There has been a known widespread problem of people who join in progress causing rendering of the screen to stop for a few seconds here and there. It happens yet the game engine continues running, so youre still moving and able to shoot, etc. After a couple seconds the game starts rendering to your screen again and everything is fine.
However, since this morning, I’ve had my game crash/freeze twice. It’s never happened before, not once. The audio still plays, but loops. The entire engine stops and I’m forced to exit the game and restart. The first game was 5 seconds into a game of CTF on Eagle Square. I was running up through our base towards Rockets. I jumped the plant/half-wall in front of our base and it just froze. The second one was a Strongholds match on Boulevard. I died and someone joined the match. about 2 seconds later (@11:56 on clock) my game just freezes. Just stops. It doesn’t crash out to the dashboard either. It just sits there. It hangs indefinitely. This hurts because it’s mid-match and I know twice today is going to be counted as DNFs. Should I get banned from Matchmaking for this, I’ll be submitting a complaint with Microsoft regarding the issue.
Just FYI, the clip doesn’t stop AT the freeze. It records about 20 seconds more from the freeze point. It’s not a static image or buffering. The game engine just stops altogether.