I know I have a good connection. But this is beyond garbage, How about addressing this in a TU? This has been a constant problem for people since Halo 4’s launch. No TU has addressed it, no weekly update has addressed it, it makes your game unplayable 343.
> I know I have a good connection. But this is beyond garbage, How about addressing this in a TU? This has been a constant problem for people since Halo 4’s launch. No TU has addressed it, no weekly update has addressed it, it makes your game unplayable 343.
I’m not quite familiar with this problem…can you explain what happened?
> > I know I have a good connection. But this is beyond garbage, How about addressing this in a TU? This has been a constant problem for people since Halo 4’s launch. No TU has addressed it, no weekly update has addressed it, it makes your game unplayable 343.
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> I’m not quite familiar with this problem…can you explain what happened?
It blackscreened 10 times in one match? How are you not understanding that?
> > > I know I have a good connection. But this is beyond garbage, How about addressing this in a TU? This has been a constant problem for people since Halo 4’s launch. No TU has addressed it, no weekly update has addressed it, it makes your game unplayable 343.
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> > I’m not quite familiar with this problem…can you explain what happened?
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> It blackscreened 10 times in one match? How are you not understanding that?
must have either bad host or lag switching
> > > I know I have a good connection. But this is beyond garbage, How about addressing this in a TU? This has been a constant problem for people since Halo 4’s launch. No TU has addressed it, no weekly update has addressed it, it makes your game unplayable 343.
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> > I’m not quite familiar with this problem…can you explain what happened?
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> It blackscreened 10 times in one match? How are you not understanding that?
Relax, I was just trying to ask/expand in detail if there was anything you or anyone else were doing in particular that might have brought it on. Or if there were any other issues that could have also contributed.
Or… Host bridging. Sorry to hear this man. I’ve had this happen a few times too in MM.
This actually isn’t very normal, especially in War Games of all locations.
For Campaign and Spartan Ops, however, it is entirely dependent on your host’s connection, and it in relation to the other player’s connections.
But in War Games, it’s based off of one person, who it deems to have the best, and then it uses the rest of the people’s connections to, so to speak, ‘support it’. Sometimes it’s choice is wrong, but most of the time it’s not. I strongly believe what you’ve found here is someone lag switching, or just a very rare instance of it selecting the worst host.
I can understand your frustration, but so long as it was one game, I don’t see much harm. Couldn’t you have just left? There’s no penalty for leaving for a first time, or even a few after that. 3500XP is not worth the anger to endure this, but in full honesty, I believe it’s a bit too late for this kind of RARE (and I stress this notion that it is) problem to be fixed, or at least it would be extremely inconvenient for players. The only true solution is dedicated servers, but even then this would still happen, just less often.
Basically, it’s not necessarily your connection, but it’s not necessarily 343i’s fault either. I would place my money on it being a person was lag switching in your game. Or host bridging, as mentioned above.
> I know I have a good connection. But this is beyond garbage, How about addressing this in a TU? This has been a constant problem for people since Halo 4’s launch. No TU has addressed it, no weekly update has addressed it, it makes your game unplayable 343.
Wow 10 blackscreens in a game is alot.
The highest I had was 7 in 1 game.
I can tell you how it was.
Enemy team in Big Team was going to lose,
2 guys quit the game - Blackscreen.
Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
Then some teammates were pissed because of blackscreen and quit.
What happend? Blackscreen.
I wish 343i would ban people that quit games to often, for a week or longer from matchmaking (lets say if the quit more than ten games on a day).
> I wish 343i would ban people that quit games to often, for a week or longer from matchmaking (lets say if the quit more than ten games on a day).
That’s absurd.
> > I know I have a good connection. But this is beyond garbage, How about addressing this in a TU? This has been a constant problem for people since Halo 4’s launch. No TU has addressed it, no weekly update has addressed it, it makes your game unplayable 343.
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> Wow 10 blackscreens in a game is alot.
> The highest I had was 7 in 1 game.
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> I can tell you how it was.
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> Enemy team in Big Team was going to lose,
> 2 guys quit the game - Blackscreen.
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> Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
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> Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
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> Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
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> Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
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> Then new people joined in the enemy team for a few seconds and quit-Blackscreen.
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> Then some teammates were pissed because of blackscreen and quit.
> What happend? Blackscreen.
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> I wish 343i would ban people that quit games to often, for a week or longer from matchmaking (lets say if the quit more than ten games on a day).
15, because it is possible for this game to lag 10 times in one day apparently. Then there are people like me who cannot stand lag and just quit out of a laggy game. Maybe make a smart enough computer to identify the reason of the quit rather than just chalking it up because there are instances where you just get booted from the game because of the connection and it counts as a quit.
EDIT: Make the time spent banned about 15 minutes like in Reach because the last thing this game needs is another drop in population because of unreasonable ban times.
ive had a btb game lag several times then it reset the game. as in our kills were reset but scores stayed the same and all vehicles and weapons reset. its happened more than once and my connection is great. luckily for you nobody has said you just suck or your connection is bad. also its not as rare as some would lead you to believe since this happens regularly to me and my friend even when not playing together. all i can say is good luck and quit more.
I had 30 kills in a game yesterday that didnt count because the host quit and gave everyone in the game an incomplete and a L. Lots of bugs in this game need to be fixed.
> > I wish 343i would ban people that quit games to often, for a week or longer from matchmaking (lets say if the quit more than ten games on a day).
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> That’s absurd.
OK but I have 1 question.
Whats better for you?
- People that left Halo 4 because they were banned because of massive quitting in mm.
or
- People that left Halo 4 because they are pissed because that blackscreen almost every 2nd / 3rd game in MM ?
“I wish 343i would ban people that quit games to often, for a week or longer from matchmaking (lets say if the quit more than ten games on a day).”
Banning people won’t solve the server issues.
And I firmly believe this is what the main problem is.
No one should have to be forced to grind through an impossibly laggy or buggy game out of fear if being banned for leaving it.
Also I keep hearing about lag buttons… If this is some hack/cheat players are using then 343 needs to go after them and fix their servers.
I haven’t played btb in over a month because of the lag or black waiting screen, I played this morning and wow I didn’t miss it. I’ll stick to action sack where I haven’t had this problem as much. It is very annoying though. I don’t understand why it pauses the game just because someone joins or quits.
I’m giving 343 the benefit of the doubt and saying it’s because of the low population. Wait, I guess that means the population does affect the game…huh.
So far the average wait time for me on the wait screen has been 5 minutes… That’s right 5 bloody min!
Set controller down…make a coffee and a Samich come back to controller and its still waiting…seriously.
Only way out is to shut the Xbox off at the console.
I have also been in games where all of a sudden the screen goes black then ~poof~ everyone has been kicked back to the wait screen with logged out “Xs” next to their names. O_o
This stuff wasn’t happening to me last week.
What’s up 343i?
Please tell me there is a fix for this in the works soon.
What happened to the “Teammate joined” notification instead of the blackscreens. And I’m sick of black screens. They need to make it blue or yellow. Change up the boringness.
Ten in one game? I would’ve quit long before then! They definitely need to fix the losing XP thing.
I’ve also noticed an excessive number of black screens in halo 4. Not only do they occur much more frequently than in reach and 3 (especially 3) but they last REALLY long, sometimes up to 2 minutes. I cannot for the life of me remember a black screen in reach or 3 that lasted longer than 30 seconds.
There are 2 things that i think cause it:
- 343 has awful servers
- join in progress