I pre-ordered my copy of Halo: MCC. I live on the west coast, so I was able to pick it up at 9:00 rather than the midnight release time. I got it, brought it home, put it in my console, and started the install. Everything was going according to plan, so I went to bed. This was were things started to go wrong.
When I woke up the next morning, the game was still installing. It had made it to 75ish%, so it was playable, but I couldn’t access anything outside of Campaign or Halo: CE and Halo 2 (non-anniversary) custom games. I was okay with this, I’d just let it finish.
But it didn’t finish. 3:00 in the afternoon it was still at the same percentage. Hadn’t moved at all. After looking online for a while, I found that it was because it might have started the update before the game was finished. So I hesitantly uninstalled everything, took my console offline, and started the install. It was done in around 30 minutes. Things were starting to work for me. So I got onto my game. After playing around in the menus for a second, I realized I still couldn’t access anything outside of Campaign or Halo: CE and Halo 2 (non-anniversary) custom games. I was no longer okay with this. I had bought the game in order to play Halo 2: Anniversary multiplayer, and I wanted to play it. So I started the update, at roughly 4:00 yesterday.
I went to the store, got some dinner, bought a movie, and watched it, letting Halo update the entire time. It was going slowly, but installing nonetheless. I knew on my internet speed (according to my modem, my down/up speed is 1180 Kbps / 445 Kbps), this could take a while, so I wouldn’t rush it. After the movie, the update had reached 45%. At this rate, I could still play tonight. So I went and got on my 360 and played for a while. Finally, when I could no longer keep my eyes open (1:30 A.M.), I checked the game. 77%. I could go to bed, and it would most certainly finish before I got up in the morning.
This morning, at around 8:00, I got on, and the update had only reach 82%. As of right now, at 12:45, the update is at 83%.
I love Halo. The entire idea of the Master Chief Collection makes me so happy. But this is also taking up 60gb of space on my hard drive and I can’t even play it. Does anyone have any solutions for making this update go faster?
Things I’ve tried:
- Pause the download, then resume.- Disconnect from the internet with download active, then reconnect.- Pause, disconnect, reconnect, resume.- Pause, disconnect, power down, turn on, reconnect, resume.- Pause, disconnect, power down, unplug, then reverse.- Any other variations thereof.Things I can’t do (for various reasons):
- Alter modem settings (I’m not paying for the internet, so I can’t mess with it. I know how, I just can’t.)- Alter modem connectivity (see above)I’m willing to try almost anything at this point for the update, but this is what I have and can’t do. If someone has anything that can help me out, please let me know.