MCC Still broken, MS giving refunds and 343 apologizes.

Geez, old, I posted the GS story on this yesterday in the MCC sticky where it belonged and it was the match making that had a hiccup which 343 apologized for and said they'd have the patch to fix it in a day or something like that but hey. nice try anyway. :P

Whelp, sorry TC, integrity compels me to g'head and say oops, looks like things are still a bit messy, c'mon 343, I expect mooaar from you. :P

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/halo-the-master-chief-collection-matchmaking-issue/1100-6423559/

Lol majority of the work is outsourced.

it's buried on gaf.

But Halo 2 Ann is strictly a creative assembly move as far as the multiplayer, and the matchmaking might be them as well or one of the other 2 or 3 studios that helped. No details on how much was done by who, but like most triple A projects a lot of the work was outsourced.

Unless you, I don't know, test it before you release it for retail? The company for whom I work doesn't look kindly upon broken code released to production. There's a reason we Unit Test, System Integration Test, and test in Model Office before moving code to a production environment.

343 completely removed 4 online playlists from the game in hopes to reduce some of the issues the collection has but they promise that more patches will be coming soon with one to hit anytime now

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/11/14/halo-mcc-removes-playlists-as-matchmaking-woes-continue/

Good thing it includes alot of campaigns.

I like developers that react to issues very fast, it shows true dedication.

Couldn't play Halo3 coop last night, wouldnt connect :(

What the hell's going on at the moment? That's the third of the bigger titles that have released recently with a shit show of a launch.

bu bu muh cloud?!

How you gonna let a guy like Tormentos crawl up in your butt and make you this upset?

I know, I've told myself I'm better then that. Sometimes the guy just needs a wake up call though.

I own an X1 and couldn't connect to Halo3 coop last night, no matter which person tried to host. How is that acceptable?

Haha, good on you man. I'll admit, I was half serious, but I was also trolling for some anger scraps. You won this battle, but the war is far from over..

Next time Bishop.. Next time.

I don't understand the issues TBH. at first i figured it was because i was doing campaign only, but last night i hopped in some MP with friends. Took about 3 mins to find my 1st match. after that everything went smooth.

they're trying to run 4 games at once, PSN can't even handle 1 game by itself

Plays Diablo 3 like a champ so your statement is false and reeks of DC.

I agree, it's not really worth a lot of this media attention. I think they'll fix it quickly and it's not uncommon for games to launch with online issues now. The real news depends on how long they take to deal with it.

I dunno why people keep comparing this to Drive Club. Didn't Drive Club get a bad score for just being shit, rather than for matchmaking issues at launch?

I´m a big Halo fan, actually it´s one of my favorite games, it saddens and worries me to see that Greatness is now knocking on MS´ doors.

Meh, I don't think I ever really get much for games at launch, this is a good reason why I don't.

It is unplayable garbage. Single player has too many bugs and multiplayer is unplayable. How was this game released in this state? Somebody should have seen what they were releasing and put a stop to it.

Apology accepted Captain Needa

Xbots will buy anything with a halo sticker and love it. Just look at the reviews and fanboys defending this POS some even claim it's better than Orange Box. MS takes your money then says sorry the single and multiplayer is broken and xbots says MCC is the greatest DERP ??

Me either. I'm not going to start playing it until next week anyways. Not a big deal. If there are still issues with Matchmaking and other bugs 3 weeks from now, then I'll start bitching about it and cows can continue to bash 343 and XB1. I'm sure they will continue to do it anyways, even if the game is running beautifully. lol!!

We should try? Or maybe more SO.

@Desmonic: Certain Affinity and Saber helped with H2A and are helping with Halo 5, so it isn't just 343i tackling it alone.

Got an update. Anyone know what it fixed?

343i in abject tatters. Doesn't bode well for Halo 5. No wonder Game Informer didn't put it on their most anticipated of 2015 list.

343 delays this week's update to sometime later in the week for those who were looking for a patch http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/18/halo-the-master-chief-collection-hit-by-content-update-delays

Yesterday downtime with xbl, today another delay for a h6lo patch.

Its getting pathetic.

Lemmings must be really disappointed, because they love the cloud so much.

Except they're all broken too.

Is MCC fixed yet then?

The only problem that I had is with the music and not reverting to my last save on Halo 2 (which they fixed). I'm up to Halo 4 now which has some major FPS drops in places but the other games were fine.

