Please fix your game already...

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This is really getting old and I’m shocked that the obvious issues that I am having, as well as multiple other people, aren’t even being addressed, let alone fixed. I notice that there’s a stickied thread here that mentions in-game audio, but lacks any real solution. For such a major issue, I’m shocked that new content (playlists) are being rolled out before the existing game is fixed.

343, this is why you do a beta. Otherwise, this happens, and you’re caught with your pants down.

Ever since I’ve gotten Halo 4, I’ve had issue with in-game audio and loadouts.
Every time I launch Halo 4, I don’t have in-game audio. I get the audio for the Microsoft Studios logo and then silence. No menu music, no sound affects… just silence. However, the dashboard audio works fine so please don’t tell me to check my speakers and monitor… obviously that’s not the problem. Also, when every other game I play works fine and dandy and Halo 4 is the only one that doesn’t, I’m pretty sure that’s where the problem is. So the fact that the stickied thread asks for us to tell you about our setup (although to whom we give that information, I didn’t see [but granted, I just skimmed for answers, not buck passing]) is a joke.

I’ve was told that clearing my cache would resolve the issue… it did, for awhile, but now sometimes I have to clear it 2-3 times just to get audio so I’m fairly certain it doesn’t really work and I’m back to just popping the disc in and out a half dozen times before I can actually play.

The other issue, one that I know many people are having, is loadouts resetting. Every day, I have to remake my loadouts. I’ve given up on doing all 5 because of how time consuming it is (I’ve already invested a few minutes just trying to make the audio work) so now I’m just making my usual loadout and leaving the other four blank.

I can understand if addressing the broken customs settings like arm time in Grifball aren’t a real priority, or the various other inconsistencies within the game. I can understand a lot of things that rarely have any real effect on the actual game experience and expect them to be resolved with a patch later down the road.

But when someone has to restart the game for 15 minutes just so the audio works?
But when someone has to remake their loadouts every day for no apparent reason…?

These are things I do not understand.
Fix them already.

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It isnt going to take a day for these fixes to happen dude… if you think that then you have no clue about coding and game design.
Furthermore a Beta does nothing but break the game… look at Reach nuff said

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> It isnt going to take a day for these fixes to happen dude… if you think that then you have no clue about coding and game design.
> Furthermore a Beta does nothing but break the game… look at Reach nuff said

Considering the game came out nearly 20 days ago and these flaws have existed since day one, I dunno what you’re trying to tell me… I also have a background in coding and game design, although I really don’t see how that’s relevant…

Furthermore, if a beta had existed, even a two week beta… glitches such as the boltshot reload and super throw would have been found, considering they were found within that time frame… therefore, they wouldn’t exist in the actual game.

edit: It’s also possible that they would have realized the flaws in Forge mode, the fact that a lot of custom game settings do absolutely nothing in one game type, but work fine in others, the flaws the lobby has… also, let’s not forget the absolutely asinine way we have to hold our controllers just to mute someone. This game was not tested properly nor extensively and I blame that solely on the lack of a beta. We paid $60 to beta test this game - that’s a fact. However, I do not want to discuss that. I want to discuss the simple flaws that render this game, at times, unplayable.

So no, not enough said.
Move along.

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Planned content is exactly that. Planned. Patches and fixes take a while to get put out simpy because of what they are.

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We’re all frustrated. Whining won’t fix your problem any faster. Report your problem and then move on

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Rome wasn’t built in a day. Fall back and bump your head. The patch is coming. SMH

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> We’re all frustrated. Whining won’t fix your problem any faster. Report your problem and then move on

I’m not whining, and I’ve tweeted this problem countless times to BSAngel, Kevin Franklin, the actual Waypoint twitter and nothing. I’ve had people retweet them because they’re having the same problem, nothing.

Which leads me to Ninja Poop, how do you know a patch is coming? Because I haven’t heard -Yoink- from 343 about this problem. I’d like to reiterate the fact that unless I spend 15 minutes popping my disc in and out, and then another few minutes remaking my loadouts, this issue renders the game unplayable.

I hardly see how “FFA Throwback” (possibly the worst idea ever, I might add) take precedence over these issues.

