This past weekend I had a small LAN party. Just 8 of us playing classic CE FFA & Team games on 2 consoles 4player split screen. After awhile we decided to try our luck online and found a CE BTB game rather quickly. BUT! One of our members was on the other team the entire time. And their gamertag was not showing correctly. It was odd. The first game she was showing as Saucy and then the 2nd game she was Tooth. Both times on the other team and we had some other stranger with us instead. Just wanted to post this so it’s known there are still issues with players being split.
Wow this is super interesting. Saucy and Tooth were names that Halo CE would assign as the Network Name of the original Xbox Consoles during LAN, if I remember correctly.
So your configuration was two consoles, four players each, in one party, and then you went into BTB?
- Was the affected person the party leader? - Did you play multiple games? - Did it happen each and every time? Or did you get some games where you had all 8 party members on your team?Really curious about this one, because Halo MCC matching uneven teams and incorrect party is one of the worst issues in my opinion.
- Was the affected person the party leader? - No, she was not but she was on my Xbox and I was host and party leader. - Did you play multiple games? - Yes, 3 games of BTB and all 3 games her name changed and she was on the other team. - Did it happen each and every time? Or did you get some games where you had all 8 party members on your team? - We only played 3 games before we went back to 4v4 of just us. We are having another 8 player LAN in April so we’ll be hopping online for BTB again. If it happens again we’ll be streaming this time.
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> - Was the affected person the party leader? - No, she was not but she was on my Xbox and I was host and party leader. - Did you play multiple games? - Yes, 3 games of BTB and all 3 games her name changed and she was on the other team. - Did it happen each and every time? Or did you get some games where you had all 8 party members on your team? - We only played 3 games before we went back to 4v4 of just us.We are having another 8 player LAN in April so we’ll be hopping online for BTB again. If it happens again we’ll be streaming this time.
Nice. Yeah see if it happens again, if you’re streaming then you can archive the footage and go back to reference it and report it to 343i.
Happened again this past weekend!!! Walla-Walla! Sadly though we were streaming as planned. Issues there we have to work out before the next party.
So we had another LAN party and it was such an absolute blast! Can’t express it enough how much fun these are! We strictly & only played CE as that’s our favorite and it’s the easiest for anyone to be able to jump into. Most of the company we have for these are not hardcore gamer’s, gamer’s yes, but not hardcore or even average players. Everyone though has played CE at some point in time. Often it’s been years for some.
Anyway, games ran smooth 99% of the time. We only found issues when players leave. We have them sign out/log off the Xbox. But it seems to cause some errors and glitching afterward, not always but some times. As the party died down and people left, we started to have more issues connecting to each other and even going online together. We had to restart all systems with hard re-boots twice. Once we were down to only 4 that’s when this issue happened yet again. We were at 6 on 2 systems in a room together, when a couple left so we were down to 4. They sign out and left and we moved 1 player from one to the other to even out the teams. No re-boots or quits just a player logged off one system and into the other. All good there. We searched for a CE 4v4 and found a game fairly quickly. Shortly after the match started we noticed one of the guys was on the other team and his name was coming up as Walla Walla. But it wasn’t the guy who just logged out and logged in on another system. No, it was the guy on my system that had been logged in fine. We finished the match and decided to try another LAN only match 2v2. I was hosting/leader, the match started with only me on my team. I was able to run around and everything was working fine but the others never were able to join. Their game just sat at the loading screen for awhile before receiving the unable to connect message. Quit the game after that and everything was fine with the 4 of us the remaining evening.
I had this happen on split screen, halo ce, 3v5, player 2 was put on to the enemy team and named donut and in the carnage report donut wasn’t there and our team had a total of 52 kills (someone killed 2 teammates) and the enemy team only had a total of 38 deaths. Although I am not upset that player two was on the enemy team with 2 kills and 14 deaths.