So today my friend and I were trying to play a combination of multiplayer and campaign. We had varying degrees of success but a VERY annoying problem keeps occurring:
We are removed from the xbox live party chat at a minimum, and usually getting separated in matchmaking. This seemed to be our problem for about half the time today in matchmaking. The other half was a mix of gameplay without any problems (about 2 consecutive matches at most) and other problems to varying degree of hair pulling. Below was our list:
Upon entering into matchmaking we are talking to each other while waiting for a match. We then encounter one of these combinations:
- Put into different lobbies and chat is cut off followed by a “MY FRIEND’S NAME HERE HAS LEFT THE CHAT” notification.- Put into the same lobby and team but no chat is available. In game or via XBL. Upon match conclusion, I get the above notification.- Put into the same lobby but different team with chat available during and after the game session without interuption. ALL MATCHES thereafter until we quit match making the MCC we are no longer paired together on the same team. This one is worrysome as it was supposed to be fixed in a previous patch.- We are placed placed in a lobby awaiting other players, and then the matchmaking attempts to being the session, presumably fails, and we are split and put into a new the same or separte lobby(ies) with people from the game were just about the playing with. Another person is host.- Upon completing a match we get dropped from the party in game, but are still in the XBL party chat. I was stuck at the post-carnage report screen until I either A) re-establish the party by awaiting an invite at which point the ability to hit B and leave the stat page reappears or B) I go the dashboard and quit the game and restart it.
All these issues occurred across all the following different play lists: Halo CE, Halo 2 Anniversary (Ranked), Big Team Battle, and Team Slayer.
Campaign issues include the following:
- When on a playlist in between missions the non-party leader is removed from the game with a 50% chance of having the XBL party chat dropped.- Intermittent lag. I normally would chalk this up to any variety of network problems, but it seems to be a performance issue. When we switched to classic modes on Halo CE and Halo 2, the lag was significantly reduced or nonexistent. When the graphics are switched back to the new remastered/HD graphics the choking occurs. This is anywhere from a VERY noticable frame rate drop to semi-matrix slow motion effects. I was able to see and doge 3 brute/grunt grenades and several carbine shots due to this.- If the party is dropped in between missions on a playlist, a mission is skipped entirely. EX: we completed The Maw on the Cross Game UNSC playlist. During the load sequence the screen blacked out for about 5-10 seconds, a freeze frame of the MAC orbital platforms with some kind of a T or Y black line down the center of the image…then a couple seconds of the intro cinematic where John and Sgt. Johnson are on camera, then black again, then the pre-mission load screen, then the MCC load screen, then the next mission Crow’s Nest launches and my friend is dropped form the party. The mission Cairo station failed to load. I quit the mission and re-establish the party. After completing Crow’s Nest and Flood Gate, we quit back out to the menu. The game gave me credit for completing Cairo even though it was skipped entirely.Needless to say, today was a filled with a lot of frustration.
When are these problems getting ironed out? It’s been nearly 3 months now.