Now I’m not going to state that the game is unplayable. But The amount of issues outside of MM are troubling. And since MM is the top priority for 343 I fear this stuff may never be addressed. Which If not would severely hurt the replayability for the game.
Campaign: Some achievements not unlocking. The game not keeping checkpoints properly. This can go from something as simple as the game flat out not doing checkpoints to the game starting you back at the beginning of the level when you hit resume. Sometimes It will state you completed a mission when you haven’t (missing achievement proves you haven’t.) Sometimes in the loading it shows a different level screen instead of the one you are loading. Terminals can flat out freeze your game or shoot you straight back into the MCC without watching it. Friend of mine is forced to play CE in the old graphics because the frames drop to 20-30 when he uses the anniversary ones. Scoring is borked. After a terminal you can stop earning points for kills. Enough deaths and the game starts penalizing you twice for dying once. I’ve heard the bandana skull doesn’t work on alien weapons. Also heard there is coop input lag. But that may just be their connection.
custom games: Currently no in game chat for customs…at least in halo 2. Party is capped at 8 so if you have a full lobby you can’t speak to them all. Sometimes people just get randomly dropped. Both mid game and after the game finishes. Not heard this very often but If you try to load a custom game with a map that you made on any of the canvases or modified originals only the host gets in and everyone else gets dropped. Halo 3 can only do basic editing. You can see why that’s an issue.
Matchmaking: Everyone knows it takes awhile to get into matches. Host in MM being able to boot people on the enemy team. I’ve heard when the game picks a host due to server issues most of the time it picks a bad one and the match becomes laggy. Games splitting up parties.
Misc: Score boards seem to not be working properly. In order to get a map or gametype from someone’s fileshare you have to be friends with them and they have to be online. The main menu does not show friends properly. I have 3-4 friends on the MCC at any given time and more often then not it doesn’t say they are on. Don’t know if it’s exclusive to halo 2…But i’ve had enemies dead bodies etc like disappear or fade out and then re appear when i’m looking directly at it.
Theater and forge seem to be working fine. I’m still glad I bought this game. But as I stated in the beginning all of these need to be fixed in order to make things replayable.
EDIT: I forgot to mention kinect’s sound damper does not work. Meaning The game overpowers the people i’m talking to quite often. Destiny also has this issue and neither game has freaking audio control options.