The Honeymoon is over, the launch parties are over, you are all counting the sales, clap clap clap
So far, 343i have been pitiful at responding to the non stop barrage of complaints and issues with HALO4, mostly with the online.
Constant server issues, lag due to the poor region filter, load out resets, loss of DLC items one minute then they come back, overpowered weapons, balance issues…you name it, in the 3 weeks since launch, we fans have reported so many thing via these forums, other game forums, social media and so far…I have yet to see any real response from 343i
For me, that is the real crime here, their silence, resting on their lorals like they thought all they had to do was take the first month off and everything would be fine
Not good enough, there are too many issues requiring intervention and its about time 343i got back to work!!
> the bulletin tells you what they fixed, everything shall come in time
They have fixed nothing, the servers are still a mess, weapons still unbalanced and over powered, loadouts getting reset, dlc going missing, SPARTAN OPs lagging with a full compliment of team…show me where in the bulletin those issues are being either acknowledged or addressed?
Also show me the last time the “things we are looking at” thread had an actual response of any substance from 343i?
Patience is one thing, and I was for the first two weeks…now its getting stupidly ignorant of 343 with their silence, so saying it shall come is not acceptable for HALO as a franchise
Actually, a lot of them do check for problems and finding them isn’t very hard. The trick is with FIXING them, especially because you don’t want some broken mechanic to create some game-crashing problem because your of update having unintended effects.
However 343 is looking into serious problems in the game and trying to balance them, it’s not an easy task at all and 343’s budget isn’t limitless (they’re already pouring cash into Halo 5 and 6).
> > the bulletin tells you what they fixed, everything shall come in time
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> They have fixed nothing, the servers are still a mess, weapons still unbalanced and over powered, loadouts getting reset, dlc going missing, SPARTAN OPs lagging with a full compliment of team…show me where in the bulletin those issues are being either acknowledged or addressed?
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> Also show me the last time the “things we are looking at” thread had an actual response of any substance from 343i?
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> Patience is one thing, and I was for the first two weeks…now its getting stupidly ignorant of 343 with their silence, so saying it shall come is not acceptable for HALO as a franchise
Don’t forget the split-screen frame rate issues!!! I completely agree with you OP, 343 is making me quite sad
I’m sorry, I want to see how fast you can fix these problems. Because you don’t seem to understand that these things take a while to fix completely. If they rush us a TU, then they will only screw up and only make more problems.
So, take a chill pill, stop saying 343 is counting the money when its really Microsoft, and try to understand their position. These are all launch problems and they take time to fix.
> Actually, a lot of them do check for problems and finding them isn’t very hard. The trick is with FIXING them, especially because you don’t want some broken mechanic to create some game-crashing problem because your of update having unintended effects.
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> However 343 is looking into serious problems in the game and trying to balance them, it’s not an easy task at all and 343’s budget isn’t limitless (they’re already pouring cash into Halo 5 and 6).
Why is it you always get people butt kissing and defending poor customer service and support?
Bungie were very good at engaging us as a community about all things, 343i need to learn from that and be more vocal, have more of a presence in these forums responding to all the issues that keep being reported on a daily basis right here
They need to be more transparent and speak with us because the silence is annoying and insulting. Too many issues with the online exist for them to simply sit in the shadows saying nothing
> I’m sorry, I want to see how fast you can fix these problems. Because you don’t seem to understand that these things take a while to fix completely. If they rush us a TU, then they will only screw up and only make more problems.
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> So, take a chill pill, stop saying 343 is counting the money when its really Microsoft, and try to understand their position. These are all launch problems and they take time to fix.
Chill Pill…what are you, time travelling from the 90s?
Launch was 3 weeks ago, a lot of these issues stem from the online servers for HALO4, there have been no improvements in connectivity for Spartan Ops and we are about to go with Episode 4, one away from the halfway mark. All issues stem from ti being totally online, the video is streamed from online, the episodes are online, nothing is on the console as was suggested when 343i said Spartan Ops would be a weekly episodic series which you download to your console. So far, each episode has simply been unlocked and ran from the servers
See, its not for me or us as a community to fix the issues with this game…we buy the game, that money goes into supporting that game especially in its online features…but 343i are silent, all very quiet on these issues offering nothing more then saying we can have Team Swat for another week and adding Team Snipers…wow, that will make those who keep losing DLC content and load out resets feel much better
Lets not go all fan boy vs suck up here…there are issues, the issues need to be addressed faster then they are and 343i need to do more talking with the community
> > the bulletin tells you what they fixed, everything shall come in time
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> <mark>They have fixed nothing</mark>, the servers are still a mess, weapons still unbalanced and over powered, loadouts getting reset, dlc going missing, SPARTAN OPs lagging with a full compliment of team…show me where in the bulletin those issues are being either acknowledged or addressed?
