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Technical Issues Plaguing Halo 3, Upsetting Gamers

Blogcritics reports many Halo 3 owners are missing major chucks of their Halo 3 Service Records at Bungie.net. The Service Records contain every Halo 3 player's kill and death counts, experience, rankings, medals, and other achievements earned from multiplayer games. Many players have not had their Service Records updated since Thursday, October 4. Others have not had an update since September 30, a full week ago.

Halo 3's online matchmaking service was being reported as down as well, and it is unknown yet if the two problems are related. However, the problems do not seem to be affecting all Xbox Live users. Bungie has not yet addressed multiple complaints in its official forums.

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mighty_douche6811d ago (Edited 6811d ago )

this is a 10/10 game right? shouldnt that be 'perfect'?

EDIT: not being a troll, just asking a viable question. the fact that you attack me like a typical fanboy implies to me that you cant answer.

EDIT 2: dude where did i say anything about a 360? stop jumping to conclusions.

wil4hire6811d ago

If anything I am a ps3 "fanboy"

bootsielon6811d ago

Microsoft Stock options FTL

Douchebaggery6811d ago

when a online game is really popular sh!t happens

it wasn't a big deal with Warhawk and it's not a big deal now

Laxe6811d ago

Very true. Hope they keep this in mind - Warhawk's servers were hammered bad because they didn't expect it to be so popular off the bat. On the other hand people ARE paying for this to work so I would be peeved off too.

FirstknighT6811d ago

I never experienced any problems. Niether has any of my buddies who I play with. But there are about 1.5 million people playing this very minute so a few hiccups is understandable.

thereapersson6811d ago

Since they put as much money into this game as they did, not to mention the fact that they are charging gamers for XBL, I would expect this kind of thing to be nonexistent.

Halo 3 is fun though; I watch my roommate play all the time. It's funny because he didn't know how to save his game for the first couple days and was always wondering why he had to start over when he turned his system on.

boodybandit6811d ago

My friends and I have not noticed anything wrong with Halo 3 so the problems "some" are reporting are overblown. This is the same crap said about the RROD with the 360. Just because you haven't had it happen to you, which considering your past post I will take with a grain of salt, doesn't mean there isn't a significant problem.

There is more than a hiccup or 2 going on with Halo 3 online.
And to some of you, quit this there are millions playing the game so give Bungie a break. First off there are not millions playing the game. Most of the time the numbers are under a million. During the peak hours and the weekend, the total is over a million but I have yet to see it even hit 1.5 million online according to the stat tracker in Halo 3. I'm not saying it hasn't hit 2 million but I myself have yet to see it. I was blown away when I saw it hit a million plus. That is a lot of PEOPLE but "millions"? A no.

millions = 3,4 or 5 and not most of the time under 1 million or slightly above 1 million. Why are you guys defending the game like it's a family member or bringing up the competition to justify the problems?

Both Bungie and Microsoft knew what the numbers were going to be in overall sales and people playing this game online. There are more than just a problem or 2 with the game and "hopefully" Bungie will get on it ASAP. All I know is having to wait as long as I do to get back into another ranked or social server works my last nerve.

My gripes with the game:
Every other map is shotty snipers.
You can play online for hours and only see the same 3 or 4 maps.
Finding a game and the player loading only to have them all drop and you end up starting another search.
People dropping from the server and you end up being down a player or 2. Yesterday during peak hours this happened a lot! I played one match where it was myself against 4. I didn't win :(

The ranking system makes it hard to play with friends on ranked servers if their numbers are too high or low for you. It's hard enough trying to find a game most of the time without adding a "mixed party" to the problem. And when someone drops from a game, whether they quit or the server drops them, the game feezes for a few seconds (sometimes) and it restarts the server as if the round just started, although the score is still in tact. <-- this is a problem I haven't seen to many players bring up so I take it this is rare.

Anyway there is more than a hiccup or 2 with Halo 3 but I don't think any of them are really not that big a deal. As long as the problems don't get worst I don't think most fans of Halo will care. It's not like the game doesn't work online or it takes forever to connect to a game. I think the longest I waited was 5 or 6 minutes to connect to another ranked server in Team Slayer. Sometimes jumping back to the lobby and reconnecting works wonders. But it would be nice if I could get on a ranked server and stay there like some other games allow. This way not only would the map rotation work better but if you have a good group going against another, it would make for some awesome battles.

nobizlikesnowbiz6811d ago

Haven't had any Bnet issues. Been updated rather frequently. Although last night I was trying to play with some buddies and for about 20 min it wouldn't let us play matchmaking. Kept giving the 'Cannot retrieve information from XBL' message. Seriously though, this is stupid, but you gotta cut them some slack. With as many people playing as there is, you can't expect the system to perform flawlessly.

