Halo:The Master Chief Collection

MiskyBoyy · 20-12-2014 4:17am

So as an apology for the game being in the state it was at release. 343 are giving all players the following for free:

Halo 3: ODST Campaign – Development has just started on the campaign for Halo 3: ODST, which will be available within Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and upgraded to 1080p resolution, running at 60fps. It will be available for free to anyone who has played Halo: The Master Chief Collection since launch (11.11.14) through today (12.19.14).* Thanks to our friends at Bungie for creating the original “Halo 3: ODST” campaign.

“Relic” Halo 2: Anniversary Multiplayer Map – Available via a free content update to Halo: The Master Chief Collection, we will reimagine the fan-favorite map “Relic,” fully remastered and running at 1080p resolution and 60fps. We chose this map based on its suitability for Slayer and Objective modes and its ability to support teams of varying sizes. And you can trust that Certain Affinity will tune and tweak the map to make it even better than you remember.

as well as

**1 Month of Xbox Live Gold
**Exclusive In-Game Nameplate
**Exclusive In-Game Avatar

Source: http://news.xbox.com/2014/12/games-halo-thank-you-to-our-fans

madcabbage · 20-12-2014 12:43pm

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

So as an apology for the game being in the state it was at release. 343 are giving all players the following for free:

Halo 3: ODST Campaign – Development has just started on the campaign for Halo 3: ODST, which will be available within Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and upgraded to 1080p resolution, running at 60fps. It will be available for free to anyone who has played Halo: The Master Chief Collection since launch (11.11.14) through today (12.19.14).* Thanks to our friends at Bungie for creating the original “Halo 3: ODST” campaign.

“Relic” Halo 2: Anniversary Multiplayer Map – Available via a free content update to Halo: The Master Chief Collection, we will reimagine the fan-favorite map “Relic,” fully remastered and running at 1080p resolution and 60fps. We chose this map based on its suitability for Slayer and Objective modes and its ability to support teams of varying sizes. And you can trust that Certain Affinity will tune and tweak the map to make it even better than you remember.

as well as

**1 Month of Xbox Live Gold
**Exclusive In-Game Nameplate
**Exclusive In-Game Avatar

Source: http://news.xbox.com/2014/12/games-halo-thank-you-to-our-fans

Fair play to them, pity EA wouldn't do things like this.

Sierra 117 · 20-12-2014 12:56pm

I really enjoyed ODST so getting an updated version is fantastic news.

TerrorFirmer · 23-12-2014 4:52pm

Browning2010 wrote: »

I've started halo 2 now and god what a let down, graphics are terrible!!

......

Looked fantastic to my eyes!

Dades · 23-12-2014 5:05pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Browning2010 wrote: »

I've started halo 2 now and god what a let down, graphics are terrible!!

......

Looked fantastic to my eyes!

Browning2010, are you sure you didn't have the "Back" button pressed? :pac:

IvoryTower · 23-12-2014 5:07pm

haha i was thinking that, it looks great!!

honeybadger · 29-12-2014 2:56pm

When will the halo 5 beta be live anyone know.have it downloaded since last night and still can't get a game of it

Stormhawk88 · 29-12-2014 6:18pm

Its live now

Dades · 30-12-2014 3:00pm

Stormhawk88 wrote: »

Its live now

I did the download last night and got a message saying it's live - but when I go try the beta the option is greyed out?

Annoying!

Stormhawk88 · 30-12-2014 3:39pm

Dades wrote: »

I did the download last night and got a message saying it's live - but when I go try the beta the option is greyed out?

Annoying!

Did you restart the game? Also if you go to My games and Apps and go to games it should be there seperately as halo 5 guardians or did you just do a download when you turned on the master chief collection?

Dades · 30-12-2014 3:46pm

Actually, just went back in there it was! Except when I clicked on it I found out it's still installing (12 hours later...)

Played two regular matchmaking games - one team oddball with two on my team and four on the other (ridiculous), and one mismatched game of team BRs that chucked us out after 2 minutes.

Starting to think Christmas buyers should be getting the free stuff too.

Mickeroo · 30-12-2014 3:52pm

I played more matches in an hour and a half of the beta last night than I've managed since the MCC launched. Tried MCC yesterday for a bit and it's still nowhere near fixed, 2 matches in an hour.

IvoryTower · 02-01-2015 12:08pm

I'm playing mcc a good bit now(by my standards). I'm enjoying it despite the many problems and bugs so it would be nice if they ironed them out(doesnt look like any time soon tbh). I never get the feeling of working with a team seen as the teams don't stay together after each match. I find that means you give less of a **** and just go about doing your own thing all the time. I was invited to the odd party but didnt know how to accepts it!

With everything working my only issues would be.. I always seem to be playing slayer, there needs to be a way to play only objective games. Everyone seems to vote for slayer over them every time, cracks me up. If I wanted slayer every time i could just go into team slayer! The other thing is I would like to play halo 4 maps like we can do with 1,2 & 3. I mean, why not?