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> Also show me the last time the “things we are looking at” thread had an actual response of any substance from 343i?
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> Patience is one thing, and I was for the first two weeks…now its getting stupidly ignorant of 343 with their silence, so saying it shall come is not acceptable for HALO as a franchise
• Fixed exploit locations on Complex
• Fixed exploit locations on Haven
• Fixed exploit locations on Ragnarok
• Increased daily XP cap
• Reduced weighting for Ragnarok in BTB/KotH/CTF
• Reduced weighting for Haven in Infinity Slayer and SWAT
• Added a new variant to Ragnarok CTF, which removed Banshees
• Fixed an exploit location on Ragnarok
• Added two Mantises to Meltdown BTB
• Improved spawning for CTF and Infinity Slayer on Complex
^^ issues that they fixed so far, they are fixing things every week give it time
> > Actually, a lot of them do check for problems and finding them isn’t very hard. The trick is with FIXING them, especially because you don’t want some broken mechanic to create some game-crashing problem because your of update having unintended effects.
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> > However 343 is looking into serious problems in the game and trying to balance them, it’s not an easy task at all and 343’s budget isn’t limitless (they’re already pouring cash into Halo 5 and 6).
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> Why is it you always get people butt kissing and defending poor customer service and support?
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> Bungie were very good at engaging us as a community about all things, 343i need to learn from that and be more vocal, have more of a presence in these forums responding to all the issues that keep being reported on a daily basis right here
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> They need to be more transparent and speak with us because the silence is annoying and insulting. Too many issues with the online exist for them to simply sit in the shadows saying nothing
Why is it that we get people that are always hating something even if they have no real reason to? David ellis said that in the next MM update they will be fixing things with JIP, boom, one problem fixed. And guess what? BS angel said she will be talking about the fixes in the next bulletin.
Check thier twitter pages, you will learn a lot. They are looking into these problems and if you were here before launch you would know that 343i does listen to their community. Want an example? the limited edition war games map pass vs the standalone WGMP, that was one of the largest threads i’ve seen on these forums, and guess what? a couple weeks later they gave the community what they wanted, they do listen.
I want to see action, I want to see them engaging the community here on the forums not from their personal Social Media accounts
those fixes you hightlighted…nothing about the server issues which have existed since November 6th
Lets see what comes out in the next bulletin then…why do I sense a total lack of response in regards to the multiple server issues right now
I see nothing on these boards but haters of the game pushing out the threads about genuine issues and worse of all, nothing being done about it…not seen a moderator do anything on the HALO 4 in quite some time
> > > the bulletin tells you what they fixed, everything shall come in time
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> > <mark>They have fixed nothing</mark>, the servers are still a mess, weapons still unbalanced and over powered, loadouts getting reset, dlc going missing, SPARTAN OPs lagging with a full compliment of team…show me where in the bulletin those issues are being either acknowledged or addressed?
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> > Also show me the last time the “things we are looking at” thread had an actual response of any substance from 343i?
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> > Patience is one thing, and I was for the first two weeks…now its getting stupidly ignorant of 343 with their silence, so saying it shall come is not acceptable for HALO as a franchise
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> • Fixed exploit locations on Complex (Thankfully)
> • Fixed exploit locations on Haven (Thankfully)
> • Fixed exploit locations on Ragnarok (Danke)
> • Increased daily XP cap (Which a lot of people asked for)
> • Reduced weighting for Ragnarok in BTB/KotH/CTF (No one asked for this)
> • Reduced weighting for Haven in Infinity Slayer and SWAT (No one asked for this)
> • Added a new variant to Ragnarok CTF, which removed Banshees (No one asked for this)
> • Fixed an exploit location on Ragnarok (WOOOOO)
> • Added two Mantises to Meltdown BTB (Which respawn 10 seconds after the Mantis is destroyed. This just made the map worse, somehow.)
> • Improved spawning for CTF and Infinity Slayer on Complex (Good, not that I’ve noticed)
> ^^ issues that they fixed so far, they are fixing things every week give it time
There are a lot of issues that are of far more importance issues that need to be worked out than reducing weighting for maps or adding Mantises.
> > I’m sorry, I want to see how fast you can fix these problems. Because you don’t seem to understand that these things take a while to fix completely. If they rush us a TU, then they will only screw up and only make more problems.