Trust me… the last thing I’d ever want to do is post on these forums.
The fact that I made this thread should be seen as a measure of last resort, on my part.

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As an update, I even decided to delete my entire War Games file from my hard drive and reinstall it, thinking that that should at least alleviate the constant loadout reset.

For those betting at home, this fixed absolutely nothing. All my loadouts continue to reset and I continue to have to fight to get game audio. How something as wide spread as this (mostly the loadout reset, not so much game audio) and game breakingly problematic (the lack of game audio, that it is), I’m dumbstruck that there’s been no sort of announcement about this or that it’s not even mentioned with any possible trouble shooting in the pinned topic.

Yet you continue to roll out half baked playlists?
How about you fix your existing content before rolling out new content? As unfinished as this game feels, it’s playable… unless you can’t hear anything, in which case it’s not. Let’s see some customer support, yeah?

I’m having flashbacks to my brief time in SWTOR where it took me a month to get an email back from their customer support about being locked out of my account due to the authenticator app being deleted from my iPhone… this is unacceptable. I literally paid $100 for a broken product.

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All I see is QQ. Unsurprisingly.

Report your problem and stop complaining breh.

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I feel sorry for you that you’ve had these issues, I personally haven’t experienced themn, but could you please tone it down a notch instead of this angry ranting? Please?

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Do you realize it does take at least month to see a patch?
-Every MP game release ever.

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It takes time, unfortunately. Every developer does the same thing.

What you should be more worried about is if they will patch a sufficient amount of problems. Most developers have the tendency to leave half of the problems in a game, only to patch those issues another 3 months later…

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“Hurr durr patches am take time”.

This wouldn’t be an issue if we had a Beta.

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> All I see is QQ. Unsurprisingly.
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> Report your problem and stop complaining breh.

Report WHERE!?

As I’ve said multiple times, I have read through the pinned topic in this forum for common fixes/known issues/whatever it’s called and the only mention of game audio requests that you submit your monitor, speakers, etc. Basically give them all the information you can on how you’re set up to get your audio which, in my opinion, is absolutely pointless. I can hear every other game’s audio perfectly fine both through my monitor’s speakers, through my headset… everything works except Halo 4. The issue does not lie in my audio setup, considering the only variable that changes between games is the GAME. Hence, that’s where the problem is. Now, if my headset was faulty and not working properly and maybe sounds at a certain frequency level didn’t come through, that would be an issue I would experience across all of my games and media. But it’s not. It’s an issue that occurs with this game, and this game alone.

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I honestly think that in reality you do not have any background in coding or game design and it does matter because you have no idea what actually goes into maintaining a game after launch. The fact is, most games launch not so perfect and don’t start getting updates until a month or two after. I don’t understand why you think just because you paid $60 says that you should have the world given to you. The game is essentially in beta state and its honestly not even that bad, there are flaws here and there but overall the game is pretty solid and people should expect 343 to get it together in the upcoming months. Its funny how easy people turn and blame 343 when something goes wrong but people forget how bugged and unplayable H2 was at release, if you think H4 is worse than you obviously aren’t paying attention.

People need to stop complaining uncontrollably and actually give constructive feedback, 343 isn’t dumb and know what needs to be fixed. Will it come as fast as you want? Probably not but stop sitting here like you know what goes into launching a game and updating it. Everyone knows there are problems but they aren’t game breaking, people are just way too picky and spoiled to know that.

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Cry me a river, JT

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> I honestly think that in reality you do not have any background in coding or game design and it does matter because you have no idea what actually goes into maintaining a game after launch. The fact is, most games launch not so perfect and don’t start getting updates until a month or two after. I don’t understand why you think just because you paid $60 says that you should have the world given to you. The game is essentially in beta state and its honestly not even that bad, there are flaws here and there but overall the game is pretty solid and people should expect 343 to get it together in the upcoming months. Its funny how easy people turn and blame 343 when something goes wrong but people forget how bugged and unplayable H2 was at release, if you think H4 is worse than you obviously aren’t paying attention.
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> People need to stop complaining uncontrollably and actually give constructive feedback, 343 isn’t dumb and know what needs to be fixed. Will it come as fast as you want? Probably not but stop sitting here like you know what goes into launching a game and updating it. Everyone knows there are problems but they aren’t game breaking, people are just way too picky and spoiled to know that.

