Does anyone have any explanation or information regarding the server issues yesterday?
My experience of it. I was a SR1 off and on throughout the day and played original playlists part of the day such as king of the hill. I tried to run customs and it would randomly kick everyone out of the party to their own party and we would be unable to rejoin each other again.
We tried signing in and out as well as restarting our xbox’s and it seemed to be a temporary fix sometimes but would reoccur later on that day so it didn’t so to matter.
Was this connected to today’s update?
I just don’t understand why I can’t find any information about it anywhere on the site.
What you are seeing are “fallback hoppers”. When you enter this mode, you will see a UI notification. It shows up on the “Find Game” screen for War Games. In previous Halo titles, you’re dependent on the servers to get the information you needed for Matchmaking, and if they go down, you can’t play. Fallback hoppers are a new functionality for Halo 4, and they allow people to continue playing Halo 4 when there are server issues. You will automatically be switched to fallback hoppers if you fail to download a necessary file. You’ll remain in fallback hoppers for up to 10 minutes after the services return. When in this mode, it’s a good idea to relaunch the game on a regular basis, so you can reenter the regular hoppers as soon as they’re available.
Please refer to the Halo 4 Support FAQ for more information. 