Ok I know all of the matchmaking bugs are pretty well known and people are complaining about them enough, but I’m having other even more infuriating problems.
It mostly has to do with playlists. These are the errors I am an encountering, am I the only one?
Firstly, sometimes when a level in a playlist will end, the next won’t start. The game will freeze, not the Xbox just the game, but I’ll be forced to power cycle the Xbox to get anything going again in game. This happens mostly in cross-game playlists, but also happens in Halo 4 only playlists. The later being fairly frequent. Now the frustrating thing is when this happens and I finally do get back into the playlist, it will make me redo that last level again. THIS IS BEYOND UPSETTING when doing a LASO playlist.
Next, when I save and quit a game in a playlist, sometimes (like 20 percent of the time) when I resume the game, it will just start the mission over, instead of the checkpoint I was at, losing all my progress.
Sometimes when I save and quit a game in a playlist, when I click resume (this is happening to me now actually) it will act like its starting to load the level, but then will just stop, backing it self out allowing me to click “resume” again, but repeating the same process.
Sometimes when finishing a playlist, (for example this happened in the vehicle playlist for Halo 2) I got achievement pops for finishing one of those levels, but not for finishing other levels in the same playlist. Those levels also don’t show up as completed on my record. The strange thing is that I got achievement pops and it shows the level as completed on my record for another level within that playlist. (Might not be a bug, might be an overlook on my part).
Now, I’m not sure if any of these qualify as bugs and/or they are well know, but they are frustrating experiences;
Still cannot get into a matchmaking game in under ten minutes. I have only been in 5 games since launch, these were my experiences
- A game I got into with a friend (took hours to do), the friend ended up on another team.
- A game started but ended immediately for no reason
- A game started but kicked everyone in my team out, leaving me 1v4
- Game went normally
- Game went normally, but the game froze (for both me and my friend) at the end of the match at the “loading” screen and we both had to restart our Xboxs to make it go away.
For some reason my friends rarely show up in my “roster” despite playing the game. This makes inviting them to games or them joining my game frustrating and/or impossible.
For some reason one of my friends as soon as he start playing Master Chief Collection Xbox itself shows him as “offline”, this happens with no other game, only as soon as he boots up MCC.
For once, for no reason, after playing a matchmade game. As soon as I click on “find game” a message poped up that says “Multiplayer is not allowed” and tells me to make sure I have the right Xbox live settings and my family settings are turned off. I didn’t even know how to do this, I had to power cycle my Xbox to get it to go away.
Finally, this happened to me a few times with Halo 4, when it goes to play a cutscene, it will like “pop” the cutscene out of the game, play it in a little box with the original game frozen in the background. I know I’m not explaining this well, I will try to take a picture next time it happens. An example that might explain it; I ended the level looking at the Didact (the cutscene following this one is the one where Chief ducks down and the Didact’s powers enslave the Covenant). So this is what happens, I’m looking at the Didact pressing RB to end the mission. I do so, the screen freezes for a second (normal freeze as if loading the cutscreen) then the screen stays frozen. The cutscene will start but poped out, in a little box. You can still see the frozen screen of the didact in the background. VERY odd.