YouMessedUpBIG

Hello 343, It pains me that I'm making a post on your website to help you improve basic game functionality, but considering what you shipped out, it's beyond necessary. This has been such a disaster on all levels and I plan to never buy a product from you again. It took me an hour to get into a party with my four friends this morning, not exaggerating. I'm pretty annoyed, but I'll be as constructive as possible since you decided to use the XBL community for testing instead of hiring people. Joining Custom Lobby Problems - Takes multiple tries to join parties correctly. ("Can't connect to host", joining games and never showing up, randomly dropping from the party. Forced to restart Xbox on multiple occasions to successfully join custom game lobbies) - Half the time the integrated friends list has noone listed - The ability to join a player is greyed out randomly - Randomly all players will be muted, even though nobody is muted or in private chat - After backing out of the custom game and changing to matchmaking or a different game (halo2 to haloCE for example) you leave the party because you pressed B without a "do you want to leave the party" prompt. - Team colors are different for everyone. Some players will see 4v4 red and blue teams, others will see gold, green, brown. Once the game starts it's corrected. Matchmaking - Still takes way too long to find games in all playlists, even after updates. - Finding games with multiple people takes even longer. Once you form the teams I've been split from friends every time. - Teams are more often unbalanced (2v6, 3v5, 3v4). - You'll sometimes get 6v6 in ranked H2 anniversary. What? - Haven't tested the ability to boot people from match made games, but it's probably still a problem. Other Issues - the "press Y to check your post game carnage stats" option is available after turning your XB1 on after a few hours. If you press Y to check, the game crashes. Rebooted the box a few time and tested this. It crashed every time I tried. Why does this option even come up with no post game stats? - Random in game crashes. One I can recall was I punching the over shield on sidewinder with 4 total players in the game. Crashed for everyone. - Can't pick up weapons randomly, this hasn't happened more than twice. Only noticed in halo 2 anniversary maps. It's terrible that the gameplay is so good, but playing it is obnoxiously difficult because of all the basic issues that shouldn't exist in the first place. I've never been as bitter about a gaming experience in my life. I got my hopes up again about a Halo release, and once again I've been extremely let down. Good luck with the rest of the development.