Anyway, at this rate it'll be fixed just in time for halo 5 to come out and we'll never have got to experience it's potential. But sure, ill keep at it

Stormhawk88 · 02-01-2015 1:16pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

I'm playing mcc a good bit now(by my standards). I'm enjoying it despite the many problems and bugs so it would be nice if they ironed them out(doesnt look like any time soon tbh). I never get the feeling of working with a team seen as the teams don't stay together after each match. I find that means you give less of a **** and just go about doing your own thing all the time. I was invited to the odd party but didnt know how to accepts it!

With everything working my only issues would be.. I always seem to be playing slayer, there needs to be a way to play only objective games. Everyone seems to vote for slayer over them every time, cracks me up. If I wanted slayer every time i could just go into team slayer! The other thing is I would like to play halo 4 maps like we can do with 1,2 & 3. I mean, why not?

Anyway, at this rate it'll be fixed just in time for halo 5 to come out and we'll never have got to experience it's potential. But sure, ill keep at it

Now that its slightly fixed I find myself just having a bit of craic rather than being serious and worrying about k/d or anything. Its probably going to take another six months if at all if they fix it properly.

IvoryTower · 02-01-2015 1:23pm

yeah thats it, where as i've always been fairly halo obsessed and would play for hours, i find myself turning it off after a few games, usually after a game crashed or i played 3 games in a row where the teams were uneven!

Mickeroo · 03-01-2015 6:38pm

Just moved the chat about the beta to the Halo 5 thread

Browning2010 · 17-01-2015 3:13pm

Finished all the campaigns there two days ago. I had great craic playing them all again, really enjoyed it! Halo 4 looks really impressive on xb1 imo.

IvoryTower · 18-01-2015 9:32am

I bought bf4 2 weeks ago and haven't played this since. Biggest disappointment I've ever had in gaming. If it's fixed in a month or two its hard to imagine too many are still bothered by then. In saying that I don't think it will be fixed.

Mickeroo · 18-01-2015 11:54am

IvoryTower wrote: »

I bought bf4 2 weeks ago and haven't played this since. Biggest disappointment I've ever had in gaming. If it's fixed in a month or two its hard to imagine too many are still bothered by then. In saying that I don't think it will be fixed.

Yup, the Halo 4 playlist was added the other day so I said I'd hop on, tried to find a match for about 20 minutes and nothing. Over 2 months since release and still broken, such a shame.

beercr8te · 25-01-2015 12:59pm

I gave up playing online, sticking to the campaigns and might try online again after the next patch.

Aimman · 30-01-2015 12:13pm

I took a long break from this while they sort the mess out. Have they address the issue of losing game saves halfway through a chapter? I've already had to repeat chapters on H1 and can't be bothered risking it again. Should have named it Halo: the Groundhog Day edition, because I keep having to go through the same thing over and over

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 04-02-2015 8:05pm

I heard they were bringing in a cross-game Rumble Pit playlist along with a new patch. I haven't been paying attention to the game since December so when I heard they were bringing out this playlist I instantly got interested again. I've always been much of a lone-player.

TerrorFirmer · 05-02-2015 10:32pm

I've gone back to it this week for the first time since end of December, working much better but still problematic at times.

IvoryTower · 06-02-2015 9:21am

How long does it take to get into a game? That was it's biggest problem imo. I'm not sure if i'll even go back to it at this stage, ive moved on!

Mickeroo · 06-02-2015 2:23pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

How long does it take to get into a game? That was it's biggest problem imo. I'm not sure if i'll even go back to it at this stage, ive moved on!

I still hop in every now and then to see if it's improved and the search times are still way too long, 9 times out of ten I end up dashboarding and playing something else. Hopefully the big update they're having a beta of in the states will finally sort things out. I've pretty much moved on too though, but I'd like to be able to hop on to Halo and get a few matches in if I've an hour to kill much like I do with Titanfall. As it is you'd be lucky to get two matches in an hour.

Lord TSC · 26-02-2015 5:11pm

Hey lads and lasses,

Just bought this, and was wondering...is it not possible to do a co-op campaign level with randoms? Does it have to be friends?

26-02-2015 5:40pm

Lord TSC wrote: »

Hey lads and lasses,

Just bought this, and was wondering...is it not possible to do a co-op campaign level with randoms? Does it have to be friends?

Got to be with friends I'm afraid, good crowd of us here that can give you a dig out!

TerrorFirmer · 03-03-2015 10:50pm

To be fair to the game, whilst the matchmaking issues were ongoing, and I was feeling hard done by, I ended up playing Halo 2 Anniversary campaign co-op....then Halo 4...then Halo 3 co-op....now moving onto Halo 1 co-op and Spartan Ops is after that.

With ODST also on the way, really can't say that the game doesn't offer phenomenal value regardless of a few issues.