To above. Quit trolling. I doubt you would appreciate it if I went into every Ps3 game article and tried to spin the sh!t negatively.

Not like WarHawk didn't have problems.

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Halo 2 & 3 Campaign Remakes Allegedly In Development, Halo 7 Will Feature Multiplayer

Remakes of the campaigns featured in Xbox Game Studios' Halo 2 and Halo 3 are currently in development, according to a new rumor.

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medman212d ago (Edited 212d ago )

That's Microsoft's gaming division for you...kill off developers making new ip while trying to capitalize off some long lost glory that has no hope of ever being what it once was thanks to recent decision making favoring unrealistic profit goals and greed. What a joke.

Reaper22_212d ago

So much bitterness. Why be upset over something like this. Just don't buy it and stick with what you prefer.

Tacoboto212d ago

Complaining about Microsoft is the only thing people comment here for anymore.

This website is practically dead without it

Mmmkay211d ago

I remember when you guys constantly complained about Sony remaking and remastering games. Guess it is cool now. As usual.

thesoftware730211d ago

Give it rest medman..., take a deep breath and try to not sound so invested in something no one is forcing you to read, buy, or play.

"Console war"is over, Sony won, be happy.

medman207d ago (Edited 207d ago )

@thesoftware730
I'm invested in people losing their jobs and their livelihoods while Microsoft execs tout record profits for their gaming division. Not sure why you wouldn't be invested. Could be you one day. Good luck.

Travesty212d ago

So what’s their solution to having multiplayer? Wait until Halo 7?
That was one of the most memorable parts of Halo..

monkey602212d ago

I'm not sure spending the heavy investment in time to recreate the multiplayer here is the answer either though.
Remaking the campaigns is a great idea to bring the new players up to speed. But if the multiplayer is included in each it'll just fracture the player base of each release.
I think it might be better to turn these campaigns out quicker and have 1 multiplayer game to keep everyone in one place

Travesty212d ago

Maybe having an Halo Online and just release the Combat Evolve maps. And when Halo 2 releases have those maps release. I don’t know but I would like to play a newer version of Halo multiplayer. I know times have changed, and Fortnite is all younger kids really play. But back then it was Halo and you connecting 6 Xbox’s together lol.

jjb1981212d ago

I agree. I think that'll segment the playerbase and once 7 comes out, players might realize it sucks and go back to the older games. Especially if 7 is live-servixe, they'll be shooting themselves in the foot on the one good leg they have to stand on.

crazyCoconuts212d ago

Kinda surprised they didn't just port MCC.
Maybe more $ to by made with separate remasters

Inverno212d ago

Wouldn't have that problem if it were MCC being released. Gotta wait for 7 to be disappointed with MP all over again cause if they half baked Infinite what makes people think they won't half bake the next game? MP works in past HALO games not cause of nostalgia but because it's MP that isn't concerned with the endless service approach.

JEECE211d ago

There is so much cognitive dissonance over Infinite. People say they didn't like it because it was a live service. Yet if you look at what the criticisms of it were at the time it came out and when the playerbase started falling off, the primary issue people had was a lack of updates. In other words, it wasn't enough of a live service.

Which is really an encapsulation of the problem with multiplayer today. So many people think that they want to go back to the "good old days" of mid-2000s multiplayer (The first few Halos, Socom, the first few Battlefields, CS 1.6, etc), but in reality if a multiplayer game like that came out today, people would whine about the lack of content within a month of launch and go back to a live service with a grindy progression system.

isarai212d ago

Why not just port the MCC? 🤔 That was the easiest layup ever and you completely missed it

franwex212d ago

30% profit margins! People will pay $70+ for remakes!

Software_Lover211d ago

I thought the same thing, then I realized that they wouldn't include the remakes in that edition. We may get a different version of Halo MCC in the future with all of the remakes included. I just want them to include Halo 5 at some point for PC.

TheColbertinator212d ago

Can they remake Reach too with the multiplayer?

Knightofelemia212d ago

I wonder if Microsoft will port Reach over to Playstation I quite enjoyed that game. I played Halo 3 and it was not bad I have Halo 2 on the OG Xbox I just need some cables to hook up to my tv to play it.

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Master Chief becomes a Pokemon Master in Halo 3 Pokeball mod

A new Halo 3 mod turns the iconic Master Chief into a Pokémon % Master as functional Pokeballs come to the game.

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just_looken587d ago (Edited 587d ago )

That is very impressive to skip the article here is the direct link to the video
https://x.com/GashnorOffici...

Full animiation then a code change to make the target that comes out of the ball to be in the same class unsc not a easy thing to do.

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Ranking Every Halo Game From Worst To Best

Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.

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HellspawnPR1981874d ago

Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.

Kaii873d ago

Just exclude Infinite>5>4

ChasterMies873d ago

Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.