on the game because of all the issues. I thought we had some pretty solid customs earlier in the week, but there are so many problems that it is difficult to have any consistency when playing. Half the time when I can get a group of 8, I start the game and an error happens which boots everyone from the lobby. At this point, it may take another 10-15 minutes to reset up the game.

I will probably pick up another game and jump back in later this week to see if the patch has fixed the issues. I have almost no hope for Halo CE as I do not believe they put their time and effort into making that a viable game. Yes, it is playable on xbox live for the first time ever but its not playable well.

I too have had the thought that this will probably never get 100% fixed. I'm not spitting the same venom that cobra is, but it is really shocking how messed up some of this is. The fact that we can't even consistently do custom games is baffling because all it has to do is put us on a server and turn us loose. We can't even hit 'X' to bring up our online friends because even that is broken.

I'd almost be more encouraged if it never worked... like there is an easier flip the switch solution. But the fact that I've played both custom and regular games and it was fine... and at other times I've played both and the whole thing fell apart has me more concerned. It's like there are so many variables and glitches causing all this to fall apart, they'll never track them all down.

I wouldn't be the shocked at all if the MP is FUBAR to be dead honest. Although the price was worth the campaigns alone, it's disappointing that the MP is non-existent for the most part. I think they simply got too ambitious with this project if I had to guess. I saw no reason for them to include the Halo 4 MP. Almost wish they had just included only H2 MP and the rest of the campaigns.

Although they didn't technically lie, I thought us old school glitchers were misled.
"You'll absolutely be able to do them there"

I think the majority of people bought this to play the Halo MP online again.

I forgot that a couple of the CE skulls require grenade jumps.

I'm awful at those.

Wednesday patch pushed back for the inclusion of more fixes, testing and certification. I guess as long as hits before the weekend

That was a sarcastic thumbs up

At least I've been able to play MP the last couple nights and I still haven't had a single day some once I'm in a game. But the process is still far from being acceptable.

On a good note the anniversary maps are awesome. Halo 2 MP (which was Halo at its best imo) with modern graphics. I personally would have done away with the other 3 games as far as MP goes and just remastered all of the H2 maps.

I still havent been able to play a mp match...

Got into a match last night after a minute. Then I couldn't find another...

They just pushed back the patch... was suppose to be Wednesday, but now they say "later in the week". LOL, man those guys are sweating bullets. I'm not even mad about it... there is plenty for me to do with the game still... but man they really screwed this thing up. For their sake I hope they can get it fixed and don't end up wasting peoples Thanksgiving next week still trying to fix it!


PS: I also noticed that I have two achievements from the Halo CE campaign that are listed as "Done! Waiting to unlock" or some crap like that. (EDIT: Just did a search and this is a server issue, not a Halo MCC issue... apparently happens with other games too at times).

Going to try some MP tonight. If it's a no-go I'll likely try and return the game and stick to BF4 with the new map pack for a while.

It's almost comical how bad they messed this up. Who is calling the shots at 343 for the MP?

It's like running out of time on a paper and not even proofreading it before turning it in. They just crossed their fingers and hoped for a B

That is perfect. It absolutely reminds me of my half-ass lab reports where I was making **** up as I go hoping for a C+ or B.

The sad part is if they hadn't ****ed this up there would probably be 6+ Aggies rocking this game together.

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Right. We don't even have custom games going because there are maybe 1 or 2 people playing this when I'm on... And I'm not about to send invites to people playing other games: "hey guys, who wants to join my party and we can fight menus for the next 30 minutes!"

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hey guys, who wants to join my party and we can fight menus for the next 30 minutes!

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I'm just kind of grumpy I've droped $120 dollars on this falls FPS line up with COD and Halo, and I really have no enjoyment to show for it.... I would buy dragon age but not really in the mood to piss away money on 3 different games.

Spent two hours dicking around with the game last night and got to play one CTF match before I got into a chat with Microsoft and returned it.

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Spent two hours dicking around with the game last night and got to play one CTF match before I got into a chat with Microsoft and returned it.

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But the music in the background while you wait 2 hours for a game is soooo good!!!!

BTW... the 2nd episode of Nightfall came out this week. I think the show is really good personally, so Kudos to 343 for that.

Between Halo Channel, Nightfall, MCC, Halo 5... maybe they really did have too many irons in the fire.