Since the game is getting really close to release now I was wondering if the servers for the MP playlists will hold?
I will be jumping straight into the MP (hopefully anyway :p).
The servers only handle the process of putting players in the same lobby. There really isn’t much to strain them.
Should do, they must know what to expect, I remember the launch of the Halo 3 beta, what a mess, but, good times.
the real question is will waypoint hold with all the players and stats flooding it.
This is why I am glad my copy comes in the morning when any issues will hopefully be resolved. Day 1 game releases are always a little shaky. So many players and so much data to process.
Considering how people will be distracted by Election Day, and how long the midnight releases take, they will be fine based on a gradual number of players.
Not all players who pick it up at the release play it when they get home- some go to sleep, the experience of being at the midnight release being enough for them.
I’m not gonna be playing until later on tuesday, since I have school, anime club, and then I gotta pick up the console.
Nothing a little tweaking can’t fix.
Halo 4 should be fine for the most part, while Waypoint might have a problem. But then again, nothing a little tweaking can’t fix.
> Nothing a little tweaking can’t fix.
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> Halo 4 should be fine for the most part, while Waypoint might have a problem. But then again, nothing a little tweaking can’t fix.
I hope waypoint will be able to withstand the wave that is oncoming. I plan to be here and see what everyone thinks of the game. Have been waiting for this moment for a long time.
It should be ok, yes there ar gonna be alot of players on MP but i bet the majority will be rushing the campaign, well with cut scenes of course!!
Big-name releases are bound to have a server crash or two in the wee hours of day one, but they generally become more stabilized as the day goes on.
They will probably freeze up.
Yes, all they do is match us up and record game data, but they can be over loaded.
Before the release of Reach, Bungie bought all new servers that were so powerful they even shut down the servers for Halo 3 and placed management for Halo 3 on those same servers. Ever since the release of Reach the servers used for Reach have done both.
Anyway, I participated in midnight release for Reach and there were three issues. Right away, trying to redeem codes didn’t work, the downloads timed out. When you tried a second time it would of course say that the code had already been redeemed. Easy fix - go to the market place to your download history and re-download. I wasn’t able to redeem my codes until the day after release. The second issue was uploading to the file share didn’t work at first.
As far as match making itself, shortly after the west coast of the U.S. started getting on line, the servers froze up.
I live in Central time, and I was only able to play Reach until about 2:30 - 3:00 AM before match making didn’t work any more.
Seeing as how the servers aren’t any better for Halo 4 (E.G. the black screens and lag during the Halo 4 live streams) I’d say the same thing will happen tonight.
I think the Halo 4 servers will be fine, but I’ll be playing Campaign anyway so I am not concerned.
Now Waypoint… That’s a different story. bs angel made an announcement about new forums in the General Discussiin. We will probably get good working forums at last. 
> > Nothing a little tweaking can’t fix.
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> > Halo 4 should be fine for the most part, while Waypoint might have a problem. But then again, nothing a little tweaking can’t fix.
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> I hope waypoint will be able to withstand the wave that is oncoming. I plan to be here and see what everyone thinks of the game. Have been waiting for this moment for a long time.
The dev team is updating Waypoint, so hopefully they will be able to withstand. And where Halo 4’s servers are getting more attention, Halo 4 should be fine.
I doubt they’ll be near flawless. I thank those that debug the system while I play Campaign and S.OPS.
Ive had my MP fix over the weekend so will do a tactical retreat to campaign solo legendary till this weekend when hopefully itll be super smooth.
Should take me all week as solo legendary is ***** ****** ***** @£"££ . Im on Mission 3 and i feel bad after bragging in the “frankie says play H4 on normal” thread.