I just randomly lose games?
Once you get past the glitches, the gameplay is great! You don’t need to have a barracks anymore to create marines so you can get some forces up right at the beginning. I really love what they did with the tech now so that it has to replenish kind of like supplies. Overall, Halo Wars 2 is so far what I have expected and more: an amazing game that is different from the usual halo games and uses a tactical map instead of fps.
I’ve had bugs where I’ll select a leader power and then the power is either invisible or does not fire. Also had issues where a control point was surrounded by units but the capture count would keep resetting. Also as a general suggestion, when you earn leader points there should be an audio que because I find myself missing the visual que when I’m focused on other things.
- When playing as the UNSC there was an issue with the audio given to the player, when the game was nearing completion and a victory was almost obtained, the audio feedback stated that my team was in fact nearing a loss instead. - Rendering the ground/terrain in certain areas of the map posed as an issue and instead displayed as a black void space (I found this happened mainly below and around a player base). This issue has only occurred once out of all games played however. - When attacking with Hornets damage was dealt to the unit targeted, however the visual for the bullets coming from the hornets went no where near the targeted unit. - Cannot see wraith shots when they fire - damage is done but there is no visual when the wraith itself fires a shot.
I am playing with my friend and we played one match and was perfect! Now in the second match it froze and has been frozen for the past 10 minutes. I am just going to quit out the game now but besides that, loading in was a bit slow. I am talking about when you find an opponent and you are loading in. It will freeze for about a minute then you are good to go. Turning on the game itself works perfectly. Great game so far.
A loading bar would be nice when entering the game. Especially when taking into account how long it takes to get into one.
The game just randomly finished… unsure if there is a time limit?
First game was great getting used to the controls. However I cannot say the same for my second game. I was playing a game where we were winning and all of the sudden it said Defeat on the screen. My team had 3000+ tickets while other team had 2000+. I noticed when I got back, it acted like I never did the game. placement game was still at 9.
Also in that same game, there was one marine unit on the bottom of a hill. I had about 7 shooting at it from a distance higher up. The unit was invincible. it was until I moved right next to him that I was able to damage him.
Where do I start, I hope you take what I say into consideration because currently I am quite disappointed.
- Why is the firebase so weird looking now? The original looked so much better and I feel it should return to that.
- Currently there is two currencies in the game which makes no sense,now you need a certain amount of both to buy or upgrade something, the old system worked flawlessly, I feel it should return to resources only, not resources and power.
- Reactors are completely gone, tech level is now acquired through upgrading your base which is unfamiliar and unnecessary when in Halo Wars reactors worked perfectly.
- The map needs to be improved, I want to see my teammates cursor and I want to see the base colors on the map.
- The domination game mode in the beta is horrible, the game ends too fast and it’s to easy to capture the points at the beginning of the game.
- Why are there no rebel bases or sentinel bases? It’s too easy to just take a base without having to work for it.
- I can’t tell if my unit has a special ability or not.
- The health bars are very obscure and hard to see.
- Overall I feel like Halo Wars 2 should take notes from the original instead of fixing something that isn’t broken.
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> Having issues with Halo Wars 2 after the main screen. I assume it is a cut screen that suppose to be playing since it says B to skip. It freezes here each time. It took me 4 hours to download due to the load and I don’t want to reinstall it. Is there anything I can do to get past this screen? Also I am in the preview program for Xbox One, I hope this doesn’t have anything to do with the game not working.
Hi. I found that when it says press start before the video. Wait on that screen for about 15 odd seconds. Then press start to watch the video. Do this every time that press start screen appears with the spartan etc. I think that is actually causing a lot of problems.
This post will continually be updated with bugs, glitches, improvements, altercations and feedback for the benefit of the developers as a list to check off. 
Bug #1 - 14/06/2016 - Australia 10:30AM ACST
- Opening start up cinematic which features the words ‘Halo Wars 2’ just after pressing the start button, freezes just after making a slight sound; the only thing that responds is your xbox button for quitting the game application and rebooting it.SOLUTION: The dynamic opening screen that features a spartan, two warthogs and a scorpion tank, and prompts the player to press start, the player is required to wait a minor 15 second duration then press start. This should load the following sequence properly. Do this every time you load up the game.
AI: Sometimes the sentinels on the points will not retaliate when attacked.
AI: Pathing seems to be broken; Ground units sent to a location which needs a ramp to be accessed will walk in a straight line to it until they hit a wall.
I just had a bug where I’m stuck on the “Waiting for Players…” screen and I’m forced to watch my team mate 1v2.
Right now I get stuck after I press the start button. The console freezes after it says Halo Wars 2 in large silver letters. I’ve tried turning off the console, holding the button to do a hard reboot, quitting the app while the console is on and before I turn off the console. As far as I can tell the game is currently unplayable and I also have noticed there are frame rate drops in the loading screen without anything being done. I don’t know much about computers so I can only haphazardly guess that it isn’t fully optimized at this point.
