I make $15 dollars an hour live in the 8th most expensive city in the world. The prior sentence is supposed to let you know I work hard for my money.
So when I spend
$60 for Xbox live
$60 for Halo 4
$50 for internets (OPEN NAT 50 MB Download speed 30mb upload)
$29.99 for Map pack
Thats about $200 on a game that I would love to enjoy. I love this game I love everything and anything Halo.
I kick my feet up at the end of a stressful day and try to unwind while playing halo 4.
After spending all that money I would expect Microsoft and 343 NOT TO SKIMP ON SERVERS!!! Not like I’m the only person to buy the game MILLIONS of people PUMP MILLIONS of their HARD EARNED MONEY into this game.
I lag in EVERY spartan ops game I play and every War Games game I play. I constantly die because of this. I constantly blow myself because a box that wasn’t there just a second ago magically appeared in my rockets path. Leading to yet another Lag inflicted death. Its not like I’m RED bar either. I’m always green or at least yellow(open NAT too).
So badly that I get very upset (6 laggy games in a row) I know its not that hard to match me up with people in my area (christ 4 people within 2 blocks of me that play at the same time I do and they too have the same experience ).
Basically E-mail me when you get some decent services and a option to play with people in your area.
Until this I’m not renewing my XBL I’m bringing this game back. And I’ll go back to playing solitaire to unwind before bed after a stressful day.
Have a great day,
Justin
Halo’s netcode is awful.
It prioritizes skill over good connections with no option to prioritize connection.
This often results in hosts in foreign countries and causes insane amount of lag.
I generally don’t have too much trouble with War Games. I get occasional lag spikes, but usually nothing too major. The smaller playlists (namely objectives), tend to be worse than the Slayer types, but still usually aren’t too bad.
Spartan Ops on the other hand, is just terrible. Four out of five games I play are crippled by lag. I think it’s partly due to the smaller player popultions (meaning you’re more likely to get stuck with players from halfway around the world) and the sheer numbers of AI (which means there is a lot more data that needs to go back and forth).
I would rather play ENTIRELY by myself than deal with ANY SORT OF LAG. Maybe a Spartan ops you can get XP for while playing solo?
I refuse to touch the game until I get an e-mail saying its fixed. I know the four guys I play with are doing the same. I was the last to hold out.
I am aware that thousand of people have worked very hard on this game. I appreciate it deeply to keep the franchise going.
But I play this game to have fun. Not to stress me out more than me real life does. Because I keep killing myself due to lag.
I hope a employee will take a look at this and bring it to the attention of people that can fix these issues.
I’m just very sad I wont be playing my beloved halo anymore I cant do it to myself anymore = /
I’ve played every halo game online. i am reasonably good but I am getting sick of only finding American host when I am an Australian gamer. I had 25 friends on halo 4 online in the first week, now just a month or so after release almost all 60 of my friends list have bought Black Ops 2 because of how crap the search code is for multiplayer. I am soooo very tired of watching my death cam where my gun isn’t shooting when I was in a 1v1. I am in a Capital city with $100 a month internet plan and I still have yellow bar at most when playing American’s. I played at least 2000 games of Reach and after just 100ish of halo 4 I just can’t take anymore of the deaths caused by host.
I am so very disappointed in what multipayer has become. If 343 listens to the feedback then I’ll be back, but not until then.
Christ remembering the older games mutiplayer.
Im VERY SURE HALO 1 ON XBOX CONNECT was better than this.
> Christ remembering the older games mutiplayer.
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> Im VERY SURE HALO 1 ON XBOX CONNECT was better than this.
Couldn’t you see the latency you were getting to people you connected to via XBC?
LMAO that a tunnelling program provided over ten years ago what 343i/Microsoft can’t provide today.
If latency was actually reported I can imagine mass quit rage since the average latency is often in excess of 250ms in Halo 4 matchmaking.
If I can’t match players in the oceanic region I would rather never find a match so I could just switch to another game where I get playable latency.
Even prefer good connection matched me with Californians that were 250ms distant so it was hardly a good system either but at least the choice for some latency relief was there whereas Halo 4 constantly feels like I am playing on garbage international 300ms+ hosts.
wow I thought I had it bad you folks overseas have it much worse. And yes on XBC you could see your connection.
So you are not going to renew your x-box live because of a poorley made game with lots of lag?
WOW
TRY COD be no lag on that i bet!!!
Dont give up on x-box live because of this poor game.
No thank you.
Microsoft controls Xbox Live.
Microsoft funds 343.
343 makes Halo 4.
Hence not giving anymore money to Microsoft. Until this is fixed.
Guess I’ll be playing Chess or 3d pinball = )
Any 343 guys take a look at this thread?
> anyone?
Weren’t you playing chess and pinball?
dont be a troll this is an issue that needs to be resolved.