04-03-2015 12:16am

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

To be fair to the game, whilst the matchmaking issues were ongoing, and I was feeling hard done by, I ended up playing Halo 2 Anniversary campaign co-op....then Halo 4...then Halo 3 co-op....now moving onto Halo 1 co-op and Spartan Ops is after that.

With ODST also on the way, really can't say that the game doesn't offer phenomenal value regardless of a few issues.

Any date set for ODST?

IvoryTower · 04-03-2015 9:14am

I traded mine in, no interest in the campaign, had completed them all before anyway

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 04-03-2015 11:26am

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/3-3-15-halo-the-master-chief-collection-content-update-notes

Another content update. This is hardly the one they were bangin' on about the last month and a bit, is it? - the "be all/end all" of updates to "fix everything"?

Mickeroo · 04-03-2015 11:33am

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/3-3-15-halo-the-master-chief-collection-content-update-notes

Another content update. This is hardly the one they were bangin' on about the last month and a bit, is it? - the "be all/end all" of updates to "fix everything"?

Yeah I think it's the one that there was meant to be a beta for originally. Reaction on reddit seems pretty positive.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 04-03-2015 11:44am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Yeah I think it's the one that there was meant to be a beta for originally. Reaction on reddit seems pretty positive.

I'm an optimistic guy so yeah I'm pretty anxious to see as well. I'd stay away from the official game's forums. Some load of pessimistic, begrudging, cynical (but very friendly!) people on there :P

IvoryTower · 04-03-2015 11:47am

it wouldn't surprise me if they fixed it just after i traded it! ill buy it back in a year or so if it's working 100% and i no longer feel bitter

Dades · 04-03-2015 11:49am

Haven't have the time recently to play - must get the update so next time I do have 30 mins I'm not staring at a 1GB download!

Sleazy Gonzales · 04-03-2015 4:48pm

I really hope you can stay in a playlist after the match has finished now

Add me for a few games. I've a serious lack of gamer friends

Gamertag is - Red Eyed Ripp3r

maximoose · 04-03-2015 5:41pm

I've played a handful of games over the last week or two and it wasn't too bad. Lack of post-game lobby still a killer.

Will give it another go at the weekend.

Meanwhile on reddit today, this took some dedication!

Mickeroo · 04-03-2015 5:49pm

The lack of a post game lobby was something they patched in a few months ago rather than a bug, no idea what the thinking behind it was though.

Sleazy Gonzales · 04-03-2015 6:10pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

The lack of a post game lobby was something they patched in a few months ago rather than a bug, no idea what the thinking behind it was though.

I can't imagine they promoted that "fix" too much before the patch

TerrorFirmer · 04-03-2015 8:56pm

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Any date set for ODST?

I was only looking last night and couldn't find anything. They had said spring.

TerrorFirmer · 04-03-2015 11:09pm

Well, just got the update and the game has gone from working fine online to not working at all again. :mad:

Sleazy Gonzales · 04-03-2015 11:13pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Well, just got the update and the game has gone from working fine online to not working at all again. :mad:

Give it a chance man. It's working really well for me and others by the looks of things. Have you got an open nat and all that jazz?

TerrorFirmer · 04-03-2015 11:30pm

simarconi wrote: »

Give it a chance man. It's working really well for me and others by the looks of things. Have you got an open nat and all that jazz?

Yup, it was working fine until the update, now it's just back to the original problem of endlessly searching for games.

Mickeroo · 05-03-2015 1:15am

Yeah I played for about an hour earlier, still can't get a match in big team, other playlists seem to be much the same as before.

Nalz · 15-03-2015 2:31am

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Yup, it was working fine until the update, now it's just back to the original problem of endlessly searching for games.

I'm still struggling to find my halo form, getting creamed anytime I play.

But the bigger problem is I just can't seem to find a Game! Matchmaking is a disaster :-(

Any game types easier than others to find a game?

Dades · 18-03-2015 5:05pm

Got some games in over the last couple of days. Mostly slaughtered, with the exception of one day (not sure if it matters but it was early in the day - so might have been pre-Americans?)

Finding matches okay, but having to manually enter the lobby and choose playlist again after a game is a PITA still.

Nalz · 18-03-2015 5:29pm

because Halo4 plays a little bit more like the more modern SEUps, I seem to be more successful at them.

The others I get creamed in

maximoose · 18-03-2015 5:33pm

Trilla wrote: »

because Halo4 plays a little bit more like the more modern SEUps, I seem to be more successful at them.

The others I get creamed in

Don't know if it's my connection or the game but I find the hit detection in Halo: CE and Halo 2 playlists to be awful.

3&4 play well for me now though

Mickeroo · 28-03-2015 7:59pm

April content update will apparently adding ranks to the other playlists at last.

Had a few games during the week and matchmaking seems to be working really well now.

29-03-2015 2:24am

Mickeroo wrote: »

April content update will apparently adding ranks to the other playlists at last.

Had a few games during the week and matchmaking seems to be working really well now.

Matchmaking improved?

Halo:The Master Chief Collection

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