A point I’ll raise is can’t we go back to having supply pads/reactors and warehouse/temple for brutes. Harvester and tech upgrades by base sizes suck to be absolutely honest. Change for the sake of change when what worked well before worked well for a reason.
Still can’t even start it, tried to skip vid but freezes. I got so much hype too 
Edit: Finally got into a game, only to find out it was only domination… Super bummed, I know you want people to buy the game and all, but the game mode sucks. You can’t even get a real feel for the game cause people rush the domination points. Would rather have a elimination kind of game. Like the original… 
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> I just had a bug where I’m stuck on the “Waiting for Players…” screen and I’m forced to watch my team mate 1v2.
Same here two times out of 6 games!
Issues I had with Halo Wars 2 beta on 6/13
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Tutorial:
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Tutorial needs to be updated badly. I’m not new to RTS’s and even I got a little confused. (Too much info in such little time just casually making references to units while trying to explain them) Example:“Another way of managing your units is by assigning them to control groups on the Dpad”
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HOW? You left out the part where you explain how to do it*:* The tutorial needs to be a how to guide and so basic that it can teach beginners how to play and show vets to Halo Wars what has changed without confusing people. - Tutorial needs to be interactive (Start the game and it shows you the video but has you control the camera and you can move around and hit A to continue so you move at your own pace).Out of game:
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*FIXED _Start menu freezing (jam b to get past).FIXED_ - ~~FIXED Background image behind FIND MATCH screen blinks with a black or white frame for .5sec when the animation ends/restarts.FIXED ~~ - No button mapping feature or different controller configurations (Halo wars 2 to make the camera move fast hold LB Halo Wars 1 to make the camera move fast hold LT). - No out of game overlay after the start screen telling you that you can tap X,A,B,Y,start,select to open a menus(Friends menu I think?) - In options>Controller Layout says “B Command Tree” and is pointing to Select/back button.In game: -
Hard to see neutral units as enemies (i didnt even know the sentinels would attack me thought they were just there). - Hard/misunderstood how to capture points in domination (when you tell units to go there they weirdly walk past then one or two single units capture the point while everyone else goes too far). - 3/4 people connect to games (if you are lucky all 4 will). - Controller vibrates as if getting attacked when playing as cutter and build a building. (the animation for the ship drops in the building)Audio:
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If you recycle one of your buildings the line “Enemies have destroyed one of your buildings” plays. - Ally pings arent loud or audible. - Doesnt say ally is under attack. - Game doesnt tell you when youre **fire base is ready or when anything is ready.**UI Issues:
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Hard to see whats what with the light blue color that is used all thought the ui (too bright on a bright background and too small). - Not able to move UI location of where unit number/supply/energy/map. (bottom right awkward positioning). - Upgrades remain the same visually whiled queued unlike units (You can tell that units are queued up b.c a number will appear over it with a circle). - Hard to read Building option menu is too bright. - Hard to read text next to building menu (white with no background texts merges with light hitting off buildings cant read). - Hard to see HP bars only show when individual units are selected/hurt and are too small/hard to see color/size wise. (Hard to see everyones not just mine and when you zoom in they only get smaller). - Cannot see teammates cursor on map.Cursor issues:
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Cursor doesnt visually change when something can be selected or attacked just has small X button appears. - Cursor randomly moves to the left pulling away from what im doing - Hard to select or attack any single units directly that are small or flying.Lag Issues:
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Close any building menu (circle menu that pops up) it lags for 1sec so you move the camera, which is annoying for fluidity. - Hit back/select button to bring up command tree lags for 1sec every time you enter and leave that screen. - Start menu lags for 1sec when entering and exiting.Honestly 343, I’m a little worried that there are so many issues that I alone can point out just from playing 5 games alone and with friends. I have high hopes for this game so I’m trying to be as critical and helpful so everything works out in Feb. The only thing I ask is when you fix (hopefully all of) these issues please please PLEASE test it with Halo War vets who love the game.
it wont start for me and i really would like to play
My game can’t even get through the menu screen. Thanks a lot for a halo fan that thought he could play halo wars 2
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> This post will continually be updated with bugs, glitches, improvements, altercations and feedback for the benefit of the developers as a list to check off.
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> Bug #1 - 14/06/2016 - Australia 10:30AM ACST
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> - Opening start up cinematic which features the words ‘Halo Wars 2’ just after pressing the start button, freezes just after making a slight sound; the only thing that responds is your xbox button for quitting the game application and rebooting it.
> **SOLUTION:**The dynamic opening screen that features a spartan, two warthogs and a scorpion tank, and prompts the player to press start, the player is required to wait a minor 15 second duration then press start. This should load the following sequence properly. Do this every time you load up the game.
Doesn’t work. I have tried multiple times.