Sure hope the patch gets out and works before the community lose interest and go CODAW/Evolve/BF Hardline/the next flavour of the month FPS. It's already looking bad on Twitch.

A Delay is a Delay no matter how many minutes,hours or days !!

FYI...

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/halo-the-master-chief-collection-matchmaking-patch/1100-6423710/

It's ture. Lemmings are the ultimate hypocrites and idiots. Oh, and did you know, 6.0 games are "great" now?

Looks like The Order 1886 only has to match MCC's 6.0 for lems to think it's a great must have game...also interesting.

Seriously, how many times does SolidTy have to post the error info for you lems to stop with the "only matchmaking" problem lies?

Post's like yours is the reason the keeps spamming that info over every related topic. Lems are such slimy and deceitful people, "matchmaking slowness"?

Game Specific Bugs & Single Player:

Halo CE:

- Audio in Single Player is flawed. Loops sometimes forever/overlapping/different tracks playing at the same time/wrong sounds (More..).

- Completed Single Player games sometimes don't save.

- When playing co-op campaign, it seems impossible to finish a mission. The game is always disrupted with disconnects (More...).

H2A:

- Campaign seems to randomly crash when attempting to start a mission.

H3:

- One user reports that he can't play Halo 3 at all. No single or multiplayer. Game freezes at the loading screen. As this happens only with one user so far we need more people confirming this here...

Mixed:

- Cross game singleplayer playlist skips mission (specifically Mission 6 on "Normal")

- The Master Chief Collection sometimes responds poorly to snapping. This behavior has exhibited crashing, freezing, and persistent significant frame drops.

- These are only a few things that happened to me and the players I played with last night. Please add more.

Matchmaking bugs:

- If you switch between the playlists you lose your party most of the time. You can't take your party and often don't get asked if you want to.

- Sometimes the teams get shuffled during the loading screen. E.g If you are with friends in the "red" team while voting for the map it doesn't mean you are in the same team when the game starts. "Team formulation" seems very broken (More...).

- Colors/Emblems, etc. is not available in Matchmaking and you just get a generic/random emblem.

- It doesn't give priority to your party when creating the teams. I've played about 10 Team Slayer games and most of the time was in the opposite team of my friend.

- Big Team Battle description says it's 8vs8, but it's only 6vs6.

- Rank up bug that let's you get the highest rank via a Matchmaking/Custom Game bug. Details: http://redd.it/2lyo3c

Custom Game bugs:

- Team colours shuffle after each game. And because changing team colours is now a 4-5 step process this is very annoying.

- Settings shuffle if you make some changes after the game and you have to setup everything again.

- You can't join a game after it started. It always says it's full, even if it isn't.

- The game gives the host randomly to players depending on the game. We played a few H2A games with a perfect and lag-free host. When we switched to H2C with the same players the game was suddenly unplayable, because it gave the host to someone else.

Other problems / missing features:

- Game chat randomly doesn't work for some players. Many people meet in parties.

- Players randomly disconnect from the game.

- The game freezes sometimes during the loading screen. Often after a game ends.

- You can't see the ping in matchmaking or custom game. In any game. This is really important.

- Changing the team colour is now a 4-5 step process. We were able to press "x" and could right away change the team. Now you have to press "X" to open the roster. Scroll to your gamertag and select it with "A". Then choose "Change Color" from four different options with "A". Then select the colour and leave the menu again.

- Loading times for maps seem extremely long. It also doesn't seem to preload the map like it always did.

- The roster doesn't work right. It often doesn't show anyone or only a few of the people that are online and sometimes you can't invite players. Sometimes the game get's unresponsive/freezes after using the roster or a snapped app.

- You can't see anymore who's talking in game. This used to be an important feature in previous games. Now you are in matchmaking with new players and just have to "guess".

- You can't see who is wearing a mic unless they speak.

- Less customization options for game type settings in custom games.

- There should be an option to turn off (or at least lower the volume of) the menu music. It used to be only in the main menu in the past, but now it's everywhere and just far too loud.

- The roster always shows 1/16 players for every group/friend, even if they play with more people,

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Get off it already Halo MCC is a buggy and broken POS that's it. Stop trying to defend this because it's you xbox fanboys biggest hype for the xbone.