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[Princess Carl]

Parties are still broken, for fucking fucks sake.

 

[Mesonak]

We're not going to be able to verify 100% if this works until several days, I bet. Gotta wait for the rest of the playerbase to install it.

SO COOL DOWN

 

[JdFoX187]

Can I have a game with even teams? Maybe just even once? I'm willing to wait a bit longer. Is that too much to ask? Guess so. Shit's still broken.

 

[Shady859]

thanks for post, hopped on and started DL.

 

[Princess Carl]

We're not going to be able to verify 100% if this works until several days, I bet. Gotta wait for the rest of the playerbase to install it.

SO COOL DOWN

party stability between two people who have the patch isn't something I need to wait for.

So no thanks.

 

[Foxycotin]

Party MM must be flawless by this weekend. Please 343 redeem your damn self.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

My 1st attempt gave me strong hopes... Now Im stucked at searching just like I ever did.

This is ridiculous.


Trying alone btw.

 

[Fotos]

Party MM must be flawless by this weekend. Please 343 redeem your damn self.

Ha

 

[Sephzilla]

My 1th attempt gave me strong hopes... Now Im stucked at searching just like I ever did.

Ftfy

 

[Coolbgdog12]

I'm still getting unbalanced games and on my third search it's been several minutes now.

 

[Arcane0ne]

Matchmaking works much better than before for me.

 

[Defect]

Actually got a few games searching with a party.

 

[Fotos]

Works great when searching alone. Parties not so much

 

[JdFoX187]

Getting standbyed. Good shit, 343i.

 

[jbug617]

Found a match in minute playing Team Slayer.

 

[TechOne]

I've been searching for 15 min with no luck. :'(

 

[m23]

Getting matches but teams are uneven and party is getting splitting.

 

[ozz ex machina]

I've been searching for 15 min with no luck. :'(

I assume you are restarting after 5 mins? Searching longer than that will not be beneficial to you....

 

[Madness]

4v4 Chill Out CE, found in two minutes, crashed about 10 seconds in, and got a match incomplete.

 

[Daigoro]

got patch, hard reset, tried solo for 15 minutes. no dice.

i will continue being as patient as possible, but im not holding my breath that this is going to be working well any time soon.

 

[Cushions]

Couldn't connect to host every time

 

[kittens]

Full time grad school, full time job, wife, daughter. With all of my free time to play Halo.

BR starts are still vastly superior on a casual level, imo.

 

[Onikaan]

A few hiccups... beyond those we played 2 games of Halo 2 classic and they were AWESOME!

 

[TechOne]

I assume you are restarting after 5 mins? Searching longer than that will not be beneficial to you....

Yes. Every 4 or 5 mins I'm restarting.

 

[JdFoX187]

Searching ever since I got standbyed. Still nothing. Think it's more broken for me now than pre-patch.

 

[Sarobi]

I've managed to get into two games so far, and both started the game with no players.. wut

 

[16BitNova]

I had one game going only for it to be disconnected with a minute left. I understand to give it some time, but damn, I just want to play some Halo..

 

[RoKKeR]

Teams showing up in pre-game lobby is still a mess.

Parties still a mess.

Active roster still a mess.

And "Setting/starting up game..." takes an ungodly amount of time.

High quality 1.4GB I just downloaded onto my Xbox.

 

[JaggedSac]

Lol, from the sounds of it, not the successful matchmaking patch we were hoping for?

 

[JdFoX187]

Is there a reason players weren't forced offline to download the patch? Seems counterproductive to continue allowing them to play.

 

[Kingbrave]

Finally got into a Team Slayer match.

Blue team gets first kill and then I get the second one...game over! hahaha

 

[ZServ]

Still broken as hell for me. Now I hang at "connecting players" instead of searching.

343 provin' the talent

 

[KevinG]

Just got into a 13/10 game. Got standbyed midway through. Lost connection.

 

[Random17]

Lol, from the sounds of it, not the successful matchmaking patch we were hoping for?

Well matchmaking seemingly works, it's just that a number of the things on the patch notes are still broken like Parties.

Also Naded confirms that some new glitches have been introduced; custom game UI is laggy.

