Just got "trolled" by MM & JiP

Games Other Halo
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I swear I’ve just been trolled by the matchmaking software, JiP, and the game itself all on one go on one match.

Wth am I talking about?

Let me paint you a picture. MM selects some players from the EU (sweet!) then at the last minute throws in a player from god knows where and selects them as host. Cue match start on Ranarock as red, host quits.

Ok, Ill wait not a problem. Game then “restarts” itself 4 times in a row in quick succession. Half the players dont know wtf is going on and are lag porting around and getting stuck, with the mantis jitterbugging in and out of the hog. Game eventually lets us all play so we start shooting.

The someone ELSE quits, cue the whole sequence again with the game restarting multiple times and everyone breakdancing like MC Hammer. Finaly the game gets underway again, but now the host thats selected must be on the moon or something because everyone is lagging around every 10 seconds or so. One guy in particular keeps lag porting every time hes shot at.

Im a suspicious bugger, so I sneak up on him in the caves at the side and go for a beat down. He then about faces 180 and runs through me, saturday night fevers his way backwards along the cave and sticks me with the sticky launcher. I die.

Now getting a little frustrated I change kit to “wesley snipes”, and start taking longer range potshots. A few HS kills and im getting ordinace. And its a needler, concussion, speed boost >< . So I take the needler and shoot a guy point blank with a near full salvo and THEY ALL MISS. Because this guy is fandangoing around and all my shots miss. I die.

Then guess what? The host from tranquility base quits. Now feeling like it cant possibly get worse, I just go camptastic. I get a couple of lucky kills, and I gets a beam rifle drop. Now I take a shot and kill a dude, nice! Games starting to work right, not as much discoing by the players and my shots are on target. All the while though announcer is saying “team mate joined” every few minutes.

And then this host now quits! Cue game restarting itself twice this time in quick succession and the jiving is back with avengance. I end up loosing off 4 beamer shots and missing a supposedly easy target ><. This host QUITS! Game doesnt know if it should pee itself or just lay down and die, restarts 3 times in two minutes with 50 points in it to win (somehow I dont know). Announcer says “Next kill wins!” out of nowhere, then 10 seconds later reports we have taken the lead. Wait, what? Game restarts itself AGAIN, only this time the score board says, and Im not joking, 1950 points for Blue 1990 points for red. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

Game shouts VICTORY! Red victory writing comes up on screen. Game restarts itself AGAIN at the END OF THE MATCH. No scoreboard shows post match and it hangs for over a minute. Then dumps us all back in a room.

I got out of there like a shot.

Worst. Game. Ever.

I dont know if I should be angry or sad or anything really. It has to be the worst experience ive ever had in Halo. But its also so bad its a hilarious farce.

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It’s so terrible, it’s hilarious. I feel you though.

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You have no idea how funny that is…

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I swear there is not one over exageration in there. Waypoint doesnt even know that I have played the game, I dont think its counted it was so bad. Only saving grace is that I still managed to score about 12+ kills. So if it does get counted at least I got something out of it.

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> I swear there is not one over exageration in there. Waypoint doesnt even know that I have played the game, I dont think its counted it was so bad. Only saving grace is that I still managed to score about 12+ kills. So if it does get counted at least I got something out of it.

If it didn’t get counted, please feel satisfied for making me laugh out loud while reading your post. It’s not all wasted :wink:

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Lexandro Albion

Well done for staying in there. ::-*-:: Tank Medal for you.

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i wouldve quit like 10 times there

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I honestly dont know what to think. I mean Ive seen this kind of thing before with CoD and beavy lagswitches but never seen a game just crap itself and restart over and over mid-battle that many times and that many host selections. Has to be a case of the worst host selection process ever. I mean Im sitting on a 20mb cable connection. Not ripping fast I know but still, its 20mb cable with a perfect line quality which is pretty good in the EU on average.

I should be hosting way more games than I am currently. But alas halo thinks that people half way around the world seem to be better at hosting for a bunch of EU players, or the player with the worst line quality should be host, or someone who is doing 50 things at once with the connection, or “Dave” from Egypt, ot “Missy” in Dakota.

I really dont get this game sometimes. I mean how bad does it actually get? Could it have been worse? I shudder to think of what could have been worse than what just happened, it would be a nightmare for anyone not as patient as me or as understanding. No wonder some people are complaining.

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Connection in this game is a few Poltergeist…

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JIP nvr really bothered me til a couple days ago it put me in a match on complex… Against Red, spawn trapping… had the whole area covered… from the roofs to a sword guy at the bottom with another to watch his back. Lost 5-0, CTF, by the end, it was only me another dude I think playing. Lol, and people say its possible to make a comeback.

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Its called awesomely awful.

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I have had several games like that. At this point, I no longer attempt to stay in them. Teleport lag is an instant quit for me.

Dedicated servers please!

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fandangoing - First off great word, not sure where it came from but it has a good ring. oh yea and funny story, I’ve some bad games but nothing that ridiculous.

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That sounds like almost half of my games. Even though I’m Dutch, I keep getting matched up with Americans, Asians, Australians… and they always get the host. It’s ridiculous…

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He then about faces 180 and runs through me, saturday night fevers his way backwards along the cave and sticks me with the sticky launcher. I die.

loll

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lol, we laugh because its funny, we laugh because its true.

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Save a video of it.

I had something similar on one of the DLC maps.

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Game doesnt know if it should pee itself or just lay down and die,

I am dealing with the tail end of the flu. and was laughing->choking->dang near passing out…

I have seen all of those types of things you descrived happening - just not all at once!

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Played a game of CTF on complex the other night.

Game started, went to loadout screen, but alas, the loadouts were invisible.
If you hit select you can see all the players are frozen with whirling “loading” icons next to their names, except one. We are all stuck with X For Spawn now, Y For Loadouts on the screen but this one guy on my team racking up the kills on what I can only assume were the inanimate bodies of the Blue team.

Played a game of Dominion the other night (this has happened 2 times now)

Game started, stopped, restarted, loaded, stopped, changed hosts, restarted.
Finally started,

Score was like 30-60. Stops, starting game for a good 3-4 minutes, starts, we spawn, goes back to “Starting Game…” Screen… 2 more minutes, we all spawn, it tells us what the game is again, All the bases are not held, and also not labelled, but the walls from when the yWERE held are still there. I run up to C base, which we held, and can’t walk through the forcefield of my own color. Had to destroy it, then capture the base.

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Lmao, never had that happen in my plays, but it sounds pretty intense.