Issues with Coop Campaign

Games Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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Issue
When attempting to load either The Maw (Halo CE) or Outskirts (H2A) in legendary co-op the game fails to load and either; sends both players back to main menu, or crashes the application.

I’ve seen a few threads on Halo Waypoint and the Steam Community but can’t find any consistent solutions to what appear to be common issues with playing online co-op. From my experience it seems that I’m able to load the map much faster - using an SSD, and my progress bar is either complete, or I load into the start up cinematic, whereas my buddy is still trying to load the level using a mechanical drive. This shouldn’t be an issue, but a few suggestions recommended transferring his game onto an SSD, which isn’t an option.

Others have recommended restarting the PC or game - to no avail, or updating NAT/port settings, which are also unsuccessful. For the record we’ve played every other CE level through and could complete Cairo Station on H2A, after we realised campaign was a no-go we moved onto multiplayer which was fine.

Has anyone encountered a similar problem and managed to find a consistent workaround/fix?

Every thread I’ve found has either been locked or dead due to no response from 343, etc. Would appreciate any suggestions or feedback, as our play sessions are limited I’d really like to avoid trial and error troubleshooting for hours on end.

Thanks!!

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Having the same issue. My friend is on a HDD and i’m on SSD. Whenever i host or he host same issue.

I even transfer my game from my SSD to my HDD but it didn’t change. The thing that surprise me is we have no response from 343 and they didn’t reconize the issue in any of their post. It only happen for H2A, we could play HR and CEA with no problem.

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Holy crap the exact same thing happened to me(SSD) and my friend(HDD) on the level the Maw except it would start up but slowly desync i guess then on H2A after we completed a level in legendary it just kicked us out mid load.

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Great - thanks both.

Sounds as though there’s a clear issue with drive load speed when playing coop. This does appear to have been highlighted already in various forms, but 343 have never acknowledged it, hopefully this thread can be used to bring it to the attention of a mod or dev?

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Has anyone managed to fix this issue yet?

I’ve still had no reply from 343 - my support ticket has also gone completely under the radar. This is super frustrating now as I’ve got access to the H3 flight and am excited to play but really want to finish the existing lineup before I do…

Really disappointing that I’ve just had radio silence.