> >
> > So, take a chill pill, stop saying 343 is counting the money when its really Microsoft, and try to understand their position. These are all launch problems and they take time to fix.
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> Chill Pill…what are you, time travelling from the 90s?
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> Launch was 3 weeks ago, a lot of these issues stem from the online servers for HALO4, there have been no improvements in connectivity for Spartan Ops and we are about to go with Episode 4, one away from the halfway mark. All issues stem from ti being totally online, the video is streamed from online, the episodes are online, nothing is on the console as was suggested when 343i said Spartan Ops would be a weekly episodic series which you download to your console. So far, each episode has simply been unlocked and ran from the servers
>
> See, its not for me or us as a community to fix the issues with this game…we buy the game, that money goes into supporting that game especially in its online features…but 343i are silent, all very quiet on these issues offering nothing more then saying we can have Team Swat for another week and adding Team Snipers…wow, that will make those who keep losing DLC content and load out resets feel much better
>
> Lets not go all fan boy vs suck up here…there are issues, the issues need to be addressed faster then they are and 343i need to do more talking with the community
And you think I don’t know about the server problems? I have had this game since the 9th and only 4 times have I been able to connect to the server correctly and it work. But I’m not going through the forums raging. I understand that these are problems that need to be fixed and addressed. but this isn’t something 343, or any company in the world, can fix in a single week! Its going to take time, but people have little patience. They say “I spent $60-100 on this! Why isn’t it working?” Lets see, you buy a big name title that you know will have over a 100,000 people on launch and will have launch problems! Just because 343 is silent, doesn’t mean that they aren’t fixing anything! These problems are slowly being addressed, but what are going to do? Raging on their forums haven’t done anything. So you just have to wait and let 343 know about the issues. If the majority of issues aren’t fixed by the New Year, then yes, go ahead and complain and rage, because then something is wrong with 343’s work. But not saying anything and saying way too much won’t help them. You have to find a balance, complain about the problems, not the company and insult them and say they are horrid, etc.
Why do so many people think that these games come witha [FIX ALL] button? I’d rather them take the time and do it right that to fix it quickly and break a half dozen other things.
As for keeping us constantly updated on what they are working on, then there would just be millions of thread whining about why they are not fixing some else first.
> And you think I don’t know about the server problems? I have had this game since the 9th and only 4 times have I been able to connect to the server correctly and it work. But I’m not going through the forums raging. I understand that these are problems that need to be fixed and addressed. but this isn’t something 343, or any company in the world, can fix in a single week! Its going to take time, but people have little patience. They say “I spent $60-100 on this! Why isn’t it working?” Lets see, you buy a big name title that you know will have over a 100,000 people on launch and will have launch problems! Just because 343 is silent, doesn’t mean that they aren’t fixing anything! These problems are slowly being addressed, but what are going to do? Raging on their forums haven’t done anything. So you just have to wait and let 343 know about the issues. If the majority of issues aren’t fixed by the New Year, then yes, go ahead and complain and rage, because then something is wrong with 343’s work. But not saying anything and saying way too much won’t help them. You have to find a balance, complain about the problems, not the company and insult them and say they are horrid, etc.
its been 3 weeks, and Id had this game since launch day. I have been very forgiving, gave them the two weeks to iron out any teething issues, but server issue still after 3 weeks…thats not acceptable this far after launch
In Game issues are one thing, but we are talking about the basics of the Online experience, most of the problems people are reporting are all focused on the HALO 4 servers, either connection or loss of online items, problems with Spartan Ops as its an online feature
Patience has been given, the lack of communication 3 weeks after launch about these issues which started on day 1 is not acceptable, the level of silence from 343i is not acceptable, the lack of interaction on the forums is not acceptable 2 weeks after launch is not acceptable…more so because this is HALO
> Why do so many people think that these games come witha [FIX ALL] button? I’d rather them take the time and do it right that to fix it quickly and break a half dozen other things.
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> As for keeping us constantly updated on what they are working on, then there would just be millions of thread whining about why they are not fixing some else first.
Half a Dozen things are already broken…and as I said above, so many of the issues right now stem from the server issues…most likely hardware based, those are the basics that need to be right on day one, teething issues maybe for the first two weeks as player numbers increase, but 3 weeks after launch and day 1 issues still exist…now thats just poor
You have been forgiving? Nobody cares if you stop playing the game. If 343 decides to tell us what they’re up to then its fine with me, but we can’t go around demanding a company to explain why wlyhey haven’t fixed EVERY problem yet after only 2 weeks and 4days.