 

[HGStormy]

4th match was laggy as hell
5th match crashed while loading, and messed up the UI when I went back to searching

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

So I've been playing Truth and Reconciliation on Legendary for two nights straight. I spent several really frustrating hours on it, and my throat is still sore from all the cursing and yelling at the TV. But I finally got close to the end of the level, and I uncovered the terminal. Of course, it took me to the Halo Channel to watch it, but I didn't want to watch it, so I skipped it. Back to the game.

Only the game requires the update to continue. I cancel it, I'll update later, let me get back to my campaign. But no, that won't work, it demands the update. Sigh... Oh well, I suppose I'll update, I mean, the updater will surely save and quit before it does anything, right? Right?

Wrong.




Dear 343i

FUCK!
YOU!

 

[ShapeGSX]

Is there a reason players weren't forced offline to download the patch? Seems counterproductive to continue allowing them to play.

Because you don't want to kill someone's single player game for a multiplayer patch.

 

[JdFoX187]

Finally find a match. 5v4. FML

 

[Kyzon]

How can I check on the update patch?

Did the playlist change or is it the same few ones?

 

[Thorgi]

Thank god I have Smash on the way for tomorrow. Guess it's nice that things continue to improve!

 

[Thursday War]

Dont care. Multiplayer works. Halo is awesome.

.

 

[Jonesy7707]

Well I finally got in a game of 5v5 after 10mins of searching and it went well (not me personally) but as soon as the game ended it crashed back to the home screen.

Searched for another game but gave up after another 10mins...

Searching for payers > players found >>>>>>> searching for more players >>> connecting session >> connection lost

I'm in Australia though where it's the middle of the day so I'll test it again tonight.

 

[daedalius]

Working pretty well for me, haven't played with a party yet though.

Getting matches pretty quick in btb. AR starts need to go though...

 

[blackMamba1187]

Got through a couple matches! Hooray! Too exhausted for competitive multi, though. Happy as hell that it seems to be working now and hopefully everyone else has good results after the update.

 

[Jordan117]

Well, I'm 3-for-3* on uneven team games so far in the Halo 2 Classic playlist. Why they couldn't apply some simple toggle to not launch team-based games with an odd number of players is beyond me.

* lol, 343

 

[Sephzilla]

Big Team finds people really fast but Team Slayer is slow as fuck

 

[AHappyPanda]

Played 1 game, 11/10, 5v6, split my friend and I.

Could not find another game after, tried for another 25 minutes.

Before, I found all these issues comical and remained hopeful and believed they would be fixed with the patch, at least some to the point that it was functional...now I'm just downright pissed.

 

[Bornstellar]

So I've been playing Truth and Reconciliation on Legendary for two nights straight. I spent several really frustrating hours on it, and my throat is still sore from all the cursing and yelling at the TV. But I finally got close to the end of the level, and I uncovered the terminal. Of course, it took me to the Halo Channel to watch it, but I didn't want to watch it, so I skipped it. Back to the game.

Only the game requires the update to continue. I cancel it, I'll update later, let me get back to my campaign. But no, that won't work, it demands the update. Sigh... Oh well, I suppose I'll update, I mean, the updater will surely save and quit before it does anything, right? Right?

Wrong.




Dear 343i

FUCK!
YOU!

Why didn't you save and quit then run the update?

 

[Vire]

Teams showing up in pre-game lobby is still a mess.

Parties still a mess.

Active roster still a mess.

And "Setting/starting up game..." takes an ungodly amount of time.

High quality 1.4GB I just downloaded onto my Xbox.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

So I've been playing Truth and Reconciliation on Legendary for two nights straight. I spent several really frustrating hours on it, and my throat is still sore from all the cursing and yelling at the TV. But I finally got close to the end of the level, and I uncovered the terminal. Of course, it took me to the Halo Channel to watch it, but I didn't want to watch it, so I skipped it. Back to the game.

Only the game requires the update to continue. I cancel it, I'll update later, let me get back to my campaign. But no, that won't work, it demands the update. Sigh... Oh well, I suppose I'll update, I mean, the updater will surely save and quit before it does anything, right? Right?

Wrong.



Dear 343i

FUCK!
YOU!

All these reports of campaign saves resetting have me terrified. I'm at Two Betrayals LASO and I can't find the strength to check the playlist after the patch...