You’re silly.

I can understand glitches like the boltshot reload making it past development and into the actual game.
Game audio not appearing on occasion? That’s unacceptable.

Seriously like… if Skyrim launched without game audio, would everyone just sit around and say “Oh, wait for the patch…”

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> > I honestly think that in reality you do not have any background in coding or game design and it does matter because you have no idea what actually goes into maintaining a game after launch. The fact is, most games launch not so perfect and don’t start getting updates until a month or two after. I don’t understand why you think just because you paid $60 says that you should have the world given to you. The game is essentially in beta state and its honestly not even that bad, there are flaws here and there but overall the game is pretty solid and people should expect 343 to get it together in the upcoming months. Its funny how easy people turn and blame 343 when something goes wrong but people forget how bugged and unplayable H2 was at release, if you think H4 is worse than you obviously aren’t paying attention.
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> > People need to stop complaining uncontrollably and actually give constructive feedback, 343 isn’t dumb and know what needs to be fixed. Will it come as fast as you want? Probably not but stop sitting here like you know what goes into launching a game and updating it. Everyone knows there are problems but they aren’t game breaking, people are just way too picky and spoiled to know that.
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> You’re silly.
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> I can understand glitches like the boltshot reload making it past development and into the actual game.
> Game audio not appearing on occasion? That’s unacceptable.
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> Seriously like… if Skyrim launched without game audio, would everyone just sit around and say “Oh, wait for the patch…”

It’s funny though because that doesn’t happen to you all the time which means the game didn’t come without audio, its a bug but you can fix it. You are too spoiled and lazy though and say the game is unplayable because of it. It doesn’t take 15 mins to restart your xbox and get into a game, it takes maybe 3 min. Like I said before, they aren’t game breaking. Suck it up like everyone else, the issue will get fixed, stop being immature and saying it wont happen.

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> As I’ve said multiple times, I have read through the pinned topic in this forum for common fixes/known issues/whatever it’s called and the only mention of game audio requests that you submit your monitor, speakers, etc. Basically give them all the information you can on how you’re set up to get your audio which, in my opinion, is absolutely pointless. I can hear every other game’s audio perfectly fine both through my monitor’s speakers, through my headset… everything works except Halo 4. The issue does not lie in my audio setup, considering the only variable that changes between games is the GAME. Hence, that’s where the problem is. Now, if my headset was faulty and not working properly and maybe sounds at a certain frequency level didn’t come through, that would be an issue I would experience across all of my games and media. But it’s not. It’s an issue that occurs with this game, and this game alone.

But knowing which setups are having problems will help them to narrow down the problem. Not that its your setup problem. What if they find out lets say that 5% of players have this problem and all of them are using optical audio. Then they would know that Halo 4 is causing a problem with optical. They have to be able to recreate the problem in the lab and understand it before they can begin to fix it.

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> It’s funny though because that doesn’t happen to you all the time which means the game didn’t come without audio, its a bug but you can fix it. You are too spoiled and lazy though and say the game is unplayable because of it. It doesn’t take 15 mins to restart your xbox and get into a game, it takes maybe 3 min. Like I said before, they aren’t game breaking. Suck it up like everyone else, the issue will get fixed, stop being immature and saying it wont happen.

I’m going to say this as nicely as possible… you’re an idiot.

Yes, this happens all the time. Every day when I go to play Halo 4, I have to start up, dashboard, start up repeatedly until I’m lucky enough to be graced with game audio. I can see how you might think this is a problem on my end, but again I must point out the fact that this issue only occurs with Halo 4. You might be compelled to think that it’s my headset, my monitor, or my Xbox. However, if that was the case, I’d have a similar issue (or really, any issue) with all of my other games. However, that’s not the case at all. Halo 4 is the only game that suffers from any issue and is obviously the source, considering it’s the only variable…

And you’re right, it does take 3 minutes to start the game, realize there is no game audio, and then start over. Except I have to do it about 5 times before I actually get the audio… hence the 15 minutes. Derp.