So, I played with my cousin last night since we’re a pretty decent double team.
First thing I noticed, which I only noticed while playing with him, was that I couldn’t check the enemy’s service record, or my own for that matter, in game. This was completely stupid as I could check it if I went into the Xbox’s recent players, then I could get to their service records from there.
The next thing was horrible lag.
I’m 100% certain that the Xbox 360 has got a CPU capable of running this game flawlessly. I, and many other, have noticed that during menus, when people join or a match is starting, any attempt to use Xbox functions such as friends lists, or messaging freeze for a few seconds. This is stupid, and annoying. Now, that’s just a menu. Combine two players playing on the same console, and it’s horrible. When we had to use grenades, or even when we just dropped in Ordnance, the game stuttered like crazy. In one CTF game, and keep in mind this is only Double Team so there aren’t many players to render, the game dropped to 16 fps for a full 31 seconds. Don’t release a game if it’s not capable of running.
I have the game installed on my Xbox, and no other games show any sign of being too demanding.
While I’m on this, since it’s related, it’s also annoying going to send someone a message after a game, only to have the “Halo 4 Service Record” crap pop up and make me accidentally invite someone to private chat…
Halo 4 was designed to push the Xbox 360’s CPU and memory to its limit. And thats just the single player. The more players you add on the same console, obviously the less smooth the game is going to run. The lag and frame rate issues you get when playing War Games in split screen is a problem was has been known about since launch, and 343 have already stated that nothing can be done due to the memory/processing restrictions of the console.
Yeah i get the same issues. Keep in mind thought today was for some reason, one of the laggiest days ive ever had playing Halo 4. I think out of about 15 matches or so i played, 6 of them dropped everyone out, 2 completely reset halfway through (so kills set back to 0) and the others were hit an miss. I know it wasn’t just me or my connection, they whole BTB teams were lagging like crazy. At one point i just stood still and warped all around the map. It was funny but frustrating. I think there was a 343 employer on today also, his tag was 343i (the one they use) however it could have just been a random. So hopefully they see how bad it can be sometimes, and fix these issues for 5.
So today is not a good example if this happened for you.
I do get the ‘shaky’ type lag when i play split screen as its just too much for the Xbox to handle. We just play Spartan OP’s and its all good. Online is just too frustrating split screen…
I play split screen a lot and anytime I get a forge map I. have to back out, I have awesome internet. some things work fine like all the non forge maps, griffball maps, settler. anything else I can’t vote for . sucks because I like some of the forge maps. I do have the dlc maps but they don’t show up much, other than that I love halo 4.
So 343 new the game was too demanding, yet still released it? Well, that’s earned them an extra “special” star…