So this is a topic that has been posted many, many times on the internet, and 343 REFUSES to fix this issue over the years.
Halo 2 Co-Op campaign is IMPOSSIBLE to finish due to a game-breaking bug. On the mission “The Oracle,” the game will end and boot both players out to the main menu, with ZERO progress. This happens when the players enter a cutscene. For me it happened for me twice, on both the first cutscene and the last cutscene of the mission.
From what I gather, this happens if both players are in different graphics modes (“old” graphics and “anniversary” graphics). Though I’ve seen some posts saying both players were in the same mode and it still crashed.
The workaround at the moment seems to be to mash spacebar and pray that the cutscene skips before the crash, which happens about a second into the cutscene. Why is this still an issue? I’ve seen forum posts about this ranging back years now. Why hasn’t this issue been patched yet?? This is an embarrassment, clearly a common issue which straight up breaks the game. Please fix this, I would like to be able to play the product I paid for.
Just encountered this bug while playing co-op on PC. “Session disconnected” upon starting the cutscene. We restarted the game and played through the entire mission again only to encounter the same bug again. Discouraged, we decided to quit game-night early as this mission contains some slow sections that would’ve been really annoying to play through three times in a row.
Why is this game-breaking bug still an issue if it’s been years since it was first reported?
Me and my friend were both using the modern graphics.
7/22/2021 Can confirm, still a persistent issue. My girlfriend and I have tried to complete the mission 5 times on coop. We used the same graphics mode, opposite graphics modes, swap who was in classic graphics and tried just button mashing out way through the cut scene. Each time it is at the mid level cut scene. It’s her first time the through the trilogy, so it’s REALLY annoying that we can actually finish the whole series together. Hard to believe this is still an issue so long into the game’s life, especially considering the attention and care Halo CE was just given to try and make the graphics more true to the original release.
Sorry if this revives the thread but the issue still persists. Makes co-op LASO a real issue.
Happens even when we’re both in the same graphics mode.
EDIT: Can confirm that spamming the skip button works around the problem. First tried in on Easy in the new graphics and later on LASO with old graphics and we got through both times.
But still. 343 pls fix
This happened to me and my sister while we were playing today, I thought it was our internet or computers but nope ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This is still happening, when are we going to get some acknowledgement?
This is listed as a known issue on the Halo Support site