This post is to mainly express how I feel about MCC, upcoming H5 and most importantly the Halo community. I’m kind of tired of just sitting by and not being active in the community, also all the bold font are questions I have heard in the past multiple times from other players. I’m going to take a stab at them all in one post on how I feel about them.
I with the rest of the community agree that the MCC release is upsetting, however it’s not the end of my life. To be honest I’d rather be here instead of waiting and wondering when the next time I might LAN Halo CE or Halo 2 classic. Yeah, it’s a bummer that it takes forever to find a game. BUT it’s a lot better than not having it at all. (BUT I PAID FOR $60 BETA!? I WANTED THE POLISHED VERSION! I WOULD HAVE RATHER OF WAITED!!!) Well guess what, I did too! I paid 60 dollars for a buggy game… But you know what… I would still have paid $60 right now to play Halo 5. Let’s do a little bit of math, there are 27 days left until the beta, if i break it down per cost of each day it would be $2.25 rounded up. I’d rather pay that than going to the gas station for an over priced soda, I still would have done that for any of the halos. (BUT “CALL OF HALO 5” LOOKS LIKE TRASH!!!) Oh don’t you worry love, I’ll get back to you on that! Let’s stay on the current topic for now. ( BUT STILL… I would still rather waited for it!!!). Oh, Perfect! Just simply turn off your Xbox and wait, easy solution, which that brings me to my next point.
From what I’m guessing 343I had 3 things they could of done with MCC. MCC is an anniversary of Halo 2 which was November 9, 2004 (Great day by the way, I didn’t sleep for like 3 days lol) which means that the 10 year mark would have been a few weeks ago on November 11, 2014, which are both on Tuesdays because it is the day that all new releases for pretty much all types of media(dvds,cds,games,etc)are available so the 11th is the closest to the 9th, the original anniversary date.
Anyways, 3 options. Keep in mind that I’m aiming for the multiplayer experience, not the campaign (btw which has been very beautiful on the single player)
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Only make halo 2 anniversary (because the Halo CE anniversary went over so well…) and nothing else which mean no Halo CE, no H2 classic, no H3 and for the H4 fans no H4 for you.)
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Push the game back until who knows when and wait even longer, make the fans mad due to it not being a TRUE anniversary of Halo 2.
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Release the game with a few bugs (which sounds like to me on their closed server they didn’t have this big of issues for matchmaking) then release patches.
At this point pick your poison, for me I’d rather be able to play a custom game like I did in Halo 2 when modding ruined match making. Yeah customs are buggy as well, it sucks that there are so many steps to change teams, it’s hard to get a game going, so on and so on, but I’m still able to play Halo vs not to.
(BUT 343I DROPPED THE BALL HOW CAN THEY MESS THIS UP! ITS A SIMPLE THING TO DO!) Simple? I didn’t know developing games was easy? Yeah i mean, I can see that having 5 game engines running back to back on one UI (main menu) to flop between games, I mean so many other companies have done this… let’s be real and see what is in front of us, that’s a lot of hard work and I haven’t seen any “anniversary” games do this. Instead of bashing on this game lets get it fixed!!! Start submitting bugs while you are waiting for the next game in match making!!
Here are a couple links for bug reports.
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/85d779d52cfd46918b4f8b638f2e3c7b/topics
If there are more sites I’d be MORE THAN happy to post more up.
_(But you’ve got to admit that this game is buggy and frustrating.) Y_es of course it is!!! However I’m not going to keep burning 343I for it! Really I get it, I want to play match making without any hiccups, but let go back 10 years ago. Halo 2 was broken for a few months. _(NO IT WASN’T!!!) U_mmm it was indeed quite broken, however not as broken as MCC at launch, but Halo 2 BR was horrible, plasma grenades took forever to blow up, melee was garbage and match making didn’t work. Here is a link to update notes. Halo 2 Auto-Updates | Halo Alpha | Fandom If you look from November all the way to April that was a long time to make an update for the game, how in the world did Halo 2 one of the greatest games survive that!? Coming from Halo CE with a 3 shot pistol to a horrible Battle Rifle was very upsetting. Basically what I’m saying is don’t be too quick to sell your game and become Amish for the rest of your life. (Nothing against you Amish people, you guys make beautiful portable fire places)
(But still it should of had a polished release.) Your right, it should have! We are long past that point, either way for 343I they had to chose to either delay the launch or ship how it was, they would of have gotten burnt from the fans either way. What I’m saying is now we should band together to get this game fixed. They need our support and feedback not our consistent burning, to be honest all of this trash talking on this game is going to hurt us (the players) in the long run. If I would have told all my friends that the game is trashed and is complete garbage, most of them would never even bothered to buy the game, which means for me I have reduced setting up custom games or LANS since there would be less players. (BlackPicture you are a fool, you cant do LANS) Yes you can I’ll post helpful hits on how to make it work easier later. Back to topic about shooting ourselves in the foot, instead of just 100% bad mouthing this to all my friends, I would just give them a heads up that the game is buggy, but fixable in due time and to wait it out.
(THEY CHANGED HALO CE!!! I CANT SHOOT RIGHT ANYMORE!!!) Ok Mr. “I used to throw a pig skin over a mountain back in my day”. It’s because you are used to playing split screen in halo CE vs having your own screen in MCC. The split screen, the reticle (the blue circle you aim with) is placed differently and its size to screen ratio is different as well on split screen vs single screen. Trust me its the same, you are just used to split screen halo CE.To be honest Halo CE is updated, earlier in Halo CE you used to not be able to shoot behind you while you were jumping, it may look like it but the bullet was going to your side or rocket then killing yourself. They have now fixed it.
As promised it’s time for that halo 5 #swag but to be continued on the next post.
