https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5QAgPs5Pyg
Watch the YouTube video above so you can see what’s happening as I explain it.
I decided to try Invasion after not playing it for a long time. I start out as a Spartan on Defense. Unfortunately, the game was laggy as all hell. I’m used to lag in Reach games, so despite me being annoyed by this, I soldiered on. A black screen finally shows up and lasts for two minutes. Yay. Upon leaving the black screen, we find out the round ended without us being able to choose a loadout and I’m now an Elite on Offense. The game is still laggy and eventually, once we hit phase 3 of this Invasion round, we’re hit by another two minute long black screen fit. It would periodically load us back in to the game and boot us in to blackscreen for these two minutes.
Now, here’s where the fun part begins.
The last time we’re loaded back in to the game during the blackscreen shenanigans, it’s showing me a respawn screen facing the wrong direction, as if I’m a Spartan on Defense. I’m an Elite on Offense, now, so this shouldn’t be happening. The screen fades to black once more and upon seeing the game fade in again, sure enough…
…I’m now a Spartan on Defense, and it’s still phase 3 of the same round. wat.png
Several things are obviously wrong about what’s going on here:
- I spawned as a Spartan in the area where phase 1 begins on the map despite it still being phase 3. - The defending team (my team) miraculously has two points while the offense team now has 0. Being phase 3, offense should have two points by now, and given I’m on the defending team, my team shouldn’t have any points because it’s impossible to have points as defense anyway. The game not only switched the team’s positions but it also transferred our points as well. - The new attacking elites managed to capture the core and bring it to their goal, which is something I actually wanted to see happen, given the circumstances. They score, Jeff Steizer announced “Elites Win!”, the score is now 2-1 with…defending team winning and…the game is STILL going on after they scored the last point. After a couple more seconds, the game timer ends and Jeff then proceeds to announce “Spartans Win!”…in the same round.I’m absolutely dumbfounded by what’s going on, but one last weird incident happens.
Normally, an Invasion game in Matchmaking is supposed to only have two rounds total: one attacking and one defending round for each team. However, since this particular match became so out of whack, it loads up a THIRD round. This most likely happened because I started off the Invasion game as a Spartan on Defense. When the second round was going on and the team change happened, the game probably thought the previous round was still the first one, and it thinks this new round is the second.
Come to think of it, when the first round “ended” after the first black screen fit and I spawned in as an elite, Jeff never announced that the round was over. The game probably still thought that the second round was still the first, and it tried to “correct itself” mid-game by forcing us to change teams. That explains why, after changing to a Spartan, I spawned in the 1st phase area.
The game “restarted”, but it didn’t.
I just…I don’t know anymore, guys…