I could rant and rave, but I wont. I dunno where else to post this, it’s just a list of the glitches I’ve experienced so far so 343 or whoever can fix it.
I’m not going to even mention match making, haven’t bothered to play it.
- Can’t even connect to anyone- my friends and I are all tech savvy, port forwarding with our routers and open NAT aside, we cannot even get into the same lobby. All the first fix managed to do it seems is fix an issue where party chat said an invited friend had joined although they never showed up in your group in the roster. Now they just plain can’t join, but at least my Xbox is no longer lying to me.
2.invites from party or friends list don’t work. When the invite flashes on our screens, holding the guide button does nothing. - My symbol doesn’t show up in game stat stuff. I have a very specific symbol I always make for any new halo game, and was excited to see that one symbol and control scheme can be shared across all 4 games. This is not working. I’ve had to individually set my control scheme for each game (pressing x to share across all 4 games did not work,any of the 3 times I tried), my symbol thing always shows up as a randomized one rather than customized.
- When this all gets fixed, reset stat rankings for campaign too. Today I got paired with a rival who had 18k points right at the start of a level, in an area where there was nothing to kill. I was trailing by tons of points, with no chance to catch up. Lots of stat boosting glitches seem to exist, ruining a game mechanic I was excited to see implemented.
- Not a glitch, just an issue. Customization of Spartans for multi-player sucks. It’s not enough to see the colors, I want to see what my moving spartan looks like as I change the colors. This has been around since halo 2 in 2004, that bit at LEAST should be included here. I understand it’s hard to put in 4 games worth of armor configurations, but if I can’t see what the color looks like on my avatar, it’s not implemented right.
Other than that, it executes beautifully. For the first time ever, i can play campaign elements with friends without any movement delay (the one time I was able to connect and play anyway). I love the uniform campaign scoring across the 4 games, the visuals are amazing. but if I can’t play with friends, regardless of the other laughable issues with matchmaking, there is no point.
On a side note, Microsoft and their subsidiaries need to step up their game. If someone at 343 or Microsoft came out and said that the release version was plagued with bugs and needed another 1-12 weeks, as a community we would have been fine with that, even appreciated it. But rushing a broken game to release has probably pushed plenty of people off the Xbox platform for good. This is becoming a more and more common issue across developers. If broken games were sent to market before it was possible to update post release it could kill the company, in 2006 and before this would have been beyond unnacceptable. But if Microsoft and all its little arms can release working games from day 1 again they could gain a huge edge on the current Gen 8 consoles. How many people got work off this week to play halo on the Xbox one? The sooner this gets fixed, the sooner we all will stop considering selling our xbox one system.