This needs to get fixed ASAP, or this is going to be a BBB thing for advertising a product that in fact does not function as advertised. Its been years. Rebuild the whole thing if you have to, or put it up front that co op on the MCC is only for halo 1, 3, 4, Reach and ODST. Pick one. But this false advertising stuff isn’t okay… It’s malicious.
I’m giving this a month. If we don’t get an update, I’m just going to have everyone I know that has the game report this.
This is one of my favoeite gaming franchises, and seeing how this has been handled is more than disappointing.
I have the same exact issue as you trying to play online with a buddy for almost a year waiting on this stupid fix, playing through all the Halo games in canonical order then crashes on Halo 2 Oracle every time we try it. This is disgustingly sad support from the makers to not fix yet.
For what it’s worth, I am having a constant crash in single player from Delta Halo onwards, can’t even get past the loading screen. reading this thread has blown my mind
Me and a buddy are marathoning these games and this came like a hit to the gut man. We couldn’t pass the bridge in Metropolis without getting booted and much worse, got 3 quarters of the way through The Arbiter and the game booted us when we were flying the Banshees
Like many of you, my online co-op campaign with a friend crashed and crashed multiple times upon restarts (H2 Metropolis about midway through the bridge on Legendary). Its funny, before attempting it on Legendary we put in on easy, hopped in ghosts and sped through the level (to pick up the soccer ball/scarab gun achievements) and encountered no game crashes. Through a bit of testing we found that the game didn’t crash (on Metropolis on Legendary) when you leave the scorpion behind and do the level in the warthog (telling us this might be linked to the scorpion somehow?). 343 has clearly added a hidden challenge mode for the players benefit! Beat the levels without large vehicles. In our case you can beat the whole level only to have it crash in the final cut-scene, very disappointing.
Same thing happend to me in halo 2 along with the very begging of halo 3 no mater how many missions we skip it always seems to crash the session out completely we both have high end rigs and good stable internet
Adding to the noise. H2’s campaign is still routinely booting me out of co-op with a “connection interrupted” message, and just now it happened twice on the bridge in Metropolis. At this point, either some dedicated modder has to dig in and attempt to fix it, or it’s just never going to be fixed.
343 for the love of god at least address this so we can know you’re working on it metropolis is literally unfinishable with a friend this is honestly really disappointing as halo 2 is such a great game
Here we are in 2023 and the MCC’s Halo 2 remains in a broken state. And not just the co-op, the performance as well. Its very typical of 343, just look at Halo 4’s split-screen performance or despawning vehicles and weapons, limitations from the 360 era that will never be addressed … but I thought they said they were listening to what we wanted? Yeah right.
The MCC started as a single game; Halo 2 Anniversary (then more games were added and it became a collection) and to this day the H2 part of the collection is still busted. Yet all I read is people repeating what they heard from others; “The MCC is great now and the lead of that project is in charge of Infinite, woo-hoo, Halo Infinite is saved!” So they guy that couldn’t fix H2 is in charge of Infinite and we’re supposed to happy about that?
They also removed an accessibility feature in the MCC that was in Halo 2. In Halo 2 Vista (aka Halo 2 PC) you could swap between mouse and keyboard on the fly. This was great for someone like myself who randomly gets tremors and often needs to switch input types. This feature was originally included in the MCC, then it was removed. I’ve given them plenty of feedback about this but 343 don’t really care what disabled people want either, they are all talk. This is the same developer that wouldn’t allow us to have the red reticle in Halo Infinite PC, they don’t get balance like at all … also in Infinite (which has been out for over a year) they cannot be bothered to balance the weapon and vehicle spawns, this is one of the most basic things when designing a Halo map, I should know, I created countless custom MP maps for Halo 1 and 2, something my team realized was that the weapon spawns/placement/type needed to be consistent, not randomized, nor sub variants of a weapon, because that would lead to unbalanced and unfun gameplay for most of the players.
My boyfriend and I can’t even complete Delta Halo without it crashing. It is so evident that the game has issues with too many vehicles on the screen. Whether it’s Delta Halo or Quarantine Zone, if you are driving a tank and blow up an enemy vehicle, the game WILL inevitably crash. I do not understand how this has gone unpatched for so many years. We are going to be hitting NINE YEARS of this game being on the market and even after the big fix Halo 2 is still BROKEN. What I’m even more confused about is why there hasn’t been any mod fixes for the game yet. I don’t understand how the community has allowed this game to remain in the condition it’s in, because it’s evident 343 can’t do anything about it. For the love of god, SOMEONE FIX THIS GAME.
So my boyfriend and I noticed the game likes to crash whenever we were using the Scorpion to blow up enemy vehicles. Sure enough, when we bypassed the Scorpion and ran through the mission with ghosts, not a single crash happened. I don’t know what it is about the game not liking it when the tank blows up vehicles, but it’s so frustrating that you can’t even play the game as it was intended just to get through it. Hope this helps anyone who’s just trying to get a mission complete. (If that even works! My boyfriend’s game only logged him for completing 7 out of the 13 missions even though we played all of them together start to end! What a joke 343i)